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their growth. But if the potting of them were emitted, it should he 

 done in the bcginniug of this month ; selecting for that purpose the 

 largest and best plants, and carefully removing them with good 

 balls of earth round the roots. 



Protecting Seedling Bulbs. 



You should now plunge the pots or boxes in which you sowed the 

 seeds of bulbous-rooted flowering plants, and also those containing 

 the one or two year old seedling bulbs, op to their rims, or edges, 

 in a raised bank of light, dry earth, or you may set them on the 

 bank, and fill the spaces between them with tanner's bark, or leaves 

 of trees, well crammed in : then on ihe approach of severe frost, 

 cover them all over with dry straw, or peas-haulm, which is to be 

 taken off occasionally in mild dry weather and aired, in order to 

 prevent its getting mouldy, and communicating the disorder to the 

 seeds or roots. 



Stbck'giltyflvtDer* and Wallflowers. 



Your double stock-gillyflowers and wallflowers, in pots, should 

 now be either taken into the green-house, or warm, close rooms, or 

 plunged to their rims in a dry, warm exposure, surrounded with a. 

 deep garden frame, where they may be protected during win- 

 ter* These plants being tolerably hardy, will keep well by a 

 very slight protection of boards and mats, or boards covered with 

 straw, or other litter, when the frost is severe : they will seldom be 

 injured before February, but a warm sun about the end of that month, 

 if suffered to shine on them whilst the leaves or stems are in a fro- 

 zen state, would totally destroy them. 



It would be of additional advantage to lay three or four inches 

 of old tanner's bark over the surface of the pots, the better to pre- 

 serve the roots from the frost. The plants must be aired occasion- 

 ally in mild weather, for if kept too closely covered, they would be- 

 come blanched, weak, and tender, and lose that robust growth so 

 necessary to a good bloom of flowers. 



Planting Bulbous roots in Pots and Glasses. 



You may continue to plant the various kinds of ear*y flowering- 

 bulbs in pots, as directed in page 536, but the earlier in the month 

 that this is done, the sooner you may expect them to flower. The 

 pots are then to be placed either in a warm room, where there .is 

 plenty of light, or in garden-frames, and treated as directed last 

 month. Some of them may be immediately placed in the hot-house, 

 or in a forcing frame, to be forced into an early bloom for the deco- 

 ration of rooms, windows, &c. and others placed in the green-house 

 for a succession. 



The early part of this month is still a very proper time to set the 

 bulbs of early tulips, hyacinths, polyanthus-narcissus, jonquils, dwarf 

 Persian isis, &c, in bulb-glasses filled with water, which should 



