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success. Burn all the prunings of trees and the clippings of hedges, for they only 
litter up the place, and the ashes are valuable for spreading over the onion-beds. 
Raspberry quarters must not be dug over in the same way as those devoted to other 
bush fruits, but must have a good mulchinstead. Wall-trees coming into bloom 
must be protected. Nets, tiffany, or fir branches can be used for protecting 
purposes ; the first two’are the best. 
GREENHOUSE AND CONSERVATORY. 
It is now a trying time to the occupants of this structure, for the outbursts of 
bright sunshine are so generally accompanied with cold, keen, drying winds, that 
it is impossible to ventilate freely enough to keep the temperature right. Shading 
must be resorted to, or the plants in flower will soon lose their freshness and beauty. 
Air, however, must be freely admitted when the weather will admit of its being 
done, as nearly the whole of the hard-wooded plants will now be making their 
growth, and unless they have plenty of air the young wood will want that firmness 
which is so essential to an abundance of bloom. Soft-wooded heaths and epacris 
should be cut down soon after they go out of flower; they have then plenty of time 
to make new wood, and get it matured before autumn. Camellias growing out of 
shape should be pruned, and placed in a nice genial growing atmosphere, and well 
syringed with tepid water to induce them to break well. Pelargoniums of all kinds 
that need a shift must have it at once, or not at all. Shift all plants that need it 
as fast as they go out of flower. Plants coming from the frames should have a 
smoking before they are brought into the greenhouse, as there are many plants now 
in bloom, and flowers of all kinds receive considerable injury from tobacco smoke. 
Plants brought from the forcing-houses in bloom should have the advantage of a 
close, warm, shady corner until they are inured to the greenhouse temperature. 
Fuchsias should be shaken out, root pruned, and repotted ; cuttings put in last 
month will now be nicely rooted, and ready for potting off. Sow Balsams, Cocks- 
combs, Phlox Drummondi, and other annuals for summer decoration. Plant off 
early-sown plants. 
STOVE. 
Shading will be required during outbursts of brilliant sunshine, for it will be 
fourd quite impossible to give sufficient air to keep the temperature down to its 
proper level without injuring the plants. Set to work another batch of Achimenes 
and Gloxinias ; shift on those started early. Repot Begonias, Gloriosas, Luculias, 
Rondoletias, and Ixoras that have been cut back. Those that are about to flower 
must be left alone until their beauty is past. Start Clerodendrons, Stephanotis, 
Cissus, Dipladenias, etc. ; all will start quicker and stronger if the pots are partly 
plunged, or set upon a gentle bottom-heat. Ferns will soon be starting into 
growth; those requiring a shift must have it at once. Where the plants are 
already in large pots, and it is not considered desirable to increase the size, reduce 
the ball two or three inches all round, and cut a piece off the bottom, and repot in 
thefsame size again; keep close and shady for a week or so after doing this. 
VINERY. 
Vines in flower must have rather a drier atmosphere, and not so parching as is 
generally advised. Disbud, train, and thin out the bunches as required. After 
the fruit is set keep a thoroughly moist atmosphere, and paint the pipes with sulphur 
to prevent red spider making its appesrance. Slightly increase the temperature, 
and stop one or two eyes beyond the bunch. ; 
Renpxe’s Patent System or Guazine is well represented in the beautiful eur- 
vilinear roof of the Westminster Aquarium. Only flat glass was used, and the total 
weight employed was 40 tons, the measurement being 60,000 square feet. There 
were only two skilled workmen and four labourers employed to fix the glass, and 
the work was accomplished within a space of ten weeks, without the use of a particle 
of putty or cement, and the cost, per definite measure, was less than half the cost of 
glazing the Crystal Palace. 
March. 
