508 TIIE GREEN-HOUSE. [Sep*; 



must, early in this month, be taken up and re-potted; observing to 

 take them up carefully, to trim off the wide extended roots, cut the 

 baskets away, and plant them with the entire balls in the pots or 

 tubs destined for their reception; after which give them water and 

 place them in some shady warm situation, till the time for housing 

 them. 



Any young green-house plants raised this or last year from 

 seeds, slips, cuttings, or suckers, and that are growing too close 

 together in pots, &c. should, if well rooted, be transplanted in the 

 early part of this month into pots, singly, and be immediately 

 watered and placed in the shade for a week or two; or of such as 

 are very small, two, three, or more may be planted in a pot, and 

 treated in like manner. But those that have been raised from slips 

 or cuttings and that are not well rooted, and consequently not much 

 advanced in top growth, should be suffered to remain in their pre- 

 sent pots till spring or autumn next. 



Any green-house plants propagated in the open ground, or in 

 beds, during the course of the summer, should be taken up in 

 the first week of this month, with balls of earth, potted and treated 

 as above. 



About the middle of this month you should plant your ixias, 

 walchendorfias.oxalises, gladioluses, watsonias, cyanellas, babianas, 

 tritonias, massonias, melasphserulas, antholizas, moreas, lapeyrou- 

 sias, lachenalias, melanthiums, geisstirhizas, with all the other 

 different kinds of the more tender bulbs, either obtained from the 

 Cape of Good Hope or elsewhere; especially such of them as 

 shew the least disposition to produce fibres from the roots; for if 

 kept out of the ground much longer, after this appearance, they 

 would be greatly injured thereby. 



The proper compost for the generality of the above kinds, is one 

 half rich fresh loam, one half bog earth, or earth of rotten leaves, 

 and a small portion of drift or river sand. 



They are to be planted in pots, from one to live roots in each, 

 a greater number if very small, and covered about an inch deep; the 

 pots are then to be placed in the green-house windows and to get 

 but very little water till the foliage appear above ground, and even 

 after, it is to be but sparingly administered, for too much moisture 

 would infallibly rot the bulbs. 



Towards the end of the month take into the green-house all your 

 succulent and other tender plants, such as stapelias, cactuses, 

 aloes, cycas revoluta, agaves, &c. and place them in front near 

 the windows, where they can have the benefit of the sun and air. 

 Collect your geraniums, at the same time, and all other plants 

 that tend to succulency, and arrange them in front of the green- 

 house, there to remain till it is found necessary to take them in. 

 See next month. 



