CALENDAR CF OPF.KATTONS FOR AIGUST. 



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enough for anything. Tliese may 

 be placed as thickly in the pot as 

 they cau be put, covered with a 

 glass if you have one liandy; 

 but they will strike in a frame 

 without any bell-glass over them. 

 Stocks tliut have grown and filled 

 tiieir pots with roots may be shifted 

 into larger pots, because the 

 stronger a stock is the sooner a 

 bud or a graft makes a plant on 

 it. All the plants may be exa- 

 mined to see if they are pot- 

 bound, or have filled their pots 

 with roots, and any that have 

 done so may have a shift and one 

 watering to settle the earth to 

 the roots, but after that may be 

 kept short of water, lest they start 

 off for growth again. 



Gape Bulbs. — This is a good 

 season for repotting this class of 

 plants. They should be turned 

 out of the ])ots they grew in, and 

 all the bulbs and offsets collected 

 from among the soil. These are 

 then to be repotted in fresh soil, 

 placing one, two, or more bulbs in 

 a pot according to the size era- 

 ployed. Five or six of such bulbs 

 as those of Ixia or Oxalis may be 

 put into a pot five inches across ; 

 the larger Gladiolus, Antholyzas, 

 &c., should be put singly into pots 

 of that size. A good general com- 

 post for them is made of equal 

 parts loam, peat, and leaf-mould, 

 which, if the loam is light, will 

 require the addition of only a very 

 small proportion of sand. When 

 all are potted they may be set on 

 one of the shelves of the green- 

 house near the light, and they 

 should have but little water until 

 growth is commenced, though the 

 soil ought to be kept slightly 

 moistened. When in full growth 

 and flower they take much more 

 water. 



China Primroses. — Sow the seed 



the first week in light rich soil 

 that is to say, if you want a lot of 

 single flowers, and let it be jilaced 

 in the hotbed till it vegetates, 

 when it may be gradually removed 

 into the cold frame until it is 

 large enough to prick out into 

 small pots. Pick the dead leaves 

 off your double ones, and if the 

 pots are too full of roots shift 

 them instantly to pots a good two 

 inches larger across, and set them 

 in a cold frame, so that they get 

 no more rain nor sun than they 

 require, and you have them under 

 control. 



Chrysanthemums in pots for 

 blooming in the greenhouse must 

 at this season be very closely at- 

 tended ; they must on no account 

 suffer fx-om want of water, or their 

 lower leaves will be killed or turned 

 yellow, greatly to the deterioration 

 of the plants as regards their ap- 

 pearance. Cuttings of the tips of 

 the shoots, struck now in a mild 

 hotbed, make very interesting 

 dwarf blooming plants. 



Cinerarias. — Look to the seed 

 of those you are saving from, and 

 others you want to propagate may 

 be parted, and all the offsets taken 

 from the root repotted — if small, 

 round the edge ; if fair size, in the 

 centre of a sixty-sized pot. 



Climbing ptnnts, such as all the 

 Kennedyas and their families, 

 under whatever name they now 

 go, must be fastened to their trel- 

 lises as they advance. The Tro- 

 paeolums also require constant 

 care, and those which have lost 

 their beauty may stand aside. 



Cuttings of all kinds of green- 

 house plants may be taken now : 

 shoots that have completed their 

 growth are the proper sort to pre- 

 pare for striking. Cut up the 

 bottoms to a joint, and stiip off 

 the lower leaves; prepare pots for 



