PRACTICAL GARDENING. 
OPERATIONS FOR MARCH. 
FLOWER GARDEN. 
The Auricula is this month showing bloom, 
and the slightest frost is detrimental. Keep 
them cool, give them air when the weather is 
mild, and so far as tilting the lights behind 
goes, they require it always, frost only ex- 
cepted. You must also take care that, if there 
be cold winds that would blow in upon them, 
a mat should be covered over the opening, so 
as to break it off without stopping out the air 
altogether. The early part of this month, that 
is, the first week or ten days, is the latest 
period for buying in plants which you are 
allowed to exhibit; as all societies disqualify, 
or ought to disqualify, plants that have not 
been in possession six clear weeks. Whatever 
varieties you feel yourself weak in, should be at 
once added to your stock; and it would be well, 
whether you are weak or not, to look round 
among the nurseries, to pick out any remark- 
ably promising plants, for next to wanting 
them himself, an exhibitor will find them awk- 
ward in a competitor's hands. For this reason 
he should, during the first week, go round to 
all the growers for sale. As the blooms rise, 
watering must be attended to, and covering 
from frosts observed with great strictness. 
The effect of the frost, if it reached them, 
would be various : sometimes it checks the 
growth, sometimes cracks the petals, and al- 
ways hurts the colour and crumples the flower. 
Nevertheless they are hardy, and bear a good 
deal without any apparent suffering in general 
health. Most of the shows round London are 
from the 20th to the 30th of April. The sorts 
which exhibitors ought to depend on for shew 
and which should be got in by the 8th inst., 
for the reasons before given, are as follow : — 
Green Edged. 
Dickson's Matilda 
Hudson's Apollo 
Dickson's Earl of Errol 
Dickson's Duke of Wel- 
lington 
Dickson's Prince Albert 
Liglitbody's Lord Lyne- 
doch 
Hedge's Britannia 
Gaines's Privateer 
Maclean's Unique 
Fletcher's Mary Anne 
Dickson's Duke of Sussex 
Page's Champion 
Lee's Colonel Taylor 
Booth's Freedom 
Pollett's Highland Boy 
Stretche's Emperor Alex- 
ander 
Smith's Waterloo 
Grey Edged. 
Fletcher's Ne plus ultra Sykes's Complete 
Waterhouse's Conqueror 
of Europe 
Dickson's Unique 
Oliver's Lovely Anne 
Kenyon's Ringleader 
White Edged. 
Taylor's Glory I Popplewell's Conqueror 
Taylor's Incomparable I Thorpe's Magpye 
Self Coloured. 
Redman's Metropolitan I Dickson's Apollo 
Netherwood's Othello | Bury's Lord Primate * 
Any or all of these are showable, and some 
seasons one comes well and another bad ; in 
other seasons these are reversed ; but all are 
occasionally fine, and should be grown by those 
who are anxious to win. Many, however, are 
desirous of making a fine show of flowers at 
home, and care nothing about public exhi- 
bitions. These may add the following, which 
are gay and varied, and much assist in a 
general collection, although they would be 
* Glenny's Almanac. 
