JUNE — FOURTH WEEK. 



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FOTJETH WEEK. 



GREENHOUSE AND CONSEEVATOEY. 



Many of the finer kinds of hard-wooded plants— such 

 as Boronias, Epaerises, &c. — will now be out of bloom, and 

 will require cutting in rather closely, to form neat bushy 

 plants. Some of the greenhouse plants will most pro- 

 bably require shifting, and should receive that attention 

 now, or, at latest, by the middle of next month. Keep a 

 sharp look out for insects of all kinds, and also for mildew ; 

 and give the plants, if the weather is dry, a sprinkling 

 once or twice a- week .from the syringe or garden engine. 



New Holland Plants. — If any are retained in the 

 house, let them be placed where they can have a suffi- 

 ciency of light and fresh air, and at the same time in a 

 place where the sun has no power on the pots ; but if 

 such cannot be avoided, place the pot containing the 

 plant in another two sizes larger, and fill the intervening 

 space with moss. 



Pelaegoniums. — When out of bloom, they should be 

 placed in the open ground for a fortnight or three weeks 

 to ripen the wood before they are cut down. 



Scaelet Geeaniums. — To prepare them for winter 

 blooming it is advisable to place the pots during the 

 summer on a hard bottom out of doors and in the full 

 sun, and to pinch out the flower-stems as they appear. 

 To be carefully attended with water. 



stove and oechid-house. 



Keep up a kindly humidity by frequent syringings, and 

 keeping the floors, paths, &c, damp. Many of the stove 

 plants — viz. ,Clerodendrons, Ery thrinas, Gardenias, Ixoras, 

 Jasmines, Liliums, Pergularias, Stephanotises, &c. — may 

 be removed to the conservatory, where the flowers will 

 attain a deeper colour and retain it for a longer period 

 than if they had remained in the stove. 



Euphokeias. — Propagate jacquiniceflora and fulgens, 

 and grow them on a successional system of culture for 

 furnishing the conservatory and stove throughout the 

 autumn, winter, and spring. 



Gesneea eebeina. — Keep up a succession in variolas 



