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THE GARDENER. 



plants. Before they are arranged for the winter, 

 scarlet Pelargoniums which have been cut down 

 and Calceolarias are by some eminent gardeners kept 

 for a time in tan-pits and stowed closely. 



Flower Garden. — Attend to last month's dhec- 

 tions about Tulips^ then* seedlings and offsets; it is 

 yet too early to plant the main crop. Put Mignonette 

 in boxes or pots under cover ; attend to the potted 

 Carnations lest they suffer from frost; put Hyacinths, 

 Narcissuses, and Jonquils, into water glasses, to make 

 them vegetate and blow. 



Many beautiful plants, such as Salvias and Fuch- 

 sias, will stand the winter well if protected by reeds 

 or some simple frame-work during hard frost — mode- 

 rate cold will not injure them — or even by a thick 

 layer of peat-earth or sand to the roots. Plant Pan- 

 sies, thin out the herbaceous plants in the borders, 

 and keep walks perfectly clean. Plant out last year's 

 layers and cuttings of Laurels, Jasmines, &c., &c. 



Fruit Garden. — Plant out fruit-trees as soon 

 as their leaves have generally fallen, which usually 

 happens either in the end of the month or the com- 

 mencement of the next; the peach, nectarine and apricot 

 on a south* wall, in rich, fresh loam and with a dry bot- 

 tom. Should the subsoil be cold and very unfavour- 

 able, you must flag or pave at the depth of eighteen 

 inches; or deposit a layer of concrete. By supplying 

 a good quantity of turf-mould and a moderate quan- 

 tity of dung to the roots, and keeping the borders 

 (which ought to be wide) free from crops, except those 

 that grow near the surface, and do not exhaust the 

 soil ; by mulching and adding bone-dust, a poor and 

 shallow soil will gradually be rendered fit for those 



* An eastern aspect, however, will answer very well for the 

 apricot : the distances at which these wall trees should be planted 

 must depend on the height of the wall and also the breadtk 

 of the border; and on the mode of training. 



