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is, the purchasing of them late in the autumn. 
For early flowering, especially, they should he 
selected this month, if possible, or if not, 
early in the next, and be potted and plunged 
in some cool place, heneath five or six inches 
of coal ashes, old tan, or some such material. 
The object of this is to set them growing at 
the root ; in fact, to have the roots pretty 
fully developed before the leaves are excited, 
the reverse of which happens when they are 
potted, and at once, or nearly so, removed to 
the forcing house. 
Cape Bulbs, as Ixias, Lachenalias, Oxalises, 
&c. may be potted and placed in a cold frame, 
to be removed, subsequently, to the green- 
house ; they will grow in a mixture of half 
loam and half peat, both in a turfy state, 
intermixed with sand. 
Heatii House. — In the general treatment 
of the plants usually kept in this house, we 
cannot do better than recommend a continu- 
ance of the management detailed at p. 291. 
Rather less shading may be employed, though 
it must not be suddenly discontinued ; this 
will, in great measure, be regulated by the 
state of the weather. All the larger plants, 
which have nearly done growing, should be 
exposed during the month to the open air, to 
harden and mature them. Smaller plants 
stand less in need of exposure, and are more 
liable to injury from untoward weather ; they 
are hest kept continually in pits, with plenty 
of ventilation. 
Putting and Drainage. — Where any of the 
plants are required to be grown on as fast as 
possible, and were shifted in the early part of 
the summer, they may again be potted into 
larger pots, in the manner formerly described. 
Let them be thoroughly drained. From time 
to time examine the plants that do not require 
shifting, and see that the drainage is perfect ; 
very much of success depends on this. 
Watering. — During the whole summer it 
is as important to attend to this operation, as 
in winter, only now it is necessary to observe 
that the plants get enough, while in winter 
they must not have too much. Let them now 
be just thoi-oughly moistened — not wetted at 
top while they remain dust-dry helow ; this 
is what kills many plants of this nature. 
Camellia House. — Camellias will now 
have made their growth, and have been placed 
out of doors, as directed at p. 291. Towards 
the end of the month, the plants which were 
forced into bloom at the earliest period last 
year, and which, consequently, were the earliest 
in making their growth, and ripening their 
wood, should be removed into the house again, 
as a stage of preparation for being subse- 
quently submitted to an increased tempera- 
ture for the development of their blossoms. 
If regulated for the Camellias chiefly, the 
house should be kept rather cool, with abun- 
dant ventilation, and moderately moist by 
syringing morning and evening. With such 
regulations, it forms an excellent place for 
nursing on young plants of rare and valuable 
kinds, and also for treating sickly plants of 
green-house habit. 
Budding. — The budding of Camellias, 
Oranges, Lemons, and similar plants, may be 
prosecuted whenever the young wood and buds 
have become firm and mature. The plants 
require to be kept quite close in a propagat- 
ing pit. 
Azaleas. — These will now have completed 
their growth, and every care should be taken 
that they " set" well for bloom, which is secured 
by well ripening the shoots in a cool green- 
house, and then placing them for a short time 
out of doors. These plants will throw off 
their leaves if they are allowed to get dry, or 
submitted to any sudden changes. 
Pelargonium House. — Pelargoniums. — 
In the general routine management of these 
plants, nothing can, with advantage, be added 
to the remarks at p. 291. For the most part 
the plants will be out of bloom, unless, indeed, 
it has been considered desirable to keep up 
an unintermitted display of flower. This is 
hardly worth caring for, as flowers of all 
kinds are numerous enough at this season, 
and Pelargoniums never bloom so well, nor 
last so long, during the hottest part of the 
summer, as they do either earlier or later, or 
when the weather is cloudy and cool, compared 
with our ordinary summer temperature. For 
this reason, if there are plants in bloom, the 
house will be kept well shaded, and as cool as 
possible by full ventilation, added to which, 
the floors, walls, stages, and indeed every 
available surface except the plants, should be 
moistened as often as it can be done, to coun- 
teract the effect of hot dry air on the blossoms, 
for it is no doubt this which makes them fall 
so soon after they have expanded. The plants 
which have been cut down will require to 
have their young shoots thinned early, before 
they get crowded : all the weaker shoots 
should be taken oil", leaving a suflicient num- 
ber, according to the size of the plant, of the 
best placed and strongest shoots, to form a 
close bushy head. When the plants are not 
intended for flowering until next spring, the 
tops of these shoots should be pinched out 
frequently. Eepot the later plants as described 
at p. 292. 
Winter-Jlon-ering Plants. — Those intended 
to come into bloom early in the autumn, should 
not be stopped later than towards the end of 
the month. Up to that time they should be 
kept in pits, the young shoots kept stopped 
back ; thry will, in consequence, be forming 
bushy plants, and will not exhaust themselves 
