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thirties, or more. Great care should be taken not to injure the roots in potting, 
and the soil should be carefully put in among them. When potted they should 
nave a good watering, and should then be put into a cold frame or pit till wanted 
for forcing. The earlier they are potted in the autumn the better. By putting 
a few pots into a very gentle heat at one time, a succession of flowers can easily 
be had all through the winter and early spring months. They do not require 
much heat; when they begin to move they will require attention in watering and 
air-giving, and every bud, if properly selected and carefully potted, will push 
forth a fine raceme of these very fragrant flowers. Considering the ease with 
which the plants can be grown in almost any out-of-the-way place in the open 
ground, and the ease with which they can be forced, no place should be without 
these flowers during the winter and spring months.—M. Saul, Stourton. 
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CLASSES. 
|T may be accepted as an axiom that u the masses,” as they are called, will 
never have fruit enough to eat unless they begin to grow it for themselves. 
Of course, those housed up in towns cannot all do so, though the small 
gardens that girdle round Nottingham furnish a grand example of what 
can and should be done to provide working-men with gardens. With a little 
management and forethought other towns might do likewise. 
But whatever difficulty there may be in providing mechanics and labourers 
with gardens in towns, can hardly apply to the middle-classes. With a majority of 
them, where there’s the will to grow their own fruit a way may readily be found. 
The means are seldom wanting, the inclination and skill often. And labourers and 
artizans in the country have mostly more or less means to grow fruit, if they would 
but use them. For instance, every cottage in the country ought to have its walls 
covered either with fruit-trees or flowers. Has anyone ever calculated the loss 
of fruit-bearing space on our bare cottage, villa, farm-house, and parsonage 
walls ? Reckoned up, the aggregate would be appalling ! Driving through 
villages and small country towns, a thoroughly clothed house is the exception, and 
baldness of walls the rule. A few may have a flower or a fruit-tree here and 
there, but the majority are unclothed. Sometimes this may be the fault of 
landlords, who object to nails being driven into walls ; but there is no longer 
any need for such clumsy and injurious modes of fixing trees to dwelling-houses. 
By the use of studs, wires, and raidisseurs, the walls are left free and uninjured ; 
and the time is, I hope, coming when such means of training fruit-trees and 
flowers, will be looked upon as part of the necessary furnishing of every cottage 
and dwelling-house throughout the rural districts. The provision of means of 
training may often lead to the planting of trees to furnish the walls. 
Perhaps it would likewise be well for landlords to go a step further, and 
provide the trees also. The trellis and trees are both fixtures, and as such should 
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