96 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



FLORICULTURAL CALENDAR FOR APRIL. 



Greenhouse plants will now require large admissions of air at all times when 

 the weather is mild, for as most of them will now be shooting freely, they must 

 not be kept too close. They must now be looked over, to see when water is 

 wanted, and let all the plants be properly supplied therewith, as this is now a 

 very necessary article, particularly when they are in the house ; be careful of the 

 succulent kinds. Let no decayed leaves or shoots be allowed to remain, but let 

 such be taken off as soon as perceived ; and all shoots that are of a weak 

 s t ra gK nn g growth must be pruned more or less, as appears necessary. Let no 

 weeds, moss, or litter be seen on the tops of the pots and tubs ; and if any foul- 

 ness be contracted on the plants, let it be instantly removed. Inarch shrubby 

 exotics of any particular kinds, sow seeds in pots, placing them in a hot-bed ; sow 

 seeds of orange, lemon, &c, for stocks ; also propagate by cuttings, layers, or 

 otherwise, and if placed in a baik bed in the pine-stove or hot-bed, they will be 

 greatly facilitated in their rooting. 



Triveranias, see January and February Numbers of 1842. 



Pleasure Ground, Flower Garden, &x. — Plant out in a gentle hot-bed, all 

 kinds of tender and half-hardy annuals, raised from seed the two last months ; 

 also sow more seed to succeed them ; a little air should regularly be given to 

 prevent the plants from being weakly. Hardy annuals may still be sown in the 

 borders or other parts of the gar.len, where they are to remaiu. Sow Ten-week 

 Stocks and Mignonette in pots for rooms, and borders for nosegays. The more 

 curious and valuable varieties of Hyacinths, Tulips, Ranunculuses, and Ane- 

 mones, which are planted together in beds, require particular attention, or heavy 

 rains, cutting winds, and sharp frosts will do them much harm; and the sun, if 

 permitted to shine on them fully, will bring on the decay of their blossoms in a 

 short time. The best Carnations in pots should have a good share of attention, 

 and their growth encouraged as much as possible ; as their flower-stalks advance 

 in growth, they should be carefully tied up to neat sticks ; keep the pots per- 

 fectly free from weeds, and the plants from decayed leaves ; those not yet planted 

 out in puts, beds, or borders, where they are to remain, should now be done. Sow 

 seeds of both Carnations and Pinks. Polyanthuses may still be planted, also 

 increased by sowing the seeds and by rooted slips. Vol. i., pages 23 and 132. 

 Give fresh earth to such pots of perennial plants as may require it. Many kinds 

 of perennial and biennial plants may still be planted, and also increased by seeds, 

 offsets, &c. Auricu'as will now begin to blow ; care must therefore be taken to 

 protect the more valuable sorts in pots from rain, wind, and too much sun, and 

 thin out the smaller pips. Evergreen trees, and flowering shrubs, may jet be 

 planted, and the sooner the better. Grass-walks, lawns, and other compartments 

 of grass in the garden, should be rolled. Box, Thrift, and other edgings may 

 still be planted ; they will root readily if in dry weather they receive a supply 

 of water occasionally. Where any edgings have become disordered through age, 

 &c, let them be taken up, slipped, and replanted. All flowering plants should 

 be attended to, and all straggling, broken, and decayed shoots should be taken 

 away at all times. Tigrioia pavonia should now be planted in pots or borders; 

 the soil should be a rich loam. Hepaticas should now be divided ; Lobelias 

 should be planted out in pots and borders ; Pansies should now be propagated 

 by young shoots or slips, which should be pricked out under hand-glasses, and 

 well watered ; they will soon strike root, when they should be planted out into 

 beds where they are intended to flower. In watering tender annuals, care should 

 be taken to give it iu a tepid state, and if possible, in pots, to flood them over 

 the surface of the soil, and not over the tops of the plants, or they will be liable 

 to rot, particularly Ten-week Stocks, &c. &c. Some of the early-sown tender 

 annuals will now require to be potted off, using rich soil. Roses to bloom late, 

 see vol. i., pages 23 and 206 ; bud Chinese kinds now, see vol. i., page 80. — 

 Self-sown annuals should be thinned where numerous, to have them vigorous, 

 and transplant the surplus. 



Hydrangeas. 



Plants that have plump end buds may have the shoots cut off a few inches 

 long, and one inserted in a small sixty pot struck in heat, and afterwards re- 

 potted; such will bloom singularly fine and unique. One-twentieth of steel 

 filings in the soil will cause them to flower blue. — Campanula pyramidalis, 

 vol. i., page 48. 



