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up, and the stems cut off, but not 

 cleared of their mould. They may 

 be laid in their boxes dirty as they 

 are, to be cleaned after they have 

 thoroughly dried in the shade. 

 Those in the out beds may also be 

 taken up as soon as their stems 

 turn yellow at top; but all those 

 which have seed-pods will not 



have begun to decay, and when i 

 seed is wanted they must be left | 

 until the pods swell the full size, , 

 and begin to turn brown. i 



Pansies. — Shade the individual 

 blooms that are wanted from the ! 

 heat of the sun, but the bed must 

 not be confined, for it would 

 draw the plants ; or, if the bed 

 must be shaded, let it be by a side 

 wall of matting, and not a com- 

 plete cover. Take off the small 

 side-slioots fiora all the plants 

 you wish to propagate, and con- 

 stantly set them to strike. New 

 beds ought to be made two or three 

 times a year, besides the origi- , 

 nal autumn -made ones. The side- ' 

 shoots strike rapidly under a 

 hand-glass even in the common 

 border, and a trifle of bottom 

 lieat will hasten the striking. 

 You may make another bed of 

 struck cuttings any time this 

 month, and those plants thati 

 have bloomed and declined may 

 be cut down to break out anew, 

 or be pulled to pieces to propagate j 

 generally. | 



Perennials and Biennials. — Ifj 

 they are large enough to plant out 

 towards the end of the month, let 

 them be turned out about as dis- 

 tant from each other as the plants 

 occupy when grown. Canterbury 

 Bells, Walltiowers, Sweetwilliams, 

 Columbines, Lupines, and such- 

 like, may be nine inches ; Poly- 

 anthuses and such-hke close-grow- 

 ing suV»jects may be six inches. 

 Let them be in beds about four 



feet wide, and alleys between of 

 one foot. 



Picotees and Carnations require 

 the greatest attention, not less to 

 their general health than their 

 freedom from vermin. If there be 

 the least symptoms of the green 

 fly they should be fumigated, if 

 you have a room to shut them in ; 

 and if not, they should be washed 

 and syringed, first with tobacco 

 water and next with clear water; 

 for. if once the green fly prevails, 

 the plants will be weakened and 

 the bloom greatly impaired. As 

 tlieir stems rise they should be 

 tied to the stakes, but sufiiciently 

 loose to allow them to grow. They 

 will frequently lengthen so much 

 that, if the tie stops them above, 

 the stem will grow out and break : 

 the early ties ought to slip up 

 the stakes readily, as the stems 

 lengshen. Of course, if there be 

 more than one stem to a plant, the 

 weaker is to be removed. Only 

 one stem should be left, and not 

 more than two or three bvids on 

 the stem, unless it be on some of 

 the very large and full kinds, 

 which would grow too strong if 

 limited in number. 



Pinks are now rapidly sending 

 up their bloom-stems, and althou.h 

 many persons will leave on more 

 than one stem to a plant, we 

 cannot recommend it. There are 

 some large Pinks that will be 

 more tractable if they ere allowed 

 to retain all their buds, because 

 their great fault is being too 

 double and too large ; but these 

 are the exceptions, and are soon 

 found out. In a general way, re- 

 duce the buds to two or three. 

 The tying of the buds roun I the 

 middle with a bit of bass malting 

 must be managed when the bud 

 has grown as large as it will swell 

 belore bursting, because the con- 



