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celery trenches should be made thoroughly moist before the plants 

 are put in them ; and for a few days after planting, protect from the 

 sun by laying across the trenches canvas, boards, or even branches 

 of trees or shrubs. In planting the other vegetables mentioned, 

 lay down the line and make a shallow trench with either the foot or 

 the hoe, and previous to planting pour water along them. The 

 work can be done more readily, as the soil will be in a moist state, 

 and will not fall into the hole with the dibble ; and the roots being 

 in contact with the moist soil will be more favourably placed than 

 when in dry, powdery stuff. They must be watered daily for a 

 week, at least, should the weather continue dry, to give them a good 

 start. Planted in the ordinary way, and then left to themselves, 

 they suffer so much at the commencement that they lose quite 

 a month, which may be truly described as most valuable time. In 

 dry seasons the plants are especially liable to be cut off by the larva) 

 of the daddy-long-legs, a large brown grub. They generally eat 

 through the stem just below the surface, and if the soil about any 

 of the plants is examined immediately the plant flags, the grub may 

 be caught and destroyed. They seldom injure plants with hardy 

 stems ; and if the tender part can be kept up above the surface, 

 they will receive no harm. For this reason rather tall plants with a 

 portion of hard stem are preferable for soils badly infested with 

 these grubs. When they commence their depredations, the unin- 

 jured plants should have a little of the soil drawn from about the 

 stems, if it can be conveniently done. 



KALOSANTHES FOR THE CONSERVATOET. 



BX THOMAS TETTSSLEE, 

 Nurseryman, Edmonton, N. 



[iT may be said with truth that these beautiful flowers do 

 not receive anything like the attention they deserve. 

 Whether for exhibition or conservatory decoration they 

 are equally valuable, and there is no other class of green- 

 house plants with which I am acquainted that can present 

 such glorious masses of colour at Midsummer when they are at their 

 best. 



Starting with the assumption that the Kalosanthea are worth 

 growing, I will now proceed to offer a few hints upon their culture, 

 which will help to make matters more easy for those who know little 

 or nothing about their management, and are persuaded by me to take 

 them in hand, with the determination to deal with them according to 

 their deserts. AVell, then, to business. The cuttings can be struck 

 at almost any time of the year, but the best season is certainly during 

 July and August. Short stout side-shoots, without flower, should be 

 selected, and inserted singly in three-inch pots, filled with a mixture 

 of peat, loam, leaf-mould, and sharp silver-sand. The wood at the 

 base of the cutting should be firm, and the leaves stripped ofl' that 

 July. 



