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winter, besides the ordinary and daily care in 

 giving air and water, it is time to consider what 

 other plants should be introduced to flower, or be 

 nursed in the green-house. These need not be 

 named ; but about the middle of October the 

 first division of Cape bulbs should be planted, 

 leaving the second to be planted in November. 

 These bulbs consist of Ixias, Antholizes, &c. &c., 

 which, though small, are exceedingly beautiful 

 flowers. This tribe of plants succeed best in 

 sandy moor-earth ; and, after flowering, are 

 treated exactly like other bulbs. 



Common bulbs, imd many other flowers, receive 

 a share of the fostering protection of the green- 

 house ; and as the chief pleasure derivable from 

 such a building is daring the winter months, 

 every eifort should be made to have in it a pro- 

 fuse show of flowers. 



