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for they run up two feet high, and 

 form a handsome bushy plant. 

 There are various shades of yellow, 

 and some nearly white : they may 

 be planted three inches below the 

 surface, and should be left in the 

 ground two or three seasons with- 

 out taking up. 



Cuttings of the various flower- 

 garden plants, as Verbenas, Jaco- 

 bseas, Gazanias, Cupheas, &c., if 

 not already planted, should be put 

 into store pots, well drained, filled 

 three parts full with a light open 

 compost, and then covered with 

 an inch of white sand, into which 

 the cuttings are to be phmted; the 

 pots should be placed in a frame 

 or pit where there is a slight 

 bottom heat. They must not be 

 too much crowded, nor at any 

 time kept too damp, or they will 

 become decayed. These cuttings, 

 "when rooted, are to be hardened 

 off gradually to the temperature of 

 a greenhouse, in which they may 

 stand on a light airy shelf until 

 spring. Cuttings put in earlier 

 will have to be potted either sepa- 

 rately in small sixties, or two or 

 three in a large sixty-sized pot, to 

 remain through the winter. 



Dahlias should be taken up, and 

 their labels be wired to them, the 

 stump cut down to within four 

 inches of the crown ; they should 

 then be placed in a dry outhouse, 

 with their stems downwards, so 

 that any superfluous moisture 

 should run out of the hollow 

 stalks ; but if in any place which 

 is not protected against frost, they 

 must be covered with mats and 

 litter at night, and iiot uncovered 

 until frost lias disappeared. As 

 soon as they are fairly dried they 

 must be placed where they are to 

 be wintered : the very choice sorts 

 of which you have no duphcates 

 may be placed in dry sand in 



boxes, or they may be potted in 

 dry soil, or they may be hung up 

 in the greenhouse or any apart- 

 ment in which the frost does not 

 or cannot reach them. The ordi- 

 nary ones of which you have du- 

 plicates may, for want of a better 

 place, be thrown in a heap into a 

 dry cellar, or underneath the stage 

 of the greenhouse. Wires are ne- 

 cessary to fasten the labels, be- 

 cause string would rot long before 

 tlie winter passed, and the Dahlias 

 would be almost useless without 

 their names. 



Deciduous Flowering Shrubs 

 should be now removed, and 

 planted where they are required 

 on the borders, in the clumps, or 

 on the lawn ; the various kinds of 

 Almond and Peach, the double- 

 flowering Cherry, Pynis Joponica, 

 Persian, Siberian, and common 

 Lilacs, the Guelder Piose, all the 

 Thorns, scarlet and yellow Horse- 

 chestnut, and all other.ornamental 

 deciduous flowering trees and 

 shrubs. Prune them at the roots 

 to remove all damaged portions, 

 and lessen tlie shrubs in head to a 

 reasonable form, because they are 

 often of straggling growth until 

 brought into form in these places. 

 Dig the holes large enough to 

 allow of the roots being spread 

 out, tread them firmly in the 

 ground, and take care that they 

 are put no lower in the soil than 

 they were when last growing : the 

 collar of the root should be even 

 with the surface. 



Early Tulips, the most neglected 

 and yet beautiful of spring flowers, 

 should be planted in patches of 

 half a dozen, all of one sort ; but 

 there are many sorts — rich scarlet, 

 deep rose, light and dark yell )w, 

 white, and many-coloured stripes — 

 which may be had in flower at the 

 same time as Crocuses, or imme- 



