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venient. and encouraged by plenty of heat and moisture to make 

 vigorous growth. Thin out the young suckers to the proper number 

 for forming a specimen of the desired size, and let this be done 

 before tbose to be left are injured by crowding, and the old pieces 

 should also be removed in time to prevent injury from tbem. As to 

 the number of suckers proper to be left, this will depend upon the 

 size of pot, etc., but it is better not to leave too many, as fine strong 

 flower-spikes will not be produced unless the plants are kept mode- 

 rately thin and grown strong. If all the shoots on a large plant are 

 expected to bloom at once, the specimen must be subjected to a 

 short period of dry, cool treatment, to check and mature the growth ; 

 but if a succession of bloom is wanted, this will be the best secured by 

 keeping the plants in growing circumstances to secure a succession 

 of suckers. Treated in this way they will grow and bloom, and 

 furnish a succession of flower-spikes the year round, and will be 

 attractive objects. I am not partial, however, to the system of 

 growing this plant in large masses, for well-grown single plants are, 

 in my estimation, by far the most attractive. Any light rich soil, 

 through which water will pass freely, will be quite suitable for pot- 

 ting, but care should be used to secure perfect drainage, for the 

 roots are impatient of stagnant moisture, which also injures the 

 foliage. 



EEMIXDEES FOR GAEDEX WORK IX XOVEMBER. 



ULIPS. — Plant the rest bed the first week, sis inches apart and 

 three inches deep to the crowns, and seven plants in width. 



Htacikths. — Form beds of them, diversifying the colours, the 

 same distance and depth as the tulips are planted. 



Datilias. — Remove to their winter storehouse, which must be dry, 

 perfectly secured from frost, and also heit. 



Suettbs of all kinds may be planted, alterations in gardens should be com- 

 menced, box-edges and paths made, general removals of plants of all kinds may 

 be executed. 



Rose Stocks should be procured and planted ready for budding or grafting ; 

 plant them eighteen inches apart in the row, and the rows three feet apart. 



Waxl Fruit Trees should be pruned ; and, though neglected in all gardens 

 and orchards, standard trees should be pruned as carefully as wall trees, no 

 branches should be in each other's way, and all weak and small shoots should be 

 cut away. Cuttings of currint and gooseberries may be planted. 



Some of the earlier crops, those which we may fairly call speculative, because 

 it is a chance how they stand, may now be got in ; a few early beans and peas 

 may be tried, because they are useful if they stand, and no great loss if they 



Dressing and trenching, or digging all vacant spaces, to be left rough, or in 

 ridges to be mellowed by frost, prepares it for spring sowings. Hoeing between 

 crops, and clearing theni from their lower leaves that are decaying, must be 

 attended to. 



Bulbs of all kinds should be planted during the present month, and also 

 potted or glassed for blooming ic-doors. 



