Fesrvary 23, 1895.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
much in aomen, it is economical to lift 
a few clumps of ue in pots or boxes 
mi cir them in gentle hea : 
. ARTIC aaa. ida of should 
ated when the weather breaks. is isa 
crop that is sometimes pushed into any out- 
A- the- way shady corner, or planted in poor 
gil, and in some gardens grown in the sam 
spot for many years in succe The new white 
variety is an excellent one to plant; and for plant- 
bes - haped man gana eti _ 
0 
6inches in the soil. 
t apart, nor the distance between the sets less 
b 
PLANTS UNDER GL 
By W. H. Smita, Gardener, West Dean paa Pina i 
of the kan 
tant. which may standing in 7 or 
S-inch pots will not require re-potting, but they may 
ave the surface soil removed, and be top- -dressed 
voidin 
The —.— should be 
constantly being intro- 
t some of older Bo — expensive varieties 
are well e of cultiv 
oung wood, and 
e singly in tiny pots of sandy peat, 
We, 
ate. vering them with a bell-glase, Dipla- 
: E flowers when cut half expanded 
i » the flower and footstalk. 
2 . — Fy ue tubers 
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8 — ty of roots will have een put forth nd thoy 
will lift from the boxes with little balls of the sand 
and fibre, an e potted into pots of goo 
Shallow pans or boxe 
eedlings 
and very . 
watered uch water soon causing them to 
amp 
THE HARDY FRUIT GARDEN. 
By W. Pope, Gardener, Highclere Castle, Newbury. 
8 FROM ered ig pe CUTTINGS.—Apple 
pips may be sown now, either for raising mie varie- 
se or Aiba. stocks — "qvattilign If o 
e kinds are to be sown, they ma 
ing anal — and grown u 
hardening them off i 
sown, it should be sown out-of-doo n prepared 
beds, sowing the pe 1 ei drilla, ad Se aioe 
ing care to preserve them 
he eni of he 
will root reel 400 can, in a few years, be 
g into useful bu hoots last year’s 
growth should be sel sr as cuttings, if with a 
e underground 
rows 1 foot TN and 4 inches between the cub- 
tings on a border with a northern aspect, and afford 
a slight mulching of rotten leav the rows, 
which will tend to keep the soil from cracking during 
drying winds. e Doucin or St. John’s Apple 
she Paradise grow very freely from cuttings, forming 
in two years good strong stocks fit for planting in 
shallow so ils. Ep ] 
GRAFTING.—The clay for pear fo tia next 
month eld be senso 
4 
the horse-droppings and cow-dung, well kneading, 
and mixing a altogether It should be kept under 
cover till required for 
TTING AND phe MATERIALS FOR P 
TECTING BLOSSOM should be overhauled and Sat 
59 kyeng for the protection 5 the blossom of 
t trees on walle, a glass or other 
inde of wall coping are i e, it i is N Fe 
easy matter to shelter che bio ossom by suspending 
fish-nets or curtains from of this; but 
pas 
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E 
Sead and stoo 
top a board of 9 pone in width should be e! 
pore is available, sh- — either 
doubled or trebled a trl aay Pd var big 8 
r, to boughs of Spruce 
or other evergreens; care ‘mast be tren with nse 
last to make them secure, or the se a displace 
them to the probable injury of thet 
THE FLOWER GARDEN. 
By Baier Wapps, Gardener, Birdsall Gardens, York, 
eds which aou be 
time to plan 
depth of 3 — the first batch for early 
Pat one corm in the s of each 
pot, pot — place them in an interm 
and they 
0 a 
er, For iane 
planted in the 
N should be kept well mulched 
with short manu ö 
TIGRIDIAS sie pasa summer-flowering 
bulbs should be planted in good soil heltered 
beds and borders when th grou comes work- 
able and warmer, planting them in holes of 2 i 
in depth, and made firm om and the soil 
of no use for cut- 
ting e only keeping open for one day; but 
the wee of the flowers are showy and pleasing. 
he satis are pavonia, grandifi ora, g. alba, 
specion, conchiflora, and canariensis, 
CINTHUS CANDICANS should be planted in 
ber borders, or in beds by itself, or 3 
it may form the central obj a amongst dwar 
—.— where its tall spike a white 5 
flowers may be seen. It is also a useful plant for 
cutting purposes. 
BABIANAS AND IXIAS should be planted in March 
ı Potsii, 
oper: cre 
other spate ell worth 
or their Gladiolus- like 3 of brilliant ros Pe 
ROCK: GARDEN. — Considerable attention, 
soon 
will be r ag in this departm 
as the fro disappeared ntl 
llow of the arious operations of planting and 
re-arranging not finished in the autumn bei 
hang I fear that many valuable plants will 
have been lost or muc ed in gardens. 
Wallflowers, Aubrietias, Arabis, and other evergreen 
rock-plants which may not have had a covering of 
snow, look as if they had been burned, but it will not 
payin to throw away anything, but wait, for 
which appear to 25 killed hasty start afresh. 
* hould, agente be > „ the quite 
dead parts being re aa, a 3 aan of 
ae . pressed ia en . Afterwards, 
mild weather, some amount of watering 
will = vere * When 1 g plants loosened 
by frost into the soil, take care not to irjare small 
bulbous plants that may be pushing t up light. 
— 
all of the 3 ; will grow 
forests, or perb 
somewhat protected fro: 
