158 THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



removed when rearrangement is required, and this, when occasionally 

 repeated, gives an air of freshness to the whole house, for one tires 

 of seeing the same plant continually under the same circumstances 

 and associations. There is a large plant growing herein an inverted 

 seakale pot, and plunged to the rim in the conservatory border, 

 which measures twelve feet in height, and seven feet through, and 

 is at this moment, and has been for these last two months, profusely 

 covered with its spikes of brilliant yellow blossoms; and there are 

 many others, plants of not more than from two to three feet in 

 height, which blend their flowers with those of cinerarias, hyacinths, 

 and such like, down to the floor of the house. 



It is rather subject to the attacks of red spider, and requires, in 

 consequence, a somewhat free use of the syringe when out of flower, 

 and an occasional drenching with soapsuds, which here are a never 

 failing remedy against the attacks of these troublesome insects ; care 

 is however taken to ascertain that this material is not too dirty, or 

 overcharged with potash or other deleterious ingredient, or the plants 

 would have a dirty appearance for some considerable time. 



REMINDERS FOR GARDEN WORK IN MAT. 



^INKS should haye all the sterna but one removed, and all the buds but 

 two or three at the most taken from that single stem that is left. Top 

 dress the beds with rotten cow-dung, stir the earth first between them, 

 and water if the weather prove dry. 



Plants kept in the dwelling-house or in pits may be planted out 

 in the ground by the middle of the month ; fuchsias, geraniums, verbenas, petu- 

 niaB, and other clump and border plants. 



Dahlias may be planted out by the 15tb, both those from cuttings and those 

 from parting the roots, also old roots that have not been parted or propagated. 

 Dahlias in plantation by themselves should be six feet apart evrry way, and have 

 their stakes driven down before they are planted, that they may be tied up at, once 

 to protect them from wind. Lay all sorts of traps for earwigs directly, and hunt 

 them industrii usly. 



Cuttings of all kinds may be taken from biennials, perennials, and most 

 plants, and struck uuder a hand-glass. 



Pansies must be top dressed, and the litter taken away ; water must be dis- 

 pensed liberally in hot weather, and the hottest sun kept off; cuttings may be 

 struck in the shade under a glass, side shoots are best for this. 



Auriculas, as they decline their bloom, should be placed on a hard ground 

 where they may have all the wet and air ; and if the seed be not wanted, pick off 

 the vessels, but do not cut down the stem. 



Annuals that have been raised in heat may be planted out in beds or borders, 

 when tney are to flower or be potted off, particularly balsams and cockscombs for 

 blooming in pots. 



Wall Feuit Trees must be looked over, and their useless shoots removed, 

 all those that grow out straight Irom the wall and those which are in each other's 

 way. The shoots which are retained should be trained in a right direction; and 

 when any shoot is too vigorous for the rest of the tree, it is better to cut it away. 

 Thin the fruit as soon as it is large enough. 



