40 Horticultural Memoranda. 



Peach Trees, or other fruit trees in pots, maybe brought into the grapery 

 or greenhouse the latter part of the month, if early fruit is wanted. 

 No out-door work can be done this month. 



FLOWER DEPARTMENT. 



CameUias will be opening their buds, and will need attention : give lib- 

 eral quantities of water, and occasionally a very light syringing over head. 

 If any of the plants need top dressing, it should now be done. Ill shaped 

 plants should be tied up to a neat stake. Cuttings may be put in with 

 success now, and planting seed should not be delayed. Cuttings put 

 in in July, may be potted otf till the latter part of the month. 



Chinese Primroses should be shifted this month into larger pots. 



Schizanthuses will again require to be shifted into No. 3 pots. 



Cyclamens will be showing their flower buds, and must have liberal sup- 

 plies of water. 



OxaJises Hirta and Boioeii, now past flowering, may be watered more 

 sparingly. 



Verbenas will now require attention. Commence shifting into the next 

 size pots, and prune off straggling shoots. 



Azaleas will soon swell their flower buds, and will need larger supplies 

 of water. 



Ericas will need attention ; keep the shoots on young plants topped, in 

 order to make them bushy. 



Cactuses may be given more water this month. Now is a good season 

 to graft young stocks. 



Roses will need occasional pruning : keep the plants open in the middle, 

 and cut out all weak wood. 



Pansey Seed may be sown this month for producing young plants to turn 

 out into the ground in May. 



Tree Pcconies, in pots, may be brought into the house for blooming 

 early. 



Dahlia Roots should be looked after as the season advances. See that 

 they are in a sound condition ; such as have the appearance of rotting had 

 better be potted in light earth, and placed in a warm situation. 



Greenhouse Plants of all kinds should be shifted or top-dressed ; the pots 

 washed, the shoots tied up to neat stakes, and the names legibly written 

 on a good label. A great many sorts may be propagated this month. 



VEGETABLE DEPARTMENT. 



Making Hot-Beds. — Towards the latter part of the month, operations 

 should be commenced for making hot-beds and bringing forward cucum- 

 bers, lettuce, tomatoes, radishes, &c. The manure should now be placed 

 in a heap, and turned over twice, shaking it well up each time, and about 

 the 20th or 25th it may be made up into a bed, and the frame and sashes 

 put on. In a few days after it will be ready for sowing seeds, either in 

 the ground or in pots or boxes. 



