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high as 55° at night. This aae gorr now be 
attended to, and all weak grow t out. The 
main branches should be securely tied ee the wires, 
lowed toh down care- 
ly. Any old plants of e ragus piumone which 
have become too large for pots should be ted in 
the conservatory, and trained up an — place 
where they can receive support and light. y 
m lants, such as Ficus repens, or Co 
d ay cut away, to make room for 
ch er-growing climbers. Camellias 
should receive liberal supplies of wate d occa 
sional applicatio ns of weak manure-wa umi- 
with Richards Compound for ane which is 
zure to make its appearance at this 
BULBS, &c., will come on W 4 ee and these 
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OTONS AND GARDENIAS. —If cuttings of these 
ry ih in when advised on e the pots 
should now be fall of ects: and the plants should 
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with a sprinkling of 
bon Pot the plants firmly, and place 
them where they can receive full sun in the stove. 
Gardenias should be moved into h pots, with 
parts of loam, peat, leaf-soiJ, and plenty of 
n war nd. Look carefully over the pla 
for bug, and afterwards plunge bottom-heat of 
75°, Syringe two or three times a dt 
plenty r water one the paths and walls, 
TER-FLOWERING PELARGONIUMS.—Cattings 
of these should now b put in, 3 well-ripen 
wood for the purpose. Almost a y light soil will 
do for them. Place five or = onthe in 5-inch ger 
and stand pm on ss — the greenhouse or 
watering to settle the soil, 
they will . 2 little until rooted, 
UTZIA GRACILIS,—Plants that have flowered 
e compost should consist of 
pia 3 leaf-soil, a few half-inch bones, a little 
d e a quan- 
tity of the old soil from the plants, and afford a good 
shift. They may be placed in 
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plun a f coal-ashes towards the end of 
J A few cuctings should be put in each year, 
p a stock of young plants. t four 
should en from the base of the plant when 
3 or 4 inches long, 
THE KITCHEN GARDEN. 
By Jon LAMBERT, Ga rdane?, Powis Castle, Welshpoo 
: peyton ly ent et if wintered in 2 $ 
, I fear, a trying time. Where they have 
oe Preparation should be made now the 
as relaxed, to plant them under handlights, or on a 
ing — Those planted under hand- 
be — ps leaving 
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8 early varieties of erg 
M w sowings outside C ieee 
Savoys, Lettuce, Lecke, Kales, also Parsley, Early 
Carrota, 9 — Spin ach. 
‘AS A —These may now be sown 
141 in 2 en I would recom 
dend a sowing to be m ade every week, using — this 
are 
ny cannot, in my — be 
uired f bid a f 
E are req or exhibition sow A 
few in pots in sweet loam and leaf soil, and place one 
Bean in each small pot; these be potted on ready 
for gE IEP when the r is sufficiently 
mild, Ne Plus Ultra is sufficiently large when 
well ra 3 of a goo 
TRIPOLI ONIONS.—These are looking very sickly 
after the prolonged frost, and will requi 
did not get a dressing in the au Plant the 
Meets with a dibber in rows about 1 foot apart, and 
from 7 to 8 inches in the rows. A go 
of — 4 suits them best. 
ITS.— Advantage should be taken of the present 
mild weather to afford light and air on all favourable 
occasions. ate and ot er coverin 
removed as early i in the morning as it is safe, and un- 
less sharp frost is anticipated, the pits left uncovered 
until dusk, Where the haulm of Potato 
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covered before ihe outside temperature reaches freez- 
ng-point mer, — e frames may be raised 
bodily on Nen taking to make the opening 
2 paragus, 
Carrots, Radishes, and various other seedlings, should 
have - carefully afforded, and the soil kept free from 
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By ren Wapps, Gardener, Birdsall Gardens, York, 
TIONS WINTERED IN PITS AND FRAMES 
planted, allow four rows to hen miss one, 
Itisa mistake 
which will form an aiiai: and so on. 
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nation borders in my distri ppear 
the snow having laid upon them so long that 
ance, 
many plants have perished. It is remarkable how 
small an a t of water is re y the p 
during the winter to keep them in health, either in 
lass, or in outsi , whe 
d drained ; the 
but in wet soils 
the foliage is lank and flabby, and of a yellow tinge. 
88 5 from — sown in January, if 
pricked-out in pots or box and grown on well till 
the end y Abr. and — ened oe t, will flower 
abundantly in the following August A ‘September, 
esem- 
be rapidly 
also the po tting off et price gery 
of both the autumn and of 
seedlings. Lobelia seedlings and cuttings hou a 
pricked out into shallow boxes a 
n to handle, affording them a genial sete ta, 
h shade from bright sunshine for 
soll used i of sod lente, should 
a 5 t of sea- „ W 
ble, it bei or 
ee pit sand, the salt which it contains bei 
beneficial to plants, and cuttings of all sorts of 
p to rerio org peen in it. Pelargo- 
i ill strike readily at in 
— = vi or without bottom-heat, provided the 
soil be 2 cnr dry. 8 onea of Sapien, Cannas, 
— ace 2 may now be placed in a slightly warm 
not 8 5 them. When the young spouting 
— are a few inches long, the tubers may be cu 
up into pieces each with a shoot, and potted — 
tte seed may n n pots 
ae r. out, sowing thinly. — globulus 
and E. citriodora, varieties a good deal in rn 
just now for cutting pimai ns also be sown 
CALCEOLARIAS —These 
cold frames or trenches, — e a good watering, 
and the points pinche k preparatory to planting 
out in frames at the end of the month. Some n 
sta 
g Calceo Bots as it allows of 
ball of roots being lifted at planting time. 
5 eee set out in trenches must be protecte 
from sharp frosts for — 5 time N 
FR ONDER GLASS. 
By 5 rn pe eee Chichester. 
swell evenly. Add fresh loam as ther require it, 
making each addition as fir possible, to — 
short-jointed wood. It should be warmed before 
using, and the plants must be well supplied vite 
LONS IN PITS AND 6 
frames, which may have a fortnight 
ago, should now be in a fit condition ns a bottom- 
heat of or planting. s degree of 
warmth will be high enough to afford the plants a 
go „and not 80 o injure the roots; 
but to ward off danger should it rise above se 
figures, the hillocks wW the Melon-plants 
grow should 
the grassy side turned downwards. 
also prevent the roots from run irectly 
into the substance of the hot-bed. Melons require 
. it is a common fault to afford 
a uch soil, and that too loose. 7i have 
found it a bod plan to make a end kind of frame 
— 9- inch —— 18 —— to 2 pom square, in which 
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enable the gue er the as firm 
ecessary planting = the | plants pinika 
be Sip well up ite the and 
crops, or with ote. ayan pr eer ri 3 
as is Blenheim Ages one plant under each sas 
will suffice to fill space, the — 5 
0 when er strong leaves have been 
— severa to form; 
de, 
which, when grown of ‘sufficient ae shoul be 
arranged over the —.— of the bed 
tances apart, and maintained in W ion * eans of 
wooden Should early fruit " required, To or 
three plants may be placed on each hillock, not 
diately after the point 5 remove 
nature, to which no manure should be added. is net 
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the 85 or perhaps a fortnight, the steam arising 
1 2 rials sufficing for that length 
of 3 rr may, however, be ven at 
afternoon a bright 
bg C Viant amount of sir should be admitted at 
the mo 
. 1 be pita or or frames 
ee ik double mate at ; night, ard 
fresh — 2 of gg 3 -m sheep 
re con to prevent — 
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1894, Apples for which O A a ms 
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