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JopHrulfurp, HrboriruItuFF, Jpofeng %* p.ura! Affairs. 



THOMAS MEEHAN", Editor. 

 W. G. P. BEIJSrCKLOE, Publisher. 



OCTOBER, 1867. 



VOL. IX. --isro.io. 



I?inh for <^thM, 



flower-garden and pleasure- 

 ground. 



Dahlias, Grladiolus, Tuberoses, and other plants 

 that require winter protection for their roots in cel- 

 lars, should be taken up at once on their leaves 

 getting injured by the first white frosts. The two 

 latter should be pretty well dried before storing 

 away, or they may rot. DaUias may be put away 

 at once. 



Chrysanthemums now in flower should have their 

 names and colors rectified against the time when in 

 spring they may have to be replanted, when they 

 can be re-arranged with accuracy and satisfaction, 

 according to the owner's taste. 



Herbaceous hardy border-flowers are often propa- 

 gated in the fall by dividing the roots ; but, unless 

 it is convenient to protect the newly-made plants 

 through the winter, it is better to defer this till 

 spring, as the frost draws out of the ground and 

 destroys many. Where it is now resorted to, a 

 thick mulching of leaves or litter should be placed 

 over the young stock when transplanted. 



Few things are more valued in winter than a 

 bunch of Sweet Violets. A few may now be pot- 

 ted, and they will flower in the window toward 

 spring ; or a small bed of them may be in a frame, 

 which should be protected by a mat from severe 

 frost. To have Pansies flower early and profusely 

 in spring, they may be planted out in a frame, as 

 recommended for the Violet. 



Many kinds of hardy annuals flower much better 

 next spring, when sown at this season of the year. 

 A warm, rich border should be chosen, and the 



seed put in at once. Early in spring they must be 

 transplanted to the desired position in the flower- 

 border. 



Hyacinths, Tulips, Crocuses, and hardy Dutch 

 bulbs generally, must have immediate attention. 

 Crocuses and Snowdrops are often planted out in 

 the grass on the lawn ; the former is not very ob- 

 jectionable as the leaves have so close a grass-like 

 appearaLce ; but the last should never be so em- 

 ployed, the foliage giving, the whole summer after- 

 wards, a very coarse and weedy appearance to the 

 lawn. 



Hyacinths and Tulips may be set out in the beds 

 devoted to summer-flowering bedding-plants, as 

 they will, in a great measure, be out of flower be- 

 fore the bedding- time comes around, when they 

 can be either taken up and transplanted to an out- 

 of the-way-piace to ripen, or the bedding-plants can 

 be set in between where the bulbs grow, without 

 either much interfering with the success of the 

 other. 



As a manure for these bulbs, nothing has yet 

 been found superior to well-decayed, sandy cow- 

 manure ; but where this is not conveniently at hand 

 well-decomposed surface-soil from a wood will do 

 as well. 



The first two weeks in October will be the great 

 tree-planting month of the fall season ; and, as we 

 have last month stated, the operation cannot be 

 proceeded with too rapidly. In this region, at least, 

 after the end of this month, every day's delay in- 

 creases the risk of loss by the severity of winter ; 

 and, after the 15th, we would not care to plant ever- 

 greens, unless they were comparatively small, and 

 the operation conducted with great care. Occasion- 

 ally great success follows later planting — owing more 

 10 good luck than sound judgment. Where plant- 

 ing is of necessity delayed, the risk is made less by 

 pruning. The later a tree is planted, and the more 

 exposed the situation,* the more in proportion 

 should it be pruned. It has become a pretty well 

 settled axiom in American gardening that the way 

 frost acts in destroying fall-planted trees is by ex- 



