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JUNE — SECOND WEEK. 



SECOND WEEK. 



GEEENHOUSE AND CONSEEVATOEY. 



The principal part of the greenhouse plants may now 

 be removed to an out-of-door situation, open to the morn- 

 ing sun, and protected from high winds, and be placed 

 on. some hard bottom through which the worms cannot 

 get into the pots. The specimen plants that remain 

 should be turned round from time to time, that they may 

 not get one-sided ; and allow them to have plenty of 

 room on all sides. Also, the young plants intended for 

 specimens should have their flower-buds picked off, to 

 encourage their growth. 



Balsams. — Encourage them by frequent shifts, and 

 keep them in bottom heat, and near the glass. The pre- 

 maturely-formed flower-buds- to be picked off, as the 

 plants should attain a considerable size before they are 

 allowed to bloom. 



Calceolaeias. — The most critical time is after the 

 plants have flowered ; if allowed to produce seed, they 

 generally die off — Nature having completed her task. 

 When the bloom begins to fall, cut the plants down, 

 and repot into a larger size ; place them in a cold frame 

 facing the east, the lights on during the day, with air, 

 and entirely off during the night, unless in rainy weather, 

 as the night dews are highly beneficial. Treated thus 

 the plants will soon produce new shoots, which must 

 be taken off and pricked out into small pots in a very 

 open soil, and placed in a very gentle bottom heat to 

 strike. When rooted, to be shifted into pots of a larger 

 size. 



Cineeaeias. — The plants that have bloomed through 

 the season to be cut down, turned out of their pots, and 

 to have at least half the old soil removed from their roots. 

 Prepare a piece of ground, in a sheltered situation, with 

 leaf mould or rotten dung and sand, in which the Cinera- 

 rias are to be planted, one inch below the level of the 

 soil, in rows fifteen inches apart and one foot apart in 

 the row. When planted, to be well watered. 



Climbebs. — The Passifloras, Mandevilla suaveolens, 

 locoma jasminoides, and other such climbers in the con- 



