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their growth. But if the potting of them were omitted, it should be 
done in the beginning of this month; selecting for that purpose the 
largest and best plants, and carefully removing them with good balls 
of earth round their roots. 
Protecting Seedling Bulbs. 
You should now plunge the pots or boxes in which you sowed the 
seeds of bulbous-rooted flowering plants, and also those containing 
the one or two year old seedling bulbs, up to their rims, or edges, 
in a raised bank of light, dry earth, or you may set them on the 
bank, and fill the spaces between them with tanner's bark, or leaves 
of trees, well crammed in: then on the approach of severe frosts, 
cover them all over with dry straw, or peas-haulm, which is to 
be taken off occasionally in mild dry weather and aired, in order to 
prevent its getting mouldy, and communicating the disorder to the 
seeds or roots. 
Stock -gillyflowers and Wallflowers. 
Your double stock-gillyflowers and wallflowers, in pots, should 
now be either taken into the green-house, or warm, close rooms, or 
plunged to their rims in a dry, warm exposure, surrounded with a 
deep garden frame, where they may be protected during win- 
ter. These plants being tolerably hardy, will keep well by a 
very slight protection of boards and mats, or boards covered with 
straw, or other litter, when the frost is severe: they will seldom be 
injured before February, but a warm sun about the end of that 
month, if suffered to shine on them whilst the leaves or stems are in 
a frozen state, would totally destroy them. 
It would be of additional advantage to lay three or four inches 
of old tanner's bark over the surface of the pots, the better to pre- 
serve the roots from the frost. The plants must be aired occasion- 
ally in mild weather, for if kept too closely covered, they would be- 
come blanched, weak, and tender, and lose that robust growth so 
necessary to a good bloom of flowers. 
Planting Bulbous roots in Pots and Glasses. 
You may continue to plant the various kinds of early flowering 
bulbs in pots, as directed in page 542, but the earlier in the month 
that this is done, the sooner you may expect them to flower. The 
pots are then to be placed either in a warm room, where there is 
plenty of light, or in garden-frames, and treated as directed last 
month. Some of them may be immediately placed in the hof-house, 
or in a forcing frame, to be forced into an early bloom for the deco- 
ration of rooms, windows, Sec. and others placed in the green-house 
for a succession. 
The early part of this month is still a very proper time to set the 
bulbs of early tulips, hyacinths, polyanthus-narcissus, jonquils, dwarf 
Persian iris, &c. in bulb-glasses filled with water, which should 
