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3. If not already done, divide and replant strong roots of primroses, 



polyanthuses and border auriculas. 

 4. Lift potatoes as they become ready. 

 5. Detach rooted carnation layers and either pot or plant in a cold 



frame. 

 6. Repot tea roses grown under glass and plunge pots in ashes out 



of doors so as to ripen wood. 



7. Take cuttings of fuchsias for spring flowering in the greenhouse. 

 8. Thrust spade round arum lilies and salvias planted out of doors, 

 preparatory to removing them a few days later and potting 

 them for greenhouse flowering. 

 9. Keep runner beans well picked. If seed is allowed to mature 



further growth and production of beans will be checked. 

 10. Transfer cuttings of geraniums struck in the open ground to pots 

 or boxes and place in greenhouse or frame that can be kept 

 frost-proof. 



ii. Make further pottings of bulbs for forcing and plunge in fibre 

 or ashes. They must be kept covered for nine or ten weeks 

 before exposure to the light so as to induce a satisfactory 

 production of roots. 



12. Plant out biennial and perennial seedlings that were sown in early 

 summer into their winter or flowering quarters. They can 

 be transplanted again in spring if necessary. 

 13. Lift violets and plant in frames for winter flowering. 

 , 14. Trgpch and jprepare new rose beds for planting in November. 

 15. Return azaleas and camellias left out of doors for the summer 

 to the shelter of the greenhouse. House chrysanthemums 

 whose buds are showing colour. 



16. MaJsejifiHLjaHoas by sowing grass seed. Carefully protect seed 

 from birds either by the use of netting or strands of cotton 

 drawn diagonally across the sown area. 



17. Place ^cinerarias, primulas and geraniums for winter flowering in 

 their flowering pots and water sparingly for a few days until 

 growth becomes vigorous. 

 18. Plant outLwallflowers, primroses, auriculas and polyanthuses for 



spring decoration of the beds and borders. 



19. Prepare ground for planting hardy fruit trees. Deep trenching 

 is essential. 



