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OPERATIONS IN FEBRUARY. 
Annuals (Tender) may be sown about the end, in pots filled with a mixture of 
two-thirds light rich loam and one-third leaf mould. Cover the seeds very lightly, 
and plunge the pots into a hot-bed. In watering, either do it with a very fine rose 
watering pot, or with a syringe. 
Auriculas about the middle of the month should be top-dressed with a mixture 
of one-half good new turfy loam ; one fourth vegetable mould, either made from 
leaves or gathered from the interior of a hollow tree ; one-fourth well rotted horse 
dung; a portion of river sand, to keep it open ; and a handful or two of bone dust. 
Take olf about two inches of the soil from the top previous to adding the new. 
Begin also to water with liquid manure about once or twice a week. 
Dahlias. A few of the old roots should be now plunged in tan, to excite 
them to grow. The seeds should also be sown in pans or feeders, and placed in a 
hot-bed till up. 
Polyanthuses should be top-dressed in the same manner as Auriculas ; but 
the soil need not be so rich. Also sow the seed in the same manner. 
Pinks, Carnations, and Hyacinths, if taken into the forcing houses, will 
come early into flower. All plants of this kind, as well as roses, lilacs, &c. &c., 
will, during forcing, require a little water sprinkling over their leaves about three 
times a week. This is best done by means of a syringe ; and none, perhaps, will 
answer the purpose better than Siebe’s. 
It consists of only one apparatus, which can instantly, by turning a pin, be applied 
so as to serve the purpose of four different caps. By means of an universal joint (a) 
the cap or head (h) may be turned in any direction and to any angle (c). The pin, 
by which the alterations in the rose head are effected, works in a groove (d) in the 
face of the rose ; and by it a very fine shower, a coarse shower, or a single jet, from 
one opening (e) may be effected at pleasure. The valve (y), by which the water is 
admitted to the syringe, is in the side of the rose. Reid’s is also a very excellent 
syringe ; but if the cultivator possesses neither, a watering pot with a very fine rose 
may be used for the purpose. 
Rose Trees in pots, now brought into the forcing house, will flower about the 
beginning of May. These plants, when forced, are very often much troubled with 
the aphis. If only one or two plants are infested, a sprinkling of tobacco water 
