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of the tubercle in a small hole made to receive it, and 

 so that the base of the bud shall be on a level with the 

 surface of the tubercle. Grafting-wax must be ap- 

 plied to the edges. If the tuber be potted and put in 

 heat under glass, the bud which is not to be covered 

 with earth will push. A growing shoot instead of a 

 bud may be inserted in a later period of the year, when 

 the natural season for the vegetation of these plants 

 has arrived, 



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Stove and Greenhouse, — Go on potting, propa- 

 gating by cuttings, &c., and shade the forcing-pits. If 

 the sun be strong, moderate your fires, and let them 

 out by day. Keep the heat during the night at about 

 55"*, which will answer also for late peaches, which 

 should now be disbudded, and from 65^ to 70'' by day. 

 Train vines, thin out grapes, and at the end of the 

 month commence the summer pruning of these. Wa- 

 ter your Camellias, and endeavour to keep up a moist 

 atmosphere, by sprinkling the alleys in the afternoon. 

 Syringe other plants with rain water three or four 

 times a week towards evening, and apply the water 

 gently, and particularly so if plants are in a languish- 

 ing state from want of it, because their roots are not 

 then in a state to perform their functions all at once, 

 but, by wetting them gradually, their healthy action 

 will be restored, and watering in sunshine is so inju- 

 rious, that many plants are suddenly killed by it. By 

 excessive watering, also, the leaves of a delicate plant 

 become yellow, and lie heavily against the stem. Wa- 

 ter them in the afternoon from this time until October. 

 Accustom the plants gradually to the open air, to 

 which so many will be soon transferred altogether. 



Attend to preceding hints respecting the care of 

 Auriculas and Carnations. 



The Pelargoniums and other plants which have not 



