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below by gi-adual percolation. ^Mien it is no longer 

 needed on the surface of the ground it is generally 

 forked in as manure. Being rather untidy in appear- 

 ance it is not much used in the flo\^^er garden, although 

 its benefit is often great. 



Let any digging that yet remains be done on warm, 

 sunny days, as turning in the hot surface does the earth 

 great good : this is the opinion of a fii^t-rat^ j^^g^ iri 

 horticulture. 



Cinerarias w'hich have bloomed in pots may be 

 placed out on a north border, worked and raked fine 

 and smooth, and the self-sown seed will produce fine 

 young plants. Some seed of fine kinds may be sown 

 in pans, to produce plants to bloom early. Some plants 

 may be planted out on a north border, and if a few of 

 them are cut down and well watered they will throw 

 up suckers, which can afterwards be separated from 

 them. In these chapters on the work of each month 

 I have tried to avoid repeating the instructions already 

 given in treating of the choicer flowers in former 

 chapters — to those chapters I must, therefore, refer the 

 reader for much monthly work to be done among them 

 as regards their treatment and propagation. 



Young Conifers planted out on lawns should be 

 watered most abundantly, to encourage them to make 

 their giowth. 



Gross shoots on ehoice free-gKowing roses m-ay be 

 pinched off at about the third eye, to stop their 

 keeping all the growth to themselves to the detriment 

 of the general growth of the plant. 



An excellent writer in the Journal of Horticulture 

 recommends the following treatment of leafy plants 

 when flrst planted out, and I have no doubt of its 

 goodness. On the flrst day he w^aters just enough to 

 moisten the roots twice during the day, and syringes 

 over the whole plants, scattering the drops like dew, or 

 like a very gentle misty shower. The second day he 

 syringes three or four times, if the sun is bright; he 

 prevents evaporation from the leaves by giving moisture 

 on them to evaporate, and by the third day they hold up 



