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three feet between the Hnes. To keep the plants from being destroyed 

 by wind, run a wire on posts along each line, to which tie the stakes. Do not 

 allow the plants to suffer for want of water ; but be sure they require it before 

 you give it to them, as careful watering is very important. When the pots are 

 fairly filled with roots, give weak liquid manure once a week until the first of 

 August, — then twice a week until they show color, when it should be stopped. 

 Disbud twice a week, whether for standard or bush plants, throughout the grow- 

 ing season. House them by the early part of October, — ventilate freely, — keep 

 the temperature about 40° by night, — keep mildew in check by dusting the 

 affected parts with sulphur. To kill Brown Fly, dust them with tobacco pow- 

 der. — Meehans' Monthly. 



THE GREENHOUSE. 



Get all manner of plants that require it repotted and ready for a good 

 summer's growth. Use clean pots, drain them effectively ; in repotting have the 

 ball of the plant deep enough that the fresh soil will completely cover it, but 

 not so deep that an inch or so of the stem will be buried. In potting ram the 

 soil very firm. A loose soil when well watered becomes a mud puddle ; a very 

 firmly packed soil, no matter how much watered, retains its firmness, and the 

 plants in their short jointed firm wood soon show which is the better practice. 

 The soil used in potting while somewhat moist should not be wet ; in fact it 

 should be very free and mellow. Never use a large pot for a small plant ; 

 overpotting is very injurious. Newly potted plants should be kept only moder- 

 ately moist at the root till young roots begin to grow into the fresh soil ; they 

 enjoy a moist atmosphere though, and in the case of fine-leaved plants like 

 dracaenas, crotons, marantas, aralias, anthuriums, alocasias, and the like, syringing 

 them overhead twice a day, say in the morning and again in the early afternoon, 

 does them much good. The blossoms of plants, however, should never be 

 syringed overhead. 



Put in some cuttings of all manner or plants increased in this way, such 

 as carnations, begonias, libonias, eupatoriums, marguerites, stevia, streptoso'en, 

 fuchsias, habrothamnus, cytisus, asparagus {ienuissimus), myrtles, double petunias, 

 plumbago, passion flowers, and many others. Bouvardias, if they have been 

 kept rather dry at the root since flowering, may now be shaken out of their pots 

 and their fleshy roots cut up into short pieces, say two inches long. If these are 

 inserted as cuttings they throw out adventitious eyes that soon grow into nice 

 little plants. If some clumps oi Anemone Japonica are lifted and treated in the 

 same way we can get up a nice stock of them flowering next August and Sep- 

 tember. 



Keep calceolarias cool, faintly shaded, but near the glass, and give them lots 

 of water and plenty of room. Don't wet them much overhead. — Gardening. 



