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ferent kinds; insert them in pots, and plunge them in hot-beds, which will 

 promote their vegetating and rooting quickly and certainly. 



Greenhouse. — These 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. The plants 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 straggling growth must be pruned more or 

 less, as appears necessary. Let no weeds, moss, or litter, be seen on the tops 

 of the pots or tubs ; and if any foulness 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 bark 

 bed in the pine-stove or hot bed, they will be greatly facilitated in tbeir 

 rooting. 



Pleasure Ground, Flower Garden, &c. — Plant out iu a gentle hot- 

 bed, all kinds of tender and half-hardy annuals, raised from seed the two last 

 months; also sow more seeds 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 garden, where they are to remain. 

 Sow Ten-week Stocks and Mignonette in pots for rooms, and borders for nose- 

 gays. The more curious and valuable varieties of Hyacinths, Tulips, Ranun- 

 culuses, aud Anemones, 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 de- 

 cay 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 pos- 

 sible; as their flower-stalks advance in growth they should be carefully tied 

 up to neat sticks; keep the pots perfectly free from weeds, and the plants 

 from decayed leaves ; those not yet planted out in pots, 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 aud by rooted slips. 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. Auriculas 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. Evergreen trees, and flowering shrubs, 

 may yet 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 re- 

 ceive a supply of water occasionally. Where any edgings have become dis- 

 ordered 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. Tigiidia 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 in a tepid state, and 

 if possible, to pots, to flood them over the surface of the soil, and Dot 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. 



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. 



F. F. A. 





