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FLOWER GARDEN AND SHRUBBERY. 
them from hot sun and excessive rains ; for 
now they require no water for weeks together, 
being in a state of comparative rest ; but 
they must not be allowed to Hag. As any of 
the leaves turn yellow, take them off ; for 
when allowed to rot on the plant, they will 
sometimes carry their damp, and consequent 
decay, to the collar of the plant itself. Seed- 
lings, and particularly small ones, require 
some watching, and occasional watering, be- 
cause they have not such firm hold of the 
ground as larger plants, though when in good 
sized seed-pans, there is a body of earth, 
which is far preferable to a small pot, to 
depend on. Seedlings, potted off into small 
sized pots, must be more frequently watered 
than the large plants, because they dry so 
much sooner. The glasses of the frames should 
never be on in mild weather ; but when the 
north and east wind pi'evails, the air does 
them but little service. Let the glasses of 
frames be always clean, and guard against the 
drip, which easily shows itself, if you look 
through the stock, and examine the soil in the 
pots. The drip not only makes a pot wet 
and heavy ; but wherever wet drips, it forms 
a hole, which shows plainly enough what is 
the matter. A healthy plant, subject a week 
or two to the constant wet soil, will exhibit 
symptoms of bad health, and may be past re- 
covery, among careless people, before they 
discover the cause. If the stock of Auriculas 
have not undergone the treatment recom- 
mended last month, the sooner these direc- 
tions are attended to the better. 
Eoses have, for the most part, done their 
work, and are dropping, or have dropped, 
their leaves ; the heads having made large 
growth, hold the wind so much, that some of 
the autumn breezes would break half of them 
away from their fastenings. When the shoots 
have been extravagantly long, they may be 
shortened ; and when too many have been 
grown, they should be thinned out by cutting 
the weaker branches clean away to the bottom. 
This lessens the power of the head to catch 
the wind ; but all the stakes and ties should 
be examined, to see that they are strong, and 
capable of holding them in their positions. 
Whenever you have tender kinds in standards 
out of doors, take them up, and lay them in 
by the heels, in some shed, or outhouse, and 
cover the heads with loose litter. Some ob- 
ject to removing them at all. These should 
first trim in the wild branches of the heads a 
little, to make them a manageable size, and 
then, having stuffed some hay among the 
branches, draw them in as close as may be 
with ties of some kind, and then wind hay- 
bands round the outside of the previously 
drawn in head. This, however, is not 
proof against a hard winter, without one 
more precaution. A waterproof calico, which 
may be had cheaply enough now, may 
be tied over the head, to keep the wet from 
sodding the hay, which it otherwise will do, 
and a hard frost succeeding, will form the 
whole into a mass of ice. The waterproof 
bag, to cover the head, will keep all perfectly 
dry, and scarcely any degree of frost will 
touch it. We have seen people put haybands 
round the stocks of Roses ; but if the stocks 
be the common Brier, it is a very useless pro- 
ceeding, as the stock is by no means tender, 
and, as may be seen from our hedges in the 
hardest winter, it is capable of standing our 
most severe frosts. Dwarf varieties, of the 
China and smooth-wooded kinds, are gene- 
rally more tender than the garden deciduous 
Roses, and are better, perhaps, potted up for 
the winter, and protected somehow, placed in 
an outhouse, or in the dwelling-house, or in 
pits and frames, or in holes dug in the ground, 
and covered over, or plunged in the ground 
in their pots, and covered with hoops and 
mats ; or loose litter, such as peas haulm, may 
be packed between the plants, and on them. 
This can only be kept in its position against 
high winds, by driving a few stakes round the 
bed, and between the pots, as high as the 
plants ; the peas haulm will remain then in 
spite of a high wind. 
Pansies. — Seedlings are blooming all this 
month, and perhaps up to Christmas, if there 
are no hard frosts. Let no dependence be 
placed on their present appearance. If you 
have any named favourites throwing out occa- 
sional blooms, see how different they will 
appear from the same flowers in condition ; 
generally speaking, they come out of colour, 
and even out of form, and this will give some 
idea of how unsafe it would be to throw away 
seedlings in autumn from the appearance of 
the first blooms. Struck cuttings and plants, 
that have gained a little strength, may both 
be potted in large sixty-sized pots, to be pro- 
tected in frames. Let them have good loam 
and dung, and the pots be well drained; those 
which are intended for pot culture may be 
shifted, from time to time, from small to 
larger pots, and eventually into size sixteen, 
or at least large twenty-fours, as they require 
plenty of room to bloom strong. Those now 
potted off may be treated nearly the same as 
Carnations and Piccotees, Auriculas, &c, so 
far as air is concerned, but they must be 
kept properly moistened with occasional 
waterings, as they may grow all the winter, 
unless you wish to confine them in small pots, 
for the convenience of stowage, and spring 
planting out, in which case they may be kept 
more short of water than when wanted 
for pot culture, because in the one case 
i you want to keep them small, in the other, 
