KIDD’S OWN JOURNAL. 
your foundation be high and dry, and have all 
in readiness for your stock to take possession, 
so soon as by stress of weather out-of-door 
homes seem uncomfortable. In the meantime 
prosecute the destruction of all insects, and 
make all clean, and be ready at a moment’s 
notice to remove all. 
Bedding Plants.—Cut down or pull up as they 
decay. 
Borders.—Clean and prepare for bulbs. 
Boa-edgings.—Make, clip. 
Bulbs, may still be planted in beds or borders, 
and if not done last mouth, may now be potted. 
Calceolarias, well-rooted, may be shifted. Look 
to seedlings ; keep clean. 
Camellias.—Keep watered, and occasionally draw 
the syringe over them towards the end of the 
month. 
Carnations—Keep clear from decaying foliage, and 
grow hardy as possible. Confinement is the 
origin of spot, mildew, &c. 
Chrysanthemums.—Continue treatment recom- 
mended last month. Toward the middle of the 
month remove the plants under glass, giving as 
much air as possible, guarding against rot. 
Cinerarias.—Continue to pot them as required, 
and let the plants be removed into their winter 
quarters. ‘There should be a dry pit or frame, 
banked up at the sides, to keep out frost. Also 
have mats or straw in readiness, in case of frost. 
Prepare compost ; equal parts of rich loam, old 
cow-dung, and leaf mould, and one-tenth sand, 
except at the final potting, when a larger pro- 
portion of loam would be beneficial. 
Collect Soils, composts, leaves, &c. 
Crocuses, and similar bulbs, plant. 
Cuttings, store pots of, keep clean and grow hardy ; 
take more if quantity be needed. 
Dagjodils—Plant in the same manner as all 
similar spring flowering bulbs. 
Dahlias—Take up, dry and store away from all 
chances of frost. 
Ericas.—\t is desirable to discourage further 
growth, ripen new wood, and expel miidew. 
Keep tolerably dry; admit all the sun and air 
possible. 
Hvergreens may now be generally planted. 
forcing, such as bulbs, &c., may be commenced, 
if flowers of the same be wanted about Christ- 
mas. 
Frames, look to protection, if frosts thus early 
set it. 
Fuchsias still quiet. Those started for early 
flowering should be cut in and potted into 
smaller pots. 
Green fly, look for amongst store pots of cuttings. 
Greenhouses, admit the utmost circulation of air 
to, expel damps by lighting fires, but do not 
shut up at the same time. Open at the top. 
Herbaceous-borders, clean as the plants in them 
decline. 
Herbaceous Plants, cut down as they go out of 
flower. 
Hollyhocks, in pots, require the full influence of 
air and light. 
Hyacinths, continue to pot and plant. Those 
first potted will now be in a condition to be 
brought forward by increased heat. Keep 
ase and arrange all plants in houses, frames, 
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Liliums.—When the mould in the pots becomes 
dry, take up the bulbs, removing all the mould. 
Carefully twist the dead flower stem out, cut 
away old roots, divide the main and take care 
of the young offset bulbs. Plant the blooming 
bulbs, using compost before mentioned, into as 
small pots as you can conveniently get them 
in, one in a pot. The off-sets, plant round the 
sides of pots. Label and plunge the whole 
from two to three inches below the surface 
of the ground under a south wall. 
Manures.—Obtain, stack, and protect from wet. 
Expose to all frosts, and turn as often as 
frozen. 
Open frames, pits, &c., on every favorable op- 
portunity. 
Pansies, plant out for early spring blooming, 
without loss of time, that they may be estab- 
lished. 
Pelargoniums.—Shitt all young piants that re- 
quire it. Re-pot the specimen bottoms that 
have been disrooted, and have by this time got 
well-established; putting them in the pots re- 
quired for blooming in. This applies to plants 
for May. Water sparingly, and in the morning. 
If the weather is damp and cold, light a fire to 
get the heating apparatus in order, in case it 
should be wanted in a hurry. ‘The soil for 
potting them is the same as before recom- 
mended. 
Perennials should all be in their places from the 
seed or nursery beds. 
Phloxes.—Cut down as the flowers fade. 
Picotees—When it is necessary to water, avoid 
wetting the foliage unnecessarily. At this 
season it is uncertain how soon they may be 
again got dry. 
Pinks, if long, need twigs, or other support, so as 
to secure against strong winds. 
Pits generally require to have the lights drawn 
off at every favorable chance. In wet weather 
tilt both at top and bottom. In bleak windy 
times open only on the quiet side. In frosts, 
cover up; if containing tender subjects, with 
mats, &c. 
Polyanthuses—Draw earth up to the stems ; or do 
so by adding fresh. Look for, and destroy 
slugs. 
Pots of plants should now be generally housed or 
otherwise protected. 
Primulas—Pot on, as they fill with roots, the 
pots they may bein. By this, finer specimens 
will be obtained, without potting on early bloom 
is secured. 
Protect by mulching, ashes, fern, &c., all half 
hardy plants out of doors that have done flower- 
ing, and have been cut down. 
Ranunculuses—Turn over the soil of beds ia dry 
weather. Plant the early spring flowering sorts. 
foses—Plant. 
fioses in pots that require shifting may now be 
shifted. Cut the old roots back, and give fresh 
rich maiden soil. 
Store pots of cuttings, and see that they want not 
for water. 
Trenching.—Proceed with, as crops ke removed 
from quarters, beds, borders, &c. 
Tulips —Towards the end of this month is gene- 
rally considered to be the best time for planting ; 
inasmuch that a few fine days are more likely 

