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SEPTEMBEE. 



Plant imported bulbs of Van Thol and Parrot tulips, 

 hyacinths, narcissuses, crocuses, snowdrops, and other 

 hardy early-flowering genera, as soon as you can possibly 

 get them home from the seedsman's shop. Eoses may 

 still be budded with success; sometimes the latest 

 budded do the best. Sow annuals to stand the winter. 

 Make the most of your bedding-plants and half-hardy 

 showy rambling things ; they may be in their glory, but 

 their sun is fast preparing to set. Take every care of 

 your dahlias and hollyhocks ; at the same time look for- 

 ward to the Chrysanthemums. Eemember still that 

 seeds will be wanted next spring. Pot off the first-struck 

 cuttings of the season. Gather half-opened annual Ever- 

 lastings, for winter bouquets. Take cuttings and make 

 layers of such things as strike in winter. Admire the 

 lovely objects with which you are now surrounded ; but 

 bear in mind that a single night may deprive you of 

 them, and that their beauty is but of a day. Be not 

 selfish in your garden pleasures ; show, explain, and 

 communicate freely ; and manifest by your manner, as 

 well as by your money, your appreciation of those who 

 prepare for you a PLEASTmE-GBOUtfD. 



