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CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS FOR APRIL. 



heat, and ventilation, there will be 

 an increased evaporation from the 

 soil, which would soon, if neg- 

 lected, so far part with its mois 

 ture as to destroy the pknts. 

 Watering is the preventive means ; 

 and in this, as in many other 

 cases, prevention is better than 

 cure, if the proverb can be said 

 to be applicable where cure is 

 impossible. Nothing will revive a 

 Heath that has become thoroughly 

 dry at the root. Shift such of 

 the plants as prepare to make new 

 growth. 



Geraniums. — The earlier plants 

 will, during this month, begin to 

 open their blossoms. Whatever 

 tying up or supporting may be 

 necessary should be done before 

 many of the blossoms are ex- 

 panded. Put in cuttings for the 

 supply of a few late autumn and 

 winter flowering plants. The ex- 

 panded flowers will last some days 

 longer if they are covered over 

 to prevent the access of bees and 

 other nectar-sipping insects. As 

 the plants go out of flower they 

 must be cut low down, and stood 

 in the full sun with very little 

 water until they break. 



Fuchsias. — Let the young plants 

 from cuttings be shifted on from 

 one pot to another as fast as they 



produce roots throughout the ball 

 of earth : the plants should stand 

 in the full light. They do as well 

 in frames as in the greenhouse — 

 perhaps better. The shoots on 

 the old pruned stems must be 

 thinned out where they crowd 

 each other, and regulated so as to 

 form a handsome plant. 



Culttnijs. — This is a good gene- 

 ral season for putting in cuttings 

 of greenhouse plants to obtain a 

 young stock ; they root better 

 than they do in the height of 

 suiumer, when the sun often over- 

 powers them, notwithstanding any 

 shading that may be given them. 



Late-bloomiug Plants. — Select 

 some healthy young bushy plants 

 of free flowering subjects, as Sal- 

 vias, scarlet Geraniums, Helio- 

 tropes, Eupatorium serotinum, 

 shrubby Calceolarias, Leonntis leo- 

 77 ur us, Neja f/racilis, &c., and grow 

 them on during summer in a cold 

 frame with plenty of air, remov- 

 ing all the blooming shoots pro- 

 duced up to September, or as late 

 as may be desired : they should 

 be shifted as often as they need it. 

 Such plants, if allowed to grow on 

 in autumn, will come into flower 

 at that season, and prove highly 

 useful for the decoration of the 

 greenhouse. 



