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are well attended to, new branches will shoot out on the old 

 stem. 



Such Orange trees as were budded last July or August, 

 should be headed down early in the spring. Auriculas, 

 Polyanthus, and Daisies, should be separated into single tufts, 

 and planted in a shady border for increase, as soon as they 

 have done blossoming. Such Carnations as may have been 

 wintered in frames should now be exposed to the open air, in 

 the flower-borders. Tulips, which will be in full perfection in 

 the fore part of the season, will require constant attention. 

 Such green-house plants as may have done blossoming may be 

 pruned carefully, and if the cuttings be planted at this time 

 they will strike freely. Cuttings of Salvia splendens and ful- 

 gens will produce strong plants for blossoming in August, if 

 planted early in the season. Chrysanthemum cuttings should 

 now be put down, and the suckers divided, and planted singly 

 in borders, or in pots, for flowering in the autumn. 



Those who may have a number of plants in various sized 

 pots, should provide a few new pots a size larger than the 

 largest in use ; the largest plants being shifted into the new 

 pots, leaves the next sized pots for the second sized plants, 

 and by pursuing this plan of shifting until the whole are done, 

 the smallest pots will be left for such plants as have been pro 

 pagated in the course of the summer. 



The shifting of plants requires considerable attention and 

 judgment, as some plants, if kept in too large pots, will sus 

 tain considerable injury; therefore, in such cases, where the 

 fibrous roots have not spread around the pot, nothing more is 

 necessary than to rub off a little of the outside mould, and then 

 to substitute fresh compost for the roots to run in. 



Such plants as may have become pot-bound, and whose 

 roots are matted around the pot, will, in many cases, bear 

 reducing. If the matted roots are carefully pared off, and the 

 plants shifted into good fresh compost, they will soon take 

 root, and grow freely ; but it will be necessary to prune off all 

 surplus branches of the plants previous to repotting them, 



