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most kinds, which are to be treated as directed in page 401, under 

 the article Propagating the Plants. 



Transplanting Seedling Exotics. 



You should now transplant, separately, into small pots any 

 advanced young seedling exotics, which were raised this year 

 from seed; giving them shade and occasional waterings till newly 

 rooted. 



Budding* 



Any time this month you may bud oranges, lemons, citrons and 

 shaddocks; the buds are not to be taken from the shoots made this 

 season, as they are not yet sufficiently ripe, but from those pro- 

 duced last autumn, which will now take freely, and produce hand- 

 some shoots in the present year. 



In about three weeks or a month the buds will be taken, when 

 you are to untie the bandages, and soon after head down the stocks 

 of such as are plump, fresh, and well united, to within four inches 

 of the buds, cutting oft' all side branches and suffering no other 

 buds to grow but the inserted ones: as the shoots advance tie them 

 to the spurs left for that purpose to prevent their being broken oft' 

 by winds, or displaced by any other accidents. 



Budding, however, should not at this time be generally practised, 

 for the buds now inserted will start in a few weeks, and the shoots 

 produced thereby will not be as ripe, nor, consequently, in as good 

 condition to stand the winter as those produced in the early part of 

 the season from the buds inserted in August. For the method of 

 budding see the Nursery in July. 



Cape and other Green-House Bulbs. 



The green-house bulbs and tuberous-rooted plants, natives of the 

 Cape of Good Hope, &c, whose leaves are now decayed, such as 

 gladioluses, ixias, watsonias, antholi/.as, ornithogalums, moreas, 

 &c, may be taken up and immediately transplanted, or they may 

 be kept up till September, and if carefully wrapped in dry moss, it 

 will tend greatly to their preservation; but there are some kinds 

 which will require to be planted into pots of fresh earth immedi- 

 ately, such as cyclamens, &c, and all the autumnal flowering 

 bulbs, such as the Guernsey and belladonna amaryllises, must not 

 be kept longer out of the ground than the end of next month, as that 

 would greatly weaken their bloom. 



