70 FLORAL OPERATIONS FOR THE MONTH. 
In watering, it must not be over the tops, or many of the sorts will be 
rotted by it. The best method is to flood over the surface of each pot. 
always using tepid water. Annuals sown in frames—Cockscombs 
Balsams, Thunbergias, &c.—if large enough to pot, should be done 
in 60-sized pots. 
Sow seeds of Dahlias, Fuchsias, Petunias, Verbenas, &c., as soon as 
possible; cover them lightly with fine sandy soil, and press the surface 
smooth with a piece of flat board. Seeds of most greenhouse plants 
will do well if sown now. Dahlia roots, brought in last month, will 
have began to push shoots, which, when about three inches long, should 
be taken off, cut close under a joint, and stuck in sand. Continue to 
put in cuttings of all kinds of plants intended to bed out. Re-pot and 
forward Amaryllises, Gesnerias, &c., as directed last month. Ipomeas, 
Echites, and similar plants, may be trimmed in, disrooted where neces- - 
sary, and brought here to excite early growth. 
IN THE GREENHOUSE AND COLD FRAME. 
Continue to admit all air possible. Re-pot the various inmates as 
required from time to time, and examine to see that the drainage is 
free. If ‘any of the soil looks black and wet, and the pot feels heavy, 
there is something wrong. If any of the pots are too full of roots, the 
plants should be removed into pots a size larger; and the soil should 
be rich, light, and moderately porous. There is a soil which is good 
for almost every kind of greenhouse plant—loam, with the turf rotted 
in it, decayed cow-dung, leaf-mould, peat-earth, chopped small or 
rubbed through a very coarse sieve, and road-sand, equal quantities of 
each; it will do for everything; but if we had Heaths to grow, we _ 
should treble the quantity of peat-earth, and not alter the others, so 
that it would be one of each of the others and three of peat-earth, 
instead of one all round. In moving a plant from one pot to another 
take care that the plant be not sunk in the least more in the new pot 
than it was in the old one, and see that the compost, well mixed up, is 
made to go down very nicely all round the old ball of earth. Plants 
shifted in this way should have a little water to settle the earth to the 
roots. All the shelves of the greenhouse, and all the plants should be 
cleared of dead leaves, and the places kept very clean. 
Calceolarias, Verbenas, Petunias, and other young stock, intended 
either for decorating the flower garden or to bloom in pots, must, as 
growth advances, have the shoots stopped, which will cause them to be 
bushy. Fuchsias require similar attention, forming cuttings of the 
young shoots, if desired. 
Camellias exhausted with flowering should now receive a little extra 
attention. Our practice is to remove them to a cooler situation for 
three weeks, on the principle of slow breaking, and to give the root a 
chance of overtaking, in some degree, the expenditure which has taken 
place in the system. Any pruning necessary is performed at this 
juncture ; no plant can succeed better, after judicious pruning, than 
the Camellia. 
See that Lilium speciosum, &c., are not saturated by watering. Let 
the Azaleas be re-potted, if required, and they must be pushed on by 
