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SEPTEMBEE — SECOND WEEK. 



housed, all the air possible should be given in fine weather 

 by the entire withdrawal of the lights, and only reducing 

 the ventilation when unfavourable changes in the weather 

 take place. 



Heliotropes. — Pay attention to keep them in a grow- 

 ing, healthy state for winter flowering. 



Mignonette. — Sow now and a month hence, for winter 

 and spring blooming. 



Pinks. — Pot Anne JDoleyne and other sorts, to be well 

 established before they are wanted for forcing. 



Roses. — Some of the Tea-scented and China kinds, 

 being placed under glass, and to be repotted if requisite, 

 will promote immediate growth and early blooming. 



Violets. — Take up with good balls, to be potted in 

 rotten turf, or leaf mould and road-scrapings, in 48 or 

 32-sized pots, placed in a pit or frame near the glass, for 

 flowers in the winter and early spring. 



stove and obchid-house. 

 As the season of active growth is now getting to a close, 

 it is advisable to ripen off gradually the pseudo-bulbs and 

 strong healthy shoots by keeping up a genial atmosphere, 

 ranging from 70° to 80°, with abundance of air in favour- 

 able weather. Cattleyas, Epidendrum Skinneri, La;lias, 

 Lycaste Skinneri, and Odontoglossum grande, to be kept 

 rather cool, and to be slightly syringed occasionally. 

 Water to be given more sparingly to all the plants except 

 such as are growing freely. Shading to be now dispensed 

 with as much as possible, that the plants may have the 

 benefit of the ripening influence of the sun. 



FORCING-HOUSES. 



Figs. — Continue to pay strict attention to the state of 

 the atmosphere. Where the fruit is still swelling and 

 ripening, slight fires will be useful in dull, cold weather, 

 to assist in ripening the fruit ; and but little syringing 

 and watering will be required from this time forward. 



Melons. — Take advantage of fine weather by giving 

 plenty of air, shutting up early, and keeping the shoots 

 regularly thinned. In whatever structure they may be 

 growing, it is advisable to keep up the bottom heat by a 

 gentle fire, or by linings. 



