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nature have to be completed or begun, which render it necessary they should earlily and earnestly 
be set about, and where energy should be the ruling principle of action, for reasons that must be 
obvious to every one ; but, as those cases just alluded to are the exception, and the kind of 
improvements under consideration the rule, we will return to the object in directing attention to 
them, which is that their result and probable effect may now be examined and studied, and their 
nature and extent decided upon accordingly. It is a peculiarly fitting time for attending to what we 
write of, because in the introduction of a new feature, or the removal of an old one, whether in the 
flower garden, the general grounds, or the landscape, at no period are more of those features 
present with which such alterations have to combine and harmonise than now ; hence, at once, a 
very cogent reason for attending to these hints. 
In the parterre, we should embrace an opportunity of observing whether the present arrange- 
ment and combination of colours is capable of improvement ; whether the habit of this plant, the 
colour of the flowers of that, &c, afford satisfaction ; taking notes for our future guidance, and 
propagating a particular kind, or kinds, accordingly. 
The main propagation of those plants, extensively treated of in our last number should not now 
require attending to ; where, from neglect or unavoidable causes, delay has overtaken it, all 
absence of further trifling must make amends. Continue to pot off, where it is the practice to pot 
them in the autumn, cuttings, as they become sufficiently rooted, and have recourse to all means 
which tend to hasten their becoming well established and hardened. After the middle of the 
month it is most advisable this kind of potting should be completed ; if it is not, it were better to 
allow the cuttings to winter in the pots, &c, in which they have been struck. The harvesting of 
seeds must still have necessary attention ; and also the increase of the more valuable and delicate 
hardy shrubs, as their annual growth becomes matured, and fit for propapation by cuttings or 
layering. 
Such plants as experience has shown can be profitably lifted from the flower-garden to use 
another season, either because they can be preserved more conveniently, or from their flowering 
more profusely, should be guarded from chance of severe injury by frost, lifting them before the 
last consequence can ensue, as also before they are rendered very rank and succulent (and conse- 
quently much more difficult to preserve) by the moisture and rains that usually prevail late in 
autumn. 
It is a frequent practice, and should be an invariable one, to plant in the open ground, in spring, 
many tender plants, which flourish and become beautifully ornamental through the latter part of 
summer and autumn; whether such have been turned out byway of experiment, whether with a view 
to create effect, or, it may be, because they have become too large to be longer conveniently accom- 
modated, if timely and carefully lifted, and afterwards judiciously managed, they would help to 
relieve the dulness of the autumn months, in doors, by continuing to bloom. All their roots should 
be carefully preserved, and shade and a little heat afforded them, to recover the check they may 
experience in removing. Where it is not cared to deal with them thus, for the purpose in question, 
it is desirable to have them safely under protection as soon as convenient, to get them in a fit 
state to stow away in almost any place through the winter. Many such plants are more orna- 
mental when planted out a second season than they are the first, from the healthy check removal 
is the cause of, rendering them more inflorescent, Any stove or greenhouse plants plunged in 
their pots in the open air, for the purpose of inducing them to bloom, will require soon again taking 
under shelter ; if it is found their roots have escaped through the pots, it may be worth while to 
put the plant, pot and all, breaking the bottom out, into one of larger size ; under such circum- 
stances it would still be favourably situated for continuing in, or being thrown into flower. Exclu- 
sive of the plants considered in the foregoing remarks, there may be some, very handsome, of a 
more common description, that are equally worthy of being similarly treated, for the same 
purposes. Liquid manure will be found a valuable agent in assisting to restore the energy plants, 
under the foregoing circumstances, in some measure unavoidably lose. 
Out of doors it should be the aim to prolong in the greatest perfection the floral season. 
There may, of course, influences prevail, over which no human control can be exercised, but, even 
when these interfere, much may be done in furtherance of our purpose. It must not be thought 
too much labour to have at command instruments of protection against early frosts, and in some 
instances heavy and much rain, to be employed in the case of particular masses of and individual 
