Monthly Calendar of Operations, 171 



Primroses, Polyanthuses, Wallflowers, Stocks, Pansies, 

 Violas, Daisies, Hepaticas, Forget-me-nots, Arabis, 

 Aubretia, Auriculus, Sedums, Ranunculuses, Anemones, 

 &c. Balconies and windows will now be very gay 

 with spring bulbs and other plants. This is the 

 time for rearranging and planting Fern cases. Where 

 old plants are getting too large they should be divided 

 or taken out, and new ones planted. All the 

 Mosses require replanting and thinning out ; and the 

 case should be put in good working order for the 

 season. Potting should now be finished, and if not 

 done already, baskets should be filled with their 

 summer flowers. Look to watering and the keep- 

 ing of all plants in order and cleanliness. Put in 

 cuttings of Chrysanthemums for autumn flowering. 



April. 



During this month a general rearranging of balconies 

 should take place. All hardy shrubs and trees in tubs 

 and pots that have been standing through the winter 

 should be removed and plunged in an open border 

 shaded from the sun, till the return of autumn. Their 

 places will be occupied for some time longer with 

 Kalmias, Rhododendrons, Mahonias, Thorns, Ribes, 

 Double flowering Cherries, and other spring flowering 

 shrubs and trees. All the hardy spring flowers, such 

 as Wallflowers, Stocks, Pansies, &c., with all the 

 spring flowering bulbs will now be getting very gay. 

 All creeping plants, such as Ivy, Virginian creeper. 

 Clematis, Roses, Sec, should now be planted at bottoms 



