528 Horticiiltiu^al Memoranda. 



Cherry, pear, apple, quince, and other fruit tree seeds, may be planted 

 this month, selecting a good soil in a situation not too moist. 



FLOWER DEPARTMENT. 



Dahlias, if not already taken up, should be looked after before severe 

 frost. If there is not leisure to attend to it immediately, the roots should 

 be slightly earthed over. Take up in dry weather, and place the roots 

 away from all danger of frost. 



Pelargoniums should now be repotted and kept in the coolest part of the 

 greenhouse. 



Camellias should be put in order for the winter by carefully washing the 

 leaves, top-dressing the pots, and neatly staking up the plants. Water 

 liberally and syringe in good weather. Seeds may be planted now. 



Lilies of all the hardy kinds should be planted during the month. 



Gladioluses should be taken up before hard frost. 



Ixias, Sparaxis, and other Cape bulbs, should now be planted. 



Carnations and pica tees should be put into frames and protected in severe 

 weather. 



Tulip and hyacinth planting should be completed this month. 



Paonics, of all kinds, may be safely transplanted this month. 



Verbenas for early blooming should now be shifted into larger pots. Cut- 

 tings for a succession may now be put in. 



Roses of some hardy kinds will need protection. The Bourbons, Hardy 

 perpetuals, and Noisettes, if standing in a dry subsoil, with a few inches of 

 covering, will stand the winter well. Some of the mosses flower better 

 by bending down the tops and throwing over a slight covering of coarse 

 manure. Prairie roses in very cold situations do better to peg the strong 

 shoots down to the soil, so that they may be covered by the snows of win- 

 ter. All the kinds are not equally hardy. 



Chinese primroses may now be shifted again into larger pots. 



Herbaceous plants may yet be removed with safety. Before severe frost, 

 they should have a little covering of leaves or decayed manure thrown over 

 them. 



Oxaliscs may yet be potted for a succession. 



Erythrina crista galli should now be taken up and wintered in the cellar 

 or greenhouse, out of danger of frost. 



Pansies, in beds, should have a covering of very old manure or leaf 

 mould. 



Double Ilclianlhuses should be taken up and wintered in the cellar. 



Cyclamcnc may now be shifted into larger pots, if they require it. 



Half-hardy plants, in pots, may he successfully wintered in frames, where 

 many of them do better than in the greenhouse. 



Naipolilan violets may yet be set out in frames, if not already done. 



Greenhouse plants, of all kinds, will now require attention. The pots 

 should be washed clean, the soil top-dressed and all kinds of insects de- 

 stroyed. Nothing adds so much to the attractiveness of a collection of 

 plants as cleanliness. 



