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CALENDAR OP GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR FEBRUARY. 



ORCHIDEiE, § EPIDENDREiE. 



Epidendrum glumaceum. Lindl. Glumaceous Epidendrum. Bot. Reg, 

 1840, t. 6. This is a very delicate and handsome plant, bearing a spike of large' 

 white flowers which are beautifully striped with pink. It has much the habit of 

 Epidendrum fragrans, but from which it differs in its inflorescence. It is a 

 native of Brazil, and was imported by Messrs. Rollinson, of Tooting. 



CALENDAR OF GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR FEBRUARY. 



Increase by the middle or latter end of the month the heat of the plant-stove. 



Hedychiums, Gesnerias, and similar plants, also herbaceous plants that have 

 been dormant all the winter, may be repotted, and have a very limited supply of 

 water at first, which may be increased as they begin to grow. 



Repot into larger-sized pots all plants requiring more room, and fresh surface 

 all other plants. 



Syringe overhead the plants in the stove in fine weather, and steam the 

 house at night. 



Greenhouse plants should now have abundance of air every fine day. 

 Fresh surface the plants, and turn them round on the stage. 

 Gladioluses, Ixias, Oxalises, and other Cape bulbs, will now be growing, and 

 must have a moderate supply of water. 



Pelargoniums should be placed further apart as they commence growing. 

 Fumigate where necessary. 



Hotbeds may now be put up for raising tender and also half-hardy annuals, 

 and for forwarding plants for turning out into the borders in May. 



Verbenas, Fuchsias, and such-like plants that have been kept in store pots 

 during the winter, should now be potted out singly. 



Put in cuttings freely of greenhouse plants. 



Prune shrubs, and fruit-trees, if not previously done. 



Dig shrubberies, and layer the larger deciduous trees where increase is 

 wanted. 



Place some of the more rare varieties of Dahlias in heat to force out their 

 shoots for cuttings, where more than an ordinary increase is wanted ; plants, 

 however, propagated at this time will not flower so fine as those plants that are 

 propagated later. 



Keep up a succession of forced flowers, such as Roses, Lilacs, Rhododendrons, 

 Hyacinths, &c, by bringing in a fresh supply to the forcing-houses. 



