276 green-house — stocks, etc. [September. 
If there have been any plants in the house during summer, 
be sure after this cleansing that they are clean also, before 
they are returned to their respective situations. 
OP WATERING. 
The intensity of the heat being over for the season, the 
heavy dews during night will prevent so much absorption 
among the plants. They will, in general, especially by the 
end of the month, require limited supplies of water compa- 
ratively to their wants in the summer months. Be careful 
among the Geraniums that were repotted in August, not to 
water them until the new soil about their roots is becoming 
dry. Syringing in this month may be suspended in time of 
heavy dews, but in dry nights resort to it again. 
The herbaceous plants and those of a succulent nature 
must be sparingly supplied. The large trees that were put 
in new earth will require a supply only once a week, but in 
such quantity as will go to the bottom of the tubs. 
PREPARING FOR TAKING IN THE PLANTS. 
About the end of the month, all the plants should be exa- 
mined and cleaned in like manner as directed for those of the 
hot-house, last month, which see. From the first to the eighth 
of October is the most proper time to take them into the 
green-house, except those of a half-hardy nature, which may 
stand out until the appearance of frost. Always endeavour 
to have Geranium plants short and bushy, for they are 
unsightly otherwise, except where a very few large specimens 
are desired for show. All Myrtles and Oleanders that were 
headed down, if the young shoots are too crowded, continue 
to thin them out, and give regular turnings, that all the heads 
may grow regularly. 
STOCKS AND WALL-FLOWERS, 
That are wanted to flower in the green-house (where they 
do remarkably well), and are in the ground, have them care- 
