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advantage possessed in common with the old system 

 over the bell-glass propagating pot." 



Dahlias may be put into hotbeds during any part of 

 the month, to make them push. The seeds of Dahlia, 

 Calceolaria, Polyanthus, and of various annual flowers 

 and kitchen vegetables, may now be sown in mild hot- 

 beds under frames. Peat or heath mould is the best 

 covering for Calceolarias, and when they have put out 

 two leaves, they should be pricked out into two-inch 

 pots, filled with good mould, and transferred to four^ 

 inch pots when their tissue has overspread the sides. 

 Sow successions of celery and cauliflower in cool beds^ 

 and after three weeks the seedlings will be fit for prick- 

 ing out into fresh ones. 



Pot all the autumn propagated plants in framed 

 pits, so as to have them well-rooted and turned out in 

 April, in order that the pots may be disengaged for a 

 new succession of plants, which ought at this time to 

 be making progress in a propagating frame. 



Open Ground. — Keep the Auriculas free from 

 insects and diseased leaves, and replace the old mould 

 at the surface with fresh ; and if you have any under 

 common garden frames, be most particular to give 

 them air. When the trusses are rising to the hearty 

 earth up the stems of Polyanthuses with fresh com.- 

 post, and as Tulips appear above ground cover them 

 up well with sand, which is some security against 

 frost, and otherwise serviceable to them. Plant out 

 Anemones and Ranunculuses in drills seven inches 

 apart and four inches between the plants, which you 

 should put in with a trowel ; and if frost have pul- 

 verized the earth, so much the better. 



The middle of this month is the best time for pro- 

 viding scions for grafting rose-trees and fruit-trees 

 next month ; these should be selected with judgment 

 as to the sorts, and pruned ofi^, where they can best be 

 afibrded, in lengths of from two to three inches, sepa- 



