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calceolarias. Take off the young shoots from near the bottom of 
the stool, and put them pretty close together in five-inch pots, well 
drained, and filled up to near the rim witli a mixture of peat, loam, 
and sand, equal parts, and half an inch of pure sand on the surface. 
China roses may also be struck now in pots in the greenhouse, and 
they do safest under hand-glasses. A second bloom, to last till 
Christmas, may be obtained from fuchsias, by cutting in the young 
wood, and giving the plants a little heat to start them afresh. Gera- 
niums struck early in the summer, will now be coming into bloom, 
to keep the greenhouse gay all the winter. 
GfiEEurnousE. — If any subjects requiring to be repotted have 
been neglected, there must be no time lost to give them a shift to 
enable them to make new roots before winter sets in. A border 
under a south wall is a good place for plants that require to be well 
roasted before being housed. Bedding plants should be got into 
small pots as fast as they make good roots in the borders, or can be 
spared from the decorative grounds, if worth keeping. Petunias, 
verbenas, and tropmolums come so readily from spring cuttings, and 
make as good plants as from autumn cuttings, that it is waste of 
glass to keep any large stock of cuttings through the winter. Keep 
the houses gay with balsams, cockscombs, fuchsias, liliums, gladioli, 
coleus, amaranthus bicolor, heliotropes, and plants with fine foliage. 
Wherever worm-casts are seen in pots, turn out the balls, and the 
worms can then be picked out with a stick. Sometimes a dose of 
manure-water will cause the worms to struggle up to the surface. 
Plants in conservatory borders, which are now past their best, to be 
taken up, and, if worth keeping, pot them, and place on bottom- 
heat for eight or ten days, as they will winter better if the pots are 
full of roots. Winter-flowering begonias to have a good shift in a 
compost of turfy loam and leaf-mould. Pot ofi' a lot of bulbs at 
once for early bloom, and plunge them in coal-ashes, and give very 
little water. Keep all houses open as much as will be safe ; house 
tender subjects that are likely to sufi’er from wind and rain. Pot a 
few bulbs for early bloom. Ornithogalum, Ixia, and Sparaxis force 
well, and Narcissus bulbocodium will be useful if kept in ordinary 
greenhouse temperature for early bloom. 
Stove. — Kemove shading as much as will be safe, and place 
subjects that are going to rest in the coolest part of the house. 
See that all the winter-flowering plants are sufficiently potted, and 
any that are pot-bound and must not be checked by a shift, mulch 
with sheep’s dung, or assist by means of liquid manure. Plants 
with ornamental foliage will be useful now that flowers are scarce. 
In giving water, take care to avoid a chill, and in every case see 
that the drainage is perfect, as there is time now to repair any small 
mischief before winter. As the month advances, let the heat of the 
house decline, and generally use as little fire-heat as possible, espe- 
cially where the stock consists chiefly of plants that will be at rest 
all winter. Great care, however, must be taken that soft-leaved 
plants do not get afl'ected with mildew. A few trop^eolums struck 
now will be useful in the stove for winter blooms. 
