384 Horticultural Memoranda. 



and the plants a foot apart in the rows ; alleys may be allowed at any dis- 

 tance, as the cultivator may fancy. Our plan is to set ten rows of Hovey's 

 Seedling, leaving an alley four feet, and then ten rows of the Boston Pine ; 

 both are equally productive, and one fertilizes the other. Old beds should 

 now be duly weeded, and if the old plants have not been dug in, it should 

 be done without delay. New beds set out last spring should have the run- 

 ners laid in, or if large fruit is the object, all cut off. 



Summer-pruning trees should yet be continued as advised in our last. 



Plum, Cherry, Pear, and Apple trees should be budded this month. 



Insects : continue to attend to the destruction of these pests of the culti- 

 vator. 



FLOWER DEPARTMENT. 



Camellias should be potted immediately, if not already done; grafting 

 should also be completed early in the month. Plants wanted for very early 

 flowering should novi' be taken into the house and placed in a warm situation. 



Oxalis Hirta and Boiviei should be potted. 



Mignonette should be sown early in the month, and if a succession is 

 wanted, another sowing should be made about the 25th. 



Roses should be budded and layered this month. 



Chrysanthemums should be layered this month, and if plants have been 

 raised from cuttings, they should now be repotted for the last time, and the 

 tops pinched off. Water occasionally with guano. 



Dahlias should all be staked in season, or one severe wind will destroy 

 the expectations of the year. Prune off all superfluous laterals. 



Pansies may now be increased by cuttings or layers. 



Chinese Primroses raised last month from seed should now be potted off 

 in small pots. 



Verbenas for keeping over winter should now be layered into small pots. 



Fuchsias should be repotted, if very large specimens are wanted. 



Cactuses should be repotted this month. 



Euphorbia jacquinceflora should be repotted, and the tops of all the strong 

 shoots pinched off to make them bushy. 



Orange and Lemon trees should be budded now. 



Victoria, Ten Week, and other stocks should be sown now, if plants are 

 wanted for flowering in the spring. 



Pelargoniums will now require attention. If the plants were not headed 

 down last month, they should be done so now, and the cuttings put in as 

 directed last month. 



Perennial plants, of many kinds, may be separated and transplanted the 

 last part of the month. 



Ncmophila insignis, schizanthuses , and other winter flowering annuals 

 should be sown now. 



Petunias, of fine kinds, should now be propagated from cuttings or lay- 

 ers for a spring slock. 



Tree pcconies should be propagated by grafting. 



Greenhouse plants, of all kinds, should be repotted now, and put in order 

 for the winter. 



