MONTHLY CALENDAR. 201 



THE FERN HOUSE. Keep up a good heat, with a 

 damp atmosphere, and re-pot small plants. Sow seed 

 and prick off seedlings. 



THE HEATH HOUSE. Keep the house well venti- 

 lated, dry, and at a mild heat. Look out for mildew, 

 and use sulphur to kill it and prevent it; keep the 

 plants temperate at the root, giving no water except 

 sufficient to keep them half dry. Care in watering is 

 now necessary. Cuttings may now be struck. 



THE GERANIUM HOUSE. Keep the house as cool as 

 possible, although a little fire will be necessary, to 

 maintain a healthy atmosphere ; keep the plants half 

 dry, with a dry atmosphere. - Nip out the points of the 

 leading growth. Those required to flower early, shift 

 into the flowering pots. Admit air daily in mild 

 weather, and turn the plants frequently to induce 

 symmetry of growth; fumigate the house as soon as 

 the least signs of the aphides appear. 



THE PINK AND CARNATION HOUSE. These will now 

 be in full go for flowers, and may be encouraged to 

 mature the late buds by giving the plants some liquid 

 manure. This is a good time to make the full stock 

 of pipings for plants, for forcing next season (see p. 

 111). Keep up a mild heat, and admit air whenever 

 practicable ; but close early. 



THE CINERARIA HOUSE. Keep the house at as low 

 a temperature as possible, but frost-proof; syringe the 

 plants overhead every morning with clean soft water j 

 admit all the air possible every day except when cold, 

 cutting winds prevail, but even then the ground 

 shutters in front may be opened ; as soon as the 

 aphides appear fumigate the house in the evening; 

 admit all the air possible to the Calceolarias in the pits ; 



