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This removal into fresh earth will invigorate the 

 plants and improve their flowering next season. 



DAHLIAS. 



Stake and thin out Dahlias to improve the bloom 

 of the remaining ones. 



REMOVAL OF BULBS. 



Those which you want to increase ought now 

 to be taken up if their leaves be decayed ; should 

 they remain longer in the ground, fresh fibres will 

 have pushed, and it would injure the plants, in such 

 case, to remove or disturb them ; but taking up and 

 immediately replacing them in fresh manured and 

 stirred up earth, before they push out fresh fibres, 

 will serve them. 



Ranunculuses may be planted in beds or pots to 

 flower in November a month in which they will be 

 most welcome visitors. 



Gather flower-seeds as they ripen, and cut down 

 the stalks of all plants which have done flowering, 

 and secure to stakes or hoops all the tall plants, 

 which without such support would be liable to injury 

 from wind. 



Water all your annuals regularly and moderately, 

 if they require it, and keep your beds, borders, and 

 walks, free from weeds. 



Water also your green-house plants, particularly 

 those in peat-mould neglect will be speedily fatal 

 to Heaths in particular. 



Syringe or sprinkle abundantly, in dry and warm 

 weather, your tender annuals in the green-house or 

 hot-bed. 



