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themums, evergreens, and berry-bearing shrubs, will 

 then show themselves to advantage. Save any well- 

 ripened seed you may find ; it will increase your stock of 

 gardening capital. Sow annuals, such as Nemophilas, to 

 stand the winter, and flower in spring. Pot off sepa- 

 rately cuttings that have been struck during summer, 

 whether they are to be wintered in a cold frame, or 

 whether they are to be forced for spring flowers, such as 

 China and tea-scented roses, double wall-flowers, calceo- 

 larias, winter jessamine, and Deutzias. Provide instantly 

 comfortable lodgings for such greenhouse plants, out in 

 beds, as you do not mean to abandon to the mercies of 

 Old Father Xipnose ; and remove them forthwith to their 

 winter quarters. Look to your spouts and gutters over- 

 head, and see that your drains do their underground 

 work. Do not forget that heliotropes, verbenas, arid 

 their like, are liable to the disease of " damping off." 

 Take up gladiolus, tigridia, and other tender bulbs. 



NOVEMBER 



Employ the long evenings in studying books, pam- 

 phlets, and periodicals connected with your profession. 

 There is no royal road to floriculture ; a poet may be 

 bom, but a gardener is made such. Keep an eye on your 

 natives from the Island of Tender. Eemove the earth 

 from the ground which any projected American bed is to 

 occupy, with the intention of filling the hollow with 

 heath-mould when frosty weather comes to help your 

 carting. Plant everything hardy ; roses, flowering shrubs, 

 flowering trees, evergreens, edgings, herbaceous peren- 

 nials, and whatever will stand the winter. Take up 

 dahlia-roots, and house them in a cellar secure from frost. 

 Think of whatever dielytras, bulbs, polygalas, azaleas, 

 moss roses, and the rest- of it, which you may want to 

 force, so as to have in flower in the course of March. 

 Let all pots and pans, which have been used during 

 summer and are now enjoying their holidays, be well 

 washed and scrubbed with a brush, and then set to dry 



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