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ther, and as soon as the extreme heat of the Summer is past, 

 which is generally by the latter end of this month, or early 

 in the next, preparation must be made for replenishing with 

 fresh compost, and repotting such plants as are intended to 

 be cultivated through the Winter in a greenhouse, light 

 room, or garden frames. Previous to the commencement of 

 this business, let such compost as is suited to the various 

 kinds of plants, be provided, 105. 



Those who may have a number of plants in various sized 

 pots, should provide a few new pots a size larger than the 

 largest in use ; the largest plants being shifted into the new 

 pots, leave the next sized pots for the second-sized plants, 

 and by pursuing this plan of shifting until the whole are 

 done, the smallest pots will be left for such plants as have 

 been propagated in the course of the Summer. 



The shifting of plants requires considerable attention and 

 judgment, as some plants, if kept in too large pots, will sus- 

 tain considerable injury : therefore, in such cases, where the 

 fibrous roots have not spread around the pot, nothing more 

 is necessary than to rub off a little of the outside mould, and 

 then to substitute fresh compost for the roots to run in. 



Such plants as may have become pot-bound, and whose 

 roots are matted around the pot, will, in many cases bear 

 reducing. If the matted roots are carefully pared off, and the 

 plants shifted into good fresh compost, they will soon take 

 root, and grow freely : but it will be necessary to prune off 

 all surplus branches of the plants, previous to repotting them, 

 and to shade them for a week or ten days. 



Pieces of tile, or broken pots, should be laid over the 

 aperture at the bottom of the pots, to enable the surplus 

 moisture to drain off, or the roots will sustain injury. 



The flower beds will need attention this month. Water 

 Dahlias and other choice plants in dry weather ; cut down 

 all decayed flower stalks, as soon as the seed is gathered, 

 and pull up annuals as they cease to flower. 



Plant Oxalises in small pots, 90, and prepare compost 

 for other tender bulbs to be planted in pots next month. 



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