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to three or fonr of the strongest to each stool, and a good mulch of 
half-rotten dung laid down over their roots. 
Fetjit House. — Peaches in the forcing-house to he pruned at 
once ; the roots top-dressed ; the branches washed with a paste of 
clay, lime, and sulphur, and the lights put on. But give plenty of 
air. Vacancies may now be filled up in the peach-house, and 
nothing better for the purpose than bearing trees. 
Plowee Garbee. — Boses planted now, though with leaves still 
on them, will begin to make fresh roots at once. In any case make 
the ground ready by manuring liberally where roses are to be 
planted. Briers worked this season may be lifted now, but they 
should never have a place in the rosery till they have made at least 
one full season’s growth from the first starting of the buds. Plant 
firm, and stake at once. Slugs and snails are now very active 
during mild weather, preparing perhaps to make a good fill before 
hybernating for the winter. It happens that most people have time 
now to trap them, which they generally say they have not at other 
seasons. Brewers’ grains or buttered cabbage leaves are the best 
traps known for these destructive vermin. They will leave any 
other food for these attractive baits, and may be trapped wholesale 
by inverting large flower-pots tilted off the ground by means of a 
few sticks over heaps of fresh brewers’ grains. Tulip beds now to 
have the hoops placed over to be ready for mats or other covering 
in case of heavy rains. But the bed should be freely exposed for 
the present ; there is nothing gained by covering too soon. 
Greekhouse. — Camellias dropping their buds are the subject 
of frequent complaint. We have frequently advised the use of 
liberal waterings after the buds are set and the wood as hard as 
necessary, and we can only repeat that in the majority of cases the 
buds drop because the roots are dry. But watering ou the ordinary 
plan is not always a remedy, for while the plants were out of doors 
in the summer the soil about the roots may have got hard and 
impervious to water, and now when water is given it all runs away 
next the side of the pot without moistening the roots at all. The 
remedy is easy enough. Fill a tub with soft water ; then lower the 
plants into it a few at a time, and let them soak for an hour. The 
rush of air bubbles from the pots will prove what a dry state the 
roots had come to. After this soaking they will take water kindly. 
At every opportunity pass the whole of the plants through a careful 
hand, whose duty it will be to remove dead leaves, trim away dead 
snags or mildewed shoots, give water if needful. Use tepid 
water to all plants in a growing state, and as little as possible to 
everything, so as to avoid as much as can be the use of fire-heat. 
Spring flowers to be thought of now, so as to secure a proper suc- 
cession of Cyclamen, Primula, Cineraria, and a few potted Pansies. 
The chief point in managing these things is to keep tiiem as near 
the glass as possible. Give water very carefully, to guard against 
damp at the collar, and let them have as much air as possible con- 
sistent with their forwardness and the state of the weather. Those 
to be pushed on for a first supply keep in warm greenhouse tempera- 
ture, and constantly look out for fly which will revel amongst them 
