Sept.~\ ROOMS GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. 311 



SEPTEMBER. 



WHERE there is a quantity of plants to be kept in these 

 apartments, they should be disposed of to the best effect, 

 and, at the same time, in such a manner as will be most 

 effectual to their preservation. A stage of some descrip- 

 tion is better than a table, and, of whatever shape or form, 

 it ought to be on castors, that it may, in severe nights of 

 frost, be drawn to the centre of the room. The shape may 

 be either concave, a half circle, or one square side. The 

 bottom step or table should be six inches wide and five 

 inches deep, keeping each successive step one inch farther 

 apart, to the desired height, which may be about six feet. 

 Allowing the first step to be about two feet from the floor, 

 there will be five or six steps, which will hold about fifty 

 pots of a common size. A stage in the form of half a circle 

 will hold more, look the handsomest, and be most conve- 

 nient. We have seen them circular, and, when filled, 

 appeared like a pyramid. These do very well, but they 

 must be turned every day, or the plants will not grow 

 regularly. With this attention it is decidedly the best. 

 Green is the most suitable colour to paint them. 



GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. 



The directions given for the green-house this month are 

 equally applicable here. The late blooming Chrysanthe- 

 mums are particularly adapted for rooms. The colours are 

 so varied, and many of them are dwarf-growing, and even 

 neat in their habit, especially the new hybrid sorts. 



