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be done directly the cuttings are nicely rooted. Dig the bed deep, and give it a 

 good dressing of rotten manure ; select a position for it which is moderately 

 cool, and partially shaded through the hottest part of the day ; give plenty of 

 water should the weather continue dry after the plants are turned out. Prepare 

 a quantity of soil composed of two parts turfy loam, and one part decayed cow- 

 dung and leaf-mould in equal quantities : this being done, prepare a sufficient 

 quantity of three-inch pots by making them thoroughly clean, and placing 

 several pieces of small crocks in the bottom ; and take up the plants, and pot 

 them in these pots about the end of September, and remove them to a cold 

 frame, where they must remain through the winter months, standing on a 

 layer of coal-ashes to prevent the worms getting into the pots. They ought 

 not to be more than nine inches from the glass. Keep the frame rather close 

 for a few days after they are newly potted, to assist their recovery as quickly 

 as possible ; after this, give plenty of air at all times, excepting during sharp, 

 frosty weather, when it is as well to throw a mat or a little dry litter over 

 the frame to afford a little protection. In February, shift into six-inch pots ; 

 and then, after they are nicely rooted in the new soil, remove the ligiits 

 altogether in fine weather, and tilt them back and front in wet weather. 

 Though the pansy requires an abundance of air, it must not be exposed to the 

 drenching of heavy rains. Water must be cautiously administered throughout 

 the winter, increasing ic as the spring advances and the plants get into more 

 active growth. Avoid manure-water, and trust to pure rain-water ; then there 

 will be very little fear of losing any of them. Full half the plants that die are 

 killed through the too liberal application of liquid manure. Wlien in bloom, 

 shade slightly, to keep the flowers in good condition as long as possible ; and 

 after observing that it is as well to make the soil, when potting, moderately 

 firm without being made too hard, nothing remains for me to say beyond giving 

 my selection, which the grower can add to when he is better acquainted with 

 pansy-growing. For the present, he cannot do better than select the follow- 

 ing : — 



Selfs. — Snowball, Golden Queen, Othello, Masterpiece, Yellow Queen. 



Yellow Grounds. — Allan Ramsay, De Foe, Emily Lyle, Francis Low, 

 Gem, George Wilson, J. B. Downie, John Inglis, Mrs. Downie, Norma, Prince 

 of Wales, William Austin. 



White Grounds. — Attraction, Countess of Rosslyn, Elvina, Invincible, Jessie 

 Laird, Lady Lucy Dundas, Mary Lamb, Miss E. Cochran, Miss Williamson, Mrs. 

 Moffat, Queen, and Village Maid. — y. James, in Floral World. 



Somebody asks how long a tree will live after being girdled. I answer: 

 In one of our nursery-fields stand two walnut-trees near each other. One was 

 girdled some six or eight years ago ; the bark being removed for some four feet 

 on all sides, and the tree chopped into a good deal. This tree puts out its 

 foliage about two weeks later than its neighbor, but bears a crop of fruit each 

 year. No new bark has formed, and the wood is dry, cracked, and apparently 

 dead. 71 T. S. and Co. 



Dansvillh, N.Y. 



