302 ROOMS GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. [September 



SEPTEMBER. 



Where there is a quantity of plants to be kept in these 

 apartments, they should be disposed of to the best effect, and, 

 at the same time, in such a manner as will be most effectual 

 to their preservation. A stage of some description is better 

 than a table, and, of whatever shape or form, it ought to be 

 on castors, that it may, in severe nights of frost, be drawn to 

 the centre of the room. The shape may be either concave, a 

 half circle, or one square side. The bottom step or table 

 should be six inches wide and five inches deep, keeping each 

 successive step one inch farther apart, to the desired height, 

 which may be about six feet. Allowing the first step to be 

 about two feet from the floor, there will be five or six steps, 

 which will hold about fifty pots of a common size. A stage 

 in the form of half a circle will hold more, look the hand- 

 somest, and be most convenient. We have seen them circular, 

 and, when filled, appeared like a pyramid. These do very 

 well, but they must be turned every day, or the plants will 

 not grow regularly. With this attention, it is decidedly the 

 best. Green is the most suitable colour to paint them. 



GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. 



The directions given for the green-house this month ana 

 equally applicable here. The late blooming Chrysanthemum* 

 are particularly adapted for rooms, the colours are so varied . 

 and many of them are dwarf-growing, and even neat in then 

 habit, especially the new hybrid sorts. 



OCTOBER. 



Have a stage or stages, as described last m mth, in the 

 situations where they are intended to remain all winter; 

 pla^e the plants on them from the first to the eighth of this 



