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Pelargoniums , such as are required for early blooming, should now have their 
final shift. Attend to growing plants, stopping-back as they require it, and re¬ 
potting cuttings as they progress, watering sparingly afterwards, until they are 
established. Keep under insects by timely fumigation. 
Bedding Plants of all kinds should be freely exposed, as long as the weather is 
favourable, as they stand the winter much better when they are thoroughly 
hardened. Calceolarias should be propagated during the month in cold frames. 
Carnations should still be freely exposed, and late-rooted layers at once potted 
up. Prepare frames for the protection of all but hardy plants, such as Echeverias , 
Centaureas, Pentstemons , &c., and have protecting materials in readiness.— Geo. 
Westland, Withy Court. 
FRUITS. 
Pines : All plants growing in dung-pits should now have the linings renewed, 
especially if the nights are getting cold; and the pits should be covered. Any 
plants intended for fruiting next season on ridges may be planted-out towards 
the end of the month, or as soon as a good bed of fresh leaves can be got 
together. See previous directions in regard to plants in fruit, &c. 
Melons: If any melons remain yet to ripen in cold frames, keep them dry, 
and warm with sun-lieat. In the case of late crops in houses where there is 
fire-heat, watering should be carried on very carefully, otherwise the plants 
may canker off; therefore it is best to water on the morning of a fine day. 
Peach-house: As soon as the leaves are off in the early house, the trees may 
be pruned, cleaned, and tied-in. If the trees have become weakly from over¬ 
cropping or other causes, the inside borders should be forked over and surfaced 
with three or four inches of fresh loam and dung, and should afterwards receive a 
good soaking of water. This is a good time to renew the trees in any of the 
houses where required, and in so doing the soil should be partially removed, and 
replaced with fresh loam and rotten dung. 
Vines: Still continue to give a little fire-heat in bad weather to grapes that 
are not properly matured. Also a little through the day in damp weather to 
those that are ripe, at the same time giving air to free the house from damp. 
Look over the bunches often, and remove all decayed and unhealthy berries. The 
vines in the early house may now be pruned, and if very early grapes are required, 
prepare to close the house by the end of the month. 
Strawberries in pots : All runners should be cut away, and the pots freed from 
weeds ; the plants being kept fully exposed and moderately dry, so that they may 
finish their growth before sharp weather sets in. Should a glut of wet take place 
towards the end of the month, the plants intended for the earliest forcing had 
better be laid on their sides. 
Hardy Fruits : Nothing could be more favourable to the ripening crops of 
Apples and Pears , than the warm dry weather which we have experienced in this 
part of the country for some time past; therefore, it is likely that most of these 
will be ready for housing earlier than usual this year. All Apples may be 
gathered during the present month, leaving the latest till last. The same re¬ 
marks apply to Pears , much care being taken in gathering the largest fruit. 
Gather Filberts and Walnuts, which must be well dried before storing. Ex¬ 
pose late Peaches to the sun by removing the leaves; if the nights are frosty, 
use a slight covering. Continue to clean out all runners from Strawberry- beds, 
and get the ground about the plants forked over before the month is out. All 
kinds of Fruit-trees may be planted as soon as the leaf is off, or partially so ; it 
is not advisable to remove them sooner, more especially large trees, as the leaves 
