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THE GARDENER. 



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a few months. The compost for permanent woody 

 plants, on the contrary, should be very rough. 



Observe the directions for the preceding month re- 

 specting Auriculas. If they be under frames, open 

 the sashes every fine day, keep them warm at night, 

 water very moderately until they have opened their 

 flowers, when even a soft shower would be injurious to 

 them, and shade them from much light to prevent their 

 trusses from being drawn : those (of a choice kind) 

 which produce two hearts should be deprived of the 

 weaker, and no buds except those in the centre should 

 be left : a very brilliant sun injures Polyanthuses in 

 blow by blanching the edges of the flower — protect 

 them also. 



Fine Carnations that have been under frames should 

 be put into nine or ten-inch pots, or, if their roots be 

 not much matted, into smaller ones, from which they 

 should be afterwards shifted ; when potting them, take 

 care that no wire worm slips through your fingers in 

 the compost, every particle of which ought to be nar- 

 rowly examined ;* press the balls round their roots 

 gently, so as to fix them firmly in the pots. 



Continue to force fruits, choice vegetables, and 

 roses, &:c. 



Frames. — In the early melon pit, the flowers may 

 now require to be impregnated : the plants put out 

 last month ought to be well rooted the middle of this 

 month ; draw earth to the roots if they require it. 



Give the same care to cucumbers as to ventilation, 

 watering, and lining, and make fresh beds for later 

 crops. — Protect all your potted plants and cilttings in 

 frames, and give air to them when you can. 



Sow seeds of Dahlias ; prick out two inches apart 



♦ If two layers be put into the same pot, place a slice of 

 potatoe between them, to have a chance of saving them 

 from any wire worm that may have escaped yoiir deiection. 

 Gardener's Chron. 



