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the remarks made on potting last month. Stop, regulate, and tie out the shoots, 
so as to lay a good foundation for handsome specimens. Cinerarias will now be in 
great beauty, and should be kept clear of green-fly, which, if not kept well under, 
will soon disfigure them. Attend to the stock of young Fuchsias. Shift them as 
they require it, giving some of the strongest and best plants a liberal shift for 
early flowering. Attend to Pelargoniums, and tie out the shoots as they advance ; 
keep them well watered, and give them a dose of liquid manure occasionally, 
when they show bloom-buds; keep them as near the glass as possible, and let 
them have plenty of room and a free circulation of air. Liliums will now be 
growing rapidly, and will require to be watered liberally. All Soft-wooded 
Greenhouse Plants intended for late flowering should be encouraged to make 
free growth. Pits and frames should now be made the most of for propagating 
and growing greenhouse plants, bedding plants, and tender annuals of all kinds. 
Pot off cuttings of all kinds as soon as they are rooted. Sow Cinerarias for 
autumn and winter flowering, in heat; also Chinese Primulas , and Tender Annuals. 
Spring-flowering plants will now be in great beauty ; spare no pains, therefore, 
to keep up a neat appearance about them, by frequently clearing away all dead 
leaves and branches. Protect Bulbs , if severe weather sets in ; dig vacant beds 
and borders; roll Lawns well after showers; and mow in good time. Finish 
all alterations as soon as possible.—M. Saul, Stourton. 
GARDEN LITERATURE. 
S CARCELY, perhaps, belonging to Garden Literature, yet we may note, a* 
being intimately connected with flowers, a little book now before us on 
¥ Wax-Flower Modelling,* and which may be commended as a plain and 
simple treatise on a subject which has much interest for ladies. The art 
would seem to be one requiring a considerable amount of patient attention, but 
not to be otherwise of a difficult character. The chief points, when the know¬ 
ledge how to handle the materials has been acquired, are to closely observe 
and to copy nature. The manipulations appear to be easily enough accomplished, 
and in the more difficult part, that of accurately copying the flower, there is the 
advantage of gaining at the same time a considerable amount of plant know¬ 
ledge, than which we know of few accomplishments more conducive to real 
satisfactory enjoyment. The artist in wax-flower modelling must, we are told, 
provide pins, brushes, colours, wire, and wax, and must learn how to use them 
all. Our authoress devotes her introductory chapter to the explanation of all 
this, passing on to give special and separate instruction about the manufacturing 
of stems, leaves, and flowers, and then adding a variety of special hints concern¬ 
ing a number of the flowers most suitable for modelling, as the rose, the 
lily, the Stephanotis, the water-lily, the forget-me-not, the honeysuckle, and 
* Wax-Flower Modelling Made Easy. By Annie M. Williams. With coloured frontispiece and illustra¬ 
tions. London: Bradbury and Evans. 
