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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
hardly know the names of these delicacies, rear, on the simplest 
food, a considerable number of the healthiest, cleverest, and strong- 
est canaries. 
We must, however, be guided in a great measure by the consti- 
tution of the birds. They should be daily supplied with fresh water, 
as well for drinking as bathing, in which they delight. In the 
moulting season, a nail or bit of iron should be put into the water, 
in order to strengthen the stomach. Saffron and liquorice are in 
this case more hurtful than useful. Grains of the sand with which 
the bottom of the cage is strewed, afford the birds a help to 
digestion. 
REMINDERS FOR GARDEN WORK IN MARCH. 
a ' jllRYSANTHElIUMS should he parted and planted out in beds or 
borders, that they may be got into a growing state before the season 
I for striking their tops, or be flowered as they stand. 
1 Auriculas will begin to grow fast, and unless you are particularly 
in want of increase, you will strengthen the bloom by taking off the 
side-shoots small ; they greatly retard the main bloom if permitted to grow on 
the plant; they may have the benefit of warm showers occasionally, if there be 
such during the month, but they must be shut up and housed at night. 
Carnations, Picotees. Pinks, Pansies, Hyacinths, Tulips, and bulbs in 
general, must have the treatment already recommended continued through the 
present month. Hardy Annuals may be sown in the borders. 
Dahlias. — Take off cuttings from those already in heat, cut them close up to 
a joint or under side of a leaf ; put one cutting each into the smallest No. 60 
pots, and place them into the hot-bed to strike. 
Graeting.— The middle of this month is a good time to begin grafting, and 
as it is easy to get a piece of any good pear, apple, plum, cherry, peach, apricot, 
nectarine, or other fruit, you may cut down any other less valuable tree of the 
kind. All you have to do is to cut both the stock and the graft to fit each other, 
tie them well to secure them, and put clay or grafting was over them to keep the 
air out. The wax is made with resin and bees’-wax, equal parts, and a little 
common tallow to soften it. It should be hard when cold, and melt at a low 
temperature ; it should be laid on with a brush. The best methods of grafting 
were described in the February Number. 
Wall Fruit. — We have no faith in protecting ordinary wall fruit trees in 
bloom, but for those who have, now is the time trees require it most. 
Clearing the ground among all sorts of crops and young trees is a necessary 
duty at this time. 
Sow a few Early Turnips in a warm sheltered situation, and if there be any 
continuance of drv weather, they must be watered. 
Potatoes. — Plant a few potatoes, whole sets of moderate size and early kinds. 
If you have any well-rotted dung, dig trenches eight inches deep, two feet apart, 
put dung three or four inches thick in the trenches, and the potatoes upon them, 
draw down earth upon them to cover them well three inches. These are for an 
early crop. 
Beans. — Plant out from the seed-beds in rows two feet apart, and the plants 
about four inches apart in the rows. 
Radishes. — Continue to sow a few, if they are required to succeed those sown 
last month. 
Horse-Radish. — Cut horse-radish into pieces an inch long, trench the ground 
fifteen inches deep, place these cuttings in the trenches as you make them, six 
inches apart, and cover up with the soil which you take out of the next trench. 
It is a vu'gar notion that you are obliged to plant crowns ; any inch all the way 
