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Pelargoniums will now advance rapidly, and will require more room: 

 keep the shoots tied out neatly, and water more liberally as the plants ac- 

 quire new foliage. Plants for late blooming should be topped for the last 

 time. 



Roses will now be coming into bloom ; repot all that need more room. 



Fuchsias, headed in last month, will now begin to grow, and should 

 have a good situation. Now is the time to increase the stock by cuttings. 



Heaths and Epacrises, done blooming, should be well headed in and 

 repotted. Put in cuttings now. 



Laurustinuses, done blooming, should be well headed in, and kept in a 

 cool place, to prevent them from making an early growth. 



Calceolarias should be repotted. 



Ten Week Stocks, in small pots, now coming into bloom, should be 

 repotted. 



Gloxinias and Achimenes will now be growing freely as the season 

 advances, and should have a shift into fresh pots ; plant young bulbs for a 

 succession. 



Verbenas, Heliotropes, Salvias, &.C., should be propagated this 

 month. 



Japan Lilies, planted early, and kept in the house, will now require a 

 shift into larger pots, placing the bulb an inch or two lower than it was 

 before. 



Chinese Primroses may have a shift. 



Pansies, for early blooming, should be repotted. 



Seeds of Petunias, Stocks, Balsams, Asters, &c., &c., should be sown 

 now. 



Greenhouse Plants of all kinds should now be propagated. 



Gesneras of various kinds should now be potted. 



flower garden and shrubbery. 



The severity of our climate in March prevents but little being done at 

 this season. Occasionally, however, we have an early spring, and when 

 they occur much time may be saved by taking advantage of the fine 

 weather. 



Pruning is one of the operations which may be perforraeH now. In all 

 shrubberies there is always more or less dead wood to be cut away, and 

 straggling branches to be headed in ; this can be done safely now. 



Carnations, Pansies, &c., in frames, will require attention. They 

 should be protected in cool nights, but should have an abundance of air 

 and light to harden them off after their long confinement under the snow. 



Tulips and other spring flowering bulbs will begin to make their appear- 

 ance above ground before the end of the month, and where there is a thick 

 covering a portion of it may be removed, leaving sufficient to guard the 

 young and tender shoots from frost. 



Herbaceous plants may have the same attention. 



Walks should be raked and rolled as soon as the frost is completely 

 out, and lawns rolled, and top-dressed with guano. 



