572 Horiicidlurcd Memoranda. 



Slraivberry beds should be immediately protected with a light covering of 

 manure, straw, or seaweed. 



Raspberry vtjies should be laid down and covered with earth. 



Fruit trees will be greatly benefited if protected around the roots with half 

 a barrowful of manure to each tree. 



Scions for grafting may be cut now, and placed away in earth in a warm 

 shed or cellar till spring. 



FLOWER DEPARTMENT. 



Camellias should be attended to as we advised last month. Syringe the 

 foliage freely in all fine weather. If seeds are wanted, impregnate the 

 blossoms as soon as they open. Cuttings may be put in now with success. 

 Sow seeds if any are yet left out of the ground. 



Hyacinth, tulip, and other bulbs, should be protected with three or four 

 inches of manure or leaves. 



Pelargoniiuns for early blooming may now have a shift into larger pots. 

 Keep them cool and rather dry, and the specimens intended for late bloom- 

 ing should have the tops pinched off. 



Sparaxis, ixias, and other Cape bulbs, should now be liberally watered. 



Verbenas should be repotted if fine large plants are wanted. 



Cyclamens will now be showing flowers, and will require more liberal 

 watering. 



Azaleas should still be kept rather dry. 



Heliotropes which have filled the pots with roots should now be shifted 

 into larger pots. 



Tree pceonies now brought into the house will bloom finely in February. 



Roses, headed in as we directed last month, will now begin to make new 

 shoots. Keep them free from the green fiy by smoking with tobacco, and 

 from the red spider by fumigating with sulphur. Syringe freely, twice a 

 day, in fine sunny weather. 



Herbaceous plants of all kinds flower much better if protected wilh leaves, 

 or coarse strawy manure. 



Perpetual, Bourbon, and Noisette roses in the open ground will flower 

 much better next year if the shoots are bent down and covered with manure. 



Rhododendrons should be covered at the roots with leaves, and the tops, 

 if in exposed situations, thatched wilh straw ; attention to this will keep 

 the foliage in finer condition. 



Neapolitan violets in frames should be vt'ell protected, and covered so as 

 to exclude all frost : air freely in all good weather, and an abundance of 

 flowers may be gathered all winter. 



Pansies in pots should be kept well watered, and placed near the glass. 



Cactuses, with the exception of truncatum and its varieties, which are 

 now blooming, should be kept quite dry and cool ; on their treatment now 

 depends their flowering the coming spring. 



Abutilons. in full flower may be shifted into larger pots, if fine specimens 

 are wanted. 



Ericas and epacrises growing vigorously, should have the lops nipped ofl^ 

 to make them bushy specimens. Syringe freely in good weather. 



