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plenty of light, air, and liquid manure. Calceolarias may require pottirg, and 

 should have plenty of air and light now. Fire- heat is much against their 

 "wellbeing. Cinerarias and Primulas also require cool airy treatment. Frosty 

 winds are very injurious to this class of plants. Cyclamens growing planted 

 out in frames should be potted, if not already done. Heaths, Epacris, and the 

 whole class of New Holland hard-wooded plants, should be placed where there 

 is plenty of air and light. A little fire-heat, with fresh dry air on, may be 

 necessary to keep greenhouses and conservatories healthy; but should only be 

 used as a necessary evil. Cleanliness in every respect is indispensable to the 

 health of plants. Pelargoniums cut down and growing freely, may be potted 

 into small pots, first reducing the roots. Keep them cool, and water with 

 much care. Mildew may appear on some plants ; sulphur sprinkled on the 

 l)est will soon eradicate it. All surfaces of pots should be free from moss and 

 weeds, and the soil kept porous. Fumigate with tobacco, to destroy aphis 

 wherever it appears. At this season choice plants in flower for show-house 

 are not very plentiful ; but there are so many with fine foliage and graceful 

 habit, that there need be no lack of interest in this structure : neatness and 

 order and absence of crowding always do much to help the appearance of 

 plants — the reverse of this robs them of much of their beauty. Plants in 

 flower now are autumn Heaths. Camellias which were forced early, Eoses, 

 Pelargoniums, Fuchsias, Mignonette, Violets in pots, Salvias, Valottas, and 

 others, mixed with Phormiums, greenhouse Ferns, Palms, Dracpenas, Corda- 

 lines, &c., make a good display. In stoves the stock of winter-fl.owering plants 

 should have the best positions for light ; shading everywhere may now be re- 

 moved. All staking, surface-cleaning, washing of lights, sponging of leaves 

 and stems, drainage, pot- washing, should be done thoroughly now, and cleanli- 

 ness may be an easy matter afterwards. Plants coming forward for flowering 

 are Euphorbias, Begonias, Justicias, Eucharis, Gardenias, Gesnerias, Scutellarias, 

 Thyrsacanthus, Calanthes, Poinsettias, Libonias, and others. Stove-heat may 

 not be over 65"^ at night. M. T. 



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Hoiu our Broccoli Crop ivas Saved. — When the critical reader— all 

 gardeners are critical — has scanned these lines, he will probably be 

 disgusted at having such an old-fashioned plan brought to his notice. 

 But this, like some more old-fashioned modes of gardening, is one well 

 worthy serious consideration. Well, for two seasons we were just as 

 unfortunate as our neighbours in seeing the Broccoli quarter trans- 

 formed from strong healthy plants in autumn to a lot of rotten stumps 

 in spring. Last autumn I thought of an old plan which used to be 

 carried out in a garden where I was employed, and I determined to 

 follow it out. It was simply to lift the plants and lay them in sloping 

 with their heads to the north. The way we went to work was to turn 

 a deep spit over to the north, then the northmost row of plants was 

 lifted and laid in deeply in the trench so taken out, the tops of the 

 plants resting on the soil which had been cast out. The trench for 

 the next row of plants was turned over on to the roots and stems of 

 the first row ; and so on till the whole lot was thus transplanted. As 



