570 TI1E PLEASURE. OR [Nov. 



become blanched, weak and tender, and lose their robust growth, 

 so necessary to a good bloom of flowers. 



Planting Bulbous Boots in Pots and Glasses. 



You mav continue to plant the various kinds of early flowering 

 bulbs in pots, as directed in page 543, but the earlier in the month 

 that this is done the sooner you may expect them to flower. The 

 pots are then to be placed either in a warm room, where there is 

 plenty of light, or in garden frames, and treated as directed last 

 month. Some of them may be immediately placed in the hot-house, 

 or in a forcing frame, to be forced into an early bloom for the deco- 

 ration of rooms, windows, &c.and others placed in the green-house 

 for a succession. 



The early part of this month is still a very proper time to set the 

 bulbs of early tulips, hyacinths, polyanthus-narcissuses, jonquils, 

 dwarf Persian iris, &c. in bulb-glasses tilled with water, which 

 should never be suffered to come higher around the roots than 

 about the eighth of an inch, replenishing the water occasionally as 

 it evaporates, so that it may just touch the bottom of the bulbs. 

 Some of the glasses may be immediately placed in the hot-house 

 for an early bloom, the others to be treated as directed in page 546. 



Taking up and Preserving the roots of Tuberoses, and Scarlet 

 Amaryllises, 8,'C. 



As soon in this month as you observe the frost to injure the fo- 

 liage of your tuberoses and jacobaea lilies or scarlet amaryllises and 

 other very tender bulbs, which generally lie dormant in winter, take 

 up the roots and spread them in a warm room, where they will be per- 

 fectly secure from frost, if in a stove-room the better; in the course 

 of eight or ten days, divest them of the decayed foliage and root 

 fibres, and continue them spread as before till well dried, always 

 taking care to preserve them from frost; when sufficiently dry pack 

 them up in small boxes, in very dry saw-dust, chaff', dry moss, or 

 the like, and then place the boxes in some very warm room to re- 

 main during winter, where they can be effectually secure from 

 frost, the least touch of which would totally destroy the roots. 



Dressing the Beds and Borders, %-c. 



The beds of young succession or other flower-bulbs which were 

 not disturbed in the present year, should now be carefully wed, 

 raked over, and if any moss appears thereon, it ought to be picked 

 off; after which lay an inch or two, as may be deemed necessary, 

 of good light compost all over the beds, this will assist in defend- 

 ing the roots from frost, and add much to their health and vigour 

 in the ensuing spring. 



Clear the beds, borders, and other compartments from fallen 

 leaves of trees, and the dead stalks of annual and other plants; 

 pulling up the annuals by the routs, as they never flower again, and 



