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HYACINTH ROOTS. 



Those of the choice kinds, which were put oy to 

 dry, should now, if perfectly ripened, be wrapped 

 separately in absorbent paper, and placed on shelves 

 or in boxes, where they may have such circulation 

 of dry air as will prevent them from decaying. It 

 has lately been advanced that bulbs should not be 

 taken up at all, except to remove offsets, and to make 

 their beds. Nature seems to suggest this. 



SEEDLINGS. 



Prick out, six inches asunder, the seedling Peren- 

 nials and Biennials which were sown in the spring 

 months. 



CARE OF FLOWERING PLANTS. 



Stake and tie up all your annual flowers, many of 

 which will suffer wofully if unsupported; and as soon 

 as any flowers have ceased blowing, cut off their 

 stalks and decayed leaves. 



WORK TO BE DONE. 



" Who heaps her basket with the flowers 

 And leaves, 'till they can hold no more." 



Form baskets or clumps of the most showy green- 

 house plants, (if you do not prefer the rock-work 

 previously directed,) turned out of their receptacles, 

 it 



