iv.] OCTOBER 209 



The longer Chrysanthemums in pots can be kept out 

 of doors the better. But all the arrangements for their 

 reception should have been made, so that on the approach 

 of real frost they may be brought in on half an hour's 

 notice. 



This is, perhaps, the best season to lay in the raw 

 material for composts. It will be well to secure a store of 

 good turf from an old pasture it should be built into a 

 square stack, and covered above with a few large slates or 

 a piece of corrugated iron. A couple of barrows full of 

 byre dung should be carefully stacked in a corner of 

 the shed ; like the conventional old port of our fathers' 

 days, it improves by keeping. 



Such bulbs as Tulips, Hyacinths, Narcissus Tazzeta, 

 etc., meant for flowering in the window garden, should 

 now be potted. Let the soil be dry, and the bulbs put 

 in firmly, and just deep enough in the pot to admit of 

 the bulb itself, not the neck, being covered. Let them 

 be plunged in a warm, dry place, and covered 6 inches 

 deep with sand or coal ashes, until the pots have been 

 filled with roots. 



My list of late Tulips includes Bouton d'Or, Elegans 

 Billietiana, Golden Eagle, Picotee, Maiden's Bhish, Retro- 

 flexa, and Greigii. 



