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that they may appear well furnished and display the beauty of their 

 foliage and bloom in due season. 



Great care should be taken at this time of the choicest kinds of 

 flowering plants and other tender kinds in pots they should be 

 carefully protected from severe frosts, by giving each sort suitable 

 covering. 



AURICULAS. 



The best auriculas in pots should be well protected from excessive 

 rains, snow or sharp frosts ; which will preserve them in strength to 

 flower in great perfection. 



The choicest varieties of these plants should always be removed in 

 their pots, about the beginning of November, and placed in frames, 

 or in a bed arched over with hoops, in a warm, dry situation in the 

 full sun, where they can be occasionally covered when the weather is 

 unfavorable; but let the covers be kept constantly off in the daytime 

 when the weather is mild and dry. 



CARE OF CARNATIONS. 



Take great care to protect your fine carnations that are in pots 

 from hard frosts, excessive rains and snow ; for notwithstanding the 

 plants being hardy enough to stand the winter in the open air, it is 

 advisable to defend the choicest sorts in bad weather, to preserve 

 them in good strength for flowering in the greatest perfection. 



These pots should be plunged in a raised bed of dry compost, in 

 the beginning of winter, and the bed arched over low with pliant 

 rods or hoops at that time ; this will be of great advantage to the 

 plants, if you are careful to draw mats over the arches when the 

 weather is severe. 



But if the pots were to be placed in garden frames it would be 

 still better, if you take care to put the glasses over them in rigorous 

 weather and at night; but be careful to give them as much free air 

 as possible by day, when the weather permits ; either by taking the 

 glasses totally off for a few hours, or tilting them up behind. 



CARE OF CHOICE HYACINTHS AND TULIPS. 



In severe frosty weather it would be of beneficial advantage if the 

 beds, wherein you have deposited the choicest kinds of hyacinths 

 and tulips, or any other curious bulbous roots, be covered either with 

 an awning of mats, or, in default thereof, with straw, fern, leaves of 

 trees, or dry long litter ; but it must be removed as soon as the severe 

 weather is over. 



Old decayed fine tan is a good article to cover hyacinths, tulips, 

 and other bulbs with ; it may be laid on one inch, or one inch and a 

 half deep, immediately previous to the commencement of the severe 

 winter frost, and need not be removed, as it will keep down the 

 weeds in spring, and protect the roots from intense heat and drought 

 during their period of ripening. 



