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Pkopagate all kinds of beddiag plants that will be wanted for next year as 

 fast as possible. As soon as cuttings are rooted, pot them off, or place in boxes as 

 recommended above ; keep them in a close pit or frame for a week or ten days, and 

 then expose them to the weather for a short time before housing them for the 

 winter. 



Revise all named plants while there are blooms or fruits to determine if they 

 are tallied correctly. To keep plants correctly tallied will do more to familiarize 

 the mind with theii' several characters and excellences than any amount of book 

 study ; in fact, every garden is a book where — not he who runs — but he who 

 stoops may read, and everything of real interest should have a tally correctly 

 written. This is especially useful in regard to rock plants, coniferous and fruit trees, 

 and roses. 



EosEs may be propagated now by inserting cuttings in a bed of light soil in a 

 frame or pit. But a more certain way will be to prepare the cuttings and insert 

 them in damp sand in a shady place, and keep them frequently sprinkled till they 

 callus, and then pot them, and plunge them in a gentle bottom-heat. 



Spinach must be thinned till the plants are about six inches apart ; vacancies 

 to be filled up by transplanting, and if the ground is heavy or trodden during the 

 operation, loosen it with care so that the roots may have the benefit of the air. 



Stra.wberk.ies to be forced should now have well-formed plump crowns. 



Vines that have ripened their fruit to be kept well aired, cool, and dry. 



Violets for bloom during the winter and early spring should be taken up now 

 with good-sized balls, and potted in 48 or 32-sized pots in rotten turf, or a mixture 

 of leaf-mould and road-sand, and then placed in a pit or frame near the glass. 



Vines. — Pinch off laterals, as it is too late for the plant to benefit by leaves 

 formed now, and remove useless growths. 



Wall Trees only need such care as may be necessary to assist in the ripening 

 of the wood. Where spray-like growth and rank shoots overtop and shade wood 

 selected for bearing, remove it or cut it into reasonable bound?, for the wood laid 

 in needs now all the sun it can get, and it is sure not to receive too much. 



Weeds will be found to grow rapidly, and will make their appearance in every 

 place where the seed was allowed to ripen and fall during the summer months. 

 Now is the time to give them an effectual check, and short work may be made of 

 them on a bright sunny day with the Dutch hoe, when they may be either raked up 

 in a neat manner, or left to winter on the ground. 



Winter Flowers must be thought of now to ensure a satisfactory display of 

 bloom. Give a few Begonias a shift, and push them on for flowering ; look to 

 Euphorbia fulgens and splendens, Poinsettia pulcherrima, Achimenes picta, Lily of 

 the Valley, and pot up from the borders Dielytra spectabilis in plenty ; it is one of 

 the best things to force, and, " though common," it is exqasitely beautiful. 



HOETICULTURAL AFPATRS. 



HE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY have at length made terms 

 with her Majesty's Commissioners, and at a special general meeting 

 held on the 13th ult., the agreement between the two bodies was sanc- 

 tioned by the Fellows of the Society. Two new agreements have been 

 made between her Majesty's Commissioners and the Society. By tlie 

 first her Majesty's Commissioners ab-olutely remit the payment of the £2,400 rent 

 now nearly due, and authorize the Society to borrow £7,000 to pay its debts and repair 

 its buildings ; and if, at the end of three years, they shall exercise the power given 

 to them and determine the agreement, they must take upon themselves this i'7,000 

 of new debt, or so much of it as shall not have been repaid, out of what would 

 have been their own rent. The Society's lease cannot, in any case, be forfeited 

 before the end of the year 1878. It cannot be then forfeited unless the income of 

 Hie Society for that year fixlls short of the amount required, namely, .£10,000. 

 Even if such income should for that year fall short of that amount, there can be no 

 forfeiture if the Society shall pay its rent in accordance with the present agree- 

 Septemter. 



