454 THE GREEN-HOUSE. [Jdly. 
Many of the cuttings planted in spring will be well rooted by 
this time, and may now be taken up with as much earth as possible 
about their roots, planted separately in suitable sized pots, and 
shaded for eight or ten days from the mid-day sun; always ob- 
serving to keep the earth in the pots moderately moist. The 
geraniums in particular may be taken up when too thick, and 
transplanted at any time after the cuttings have grown four or five 
inches. 
Shifting into larger pots. 
You may now shift such of your plants as require larger pots or 
tubs; this is the best of the summer months for that purpose, as the 
greater number will have made their summer progress, and are 
now rather at a stand previous to the commencement of tbeir new 
autumnal vegetation. i 
The operation of shifting is to be performed in every respect as 
directed in page 362. 
Such plants as are now shifted must be immediately watered 
and removed into the shade, where they can have free air and pro- 
tection from the sun in the heat of the day; there to remain for 
two, three, or four weeks, according to the time the respective 
kinds may take to re-establish themselves, and get into a fresh 
state of growth, when they may be replaced among the general 
collection. 
Loosening and giving fresh earth. 
It will be very proper at this time to examine the pots and tubs 
in general, and where the earth is inclinable to bind let the surface 
be carefully loosened to a little depth, breaking the earth small with 
the hands, and at the same time add thereto, if not done in any of 
the preceding months, some fresh compost; then level the surface 
neatly. 
This dressing will do the plants more good than many people 
might imagine; but in particular to such as are in small pots. 
Gathering and Sowing Seeds. 
Collect all the different sorts of seeds as they ripen, spread them 
upon paper in a dry shady place, and when sufl&ciently hardened, 
let them be carefully preserved in their pods or husks, or in paper 
bags, till the proper season for sowing them. 
The seeds of geraniums, xeranthemums, and of any other quick 
growing kinds of green -house plants, may now be sown, and if 
properly attended to will attain to a neat size before winter. 
