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in wide garden pans or pots filled with light rich earth, or into beds 

 of similar earth, where they can have occasional shade and waterings 

 till rooted. However, the covering of them with bell-glasses will 

 greatly facilitate their rooting and promote their growth, which is by 

 far the most eligible method, but particularly for woody plants, and 

 such others as are not of the succulent tribe.* 



This is also a very proper time to propagate succulent plants of 

 most kinds, which are to be treated as directed on page 416, under 

 the article Propagating the Plants. 



TRANSPLANTING SEEDLING EXOTICS. 



You should now transplant, separately, into small pots, any ad- 

 vanced young seedling exotics, which were raised this year from 

 seed ; giving them shade and occasional waterings till newly rooted. 



BUDDING. 



Any time this month you may bud oranges, lemons, citrons, and 

 shaddocks ; the buds are not to be taken from the shoots made this 

 season, as they are not yet sufficiently ripe, but from those produced 

 last autumn, which will now take freely, and produce handsome 

 shoots in the present year. 



In about three weeks or a month the buds will be taken, when you 

 are to untie the bandages, and soon after head down the stocks of 

 such as are plump, fresh, and well united, to within four inches of 

 the buds, cutting off all side branches and suffering no other buds to 

 grow but the inserted ones : as the shoots advance tie them to the 

 spurs left for that purpose to prevent their being broken off by 

 winds, or displaced by any other accidents. 



Budding, however, should not at this time be generally practised, 

 for the buds now inserted will start in a few weeks, and the shoots 

 produced thereby will not be as ripe, nor, consequently, in as good 

 condition to stand the winter as those produced in the early part of 

 the season from the buds inserted in August. For the method of 

 budding see the Nursery in July. 



CAPE AND OTHER GREEN-HOUSE BULBS. 



The green-house bulbs and tuberous-rooted plants, natives of the 

 Cape of Good Hope, &c., whose leaves are now decayed, such as 

 gladioluses, ixias, watsonias, antholizas, ornithogalums, moreas, oxa- 

 lis, &c., may be taken up and immediately transplanted, or they may 

 be kept up till September, and if carefully wrapped in dry moss, it 

 will tend greatly to their preservation; but there are some kinds 

 which will require to be planted into pots of fresh earth immediately, 



* The cuttings of geraniums (pelargonium) at this season, root the best 

 and soonest when placed in the ground in a situation which is only shaded 

 from the hottest of the mid-day sun. If put under glass and kept close 

 they are subject to rot. 



