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glass is avaOable, or can be put up, bottom heat is not 

 considered necessary unless when it is desirable to push on 

 Vines early in the season, with the view of ripening them 

 early for the purpose of early forcing in the following season. 

 To grow yoxrr Vines well after they are well rooted in four- 

 inch pots, shift them into eight-inch pots, and keep them in 

 a light place with a night temperature, after the middle of 

 May, of 70°, with a moderately moist atmosphere. If re- 

 quired for planting purposes as permanent Vines, eight-inch 

 pots are quite large enough, a well-ripened cane with plenty 

 of fibry healthy roots being what is required, and not thick- 

 ness of growth. For fi-uiting in pots they should be shifted 

 into 12-inch pots, in which with feeding by liquid manm-e 

 they will make splendid canes. — D. T.] 



SOME GAEDENS WOETH SEEING. 



Grin don Hall ... 



Ashbum 



Undercliffe 



Eden House 



Creswell 



Humbelton Hill 

 aeadou Hall ... 



Ashridge 



The Hall 



Gaddesden Paik 



Beechwood 



Westbrook 



Shenditcb 



DTTBHAM. 

 Proprietor. 

 John T. Alcocti, Esq.... Mr. 

 E. Backhouse, Esq. ... Mr. 



James Allison, Esq Mr. 



George S. Rimsom, Esq. Mr. 



John Hay, Esq Hr. 



Water Company Mr. 



C, T. Potts, E«q Mr. 



Oardener. Station, 



J. Archer ... Sunderland. 



Hardey Sunderland. 



J. Cain Sunderland. 



Burn Sunderland. 



J. Taylor ... Sunderland. 

 J. Lamb...... Sunderland. 



Bimpiiins ... Sunderland. 



HEKTFOKDSHIKE. 



Earl Brownlow Mr. Sage Berkhampstead 



T.Curtis, Esq Mr. Dibbins Berkhampstead 



J. F. Moore Halsey, Esq Mr. Dunbar Boxnioor. 



Sir T. Sebright, Bart... Mr. Speary Boxmoor. 



T. Rider, Esq Mr. Tranton Boxmoor. 



C. Longman, Esq Mr. WaUam Boxmoor. 



Sale op Chinese Plants. — The following prices were 

 realised at the sale at Mr. Stevens's on Tuesday and Wednes- 

 day last. Abies Kaempferi from 10s. to £,\ 10s. each ; Wood- 

 wardia orientalis, 15s. Lots of six Pinus Bungeana brought 

 fijom lis. to 17s. per lot, of Bambusa variegata 19s. and 

 £1, of Torreya grandis 5s. to 19s. ; of twenty-five Chamaerops 

 rortuni 9s. to £i ; of twelve Lastrea opaca and atrata 10s. 

 and lis. ; of ten Deutzia crenata flore pleno 6s. to 9s. ; 

 similar lots of Iris laevigata 5s. to 9s. ; of five Woodwardia 

 japonica lis. ; and of twelve Lonicera aureo-reticulata 5s. to 

 7s. per lot. Altogether the proceeds of the two days' sale 

 amounted to upwards of i£3.50. 



WOEK FOE THE WEEK. 



KITCHEN GAEDEN. 



Keep the heaps of compost well turned over, as the time 

 is approaching when every advantage must be taken of 

 frosty mornings to wheel it over the land. As a general 

 rule, ground that is very deeply trenched shoirld be ma- 

 nured after the trenching, and the manure forked in, except 

 in the case of tap-rooted plants, which ■ndll requii'e the 

 manui-e to be trenched in a,t the bottom, and not incorporated 

 with the surface soil. Cabbage, earth-up those planted for 

 Coleworts, for winter and early spring use. Look over the 

 principal plantations frequently to see if slugs attack the 

 plants J it they are numerous lay a quantity of Cabbage 

 leaves on the ground, and examine them daily ; a pail of 

 hot water or some lime may be taken I'ound at the time 

 they are examined, and slugs shaken into it ; thus many 

 thousands may be desti'oyed at this season. Celery, earth- 

 up that intended for winter use a good height. As soon as 

 the sou becomes a little dry it will be necessary to attend 

 to this as early as an opportunity offers, as the frost may 

 set in shortly and do much mischief. Endive, continue to 

 blanch it by tying up. Potatoes, the whole of the main crop 

 should now be talcen up and carefully stowed away. Peas, a 

 few of these, and also Broad Beans, may be sown in a warm, 

 dry part of the garden. If any esculent roots, such as Beet, 

 Carrots, Scorzonera, SaJsafy, &c., remain in the ground they 

 shoidd be taken up immediately. Dress Aspai-agus-beds ; 

 manure, trench, or ridge all vacant ground, bearing in mind 

 the spring crops, for which each portion of the ground is to 

 be prepared. 



FLOWBB GAKDEN. 



During the present month more than common attention 

 is required to preserve this department from the desolating 



eifects of the weather, when the sweeping-up and cleaning 

 of one day may be effaced by the storms of the next. Badly- 

 di-ained or Ul-constructed walks will suffer from depositions 

 of mud, which should be corrected as soon as possible to 

 allow of what may be called the enjoyment of fresh air and 

 exercise in favourable weather. The weather is stUl favour- 

 able for executing alterations, and where these are in hand 

 they shotild be prosecuted with the greatest possible 

 dispatch. Planting and the removal of large evergreens 

 cannot be finished too soon, for it is of the utmost impor- 

 tance that the plants should be afforded some chance of 

 making fresh roots before the trying winds of Mai'ch. See 

 to small plants as well as large being seciu-ed against wind, 

 for these are often greatly injured by being blown about 

 after planting, which a small stake and a few minutes' work 

 would prevent. Those who ptu-pose making additions to 

 their collection of Eoses shoiHd do so at once, as there will 

 be a better chance of obtaining good plants now than after 

 the nursery stock has been repeatedly picked over. The 

 present season is also very favourable for planting all but 

 tender sorts, which had better be kept under glass until 

 next May. In preparing ground for Eoses, let it be trenched 

 at least 2 feet deep, and let a heavy dressing of manure 

 be well incorporated with the soil to the fviU depth. It is. 

 hardly possible to make the soil too rich for any kind of 

 Eose, particularly the autumn-blooming kinds. Look over 

 the herbaceous borders, and make any alterations that may 

 be intended there, taking up and dividing any of the coarse- 

 growing plants that may be inclined to encroach too much 

 upon their neighbours. The modern system of gardening is 

 fast driving this class of plants out of cultivation, but many 

 of them are really beautijful, and if they were more largely 

 grown many gai'dens would not have that naked appearance 

 in spring which is too often seen. Sweep and roU grass, 

 frequently, and keep gravel walks hard and smooth by fre- 

 quent rollings. 



FKUIT GARDEN. 



Let there be no lack of attention in the fruit-room at 

 present, and during the first few weeks after gathering 

 more is required than all the season afterwards. Give jiist 

 sufficient air to carry off the damp, but nothing more, as 

 allowing dry winds to blow over the fruit would only cause 

 shrivelling. Strawberries for early forcing to be placed 

 where they can be protected fi'om drenching rains. Proceed 

 with former dii'ections as regards planting-out fruit trees 

 of all sorts. Cast an eye over the trees in the orchard, and 

 see if there is a necessity for the judicious thinning-out of 

 the branches. 



GREENHOUSE AND CONSEKVATOET. 



Chrysanthemums will now require abundance of air, with 

 a liberal supply of maniu-e water. Great care to be taken 

 never to allow them to flag for want of water. Look over 

 the plants frequently, such as Leschenaultias, Boronias, &c., 

 that are liable to suffer fr-om damp and mildew. Keep 

 Cinerarias, and other softwooded stock clear of green fly, 

 and endeavour to secure stocky plants, by affording them 

 sufficient pot-room, and admitting fresh air freely whenever 

 the weather permits. If such things as Geraniums, Cinerarias, 

 and herbaceous Calceolarias must be wintered in the same 

 house as the Heaths and other hardwooded plants, they 

 should be kept as much as possible by themselves, as they will 

 require a somewhat closer temperature than hardwooded 

 plants ; but where circumstances admit of it, these should 

 occupy a house or pit by themselves. Cinerarias and Gera- 

 niums intended for late blooming wiU do very well in a cold 

 pit, if the weather should not prove very severe, but those 

 intehded for blooming early shoidd bo placed at once where 

 fire heat can be used at iviU, so as to be able to preserve 

 the foliage from damp. Eoses for early forcing should be 

 pruned by this time, and placed where they will at least be 

 free from heavy rains. Where American and other shrubs, 

 are used for forcing, these should be taken up and potted 

 without delay, placing them in a cold pit until they are 

 wanted for forcing, or in a turf-pit, where they can be pro- 

 tected from severe weather by straw mats or other coverings,- 



PITS AND FRAMES. 



All flower-garden plants, such as Petunias, Verbenas, 

 Calceolarias, &c., intended to be wintered in cold fr-ames or 

 pits should now have strict attention. Let the supply of 



