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CALENDAR OF OPERATIONS FOR OCTOBER. 



Tlie Orange^ White, and Mar- 

 tcKjon Lilies may be removed from 

 one place to another, and if they 

 are to remain a year or two, one 

 good bulb in a place is enough. 



Compost for Pansies, Pinks, 

 Carnations, and some other peren- 

 nials, should be liglit and rich. 

 This may be formed various ways. 

 One part loam, one part leaf- 

 mould, one part rotten cowdung, 

 and one part peat, forms a com- 

 post that will grow anything, but 

 especially the above plants, in 

 first-rate style. 



Liming of ground to get rid of I 

 slugs and snails is very effeciive; 

 but it should be applied only at 

 daybreak, or in the evening, or 

 when a dark cloudy day has 

 brought out these pests from their 

 lioles, for every one it touches is 

 destroyed. If spread over the 

 ground when it is dry, and the 

 slugs are in their holes, they will 

 not come out to it; but the first 

 shower of rain spoils it as a re- 

 medy, and therefore they are not 

 destroyed. 



Shading of flowers is always 

 necessary if they are for exhibi- 

 tion ; but the furtlier ofl' the shade 

 is the better. Flowers covered 

 close are aifected in their colour, 

 and this is detrimental to many, 

 especially white and yellow grounds 

 with coloured edges ; for the latter, 

 as in Dahlias, often disappear 

 altogether, and are always less 

 distinct. 



THE ROSE GARDEN. 



Gather all the seeds of Koses. 

 Go over the summer varieties with 

 a sharp knife. Cut all weakly 

 shoots close in to the stem they 

 proceed from, and if it was not 

 done, but must be, shorten all the 

 main branches to a foot or so at 

 the most, but six inches will not 



be tt)0 short, that the heads may 

 not hold tlie wind. Make all fast 

 to their stakes to stand the rough 

 winds of winter. Dig between 

 Koses or round them, but not 

 enough to damage their roots. 

 Remove all suckers from the roots, 

 and all branches from the stock, if 

 any have escaped notice and grown 

 during summer. 



Cuttings of Roses that have 

 struct root should be potted 

 singly, or, if of the hardy sorts, 

 planted out in the beds. 



Rosariums may be formed this 

 month, and there is no period of 

 the year more favourable for plant- 

 ing ; and although, from the great 

 reduction of the heads which 

 necessarily takes place in pruning, 

 the roots may be reduced a good 

 deal also, there is nothing gained 

 by the operation unless they are 

 damaged in taking up. 



Planting. — In each place where 

 a tree is to be planted dig into 

 the ordinai'y soil a good spade- 

 ful of rotten dung, and mix it 

 well with the soil in about an 

 eighteen-inch circle, and form the 

 hole large enough to allow of the 

 roots being spread out. Let 

 every damaged part of the root 

 be cut clean out, and any very 

 straggling portions also be re- 

 moved. Then place the plant in 

 the hole, which must be filled up, 

 and by raising the plant up and 

 down two or three times a little, 

 the earth will get underneath and 

 between the roots, so as to allow 

 of its being trodden over firmly. 

 Then drive a stake into the ground 

 so as to fasten the stem that it 

 may not sway. Dw^arf plants are 

 treated in the same way, but the 

 hole made on a smaller scale, and 

 no stakes required. 



Tender Roses should have their 

 branches protected for the winter 



