420 THE HOT-HOUSE. [JUNE. 



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 

 Booted. 



Budding, 



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

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

 this season, as they are not yet sufficiently ripe, but from those pro- 

 duced last autumn, which will now take freely, and produce hand- 

 some 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 bro- 

 ken 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. 



Cafie and other Green-House Bulbs. 



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

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

 Gladioluses, Ixias, Watsonias, Antholizas, Ornithogalums, Moreas, 

 &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 wbich 

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

 as Cyclamens, &c. and all the autumnal flowering bulbs, such as 

 the Guernsey and Belladonna Amaryllises, must not be kept 

 longer out of the ground than the end of next month, as that would 

 greatly weaken their bloom. 



THE HOTJIOUSE. 



THE more tender kinds of exotics, which could not, with 

 safety, be brought out into the open air the latter end of last month, 

 aliould now be placed where intended to remain during summer. 



