300 ROOMS — GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. [September. 
SEPTEMBER. 
Where there is a quantity of plants to be kept in these 
apartments, they should be disposed of to the best effect, and, 
at the same time, in such a manner as will be most effectual 
to their preservation. A stage of some description is better 
than a table, and, of whatever shape or form, it ought to be 
on castors, that it may, in severe nights of frost, be drawn to 
the centre of the room. The shape may be either concave, 
a half circle, or one square side. The bottom step or table 
should be six inches wide and five inches deep, keeping each 
successive step one inch farther apart, to the desired height, 
which may be about six feet. Allowing the first step to be 
about two feet from the floor, there will be five or six steps, 
which will hold about fifty pots of a common size. A stage 
in the form of half a circle will hold more, look the hand- 
somest, and be most convenient. We have seen them circular, 
and, when filled, appeared like a pyramid. These do very 
well, but they must be turned every day, or the plants will 
not grow regularly. With this attention, it is decidedly the 
best. Green is the most suitable colour to paint them. 
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. 
The directions given for the green-house this month are 
equally applicable here. The late blooming Chrysanthe- 
mums are particularly adapted for rooms, the colours are so 
varied : and many of them are .dwarf-growing, and even neat 
in their habit, especially the new hybrid sorts. 
OCTOBER. 
Have a stage or stages, as described last month, in the 
situations where they are intended to remain all winter ; 
place the plants on them from the first to the eighth of this 
