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THE GREEN-HOUSE. 
Winter Plants. — Every attention should be 
given to the plants intended for blooming 
through the winter, to get them well grown 
and prepared before the season is too far ad- 
vanced ; they may be grown best for the 
summer in cool pits : on no account allow 
them to waste their energies in producing 
flowers now. Heliotropes are among the 
greatest favourites for this purpose, on account 
of their odour. Thunbergias, Fuchsias, shrubby 
Calceolarias, scarlet Geraniums, Salvias, Coro- 
nillas, &c, are some of those which are suited 
for this purpose. 
Tetranema mexicana, is a pretty little 
plant for autumn-flowering; they should be 
prepared now, by potting the strong plants, 
into five-inch pots, in soil composed of three- 
parts sandy peat, mixed with loam, and may be 
kept, during the summer, in a light, airy place, 
in the green-house. 
Cyclamens. — Young seedling plants, or, 
indeed, any others, will be benefited by being 
planted out in a sheltered place, in a bed of 
peat earth, and loam ; they may be taken 
up in September, and potted for flowering 
through the winter and spring. 
Removing the Plants. — The whole of the 
plants should be set out of doors during this 
month, in appropriate situations ; that is, the 
tenderest in a sheltered place, and the hardier 
ones anywhere that may be convenient. Suc- 
culents, small plants, and plants impatient of 
wet, must be sheltered from heavy rains. 
Soils. — Now is a good time, when the 
weather is dry, to get in a supply of soils for 
potting, especially the two standard ingredients 
in compost — loam and peat-earth. The top 
spit should be taken with the turf on, with 
three or four inches thick of soil ; and this 
should be taken, while dry, to the compost- 
yard, and stacked up closely, the turfy side 
being undermost. When the soil is required 
for use, the heap should be chopped down 
evenly ; it should not be sifted, but chopped, 
or broken fine. Other materials, such as 
leaf-earth, manure, &c. should be placed in 
compact heaps when dry, on ground suffici- 
ently high to prevent rain-water from running 
under them. 
Heath -House. — Temperature, fyc. — 
During this month and the next, the directions 
given at p. 209, may be followed, as regards 
the temperature and ventilation of the house. 
The; plants want more attention than ever paid 
to watering them, as, if they are allowed to 
get dry, they will droop, and it is probable 
that they will not recover. Many a fine plant 
is lost for want of water ; and, as too much is 
injurious, it is important to pay very strict 
attention to having them properly supplied. 
The contrivance mentioned at p. 229, for ex- 
amining the roots of plants in pots, will be 
very useful to those who are not familiar with 
these matters. 
Ericas. — The hardiest varieties, which have 
been for some time in the pits and frames, or 
under teroporarj' shelter, may now be set oui 
of doors for two or three months, in a situ- 
ation where they will be exposed to free air, 
but protected from rough winds. It is best to 
set them on the north side of some low shade, 
that will break the sun from their pots, but 
not obstruct it from reaching the plants. This 
is necessary from the very fine nature of the 
roots, which soon become injured when the 
sun acts directly on the sides of the pots : to 
avoid this, a plan is sometimes adopted — and 
it is a very neat and successful one — of setting 
the pots among a layer of moss, thick enough 
to reach as high as the pots ; and this, being 
kept damp, will always preserve the roots from 
the injury referred to. Potting may still be 
prosecuted with any plants, large or small, 
that require it: do it very carefully, and be 
| sure not to omit thorough drainage, nor to 
! forget to use the soil quite in a rough open 
1 condition ; if it is sifted at all, pass it through 
the sieve, so as to separate and reject the finer 
particles, rather than to use them either en- 
tirely or principally. To keep the plants of 
neat form, as they ought to be, the. stopping 
of the free-growing vigorous shoots before 
they are grown too long is quite indispensable 
throughout the season of growth. The plants 
that are kept in the house must be shaded in 
clear bright weather ; they do better in low cool 
pits, made on the principle of that given at 
p. 4. Manure water may be given to the 
plants occasionally — say once a week ; use it 
in a clear state, and considerably diluted. 
Nem Holland, Cape, and other hard- 
wooded plants, kept in company with the. 
Heaths, require precisely similar treatment ; 
when the weather becomes very hot, all these 
fine-rooted plants do better when placed in 
cool airy pits. 
Camellia-House. — Camellias. — The at- 
mosphere of this house must still be kept in a 
growing condition, for the benefit of the late 
plants, which require to have the treatment 
already detailed, closely followed up with them 
as they advance in growth. The earlier plants, 
and all that are so far advanced as to have made 
their growth, (which is to be observed by the 
young shoots ceasing to elongate, and becoming 
gradually firmer and more durable in their 
texture,) and formed their flower buds, must 
be then removed to a cooler and more airy 
house, in order to arrest their development, 
and divert the energies of the plant more 
towards maturing the parts already formed, 
than to the formation of new parts. All 
through these stages of growth, liquid manure, 
clear and diluted, may be given them every 
