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becomes erect, expose them to the full sun, and treat as 

 green-house plants. 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



These very ornamental plants blooming so late, and at a 

 period when there are few others in flower, one of each 

 variety (or two of some of the finest) should be lifted and 

 put in eight-inch pots, in light loamy soil, and treated as 

 above directed for stocks, &c. These will flower beauti- 

 fully from October to December ; and, when done bloom- 

 ing, the pots may be plunged in the garden, or covered 

 with any kind of litter until spring, when they can be 

 divided, and planted out. 



CAPE AND HOLLAND BULBS. 



About the end of this month is the period for all of these 

 that are intended for the green-house to be potted. We 

 specified some of the former last month, and will here enu- 

 merate a few others. 



Babiana, a genus of small bulbs, with pretty blue, white, 

 red, and yellow flowers. B. distica, pale blue flowers in 

 two ranks. B. stricfa, flowers blue and white. B. tubi- 

 JJora, beautiful bright blue. B. plicdta has sweet-scented 

 pale blue flowers. B. villosa,red', B. sulphurea, sulphur 

 colour; B. rubro-cyanea, dark purple with crimson centre. 

 There are about twenty species of them, and they grow 

 from six to twelve inches high. Five inch pots are suffi- 

 cient for them. (Soil No. 11.) 



Gladiolus, Corn-flag, a genus of above fifty species. 

 There are several very showy plants among them, and a 

 few very superb. G. floribundus, large pink and white 

 flowers. G. cardindlis, flowers superb scarlet, spotted 

 with white. G. byzantinus, purple. G. bldndus, flowers 

 of a blush rose colour, and handsome. G. cuspiddtus, 

 flowers white and purple. G. racemdsus, flowers beauti- 

 ful rose and white. G. psittadnus ; the flowers are striped 

 with green, yellow, and scarlet, about four inches in dia- 

 meter, in great profusion, on a stem about two feet high, 



