THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
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Pill with water as many soda-water or other small bottles as there 
are bunches, and suspend them in a room or cupboard, then cut the 
bundles with a portion of the shoot, and insert tlie end of the 
latter in the bottle. They can be kept in this manner for several 
mouths. 
GAEDEN GUIDE POE NOVEMBEE. 
Peoceed with lifting and storing root crops as fast as the weather 
and the state of the soil will permit. Also clear all quarters of 
stumps of cabbages, cauliflowers, and other exhausted crops and 
manure, and then dig them up, leaving the soil very rough on the 
surface, or throw it up into ridges. It is a very good time to 
prepare the ground for seakale beds. The roots should not be 
planted till the spring. The ground must be deeply trenched and 
liberally manured, and the manure thoroughly incorporated with the 
soil. Begin forcing now by first placing the seakale pots over as 
many stools as are to be started, and fill the spaces between and 
over the pots with a mixture of stable dung that has been once 
turned, with leaves, straw, and other litter, beating it firm as you 
proceed, and leaving the whole smooth and tidy nine inches above 
the top of the pots. Where only small quantities of seakale are 
required, it may be forced very conveniently and cleanly in pots. 
Pot the roots singly in 24-sized pots, in a mixture of leaf-mould, 
rotten dung, and sandy loam, equal parts. Place the pots on the 
top of a brick flue or on a gentle hotbed, the bottom-heat not to 
exceed 60®. Invert over each pot another empty pot, stopping the 
hole of each with a piece of flat tile, over which press a lump of clay. 
About three-fourths of the complaints that reach us of the misbe- 
haviour of fruit trees, and the failure of vegetable crops, and the 
unsatisfactory blooming of roses and many other things, have one 
common origin — the want of drainage. We cannot here enter into 
the details of the subject ; but as this is as good a time as any to 
drain land that requires it, we again remind our readers that good 
drainage promotes the warmth and fertility of the soil ; and, on the 
other hand, a water-logged soil is almost poisonous to every kind of 
plants that come under the care of gardeners. 
Eeijit Gaedeit. — Currants and gooseberries should now be 
lifted if required, as the next year’s crop will be less jeopardized by 
getting them early to the places in which they are to fruit. Pork 
in a good dressing of manure between the trees in old plantations. 
Put in cuttings of choice sorts ; the cuttings to be straight ripe 
shoots of this year, and all the lower buds removed, so as to prevent 
the throwing up of suckers. Pruit trees to be planted as soon as 
possible ; manure not to be used unless the ground is in a poor con- 
dition, and then a little fresh soil should be used with it if possible. 
In planting, keep all roots near the surface. Stake as soon as 
planted, to prevent rocking by the wind, and at the same time prune. 
Easpberries to have the old canes cut away, the new canes thinned 
November. 
