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should be takeu indoors before being checked with the cold. They 

 should occupy a position not far from tlie glass, where a temperature 

 of 50^ to 55^ at night can be maintained. If properly managed, these 

 plants will produce a good quantity of bloom from the end of October 

 until Christmas. The China J loses can be placed for a time either in 

 cold frames or in a house, and introduced into heat a little later in the 

 season. 



Hybrid Perpetuals in pots will also require attention at once. If 

 properly treated after flowering by hardening off and plunging outside, 

 well watered, and the foliage kept clean by means of syringing up to 

 this date, the earliest batch Avill be ready for potting — in fact, all but 

 the latest batches can be gone through. As a rule, we turn all out to 

 see if the drainage is right; and if potting is not needed, they are top- 

 dressed with some rich compost. The majority require potting either 

 into larger pots, or by considerably reducing the old bulb with as 

 little injury to the roots as possible, placing them again in pots of the 

 same size, with a good quantity of new compost. When potting is 

 done early, while the foliage is fresh and good, large (luantities of roots 

 are afterwards formed, and the plants become well established again 

 before pruning -time arrives — the roots frequently abounding in 

 <j[uantity round the sides of the pots when attended to in due time. 



Wm. Bardney. 



WINTER SALADS. 



In most gardens, large and small, there is abundance of salad material 

 during the summer and autumn months, which is much valued by the 

 owners ; but the same cannot be said about quantity in all gardens 

 throughout the winter and spring months. Then, in many instances, 

 all kinds of both choice and common salad plants are very scarce, 

 and often not obtainable. I do not mean to say this is always the 

 growers fault, as we do not belong to that unreasonable class who 

 expect gardeners to keep up a constant supply of everything whether 

 they have the means or appliances or not ; but by a little forethought, 

 probably, more might be done in winter salads than we often see. 

 There are many salad plants easily enough grown, others much more 

 difficult, and only suited for those with the very best of accommoda- 

 tion ; but what with one thing and another, nearly every garden might 

 have a variety of salading in the winter time ; and although many 

 might think productions of the kind are most valuable during the hot 

 weather in summer, they will generally be found as acceptable in the 

 short days as at any other time. Cucumbers may be regarded as the 

 worst to obtain of all winter salads, and they are about the most 

 valued. Their winter culture does not differ much, if any, from that 

 necessary to grow them well in summer ; but the want of sufficient 



