178 FLOWERS AND THE FLOWER GARDEN. 



top them for cuttings, if more are wanted then. 

 After these may follow the heliotropes, and plants of 

 that kind, later scarlet geraniums, and, in October, 

 calceolarias. 



This month and the following, beds will have to be 

 made for different choice flowers which are planted in 

 autumn, and many bulbs may be put in. At the end 

 of the month frost must be watched for with care. The 

 dahlias had better be earthed up over their crowns, that 

 they may not be caught and spoiled by sudden frost. 



The choicer geraniums had better be taken up and 

 potted at the first threatening of frost, and put in a dry 

 place, where they will be safe from frost. If they can 

 be placed on gentle bottom heat in a pit, they will soon 

 be established, and can then be stored away in winter 

 quarters. Where it is necessary to take up showy, 

 tender plants rather early, their place can be supplied 

 with chrysanthemums coming forward, and any spare 

 winter blooming plants there may be in reserve. 



Anne Boleyn pinks, cloves, and carnations, will 

 flower nicely in autumn and winter under glass, almost, 

 if not quite, without heat, if they are prevented bloom- 

 ing in summer by nipping off the flower stems as they 

 appear. 



Purchases of bulbs should be made in good time to 

 prevent disappointment from indifferent supply from a 

 well picked over stock, of which we have no right to 

 complain, if it arises from our own remissness in send- 

 ing our orders. 



Transplant evergreens this month, that the trees or 

 shrubs may make fresh roots before the check of 

 winter. If moved in September they will be much less 

 likely to suffer in the spring than if the work is de- 

 layed. Deciduous trees and shrubs must, of course, 

 not be removed until they have lost their leaves. Many 

 plants should be shifted now, that they may make root 

 before winter. All the autumn flowering plants will 

 require constant attention in putting stakes, sticks, and 

 ties, as not a flower now must be lost for want of care. 



SUMMARY. -Cut off dead flowers, and attend to the 



