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Mar 4, 1895.) THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 555 
main branches “= may be pinched, and on the * thus MISCELLANEOUS, — The potting of Tuberous- larly twice a day, and when full of roots afford plenty 
ut rome A Dahlias, Clee, should be carried of manure-water. 
all other forerights should be rubbed off, ‘Apricots ible; the pricking out into boxes of i 
may in the same ＋ 17 m 2 care oa of the 11 Asters, Stocks, Marigolds, Tagetes VIOLETS.—If the ranners were down as 
being taken to keep the spurs as possible, pumila tula, annual Chrysanthemums, ad should be ly d 
that the bloom gets the full En of the wall. Nasturtiume, Ce, — into frames where they may planting out at this date. A Violet bed needs to be 
remain till planted out, should recieve early atten- i staple is ght nature, 
THE FLOWER GARDEN. 
By Barter Wapps. Gardener, Birdsall Gardens, York. 
THE SPRING FLOWER GARDEN, — vantag: 
should be taken, now that the spring-flowering 
plants are at their best, to make note of alterations 
and improvements in the mode of planting the beds 
another season. It is at this time that failures and 
ay not again occur for many 
is part of Yorkshire, Wallflowers 
suffered severely, and the beds and borders, which 
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manured 8 larger 
ot · m mpactness o than 
plants which are left. k ‘the * flowers 
also look the best if they ar arf, and furnishe 
with leaves down to the 9 Liebe applications of 
h soot and nitrate o a in showery 
afford manures for these plants and for young 
seedling Carnations, —— Pinks, Primulas, and 
Antirrhinums. soon as the spring-flowering 
plants get past their — dig them up, and prepare 
-d Be . edders. lyssum saxatile, Arabis 
a, Ajuga reptans, Anemone coronaria, Cheiran- 
ee Marshalli i, D azorica, Pansies, Primroses, 
Daisies, and any plant that will be useful another 
year should be lifted and laid in for the present 
a sheltered border, affording them water sada Gill 7 
whic 
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or houses, sun- 
Ola Pansy plants, * — being lifted, should 
have all the flowering- shoots removed, and be laid- 
in in rows in the reserve garden for sbing more 
cuttings if required, dividing and replanting them 
fresh growth tha Tulips, Hyacinthe, 
ing, mature ; 
and those which cannot ay by long enough, should 
be lifted intact, and laid- n the reserve garden 
till ate time as they — A erastium tomen- 
as edgings or pea if left in plac ace for the 
well trimmed- in, a and all 
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anew with the edging-iron, rf is re- 
quired anywhere, the present is the ti 
to lay Most flower-beds before ey * will 
need a dressing of stable-dun 
leaf- 
— and light soils are — by: having 
cl loam, nothing being so 
a continual succession of flowering- 
Plants of autumn-flowering Chrysanthemums 
should be well exp to the light so that they may 
ready for early 2 The ts even 
nted if have the shelter of a 
few Sp for they 
re amen of frost without injury. 
2 that are for planting in — 
hould be ke pt wall Erbes to the fight and als, 
THE KITCHEN GARDEN. 
By Jons Lampwnt, Gardener, Powis Castle, Welshpool. 
8.—In backward of the unay 
the seeds — uld be sown forthwith, and in war 
districts from the middle of May onwards will be 
an 
soil when the plan tare pat into the trenches and a 
syringing overhead after hot 
REETROOT, — Seed should now be sown, To 
2 tender roote, let the land be good; and in 
—Look well to yh my of these 
plants for outside fruiting, es age starve the 
roots by keeping them in small Boag n t repot when 
necessary, a to keep them dwarf, well hardening 
them off bitore planting out, 
TOMATOS. 
PLANTS UNDER GLASS. 
By W. H. Smira, Gardener, — — 
- ROOTED BEGONIAS THE 
FLOWER: BED8S.—. tubers having new — 
a few inches high may forthwith be planted 228 in 
to rt 
more fermented, and the 
at from beneath the pottin 
— decayed horse. dung and cocoa-nut 
gonias root well in this mixture, 2 remove with 
2 Id be . 
1 b being removed 
the weather be favourable. 
some dried cow-dung, and plenty of sand as pot- 
ting compost. mba, very dwarf in 
stems, should have the lower part of the stem 
off as soon as the comb and be inserted 
like cuttings in small pots, and plunged in a brisk 
-heat in Roots will soon 
appear, and the plants must then be potted low downin 
32's, 32, and in k payor that fresh soil can | 
Placethem ona shelf in 
3 syringe them regu- 
s 
it e all over to make it firm, and then rake 
it 2 It should be in a 2 yet not much 
0 è place being 
— an es on a west 
fruit er. a south border apt to 
infest the pionta "Daring the summer stir the soil 
with a hoe, an th 
- me — —. of Jaly. and till the plante are ready 
once — — runners ot * 
flowered strong - growing — ner > nted at 
ouble- dawai at 
å ry weather, 
also well syringe the — of the leaves in the 
evening in order to check the increase of red 
—Plants of more than one year old 
may now have any remaining flowers removed; and 
the varie be wn away. 
ones w ha -pods should 
thinned to six on a plant, and be placed on a shelf in 
greenhouse = cool dry pit to ligam 
The rest of plants may be removed to a cold 
frame and —4 a ite drier at oye — for a time; 
but not allowed become dust dry. I always 
afford the Sips on old corms a thorough ayring- 
in is hel eep aphis 
very dry. oung Cyclamen plants no wing 
freely, must on no account be wed to 
at the root; and for these a little shading and fre- 
quent a apne will become in ght 
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rature, fruit now passing on 
between „ 
— same — last thing i at night. More m 
may be given at the roots as the fruit swelle, using 
nig a sh aa * 0 
weak state alternately, e owing some to 
wer leaves, which 
collect at the 
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