428 THE HOT-HOUSE. [June 
Transplanting Seedling Exotics. 
You should now transplant, separately, into small pots, any ad- 
vanced young seedling exotics, which were raised this year from 
seed; giving them shade and occasional waterings, till newly 
rooted. 
Budding. 
Any time this month you may bud oranges, lemons, citrons and 
shaddocks; the buds are to be taken, not from the shoots made 
this season, as they are not yet sufficiently ripe, but from those pro- 
duced last autumn, which will now take freely, and produce hand- 
some shoots in the present year. 
In about three weeks or a month, the buds will be taken, when 
you are to untie the bandages, and soon after, head down the stocks 
of such as are plump, fresh, and well united, to within four inches 
of the buds, cutting off all side branches and suffering no other 
buds to grow but the inserted ones: as the shoots advance tie 
them to the spurs left for that purpose, to prevent their being bro- 
ken off by winds, or displaced by any other accidents. 
Budding, however, should not at this time be generally practised; 
for the buds now inserted will start in a few weeks, and the shoots 
produced thereby, will not be as ripe, nor, consequently, in as good 
condition to stand the winter, as those produced in the early part of 
the season, from the buds inserted in August. For the method of 
budding, see the Nursery in July. 
Cape and other Green-House Bulbs. 
The green-house bulbs, and tuberous-rooted plants, natives of the 
Cape of Good Hope, Sec. whose leaves are now decayed, such as 
Gladioluses, Ixias, Watsonias, Antholizas, Ornithogalums, Moreas, 
&c. may be taken up and immediately transplanted, or they may be 
kept up till September, and if carefully wrapped in dry moss, it will 
tend greatly to their preservation; but there are some kinds which 
will require to be planted into pots of fresh earth immediately, such 
as Cyclamens, Sec. and all the autumnal flowering bulbs, such as 
the Guernsey and Belladonna Amaryllises, must not be kept longer 
out of the ground than the end of next month, as that would greatly 
weaken their bloom. 
THE HOT-HOUSE. 
The more tender kinds of exotics, which could not, with 
safety, be brought out into the open air the latter end of last month, 
should now be placed where intended to remain during summer. 
