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any of the pots have not been top-dressed, this should be attended to now. 

 Stake the plants if fine specimens are wanted. Seeds may be sown now. 



Hyacinths, tulips, and other hardy bulbs, may be planted as late as the 

 20th of the month with success. 



Pelargoniums may yet be repotted, if this has not been attended to. 

 Water carefully now, as it is best to keep the plants rather too dry than 

 too wet. 



Chinese primroses may now be shifted into larger pots, if fine specimens 

 are wanted. Pick off all the flowers which appear now, and it will greatly 

 strengthen the plants for blooming well in February. 



Carnations and picotees should be wintered in frames. 



Verbenas, raised from cuttings, should now be potted off into small pots. 



Schizanthuses should be shifted now into larger pots. 



Victoria stocks should now be shifted into the next size pots. 



Scarlet geraniums for a spring stock may now be propagated from cuttings, 



Oxalis, sparaxis, gladiolus, and other spring flowering bulbs, may now be 

 potted for a succession of bloom, 



Leschenaultia formosa should now be carefully watered, and kept as near 

 the glass as convenient. 



Callas may now be repotted. 



Roses, taken up and potted last month, should now have the shoots head- 

 ed in to a good bud ; the plants may then be removed to the greenhouse, or 

 wintered in frames. Hybrid perpetuals, Bourbons, and some of the Noi- 

 settes in the open ground should have a slight covering of coarse litter, 



Stephanotus jloribundus should now be kept rather dry, and placed in a 

 cool airy situation in order to give it rest. 



Gesnera zebrina should now be repotted, and placed in the warmest part 

 of the house. 



Petunias should be raised from cuttings for a spring stock. 



Nemophila insignis should now be shifted into six inch pots if fine speci- 

 mens are wanted. 



Ericas should now be liberally watered, and placed in a cool airy part of 

 the house. 



Cactuses should now be sparingly watered, and kept in a cool part of the 

 house. 



Carnations and pinks of what are termed the monthly kinds should now 

 be shifted into larger pots, and they will bloom freely all winter. 



Calceolarias should be rather sparingly watered, and placed on a shelf 

 near the glass. 



Cinerarias should now be shifted into larger pots. 



Rocket Larkspur seed, now sown in beds, will make splendid flowering 

 plants next spring. 



Herbaceous plants of all kinds may yet be transplanted. 



Hardy flowering shrubs may now be removed with safety. 



Greenhouse plants of all kinds which we have not specially noticed, will 

 now need pruning, staking up, and top-dressing, so as to have the houses 

 in good order. 



