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blooming, Polyanthus, Primroses, Pansies, and other hardy florists' flowers. 

 Keep a sharp look-out and gather the seeds of choice trees or shrubs as 

 they ripen. 



Plant and Fruit Houses. Greenhouse and stove s.eeds of various kinds 

 may be sown as soon as they ripen. Or, if preferable, they can be kept until 

 the spring. Sow a batch of Cyclamen seeds in well-drained pans of light 

 sandy soil. Calceolaria, Primula, and Cineraria seeds may also now be 

 sown for late flowering. Put in cuttings of single red Camellias for stocks, 

 and sow pots of Mignonette for conservatory decoration, or cut-flowers in 

 the spring. Camellias of various kinds may now be grafted on the stocks 

 struck in August last year, side-grafting in a close heated propagating-case 

 being the best method. Shoots bearing two or three buds and the same 

 number of leaves make excellent scions. Bedding - plants of all kinds 

 should now be propagated before the growth becomes succulent and rank 

 after the autumn rains. Fuchsias and Zonal Pelargoniums for early sum- 

 mer blooming in pots may now be struck from cuttings. See about pro- 

 pagating stocks for Daphnes, flowering Plums, Cherries, Almonds, and 

 double-blossomed Peaches for next season's grafting and budding. Stocks 

 propagated last year may now be budded in heat if in pots, or in the open 

 air under a hand-glass or cloche. 



SEPTEMBER. 



Kitchen and Hardy-Fruit Garden. Sow winter or Prickly Spinach, 

 Chervil. Take up Onions intended for bearing seed next season. The 

 following seeds may also be sown if not done last month : American 

 Cress, Cabbage, Carrot (Early Horn), Cauliflower, Corn Salad, Curled 

 Cress, Lettuce, Mustard, Onion, Radish, Turnip. This is a good season 

 for root-pruning all unfruitful fruit-trees, and the thick roots removed, if 

 well covered with fibres, may be buried under a north wall and used as 

 stocks in the spring. Now is a good time to strike cuttings of Tomatoes 

 and Cucumbers for winter and spring fruit. The former do best in pots. 

 Carefully examine and gather in all ripe vegetable seeds. Cabbages may 

 now be planted on Potato land. Spawn Mushroom beds in the open air 

 or otherwise. 



Flower-Garden and Shrubbery. This is a busy month in the nursery 

 and forest department. Push forward transplanting of evergreens and 

 putting in of cuttings, as in last month ; also finish the pruning of forest- 

 trees, hedges, &c. See that the nursery is kept in a clean state. By the 

 end of the month Haws that have been kept in sand-pits for a season may 

 be sown, land that has been green- cropped with Potatoes and well manured 

 in spring being best for this operation. Gather any tree-seeds that are 

 now ripe, such as Sycamore and Birch. A good way to keep Birch seeds 

 until sowing time in spring is to mix them with sand not too dry, turning 

 the heap regularly two or three times a-month ; this keeps the seeds in a 

 plump state for sowing, and the best brairds have been obtained after this 

 method. Sycamore seed, when dried carefully, may be kept in bags or 

 heaps under cover until spring. Aucubas, Rhododendrons, and other 

 evergreens may now be layered for stock. Rhododendrons layered last 

 autumn may now be lifted, and potted ready for grafting under glass. 

 Cuttings of Alternantheras may now be inserted in heat, and will make 

 good stock plants for spring propagating far better than old plants taken 

 up and repotted. Plants of Sempervivum tabuliforme, Echeveria metallica, 



