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GARDENING CALENDAR FOR SEPTEMBER. 
Make notes of the most suitable things to plant 
for the flower garden, and set to work to pro- 
cure and increase them for another year. 
Alpines must be put in their winter quarters 
at the end of the month : make the frame face 
the north, and give air freely : meanwhile 
give them a cleaning and top-dressing. 
Auriculas. — Clear off the yellow leaves and 
decayed stalks : stir the soil and examine the 
drainage : by the end of the month, put them 
in their winter frame, keep them free from 
wet, and admit plenty of air. 
Bidbs (Dutch). — Procure these as soon as 
possible, and have them potted (if early bloom 
is required), and covered six inches with saw- 
dust or coal-ashes, and put in a cool and dry 
situation. All kinds of bulbs may be planted 
out this month, but next month will do : mean- 
while, renew the beds with fresh soil. 
Carnations. — Pot off the rooted layers in 
five-inch pots, using a soil of rotted turf torn 
and broken by the hand ; give thorough drain- 
age, and a dry bottom to the frame. 
Calceolarias. — Increase the good herba- 
ceous sorts by offsets, and by cuttings the 
shrubby sorts ; Kayana is amongst the best of 
the latter class. Seeds may be sown early 
this month, the plants from which will flower 
early in spring ; sow in a slight heat, and 
push them on : use peat and sandy loam. 
Daffodils may either be planted during 
this or the next month ; a deep loamy soil suits 
them. 
Dahlias. — Thin the spray or weak shoots 
when thick ; tie up the branches, and shade 
the best flowers. From the show plants pick 
off and throw away every bad bloom ; also the 
fading blooms, except such as are kept for seed: 
gather seeds early. Striped varieties com- 
mend themselves as border ornaments. 
Fritillarias may be put in now, or taken 
up and increased by division. 
Fuchsias. — Withhold liquid manure, as 
flower and not growth is wanted now : take 
up and pot the most handsome by the end of 
the month. 
SyacintiiS. — Have these ordered immedi- 
ately ; select the most distinct and striking 
colours for general purposes; and rather grow 
a quantity of any good varieties of suitable 
colours, than many different kinds : the single 
sorts are best for forcing, and should be potted 
early. 
Laurels, Laurustinus, and, indeed, every 
other shrub, may now be transplanted with 
safety, and with the greatest success ; they 
may also yet be layered, and struck from cut- 
tings put in sand. 
Lobelias. — Many of these do well to take 
up, and they give a good effect to the green- 
houses for some time after being lifted ; how- 
ever, it is better to defer it till the end of the 
month ; when taken up, let the blank be as 
little seen as can be. 
Mimulus. — Very many kinds are quite 
hardy ; still the finer varieties, being all 
easily raised from cuttings, may be propa- 
gated, and kept under glass for the winter. 
Petunias. — Propagate by cuttings the good 
sorts only. 
P amies may yet be raised from cuttings, 
and will get established before winter : keep 
the finer sorts where they will find shelter. 
Pelargoniums. — Propagate largely of the 
select sorts ; they require no shading and 
little water. 
Picotees. — "Water the layers, and pot off 
those rooted, as with carnations. 
Pinks. — Plant out the well rooted pipings 
in nursery rows in a good situation ; and pot 
the weaker plants. 
Roses. — The Chinese and Tea-scented may 
be slightly pruned, and cuttings made of the 
prunings ; these will root freely under a hand- 
glass, or even in a sheltered border : put the 
finer hybrids in pots, and strike in a slight 
heat or in the greenhouse. 
Salvias. — Increase these extensively now 
by cuttings, and keep them in store pots. 
Stocks. — Pot off the young plants, and put 
them in a frame ; too many of the good sorts 
can hardly be obtained. 
Tulips will be better planted next month ; 
meanwhile prepare good fresh loam, and some 
decomposed cow-dung, to be placed as a layer 
three inches in thickness, below twenty inches 
of soil. 
Verbenas. — Propagate boxfuls and potfuls, 
and keep them in these until spring ; they are 
the better of a slight heat to root in, and re- 
quire to be shaded. 
Wallflowers may still be planted out in 
masses throughout the borders ; stick the 
double sorts, and keep and grow as many as 
can be accommodated. 
WINDOW GARDENING. 
If a proper supply of evergreens for winter 
decoration has not been provided, no time 
should be lost in making up the deficiency. 
Neat handsome plants, of any of the hardiest 
sorts, should be potted in the smallest conve- 
nient sized pots, and regularly watered, 
shaded, and otherwise attended to until suf- 
ficiently established. One of the very best 
plants for this purpose is the Aucubajaponica, 
which stands the smoke and dust of the most 
populous towns almost with impunity. Others 
are the Andromeda floribunda and Garrya 
elliptica, possessed of still greater attractions, 
as the first flowers abundantly in March and 
April, and the other still earlier. The list 
may be still further extended with spruce firs, 
red cedars, junipers, arbor-vit£es, laurels, 
