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THE GARDEXER. 



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possible, a separate stovehouse, a greater degree of 

 warm moisture being essential to their full develop- 

 ment, than to the ordinary collection of plants. Pe- 

 largoniums, Calceolarias, Verbenas, Cinerarias, may be 

 associated together, for their habits are similar : they 

 require more heat than the woody plants, but where 

 separate compartments cannot be provided they should 

 be kept at the warmest end. 



A great point at this season is to prevent the pre- 

 mature growth of those plants which ought not to 

 flower until an advanced period of the spring ; and this 

 may be effected by removing- them, when they manifest 

 the unwished-for symptoms of vegetation, to cooler 

 stations in the greenhouse if there be a stove in it, or 

 to cold frames, and those which are growing should be 

 placed in the front of the greenhouse, to have the 

 greatest portion of light and the warmest temperature , 

 but after all, the nature or habit of the plant must be 

 alone consulted, and if it have a decided tendency to 

 shoot out, that tendency will not be easily checked, nor 

 oueht it to be in general. 



Bulbs and tubers which have not yet pushed out, and 

 have not been potted (for in this case it would be in- 

 judicious to disturb their roots), may be forced in pits 

 with bottom heat, and seeds of stove plants may also be 

 sown in these pots, with soil composed of sand and peat, 

 or heath mould, and those of heaths and woody half- 

 hardy plants may be sown, and also of the Rhododen- 

 drum and Azalea : but if hot-beds or stoves be wanting, 

 this season will be too early for such sowings. 



Besides the few fine flowers which have been enu- 

 merated in bloom, the Chrysanthemums may be yet 

 lingering in flower, and Ericas, Polygalas, Coreas, the 

 Ceanothus azureus, and the beautiful Chinese Prim- 

 rose, will display their floral treasures in some portion 

 cf this month. 



The Hyacinth, Narcissus, and early Tulip, not for- 



