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and assist the wood to ripen. If you have plants in pots pre¬ 
paring for next year, and have no glass, continue to lay them on 
their sides, as advised in our last article. 
Potting and storing in our next. 
THINGS TO BE DONE. 
Now is the time to purchase a stock of bulbous roots ; if you do 
not want to force them very early, wait until you can have them 
from a second importation, as Hyacinths and Narcissus are larger 
and generally produce finer bloom from the second consignment 
than the first, which are taken up and packed off early by the 
growers to be in time for the first demand for forcing. 
If you are fond of spring gardening, early Tulips, mixed Hya¬ 
cinths, Crocuses in varieties. Anemones, and the pretty spring¬ 
flowering Scillas, should not be omitted ; nor Lilium atrosangui- 
neum, bulbiferum, chalcedonicum, aurantiacum, pyramidalis, and 
the varieties of the martagon, for mixing in with herbaceous 
plants for the summer. Gladiolus may remain for the present. 
Look round your walls and fruit quarters, and note where addi¬ 
tions are wanted, and towards the middle of the month visit your 
nurseryman (we say personally) and make your selection ; you will 
have the whole stock to chose from, whereas if deferred you will 
not. 
If possible go and see them taken up yourself: nursery-gardeners 
are frequently wholesale gentlemen with trees, and cut and slash 
the roots on taking them up as a matter of no consequence ; we 
advise you to have them taken up with a steel fork, by which you 
will have the roots entire, and your trees will start more vigorously 
in the spring. 
If you grow your own briars for budding roses upon, give your 
orders for them early so as to have them planted in November, 
the sooner the better, and your man will also have the pick of the 
hedge-rows, which will insure you better stocks. 
See that your frames, sashes, and pit-lights are washed and 
dried, so as to be ready for painting before the month is out, that 
the whole may be in good order for winter. Greenhouses should 
by this time be finished off in this respect. 
Look also to your flues and heating apparatus generally, that all 
may be ready for work when wanted. 
If you have not procured a stock of loam and peat, lose no time 
in doing so before they become saturated with wet, and stack up 
in a dry place. 
Look over your flower-beds, and note down what alteration you 
require for next season, that you may propagate stock to mCet 
your new arrangements. 
If you are a Rose grower, and have either attended the shows 
or read our reports on them, you will by this be informed what to 
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