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place. All the Stocks should be examined and put right at the roots 

 for winter. Sponging and cleaning should be done thoroughly. Pot- 

 bound plants would suffer during the winter — better risk a shift than 

 allow them to be injured by starvation : extra drainage should be 

 allowed when potting is done late. Creepers should be cut in, to 

 allow light to the whole house. Air as freely as circumstances will 

 allow : let syringing decrease gradually. When fire is used, it should 

 as yet be moderately; but the weather is the best guide to this. Heat 

 may range about 65° at night, rising 10° with sun-heat. Gross spongy 

 growth is very objectionable at this season of year. Look to all winter- 

 flowering plants in pits and frames : they must not be starved by cold 

 and damp. See that they are not rooting through their pots, and have 

 root-room. In stoves such plants are now more manageable. Plenty 

 of Gesnerias, Libonias, Euphorbias, Epiphyllums, Poinsettias, Thyrsa- 

 canthus, Scutellarias, and suchlike, are of immense value where flowers 

 are wanted during winter. Calanthes should be well forward for early 

 flowers : the soil about their roots should not be allowed to become 

 sour or sodden. 



HARDY FRUITS. 



In this department attention to netting of fruits from birds and pro- 

 tecting from wasps will be an everyday consideration. Gather all stone- 

 fruits before they are ready to drop. The trimming of dwarf trees, to 

 let in sun and air to the fruit, should be completed. If any root-prun- 

 ing is to be done, now is a good time to do it ; but the idea that trees 

 require this annually is simply absurd — indeed such a practice is posi- 

 tively injurious. Roots going away into bad soil from sun and air 

 should be cut off; but the destruction of fibres is barbarous in the 

 extreme. Careful lifting is better, and good mulching draws the roots 

 upwards, and improves the fruit immensely. Allow sun and air to 

 have full power on wall-trees. M. T. 



GREENHOUSE PLANTS. 



NO. Vn. — KALOSANTHES COCCINEA. 



MoEE than 150 years have passed away since this grand flowering- 

 plant made its appearance in the greenhouses of Great Britain ; and 

 notwithstanding the large number of other kinds of beautiful flower- 

 ing-plants that have been introduced during the intervening years 

 between then and now, it is still deserving of a prominent place 

 amongst the later arrivals. 



Of late years a few varieties of this plant, differing somewhat from 

 the original type in the colour of their flowers, have been brought 

 under the notice of the gardening public ; but in the writer's opinion 

 none of them have flowers of a superior colour to those produced by 

 the old plant. For the decoration of the greenhouse or conservatory 



