THE FLORAL WORLD AND GAEDEN GUIDE. 
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V. nes, if you wish for young plants, may be layered ; that is, any healthy 
branch which can be spared, cut a slit in it between two eyes three inches long, 
bend the part under ground, and with a strong hooked stick peg it fast, and 
then drive a stick in to fasten the upper part of it ; it will strike root by 
October. 
Veemin. — Examine all fruit trees and bushes, and clear them of vermin. 
Seakale. — Sow the seeds in a small bed, and cover an inch in depth. 
Refresh with water when it gets too dry. 
Rhubarb. — If you raise this from seed, now is the time to sow it in good 
rich soil. 
Radishes. — Continue to sow. 
Potatoes. — Plant more potatoes for a fuller crop than the last : middling 
potatoes whole are far better for the cottage than cut sets of larger ones. It is 
a fallacy to conclude that the largest potatoes have the largest eyes ; there is no 
fallacy in preferring a whole potato to a cut Eet ; if they do not go quite so far 
as the usual distance of sets, you have only to plant them wider apart and get a 
heavier crop to each : we have seen a better crop of potatoes from chats thrown 
by for pigs, than from many of the most highly cultivated grounds when cut 
sets were used. Plant as directed last month. If you are obliged to use large 
potatoes, cut each piece with one or two good eyes to it. Cut sets may be 
planted nine inches apart ; whole potatoes, though smaller, should have a foot 
distance between each other. 
Savoys, Beocoli, and ScoTcn Kale or Greens, should be sown this month, 
about the middle, if the weather suit. Make up a bed and sow a good patch 
of each, according to your w f auts. Let the bed be well dug and dressed for 
them. 
Herbs of all descriptions should be slipped or parted, and planted to make 
fresh beds where necessary. 
Peas should still be sown once a month, or even twice, according to the 
consumption. 
Onions. — Sow the main crop. Let the ground be well dunged and dug, and 
sow as before. 
Lettuce. — Sow more lettuce. Indeed these as well as peas should be sown 
in smaller quantities and continued every month, so long as the supply is 
required. 
Beans, also, if required, should be sown again, as soon as the last sowing 
has got the second pair of leaves open. Sow them in rows to bloom where they 
come up. Let the rows be two feet apart. Earth up those which are growing 
fast. 
Celery. — Sow a piece of the size of a large handglass or of two glasses for the 
main crop, and use the glass to protect them. 
Small Salad may be sown as required. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Cinerarias.- — B.D., Salisbury. — Should you desire to grow on your Cinerarias 
for a second season treat them in the following manner. After flowering, the old 
steins should be cut away, and the stools shifted back into small pots, using a 
sandy soil and keeping the plants in a very cool shaded place through the 
summer, preserving through the winter in the same manner as you would 
seedlings, and repotting them in larger pots about the middle of February, using 
a soil composed of loam, leaf-mould, and well- rotted manure. The offsets may be 
removed. 
Dahlia Imperialis. — B.B., Salisbury . — Dahlia Imperialis requires a good 
loamy soil, and while in full growth must have abundance of moisture. If 
properly treated it blooms well out of doors and should equally succeed in a cool 
April. 
