How to manage a Garden 



ventilated, shaded, and syringed. Earth up celery slightly. 

 See that boiler and heating apparatus are in good repair. 

 Take cuttings of hydrangeas, and strike in a cool house. 

 Pot up palms and other stuff which is root-bound. Clean 

 all green slime off pots. Sow onions. Pinch off all buds 

 from winter flowering plants for quite another month. 

 Continue to propagate poinsettias, and keep rooted ones 

 well cared for. Pot up arum lilies, and stand for a few 

 days in shade. Commence to propagate bedding stuff. 

 Put the boxes when finished in cold frames. Take cut- 

 tings of violas. Put in cuttings of roses and many other 

 hard-wooded subjects. Cut off dead rose-blooms. Pot up 

 roman hyacinths, and plunge in ashes. Remove dead 

 flowers from all plants. Sow more cabbage seed. Stop 

 tomatoes when four feet high. Thin out shoots of rasp- 

 berries. Keep vinery dry during ripening of berries 

 Sow seeds of cyclamen. 



September. 



Gather apples carefully. Cut turf and stack for potting 

 in the spring. Put a layer of manure alternately with turf. 

 Pull up onions, and store when ripened. Water chrysan- 

 themums well, giving them manure water two or three 

 times a week. Prepare houses for putting plants inside in 

 case of frost. Close pits and frames earlier in the after- 

 noon. Gather green fruit from tomatoes, and put on shelf 

 in sunny spot. Allow primulas, cyclamen, tree carnations, 

 and geraniums to develop their buds. Dig up potatoes 

 when ripe. Store in a cool dry place, and cover with 



straw. Take cuttings of calceolarias, and dibble in frame. 

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