GARDENING CALENDAR TOR NOVEMBER. 
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weather prove cold and cloudy. The more 
tender sorts should also be kept rather dry, 
and in a warm but airy place, in order to 
guard against damp. 
Salvias. — Reduce the supply of water to 
the plants as they cease blooming, and gradu- 
ally lessen it until they receive no more than 
will just keep them from withering ; keep the 
tender sorts in a rather warm situation. 
Stapelias. — Continue the previous treat- 
ment, giving no water in dull or damp wea- 
ther, and guarding against any of the pots 
retaining water longer than the others. 
Tropceolwns. — Pot any that may start, but 
keep all others dry for the present. Train 
out regularly those advancing in growth, 
placing the plants in the full-sized pot, and 
fixing them to the trellis on which they are to 
bloom. Water carefully, but never suffer 
those in a growing state to become dry. 
THE CONSERVATORY. 
Temperature, from 55 to 60 degrees by day, 
and from 45 to 50 degrees by night. Use 
fires occasionally in the daytime in dull 
weather, to keep the house free from damp. 
Ventilation. — Give all the air consistent 
with the above temperature in fine weather ; 
close the house early. 
Watering. — Moisture should be applied 
very sparingly, even to plants in bloom, and 
it should always be used at, or rather above, 
the temperature of the house. Avoid syring- 
ing or damping the house unnecessarily by 
slopping water about. 
Arrangement. — Continue to alter the ar- 
rangement of the flowering plants as much as 
possible. Good effects may be produced by 
attending to the grouping of the various forced 
flowers as they are brought in. Masses of 
these, either separately or in combination with 
the other plants, may be so arranged as to 
give quite a fresh character to the house, es- 
pecially as they become more numerous. 
General Directions. — Strictly attend to the 
neat keeping of the house and plants, espe- 
cially in removing the decaying leaves from 
those which are more liable to lose them now. 
Do this by pinching or cutting off the leaf, 
and not by twisting or tearing the leaf-stalk 
down the shoot, by which practice the bark is 
frequently lacerated, and the plant materially 
damaged. Cut off all flowers as soon as they 
are past their prime, as they are sure to damp 
and perhaps rot the shoots and foliage near 
them if not removed early. 
THE PLANT STOVE. 
Temperature, from 60 to 65 degrees by 
day, and 50 to 55 degrees by night. 
Ventilation. — Carefully regulate the admis- 
sion of air by the external temperature ; and 
also with regard to the heat necessary to be 
maintained. Fires will be necessary as soon 
as the weather becomes cold and damp, but 
they should be applied very gradually, in order 
to avoid exciting the plants too soon. 
Watering. — Use water with great caution, 
giving little or none to such bulbs, succulents, 
and other plants as are in a state of rest, and 
supplying those in a more active state with 
less, as the weather becomes dull and cold. 
Potting. — Pot such as may require it, 
especially bulbs or tubers just starting, using 
the smallest pots possible, in order to avoid 
damp. 
Insects. — Attend to former directions, 
allowing no rest to any depredators. Look 
close after wood lice, which often secrete 
themselves about young and tender roots. 
Achimenes. — Shift such as are growing, 
and pot more as a succession, placing them in 
a mild bottom heat, and watering sparingly 
until they are advancing rapidly. Use a light 
compost of peat, leaf mould, and sand, drain- 
ing the pots thoroughly. 
Allamanda, Beaumontia, Echites, and all 
strong growing climbers, should be kept in a 
state of rest, being supplied with very little 
water, and kept in a warm part of the house. 
Alpinias, Sedychiums, and other reedy 
plants, should receive the same treatment as 
last month, giving little or no water as the 
foliage dies down. 
Amaryllicls. — Pot such as throw up their 
flower stems, and advance them slowly. Keep 
all that will keep down, out until the spring. 
Aphelandras, Justiciar, Ruellias, &c. — 
Withhold water as the plants show symptoms 
of rest, and place them in a cool situation. 
Such as are now flowering or advancing 
should be more liberally watered and kept 
in a warmer position. 
Begonias. — Steadily advance such as are 
growing, but keep the others dormant, by 
placing them in a cool dry situation. 
BurchelUa. — Keep cool and dry; small 
well-ripened plants may be excited by extra 
heat and moisture to flower early. 
Cacti. — Keep up a succession by placing a 
few more in heat, and gradually increase the 
supply of water ; the others should still be 
kept cool, and have no more moisture than 
just enough to keep them alive, and not too 
plump. 
Cinnamomum ( Cinnamon tree) . — Use water 
with great caution, and keep the plants in the 
warmest part of the house. 
Clerodenclrons. — Cut in and remove to a 
cooler house as they go out of flower. These 
plants are very subject to the mealybug — now 
is the time to clear any that are infested. 
Climbers. — Those that flower early should 
now be pruned, thinned, and tied up ; clear 
