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CALENDAR OF GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR APRIL. 



Stove plants ought now to be looked over, and those shifted that require it. 



Some of the plants in large pots will require their balls reduced, and to be 

 put into smaller pots until they make fresh roots. 



Many of the greenhouse plants will also require shifting into larger pots, 

 particularly those that have been kept during the winter in sixty-sized pots ; 

 they should now be put into pots of a larger size, and in soil suitable for the 

 different genera : — sandy peat for Ericas, Epacrises, and kindred genera ; rich 

 loam and rotted dung and sand for most of the Pelargoniums. Loam, peat, and 

 sand, will suit many Cape and New Holland plants. 



Fumigate the houses wherever the green fly makes its appearance, and 

 syringe over head occasionally in the greenhouse if the weather prove clear. 



Attend to transplanting Balsams, Cockscombs, and other tender annuals, and 

 when established and the pots filled with roots, they must be shifted into larger- 

 sized pots. The peat of the hotbeds, where they are placed, must be kept up by 

 fresh linings when necessary, much of the success of having them fine depending 

 upon keeping them growing luxuriantly, without check, either for want of heat 

 or pot room. 



Pot off cuttings of greenhouse plants put in last month; and after being 

 established, harden them gradually for removal into the greenhouse or cold 

 frames. 



Many Alpine plants in pots will now require fresh shifting, and the pots of 

 those that do not must be fresh surfaced. 



Layer American plants ; dig herbaceous beds, reducing the luxuriant kinds 

 into smaller patches, and divide those that are wished to be increased. 



Attend to the starting and propagating Dahlias. 



Continue to sow annuals in the open ground, to keep up a succession of their 

 flowers through the season. 



