GARDENING CALENDAR FOR OCTOBER. 
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latter being in the mean time removed to a 
safe distance from the pipes or flues. Great 
care must be taken in the use of water, 
especially in dull weather ; very little should 
be used at a time, but the plants should often 
be looked over. Pick off all bloom, and stop 
the shoots of any plants which keep growing, 
so as to cause them to form bushy compact 
heads ; and keep them near the glass, to pre- 
vent their being drawn. 
Forcing-pit. — Maintain a temperature of 
about 60 degrees by day, or rather more with 
sun heat ; and let it fall to about 50 degrees 
at night. Give air freely in fine weather, 
even if the above heat be not quite maintained; 
and water regularly. As this is the time 
when it is necessary to begin to force flowers 
for Christmas, the requisite plants, in proper 
quantities, should now be introduced. Roses, 
lilacs, Gueldres roses, and various other hardy 
deciduous shrubs, should be placed at the 
coolest end, and the supply of water gradually 
increased. Rhododendrons, azaleas, and other 
American plants, should also be introduced 
and kept moist. A few pelargoniums should 
also be forwarded in the same way, — taking 
care they have no green fly about them, as 
those insects soon multiply in the congenial 
atmosphere of this structure. Dutch bulbs, if 
well rooted, should also be brought in towards 
the end of the month. 
THE GREENHOUSE. 
Temperature. — From 60 to 65 degrees by 
day ; and about 45 degrees by night. 
Ventilation. — Give air freely on all favour- 
able occasions, leaving a little on all night, 
unless the external temperature fail below 40 
degrees, or the weather be wet. 
Watering. — Let this be done in the morn- 
ing, and the syringing also, as long as the fine 
weather permits it to be done. Decrease the 
quantity of water to the plants generally, and 
avoid spilling it about the stages and floors. 
Potting. — Continue to shift any free grow- 
ing plants that may require it, being very 
careful with the drainage ; and water 
sparingly until the plants are progressing 
again. 
Soils. — Continue to take advantage of all 
opportunities to collect desirable ingredients 
for composts ; and if not previously done as 
collected, ridge up all the heaps so as to ex- 
pose as little surface as possible to heavy 
rains. 
Dressing. — Continue to clean and stake 
the plants as they are brought in, previous to 
staging them. 
Insects. — Never trust too implicitly to the 
plants being free from insects ; examine them 
often, and apply the necessary remedy imme- 
diately the intruders are detected. 
Aloes, and succulents generally, should have 
very little water, but they should not be 
allowed to shrivel, as that would weaken them 
very much, and lead to their starting into 
growth before the proper time. 
Agaves, and large succulents, should be 
treated in a similar way, receiving even less 
water in proportion, and being kept in a cooler 
part of the house. 
Alstromerias. — Keep these perfectly dry 
and cool ; a back shed, if not rendered too hot 
by a fire-place in it, will be a suitable place to 
store them. 
Annuals. — Shift such of these as require it, 
and water regularly and rather copiously. 
Stake the taller growing sorts in time, before 
they get unsightly. 
Azaleas. — Keep a few of those which 
flowered first last season, at the warmest end 
of the house ; and water regularly and very 
carefully : the main stock should be kept 
cooler, and also regularly damp at the root. 
Calceolarias. — Shift such as require it, 
and bring those intended for winter flowering 
steadily forward, using liquid manure occa- 
sionally. 
Camellias. — Keep a free circulation of air 
among the plants, and water regularly, so as 
to keep the earth moist but not too wet. A 
few of the most forward plants may be placed 
in a warmer situation, so as to excite them 
very gradually. 
Cape Bulbs, as ixias, gladiolus, &c, should 
be kept dry and cool, but if any commence 
their growth, pot them, and place them in a 
cool pit or frame. 
Cephalotus follicularis (New Holland 
pitcher-plant). — Continue last month's treat- 
ment, lessening the supply of moisture as the 
days shorten, and the weather becomes cold 
and damp. 
Cinerarias. — Shift these as they advance, 
and continue to stop such as are wanted for 
spring flowering ; water freely, occasionally 
with manure water. 
Chrysanthemums. — Stake and tie out these, 
and shift any that require it. They should all 
be got into the house, or under good cover, and 
be regularly and freely watered, using liquid 
manure about twice a week. Wherever placed, 
a complete circulation of air must be main- 
tained among them. 
Crassulas, and allied plants, as semper- 
vivum, should be kept dry, using no more 
water than sufficient to prevent them from 
shrivelling. 
Cyclamens. — Re-pot any that are showing 
signs of growth, using a compost of peat, 
sand, and loam, in nearly equal quantities. 
Put them in a warm place and water sparingly 
at first. 
Epacris. — Keep the soil regularly moist- 
