'A STROLL THROUGH THE GARDEN NOVEMBER. 
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to preserve, but where you have abundance, 
let the main ornamental places be undisturbed, 
for it not unfrequently happens that no frost 
of importance interferes with the garden till 
after Christmas. 
October. — If the seed sown in the begin- 
ning of September has germinated, and is 
large enough to prick out, let them be placed 
in pots an inch apart ; if not large enough, let 
them go over till next month, but the younger 
they are pricked out the better, if they can be 
handled well. Look well to the cuttings 
under glasses ; whether in the greenhouse or a 
slight hotbed, the glasses should be wiped, 
and great care must be taken that they do not 
want water, as a short time of drought would 
settle them past striking ; in other respects 
continue last month's management. 
November.— Prick out seedlings to remain 
in the greenhouse through the winter ; pot off 
cuttings that are struck, and place them in the 
frames, pits, or greenhouses. Look well to 
the potted-up plants that have been in the 
open ground, and see that they have water ; 
pot up any that are not spoiled, and that may 
be wanted. If the cuttings are wanted put 
them in to strike. 
December. — Protect from frost at night, 
give air if mild weather, cease watering ex- 
cept when necessary ; do everything that has 
been left undone, and attend well to the grow- 
ing seedlings ; too much damp would injure 
them more than they would suffer if kept dry; 
continue potting off struck cuttings, and 
pricking out seedlings that are not already 
out, as they get large enough, and keep the 
frames and greenhouse free from damp, weeds, 
and dead leaves. 
A STROLL THROUGH THE GARDEN, 
BY A TUTOR AND HIS PUPIL, IN THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER. 
The Tulip bed is the first object we shall 
visit this time, because I know the gardener 
plants the best collection to-day. Observe, 
he has fiUed the bed some days, and is now 
taking off enough of the top to make the soil 
level with the edge, which has been lowered 
by removing three inches of the boarding, 
made on purpose to take off and put on again. 
With a wooden frame which hooks over on 
both sides of the board, and with seven pegs 
in the top, one man on each side draws it 
along, and thus makes seven very shallow 
groves or drills ; besides which, the trifling 
inequalities of the surface are completely 
regulated. With a straight piece of wood, 
that is in length just less than the width of 
the bed, they now make cross marks six 
inches apart — which distance they find 
marked on the edge-board — by pressing the 
straight rod a little into the soil, all the way 
down, so that they mark the bed in cross 
lines ; every angle where the lines cross 
being six inches from the next. The boxes 
in which you see the bulbs, are made to match 
the marked bed, that is, there are seven par- 
titions for bulbs across, and all the rows 
numbered. These numbers correspond with 
the names in a book, so that no labels are 
required. 
We will stroll on a little, while he places 
these all in their ranks, and return to him. 
Those men planting in the borders, are in- 
serting crocuses, snowdrops, lilies, and other 
bulbs. The pink and pansy beds have plenty 
of litter lying near them ; if there be any 
chance of a frost, the litter will be put loosely 
on them six inches thick, and be removed 
again when the frost disappears, or when the 
days are fine. The flowers are a good deal 
cut up with frost now ; even the chrysanthe- 
mums have suffered ; yet see how some of the 
autumnal roses keep on blooming, though many 
of the half-opened flowers have been turned 
brown. All the small delicate roses from this 
bed have been potted, and placed under the 
stage in the greenhouse ; they are not wanted 
to grow in the winter, but they cannot stand 
a hard frost. Where the dahlias were grow- 
ing, the ground is all trenched up, and will 
probably lie so all the winter. The gardener 
will have to prune all the large heads of the 
roses to half their size, in order to prevent the 
wind from having too much power, but he 
will not attempt to prune them close, because 
hard frosts often kill the ends ; at present 
there are shoots four feet long, and the power 
of the winter winds would probably break off 
the head altogether, so it is better to shorten 
now and prune in spring. 
The greenhouse is much as it was last 
month ; but the conservatory looks quite 
brilliant with the hundred varieties of chrys- 
anthemums, in addition to the carpet of 
Russian violets ; these have all been turned 
out from pots. 
Let us now take a turn to the tulip bed 
again. You see he has placed all the bulbs in 
their proper situations, and pressed them in 
half their height ; and now he fixes on the 
tops of the boards three inches in height ; by 
this means he is enabled to place the tulips 
exactly three inches deep all over the bed, if 
