454 THE GREEN-HOUSE. [Jit.t. 



Many of the cuttings planted in spring will be well rooted by 

 this time, and may now be taken up with as much earth as possible 

 about their roots, planted separately in suitable sized pots, and 

 shaded for eight or ten days from the mid-day sun; always ob- 

 serving to keep the earth in the pots moderately moist. The 

 geraniums in particular may be taken up when too thick, and 

 transplanted at any time after the cuttings have grown four or five 

 inches. 



Shifting into larger pots. 



You may now shift such of your plants as require larger pots or 

 tubs; this is the best of the summer months for that purpose, as the 

 greater number will have made their summer progress, and are 

 now rather at a stand previous to the commencement of their new 

 autumnal vegetation. 



The operation of shifting is to be performed in every respect as 

 directed in page 362. 



Such plants as are now shifted must be immediately watered 

 and removed into the shade, where they can have free air and pro- 

 tection from the sun in the heat of the day; there to remain for 

 two, three, or four weeks, according to the time the respective 

 kinds may take to re-establish themselves, and get into a fresh 

 state of growth, when they may be replaced among the general 

 collection. 



Loosening and giving fresh earth. 



It will be very proper at this time to examine the pots and tubs 

 in general, and where the earth is inclinable to bind let the surface 

 be carefully loosened to a little depth, breaking the earth small with 

 the hands, and at the same time add thereto, if not done in any of 

 the preceding months, some fresh compost; then level the surface 

 neatly. 



This dressing will do the plants more good than many people 

 might imagine; but in particular to such as are in small pots. 



Gathering and Solving Seeds. 



Collect all the different sorts of seeds as they ripen, spread them 

 upon paper in a dry shady place, and when sufficiently hardened, 

 let them be carefully preserved in their pods or husks, or in paper 

 bags, till the proper season for sowing them. 



The seeds of geraniums, xeranthemums, and of any other quick 

 growing kinds of green-house plants, may now be sown, and if 

 properly attended to will attain to a neat size before winter. 



