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OPERATIONS FOE OCTOBER. 
Since it will be impossible to calculate during the remainder of the season upon the absence of 
frost, we must henceforth look chiefly to our glass erections for that pleasure and satisfaction 
derivable from paying attention to flowers, or cultivating them. We do not recommend that the 
flower-garden and grounds, although the number and quality of their attractions may have been 
considerably reduced by severe weather, should be comparatively abandoned. Both, as well as 
every garden, whatever be its character as to size and situation, is capable of being rendered 
interesting, and indeed attractive, throughout the whole year. And now is the period to look to 
those matters which such a consideration involves. If no other obstacles present themselves, the 
season of year does not intervene to prevent the immediate commencement of such alterations and 
improvements as may have been determined upon. It may be, that neither of the latter are in 
contemplation, and, indeed, that there is little necessity for any ; but we would recommend that 
an examination be made, with a view to ascertain whether there is not a want of evergreens, or of 
those fruit-bearing plants whose ripe berries, &c, amply atone for the absence of flowers, and the 
introduction of which might produce a pleasing variation, if nothing else were effected. 
In the absence of anything in the way of improvements, &c, the operations of the present 
month are of a very routine nature. A considerable share of attention should be devoted to the 
production and preservation of flowers. The forcing-houses of pits will soon require to be in 
steady, but full operation. Bulbs to flower in pots may still be potted ; and, towards the end of 
the month, some of the first potted ones will be getting fit to introduce into the forcing department. 
By that time, also, Roses and many others may find their way there. While we give these direc- 
tions, and although we can understand the charm of Roses, &c, in December, the culturist must 
be admonished not to neglect those many things which will gratify him with their blossoms with- 
out the aid of the forcing-house being had recourse to. 
All newly-raised plants, intended to fill and decorate the flower-garden in 1848, ought to be 
well rooted and properly hardened off by this time, and, in short, should be in their winter quarters. 
But when there they must not receive unnecessary shelter, or their bursting into growth will be the 
undesirable consequence. Whether they are indulged with greenhouse room, or simply preserved 
in cold pits, shelter from excessive wet and injurious cold is the only protection required. 
The state of the weather will decide how soon the saving of seeds, lifting tuberous-rooted or 
bulbous plants, and such-like business, is brought to a close. In the event of a prevalence of very 
wet weather, the latter will be better out of the ground as soon as they have become matured. 
Those pot-plants which require the protection of a greenhouse, and that may have been standing 
in the open air up to this time, should not remain there until their last developments are " cut " 
with frost, but they should be forthwith housed. It is the best way to arrange all plants in their 
winter quarters at once, and it should always be done where circumstances will permit its accom- 
plishment. Let great care be taken that no plants are stowed away which are infected with insects. 
Stove plants generally, and Orchids, have simply to be maintained in that quiescent state into 
which the majority of them will have, by this time, descended. Those in blossom, and such as are 
growing, must be treated according to the requirement of the condition in which they are in. Do 
not lose any proper opportunity of giving abundance of air to the stove and Orchid house that 
contains those plants which are at rest. 
In the flower-garden grounds, and elsewhere, let everything be perseveringly kept clean 
and tidy. 
