200 Horticultural Memoranda. 



HORTICULTURAL MEMORANDA 



FRTTIT DEPARTMENT. 



Grape Vines will now be setting their fruit. Give an ahundance 

 of air, and keep the vines free from superfluous shoots. Syringe in 

 fine weather, and as soon as the berries are as large as peas, thin 

 them out. 



Strawberry beds may be made during this month, with perfect suc- 

 cess. Too early planting is injudicious. Top-dress and clean up 

 old beds. 



Raspberries may yet be planted. Dig and clear up the earth be- 

 tween the rows, and stake the plants. 



Grafting may yet be performed, if not all completed. 



Currant and gooseberry bushes should be pruned, if not yet done. 



FLOWER DEPARTMENT. 



Dahlias will now be objects of more interest, as the season for 

 planting out arrives. If the roots have been started in the house, 

 they should now be allowed plenty of air, to prevent their being 

 drawn up weakly. Plant out about the 20th of the month for early 

 flowering, and later for a succession. 



Tulips will now be advancing rapidly. They should be sheltered 

 frorn heavy rains; but it is unnecessary for us to say more here, as a 

 reference to Mr. Walker's excellent article in the present number, 

 will give all the information that can be wanted. 



Camellias will now have nearly comi)leted their growth. Syringe 

 often, and keep them well watered at the roots, and they will make 

 fine l)uds. 



Cactuses will now be flowerinir, and should be watered freely. 



Amaryllises, tiger flowers, tuberoses, gladioluses, &c. may be 

 planted in the open border the latter j)art of the month. 



Annuals should be sown about the 20th, excepting the hardy kinds, 

 which may be planted immediately. Balsams, China asters, globes, 

 stocks, and other tender sorts, may be brought forward in pots, in a 

 frame or hot-bed, as it would not do to plant in the open air till June. 



Verbenas may be turned out into the open ground the latter part of 

 the month. 



Herbaceous plants, pteonies, &c. may yet be removed with perfect 

 safety. 



Ericas should be shaded from the hot sun, if standing in the green- 

 house: it will be best to remove thein to a frame facing the north, 

 particularly the young plants. Cuttings jjut in in March will be 

 rooted now suffi(;iently to pot off. 



Oxalises, of all the winter flowering kinds, will be done blooming, 

 and should not be watered. 



Erylhrina crista galli roots may be planted out in the border the 

 latter i)art of the mouth. 



Pansies raised in pots, in the frame or green-house, should be 

 transplanted into beds in the oj»en air. 



Roses, of all the tender kinds, may be removed to the border, 

 where they will flower abundantly all summer, and make large plants 

 for another year. 



