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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ November, 
necessary to have a piece of ground either in the kitchen garden, or other 
convenient place, for their culture during the summer months ; by this means 
a large stock of fine flowering plants can always be had in readiness for 
planting in the flower garden as soon as the summer plants are removed. 
Primroses, Polyanthuses, Alpine Auriculas, Hepaticas, Pansies, Phloxes, 
Aubrietias, are only a few of the many beautiful plants adapted for this 
purpose. Dahlia roots should be taken up, dried, and put away. This is a 
good time to plant Eoses, also stocks for budding next year. No person 
who can plant evergreen trees and shrubs in the autumn, should defer it 
until spring. 
The work for the present month in the kitchen garden is not of an im¬ 
portant nature. Still if the weather be favourable, a number of things, of 
small consequence in themselves, can be done now, which will eventually save 
much valuable time and labour. All vacant ground should be trenched and 
thrown up into rough ridges. Advantage should be taken of fine dry weather 
to take up and store away Carrots, Parsnips, and Beet. Celery should be 
finally earthed up, and protecting materials should be got ready to hand, 
to be used in case of severe frosts. Walcheren Cauliflowers should now be 
carefully watched, and as they head, the outer leaves should be bent over 
them to protect them from frost—naturally, the true Walcheren is to a 
certain extent self-protecting, but it is prudent to look them over daily at 
this season, and make certain of a good supply. Endive and Lettuce 
should be stored in pits and frames when these can be spared for that pur¬ 
pose. Fruit trees of all kinds should be planted in properly prepared 
borders, and not deferred until spring. 
Stourton. M. Saul. 
TREE TURNSOLES. 
® HAT fine old favourite the Heliotrope or Turnsole (Heliotropium 
peruvianum), belongs to the order Boraginace®, and therefore becomes 
f associated in our minds with various pet plants of that genuine blue¬ 
stocking family— e.g ., the common Borage ( Borago ), which is to 
all intents and purposes vastly like the “ azure hose,” for its flowers 
are of that bright celestial hue which has been the admiration of the wise 
and great in all ages, (“ One the blue depths of seraph’s eyes ” was the 
way Byron characterised the blue band in the star of the Legion of Honour); 
while the leaves of the Borage are thickly covered with long rigid hairs not 
unlike homespun hose; and the pretty “Forget-me-not” ( Myosotis ) has 
the family curl like a volute, and all the blue type of the order concen¬ 
trated in its tiny little self. 
More than a hundred years ago, however, an addition was made to 
this happy family of pet plants, by the introduction from Peru, of the 
