MONTHLY CALENDAR 



OF 



HORTICULTURE AND FLORICULTURE, 



FOR FEBRUARY. 



FRUIT DEPARTMENT. 



Grapes — in forcing houses will now, with light fires, begin to swell their 

 buds. Where there are good strong vines in pots, they may be brought into 

 the green-house to forward them. They should be set on the front flue, and 

 the shoot trained up under the centre of the sashes. Cuttings and eyes 

 should now be put in. 



Straivberries. — Where pots of Strawberries were taken up in the fall, they 

 may now be put in the green-house or hot-bed. 



Lemons and Oranges. — Where these are wanted for stocks, to graft or in- 

 arch, the seed should now be sown in rich mould and placed in a hot-bed. 



VEGETABLE DEPARTMENT. 



Radishes should now be sown in hot-beds and frames, with a gentle bot- 

 tom heat. 



Caulifiower plants that have been protected in frames during winter, should 

 have plenty of air and light. Seed may now be sown in hot-beds for a sum- 

 mer crop. 



Cucumbers may now be planted with safety, as the days have become con- 

 siderably longer, and consequently more sunshine. Prepare a hot-bed as 

 directed in page 46 of the present number, in the communication of Mr. J. 

 W. Russell, for propagating grape eyes. The seeds should be sown in pots 

 four inches diameter, and when the plants are up, they should have plenty 

 of air, to prevent their drawing; when they have thrown out two or three 

 rough leaves, they should be hilled out ; the soil best for them is loam and 

 leaf mould, principally the latter, till the plants get strong. 



FLOWER DEPARTMENT. 



Tender annual flower seeds may now be sovm in hot-beds. Use light rich 

 soil, and cover the seeds very lightly. Those sown last month should now 

 be potted off" into small pots. 



Georginas (Dahlias) may be plunged in the hot-bed to forward them, and 

 afterwards potted in large pots and placed in the green-house. 



Cuttings of Salvia splendens, fulgens and mexicana should now be put in, 

 six or eight cuttings in each pot, and plunged in a bottom heat, or in a very 

 warm part of the green-house. 



