80 Tlorthmltural Memoranda. 



FLOWER DEPARTMENT. 



Camellias will be in full bloom this month ; continue to keep them well 

 supplied with water. Any straggling plants should be tied up to neatly 

 painted stakes, and the soil top dressed, if mossy. If seeds are wanted, at- 

 tend to the fertilization of the flowers, which should always be done about 

 noon. Water fortnightly with guano. 



Roses now coming into full bloom will require attention ; look out care- 

 fully for the aphis, which is exceedingly troublesome at this season, and fu- 

 migate often with tobacco, to prevent their increase. Young plants growing 

 freely may be re-potted. Water with guano. 



Fuchsias will require attention ; re-pot all growing plants, and continue 

 to propagate, if young plants are wanted. 



Japan Lilies will now be throwing up their shoots, and should be placed 

 in a cool and half shady part of the greenhouse. Water sparingly till they 

 are well up. 



Dahlias should be potted, if not already done, if plants are wanted for 

 flowering early ; or if it is intended to raise young plants. Put the cuttings 

 in sand and loam, under a bell glass. 



Mignonette and 10 loeek stock seed, for flowering early in the open border, 

 should be planted soon. 



Schizanthuses will require another potting, if fine specimen plants are 

 wanted. 



Calceolarias will require re-potting this month. 



Gladiolus gandavensis, and ftoribundus, cf-c, should now be potted. 



Pelargoniums may be shifted again, and if young plants are wanted, now 

 is a good time to put in cuttings. 



Verbena cuttings should now be put in for making healthy young plants 

 for turning out into the border in May. 



Oxalis Bowiei and Hirta done blooming, should be more sparingly wa- 

 tered. 



Cactuses should now be more liberally watered. 



Ranunculuses may be planted the latter part of this month, if the weather 

 is mild. 



Plants in frames should be aired in all good weather. 



VEGETABLE DEPARTMENT. 



Sow all kinds of vegetable seeds if the hot-beds made up last month, are 

 in good order. Cucumbers already up will be ready for hilling out by the 

 middle of the month. Make a second sowing of lettuce, radishes, egg 

 plants, tomatoes, cabbages, cauliflowers, cucumbers, &c. 



Peas may be forwarded two or three weeks, by sowing them on an in- 

 verted sod, and in April transplanting them to the open ground. 



Rhubarb routs covered with a barrel, and the barrel covered with hot ma- 

 nure, will come forward very early, and produce a good crop. 



