168 SEPTEMBER. 



WORK TO BE DONE IN THE GREEN-HOUSE. 



At the latter end of the month dress your green 

 house plants and return them to their winter quar- 

 ters, according to their degrees of delicacy begin- 

 ning with the most tender, before chilly nights and 

 cold dews shall have checked their growth and dis- 

 colored their foliage. Leave the hardier ones out 

 as long as the weather will permit, as they would 

 become slender and weak by premature confine- 

 ment. 



Before they are taken in, the surface-mould in the 

 pots should be removed, and replaced with fresh 

 earth, and those plants which require more room 

 should now be changed to large pots. In effecting 

 this removal, it has latterly been the practice to raise 

 the surface higher towards the neck of the plant 

 than at the rim of the pot, to prevent the stem, at 

 the very point where it is most liable to it, from be- 

 coming rotten by the lodgment of dampness around 

 it. This precaution is particularly necessary for 

 Heaths, and some other tender Cape or Australian 

 plants. This operation should take place ten days 

 or a fortnight before they are brought in, that they 

 may recover from any check which they may have 

 received in consequence. 



Tie and stake them up neatly. 



Shift Chrysanthemums into flowering pots. These 

 plants repay all the attention that you bestow on 

 them, and at any season can vie with the proudest ; 

 but in winter they are unrivalled. 



Bud Camellias. Pot Roses for forcing. Repair 

 your conservatories, if they be in any respect out of 

 order ; clear out all withered stalks and leaves, and 

 preserve a universal neatness within it. 



