96 Horticultural Operations for February. 



Calceolarias should be shifted into larger pots. 



Verbenas intended for fine blooming specimens should be shifted into 

 larger pots, and trained to a flat or circular trellis. 



Cactuses will now begin to grow, and will require to be more liberally 

 watered. . 



Roses will now be in full bloom; water liberalh^, using liquid guano 

 occasionally. Fumigate for the green fly. 



Clerodendrons should now have a shift, and be placed in the very 

 warmest part of the house. 



Oxalises done blooming may be placed away under the stage, and 

 sparingly watered. 



Plumbago Larpent^ should now be repotted, and started into growth. 

 Propagate from cuttings, or division of the root, if a larger stock is wanted. 



Alstrom^rias should now be repotted, using a mixture of loam, peat, 

 and leaf mould. 



Cobjea Scandens, and other climbing plants, now sown in a hot bed, 

 will make fine plants for the open ground, in May. 



ScHizANTHUSES sliould be shifted as often as the pots are full of roots, 

 before they become what is termed potbound. 



Flower Seeds of various kinds, for early blooming, such as Stocks, 

 Coxcomb, Amaranthus, and similar sorts, should be planted this month in 

 hotbeds. 



Cuttings of all kinds should now be put in — such as Heliotropes, Scarlet 

 Geraniums, Petunias, Verbenas, Salvias, &c., &c. 



Attend to the cleanliness of the house, look over and remove all dead and 

 decaying leaves, or branches, from every plant. Top dress, and wash the 

 pots, if they require it. 



vegetable department. 



The vegetable department will require looking after with the commence- 

 ment of February ; and wherever a good assortment of early vegetables ia 

 wanted, a great many kinds should be sown this month. Hotbeds should 

 now be made, without delay. One good bed will do to commence with ; 

 but others will be required for a succession of crops, and a good quantity of 

 manure should be in readiness to make up fresh beds, and reline those in 

 which the heat has declined. 



Seeds of Cucumber, Tomato, Lettuce, Egg Plant, &c., &c., should now 

 be planted in pots, so as to economise room. When well advanced they 

 can be set out in new beds, or hardened off" in pots for tlie open air in 

 May. 



Mushroom beds. Where there is a warm, dry cellar, or where there is 

 room in a warm shed, or under the stage of a greenhouse, mushroom beds 

 may now be made, which will produce abundantly till hot weather. Direc- 

 tions will be found in our last volume, which, if followed, will secure an 

 abundant crop. 



