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if not done in September, and placed in the shade for about three 
weeks, then removed to a warm aspect there to remain till it is 
found necessary to house, or place them in a frame. 
Planting Bulbous roots in pots and glasses for flowering early. 
In the beginning of this month, you should plant some of the 
earliest kinds of tulips, hyacinths, polyanthus narcissus, &c. 
in pots of light, rich, sandy earh, one, two, or three roots in each, 
and of different colours, in order to force them into an early 
bloom in winter. If the pots are large, the roots may be covered 
one inch above their crowns, but if small the bare covering of the 
crowns will be sufficient, in order to give the fibres the more room 
to extend themselves. 
Ranunculuses, anemones, crocuses, snowdrops, dwarf Persian 
Irises, and any other early blooming kinds, may be planted in pots 
for the same purpose, covering them generally about an inch deep 
over their crowns. 
When the roots are planted, the pots are to be sunk to their 
rims in a good stout garden-frame, on a bed of very light, sandy 
earth, elevated above the common level of the ground, where they 
are to be kept gently moist and no more; but they must be care- 
fully protected from heavy torrents of rain, which would tend 
greatly to rot or weaken the bulbs. The glasses are to be kept 
off, except in rainy weather till the approach of frost, after which 
the bed must be defended therefrom, as directed in the following 
months. 
In this month you should put the bulbs of tulips, hyacinths, 
jonquils, narcissuses, Sec. in bulb-glasses filled with water, to 
flower in rooms early in spring: the glasses should be then placed 
where they may have as much free air as possible, while the weather 
continues mild; if they are placed near the windows of a Green- 
House, where they may have free air in favourable Aveather, and 
be protected from cold and frost, they will produce fine, strong flow- 
ers, and at a very acceptable season. 
The water should be changed as often as it turns greenish, and 
the glasses well washed inside. Particular care must be taken not 
to suffer the water to be frozen in winter, which would not only 
injure the roots, but burst the glasses. 
Potting Roses, Sfc.for Forcing. 
Pot roses, honey suckles, double flowering almonds, peaches, 
cherries, and thorns, and any other desirable shrubs, whether ever- 
green or deciduous, either for the convenience of affording them 
protection in winter, decorating any compartments in spring or 
summer, or for placing some of them in the forcing departments 
in December, or January, to force an early blooni. This must be 
done with care, not injuring the roots, and taking up as much earth 
with them as possible. When potted place them in the shade for ten 
or twelve days after, or until you find it necessary to house, or other- 
wise protect them. 
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