670 GARDEN MA^'AGEME^■T. 



-2078. The stock of cuttings should be looked over, and additional heat 

 «r)p]ied, when the roots are not fully formed. Late aferanium-cuttinjrs may 

 be removed to the kerbs of the pine-pits, which will assist them to make 

 roots. In storing the stock away for the winter, endeavour to keep all those 

 plants together which require similar treatment. Some kinds will stand more 

 damp than others, and may be wintered in common frames ; but the better 

 kinds of bedding-out geraniums, and some other tender things, will require a 

 moderately dry house or pit. To preserve verbenas, petunias, &c,, properly 

 through the winter, they must be kept dry to prevent mildew, to which they 

 are very liable in frames during wet weather. As it is desirable to protect 

 the recently-struck plants from rains, and yet to give them a large portion of 

 air, the sashes must be daily tilted up back and front, to cause a complete 

 cii'culation. Where room can be found for the bedding stuff in empty vineries, 

 they should be allowed to remain there as long as possible, as in dull weather 

 they become better established than when kept in frames, more especially 

 those only recently rooted. 



■2079. "^^^ herbaceous ground will now require a thorough cleaning, cutting 

 down the stalks of plants done blooming, and seeing to the support of the few 

 things still in flower, as the Michaelmas daisies, and rake and hoe the borders 

 neatly. 



idSo. During this month the flower-beds should be enriched with manure or 

 fresh loam, and the soil turned up before frost sets in ; the edges of beds in 

 grass shouldbegoneoverwith the edging-iron to presei've the foi*m. All flowering 

 plants standing in pots or frames should be fully exposed to the sun on every 

 favourable occasion, so as to harden their tissues ; and all growing plants, 

 like the verbenas, stopped back to secure a bushy habit by-and-by. Most of 

 the verbenas may be kept in a cold pit, dusting a httle slacked lime over the 

 soil in the pots or boxes ; applying the same treatment to the shrubby cal- 

 ceolarias. Pot-up and cut back the dwarf lobehas and CEnothera prostrata, 

 sprinkling a little silver-sand among the roots. Lophospennums, maurandyas, 

 and the tropaeolums, require a dry and airy situation in the frame or green- 

 house when taken in doors. 



2081. Bose-Garden. — Planting and transplanting are now the chief employ- 

 ment ; if very dry during the month, give a good watering to each plant 

 before the soil is fully filled in. Stocks should also be collected and planted for 

 budding on next season. The true dog-rose makes the best stock, and may 

 be distinguished from sweet-brier by the large white thorns which thickly 

 cover the stem of the latter towards the base ; and from those of climbing 

 habit, by the dark green colour of their bark and weakness in their stem. 

 Prune the old roots close to the stem, cutting all strong shoots close off. When 

 planted, some growers say cut the head down to within four or six inches of 

 the height at which they are wanted, and, having levelled the soil, leave them 

 till spring. The best growers prefer leaving the head full vmtil the plant is 

 thoroughly rooted. 



2082. ShrvMeries should now be thinned outj and other alterations com- 



