be best in the open air, in a rather shaded situation. 
Pot any plants which may require, preparing the soil 
as previously dh'ccted. Water copiously, using yay 
weak maniu-e water occasionally, keep a shai-p look out 
for mildew, and dress the plants with sulphiu- di- 
rectly it is perceived. As the plants go out of bloom 
cut them in, and remove the decaying flowers ; but do 
not shift them until they break and are growing again. 
Young stock will reqim-o the same attention, but take 
care it never wants water. Water the plants over head 
occasionally with a flue rose. J. F. C. 
GREENHOUSE SOFT- WOODED PLANTS. 
Pelargoiiimns. — The season being now well-advanced 
and the plants generally in flower, shading through the 
middle of the day is necessary to prevent the flowers 
fi-om scorching, and to cause them to hang on much 
longer. Thin net or gauze, fixed on the sashes through 
the summer season, wiU not be found to injure the 
plants. Gauze should also be fixed in the inside of the 
house to prevent the bees getting in, as the flowers fall 
directly the honey is extracted from the nectary. 
When the plants are dry be careful to satiKate the 
whole mass of soil ; liquid manm'e two or three times 
a-week is necessary, to keep them in a %agorous state of 
growth, so that they may throw up theii- flowers freely. 
Remove all decaying leaves and flowers as they appear. 
Leave air on the house through the night, and sprinkle 
the bottom occasionally in the evening, which will 
cause a moist atmosphere, and greatly assist the 
plants. Strike cuttings of the early kinds which have 
gone out of flower. They may be put in under hand- 
glasses, or in a partially shaded situation in the open 
ground. 
Fancy Pelarffoniums. — Be very careful in the water- 
ing of these. Do not allow them to get too dry, so as 
to require a great quantity of water at one time, or they 
will be found to shank off. A little liquid manure once 
or twice a-week may be given whUe in a free growing 
state, but withhold it as they grow out of flower. 
Strike cuttings of such kinds as arc required for next 
season's growth, as they will be found to strike more 
readily at this season than later. They will require 
protection with hand-glasses or cold frames. Do not 
water too liberally. 
Calceolarias, — Look carefully to the shading and 
watering of these, and sec that those going out of 
flower are removed to a shady situation, where they 
will throw up their offsets, which must be taken off 
for cuttings, as soon as large enough. They will re- 
quire a very sandy compost. The north side of a 
hedge or wall will be found the host situation for 
them. 
Cinerarias. — If large enough, pot into separate pots 
those sown last month. Place those gone out of flower 
in a shaded situation. Take off the suckers as they 
get large enough, and pot into separate pots. Sow 
seeds for spring flowering in a light rich compost, cover 
lightly with fine moiild or silver sand. Do not allow 
the sm'face of the soil to get dry, and they will be 
foimd to vegetate quickly. A eold frame will be found 
the best place for them. Prick off into store pots as 
soon as large enough. 
Chrijsanthenmim. — Cuttings may yet be struck for 
late-flowering plants. Divide the old shoots, and pot 
into a good rich compost. As soon as established, water 
liberally. Layer some in pots, and as soon as they are 
rooted stop them that they may make bushy plants. 
Routine. — Prepare soils for autumn use, as recom- 
mended last month. After they get a little decom- 
posed, turn occasionally to mix them, and allow the 
atmosphere to act freely on them. Tm-n heaps of 
manure occasionally for the same purposes. H. E. 
r>7c3^:^= 
FLOWER-GARDEN.— OUT-DOOR ])EPART- 
MENT. 
That angularity so observable in newly-planted flower- 
beds is weai'ing off as the plants apijroach each other, 
and the points of the beds get filled up ; indeed, there is 
more of a life-like expression seen every day in the 
flower-garden, as the masses go on growing and rounding 
themselves into symmetrical forms. Beauty, like Ufe, 
makes a poor show in connection with poverty ; there- 
fore by all means encomage massed plants to cover the 
groimd, and when the beds are full enough do not 
suffer one mass to grow out of its place, and assume an 
iiTegnlar appearance, or the balance of the beds wUl be 
broken up. Introduce disorder into one part, and you 
derange the whole. On the other hand, take care to 
avoid everything like a trim-cut hedge-like appearance 
on shorting back the plants at the outside of the masses, 
or else the line of art will look severe from every part. 
According to the magnitude of the mass, so should the 
cm-ve of the line he, by which the plants are turned or 
cut off to the grass or gravel. To know the relation 
this line bears to the mass is the fii'st step to a know- 
ledge of the relation which subsists between the bed 
and the space which lies beyond it. But the eye does 
not stop here, for it goes on measuring the one mass by 
the other, and determining differences where they ex- 
ist, and where things agree, and thus is a knowledge 
arrived at of the proportion which prevails thi'oughout 
the an-angement in our fiower-beds. Flower-gardening, 
like every regular and well-conducted system, is com- 
posed of a vaiiety of parts, each of which possesses its 
separate importance, and contributes to the perfection 
of the whole. Some things are very essential to it, 
such as neatness and a love of order and method. 
Order is the som-ce of jjcace, and it is impossible to find 
a more peaceful scene than a well-managed flower- 
garden — for tranqiullity is the distinguishing character- 
istic of it. Let this be wanting, and anything but the 
appearance of a well-massed flower-garden will present 
itself. If disorder and irregularity meet us at evei-y 
step amongst the beds, the arrangement is incomplete, 
and the parts must necessarily jar ■ndth one another, 
and only discord be apparent, where the principles of 
hai-mony should have been clearly seen, and powerfully 
felt in the parts, and spread over the whole figure. 
Nature is rich with meaning on this point. No line 
nor form but she turns to a right use, whether it be 
seen in stone, or tree, or humblest bush. All strong- 
growing plants, such as Solidagos, Asters, Eudbcckias, 
and Helianthuses, which may properly be termed 
shrubby plants, should be attended to, so that each and 
all of their parts may grow together, and by and by 
give expression to the scene. Take care that Holly- 
hocks planted on the lawn, as single specimens, or 
groups of the same, have stakes put to them in time, 
and by all means trj^ to keep the leaves healthy, either 
by sp-inging the foliage, or watering at the roots, 
particularly if the weather is hot and diy. Tie up 
(Enothera speciosa neatly, and if it has been pretty 
thickly planted over the bed, it will produce a fine white 
mass of fiowers. Also train the shoots of Oenothera 
macrocarpa in such a way that they may have light 
and ail', and be furnished throughout with flowering- 
shoots ; water them ahundantlj' in diy weather, and 
clear off the dead fiowers and leaves, which are so often 
seen accumulated about the plants. Matricaria gran- 
diflora requires similar treatment, and its white flowers 
are very desirable too. Verbena Defiance will reqmre 
occasional syringing -with tobacco liquor, not too strong 
though, and many other plants ■ndll reqnii'c to be treated 
and looked after in the same way. 
Propar/ation. — Cuttings of Cerastinm tomentosum 
put in a cold frame, and shaded occasionally, will root 
