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GARDENING CALENDAR FOE MARCH. 
Potting. — Take those first which indicate 
being cramped in the pot, and which have 
commenced to grow. 
Insects. — Wash every dirty leaf ; whether 
the dirt arises from accumulations of dust or 
from insects, the effects are synonymous. 
Achimenes. — A cold frame grows these well 
in summer, but they conform to heat admi- 
rably : perhaps a pit is the best place for 
them, where there is a gentle bottom heat, and 
they can be kept near the light. They grow 
well in flat pans, and in baskets suspended, 
but the appearance is better in a pot, in which 
they attain a more symmetrical form when 
well grown. Apportion the started tubers (or 
those potted off in small pots last month) to the 
size of the flowering pots. The leaves of the 
plants must be perfectly dry before the sun 
strikes upon them. Put the late store pots 
into gentle heat, and apply very little water. 
AUamanda, Beaumontia, Echites, and all 
strong growing climbers, must be staked, trel- 
lised, or tied up the pillars, as it may happen; 
a slight thinning of the branches from time to 
time will be necessary. 
Alpinias, Hedychiums, and other reedy 
plants, should all now be brought into active 
gi'owth ; bottom heat is beneficial, also liquid 
manure, when luxuriant. 
Aphelandras, Justicias, Ruellias, S?c. — The 
young plants must be encouraged by shifting 
and maintaining a moist steady heat ; shorten 
all the shoots ; and increase the best sorts by 
cuttings. 
Amaryllids. — Keep these in a moist heat ; 
the free growers must be supplied liberally 
with water. Those brought from the conser- 
vatory after growing, must gradually dry off. 
Begonias. — Those potted early should be 
shifted, and two or three tubers put into a pot. 
Continue a little bottom heat, and keep up a 
moist atmosphere. The whole should now be 
gradually excited into growth. 
Burchellia. — Those in flower keep cool ; 
those growing luxuriantly keep moist ; bring 
in the young stock, and grow them on freely. 
Cacti, keep only moderately moistened, 
and advance or retard their flowering by 
altering their position, or removing them to 
another house. Avoid, however, checking 
them by sudden and extreme changes. The 
young plants should be kept warm and moist. 
In such an atmosphere grafting may be suc- 
cessfully effected. 
Cinnamomum (Cinnamon tree). — Apply 
very little water until fresh roots are made in 
the new soil after potting. 
Clerodendrons. — Forward these by increas- 
ing the heat, light, space, and moisture ; they 
are noble objects, and may be grown to any 
size. Sow seeds now. 
Climbers. — Thin, and tie up these ; apply 
a trellis, or stakes at once to those plants 
which are in a position to receive them. 
Daturas. — Again shift those which are 
evincing signs of being confined at the root ; 
give a rich soil, heat, moisture, light, and 
space, and they will be fine. 
Erythrinas. — Treat them similarly to the 
Daturas. 
Euphorbias. — Increase the heat. The E. 
jacquiniflora may be excited, cuttings struck, 
and young plants again stopped; also the 
old naked plants may be tied down in a pendu- 
lous form, and this will make them break 
anew. 
Ferns. — Look over these frequently ; the 
tallies, from the damp atmosphere they are 
kept in, get soon illegible, in which case re- 
new them, doing the worst first ; keep in the 
house a moist, moderate, and even tempera- 
ture. Do not think of watering the seeds 
when they are sown, but set the pots in a 
feeder of water. 
Gardenias. — A moist, sweet, and rather 
strong dung heat is suitable for the growing 
and the flowering of these. When in flower 
remove them to the conservatory, placing 
them in the warmest part ; propagate largely 
if the stock is scanty. 
Gesneras, Gloxinias, fyc. — The principal 
part of these should be shooting vigorously ; 
give a shift to those started early, which water 
sparingly; also those lately set to work. If 
bottom heat can be had, and the plants at the 
same time kept near the glass, apply it so. 
Leaf-cuttings of these plants, and many allied 
ones, strike freely now. 
Bippeastrum, Crinums, Pancratium s, $?c. 
— Plunge in the tan-pit, after being shifted, 
and when growing vigorously supply them 
abundantly with atmospheric moisture, and 
manure water at the roots. 
Hydrangeas are mentioned here, because 
they bear stove forcing. The tops of the 
shoots just showing flower may be struck in 
heat ; they make nice dwarf plants. The 
blue flowers have been produced from growing 
in rocky irony soil, and iron filings ; and pure 
loam, also, has had the same effect. Peat, 
too, and waterings of strong liquid manure, 
have produced the effects. Try some of the 
alkalies in solution, by way of experiment. 
Ipomceas. — Pot off a few of the seeds 
sown last month ; plunge them, and give a 
slight watering ; tie in and thin the perennial 
sorts which now grow fast. 
Ixoras. — Allow these to occupy the best 
part of the tan-pit, and near the glass; again 
tie out the branches. Encourage the young 
plants. 
Jasminums, llondeletias, Brunfehias, keep 
growing steadily, not hastily ; put in cuttings 
of the scarce and choice sorts. The jasmines, 
