284 PEACTICAL FLOBICULTURE. 



28th. Layered in 2-inch pots Roses of some new sorts 

 that are scarce. There is little loss in layering Roses if it 

 be done in small pots sunk in the soil. 66 74. 



29th. The same. 



3Qth. Shifted Cyclamens and Double White Primroses, 

 and thinned out the Primroses, spreading them over 

 a larger surface, to admit air around the pots. 68 74. 



31st. The same. 70 74. 



AUGUST, 1868. 



1st. Second planting of Tuberoses in the manner done 

 on the 25th ult. Will endeavor to retard this lot by keep- 

 ing the soil as dry as possible, the great object being to 

 delay the flowering until January. 72 78. 



3rd. The same. 



4th. The same. 72 78. 



5th. To-day we pot dry roots of Tuberoses, placing 

 them in a cool shed and keeping them dry. They can be 

 thus kept in a shed for 10 or 12 days, after which they 

 must be exposed to the open air, but will still be kept 

 as dry as possible until they begin to grow. They 

 will be thus kept in pots (2 roots in a 6-inch pot,) until 

 there is danger of frost, when they will be planted out in 

 soil on the benches as the others are. The object of pot- 

 ting them at all is that their removal to the benches can be 

 done without injury to the roots, which could not be ef- 

 fected unless they were first potted. If we had planted 

 them at once in the bench we do not think we could 

 keep them back so well, as by placing them in a partially 

 shaded place in the open air. Cut over for the last time 

 this season those Carnations that are wanted to produce 

 flowers in December and January. 70 76. 



6th. Shifted winter-flowering plants of all kinds. 70* 

 78. 



7th. The same. 70 76. 



8th. The same. 72 74. 



