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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
removed when rearrangement is required, and this, when occasionally 
repeated, gives an air of freshness to the whole house, for one tires 
of seeing the same plant continually under the same circumstances 
and associations. There is a large plant growing herein an inverted 
seakale pot, and plunged to the rim in the conservatory border, 
which measures twelve feet in height, and seven feet through, and 
is at this moment, and has been for these last two months, profusely 
covered with its spikes of brilliant yellow blossoms; and there are 
many others, plants of not more than from two to three feet in 
height, which blend their flowers with those of cinerarias, hyacinths, 
and such like, down to the floor of the house. 
It is rather subject to the attacks of red spider, and requires, in 
consequence, a somewhat free use of the syringe when out of flower, 
and an occasional drenching with soapsuds, which here are a never 
failing remedy against the attacks of these troublesome insects ; care 
is however taken to ascertain that this material is not too dirty, or 
overcharged with potash or other deleterious ingredient, or the plants 
would have a dirty appearance for some considerable time. 
REMINDERS FOR GARDEN WORK IN MAT. 
INKS should have all the stems but one removed, and all the buds but 
two or three at the most taken from that single stem that is left. Top 
dress the beds with rotten cow-dung, stir the earth first between them, 
and water if the weather prove dry. 
Plants kept in the dwelling-house or in pits may be planted out 
in the ground by the middle of the month ; fuchsias, geraniums, verbenas, petu- 
nias, and other clump and border plants. 
Dahlias may be planted out by the 15th, both those from cuttings and those 
from parting the roots, also old roors that have not been parted or propagated. 
Dahlias in plantation by themselves should be six feet apart every way, and have 
their stakes driven down before they are planted, that they may be tied up at once 
to protect them from wind. Lay all sorts of traps for earwigs directly, and hunt 
them industry nsly. 
Cuttings of all kinds may be taken from biennials, perennials, and most 
plants, and struck under a hand-glass. 
Pansies must be top dressed, and the litter taken away ; water must be dis- 
pensed liberally in hot weather, and the hottest sun kept off; cuttings may be 
struck in the shade under a glass, side shoots are best for this. 
Auriculas, as they decline i heir bloom, should be placed on a hard ground 
where they may have all the wet and air ; and if the seed be not wanted, pick off 
the vessels, but do not cut down the stem. 
Annuals that have been raised in heat may he planted out in beds or borders, 
when they are to flower or be potted off, particularly balsams and cockscombs for 
blooming in pots. 
Wall Fruit Trees must be looked over, and their useless shoots removed, 
all those that grow out straight trom the wall and those which are in each others 
way. The shoots which are retained should be trained in a right direction; and 
when any shoot is too vigorous (or the rest of the tree, it is better to cut it away. 
Thm the fruit as soon as it is large enough. 
