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of the month. Divide and replant herbaceous plants of all kinds ; sow 

 Pyrethrums, Tagetes, Stocks, and Asters for an early lot ; sow for 

 growing in heat, Cockscombs, Balsams, and globe Amaranthus ; cover 

 small seeds very slightly, and the soil should not be wet and cold, but 

 in nice mellow condition. When seedlings are pricked off into pots they 

 should not be taken from heat to cold ; but when rooted in the fresh 

 soil, they can be hardened by degrees. Liliums and Gladioluses may be 

 potted for autumn decoration of glass structures. It is early enough 

 to plant them out in the open ground about the end of the month. 

 Look out for plants to keep structures gay throughout the season. Pot 

 on Scarlet Pelargoniums, Lobelias, Verbenas, shrubby Calceolarias, and 

 anything which will make a show. Cut back Fuchsias, and repot them 

 when they have sprung a little ; grow them on in a little moist heat. 

 Pot on young Stocks; prevent them from being checked by draught or 

 cold drying winds. Start Achimenes, Gloxinias, and Caladiums; they 

 require little water till they are in active growth, then they will take 

 abundance if the pots are well drained. All plants requiring more pot- 

 room should not be allowed to starve for the want of it. Pot young 

 Pelargoniums from the cutting-pots ; stake out those which are to form 

 specimens ; keep them free from green-fly by fumigating or syringing 

 with Quassia-water made from the chips. Free-growing Heaths which 

 have been cut back and growing, may be shifted into larger pots, or the 

 balls slightly reduced, and repotted in pots of same size. A mild, moist 

 heat, with air given freely, will suit them for a time, when they may be 

 taken to cool quarters. Camellias, when done blooming, should be 

 assisted to make their growth by placing them in moist heat ; their roots 

 should be put right either by shifting to larger pots, or taking away a 

 quantity of old soil, and giving fresh soil with plenty "of drainage. 

 Keep up a show of flowers by placing a number of forcing plants into 

 heat at short intervals. Plants when done flowering should be well 

 cared for ; shade plants in bloom from bright sun. Keep all free from 

 decaying leaves. M. T. 



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While this is being written, all the most important of seed orders for 

 the garden will be in the hands of the seedsman, and busy hands 

 are now employed late and early in wrapping up, labelling, packing, 

 and sending off seeds to every corner of the country to be in readiness 

 for the seed-time which is now upon us. The Gardener's seed-time is 

 almost all the year round, but the great bulk of garden-seeds are sown 

 from the second to the fourth month. While we write (the 13th 



