112 THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
weeded and watered at intervals as may seem necessary; and 
when the seedlings are large enough to handle, transplant into 
nursery beds, and they will bloom the following spring. The best 
of them may afterwards be planted in the flower-beds in precisely 
the same manner as the stock raised from offsets. 
It will in every way be more satisfactory to commence with 
established varieties, and the work of purchasing and dividing should 
commence in the course of the current month, or early in May. 
The smallest scrap planted now will make a strong tuft by the 
autumn ; and the amateur who can spare the ground, and is prepared 
to give the plants the little attention requisite to maintain them in a 
flourishing state through the summer, should purchase a stock in 
spring in preference to waiting until the autumn. Strong clumps 
may be obtained at a very low rate; and if it is desired to increase 
them to the fullest extent, divide into single crowns, and, as far as 
possible, separate them so that each piece will have a portion of the 
roots adhering to it. When the stock has become larger, divide the 
clumps lifted from the beds into portions consisting of three or four 
crowns each. As daisies are liable to suffer from drought during 
the summer, select a rather shady situation, not overhung with 
trees, for their summer quarters. Plant in rows nine inches apart, 
and put the plants from four to six inches apart in the rows, ac- 
cording to their size. A few good soakings of water when newly 
planted, and keeping them free from weeds, constitute their summer 
management; and in October lift and plant in the flower-beds 
about six inches apart each way. 
MELON CULTURE IN A NUT-SHELL. 
BY THOMAS TRUSSLER, 
Nursery, High Path, Edmonton. 
4] ELONS are of more difficult cultivation than cucumbers, 
if ) but the production of a first-class crop is not beyond 
J | the means of the majority of amateurs, as I shall in a 
very few words indeed be able to show. Writers upon 
the cultivation of these fruits usually have so much to 
say in reference to the difficulties with which the cultivator is 
likely to be beset, and enter so fully into the details that most 
amateurs who would be delighted to place upon their table a well- 
ripened melon of their own production, shrink from making the 
attempt. Iam an old cultivator, and for the guidance of those in 
need of information, I shall, in compliance with the wish of the 
Editor, briefly describe my practice. 
The intending cultivator must bear in mind that melons, coming 
as they do from tropical countries, cannot be grown in a successful 
manner without a high temperature being maintained about them. 
Nice crops have been produced without the aid of artificial heat, 
