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THE FLORIST. 
HINTS FOR LADY AMATEURS.—JUL Y. 
GREENHOUSE AND FRAME. 
Calceolarias and Cinerarias for blooming next spring should now be 
sown; sow in shallow pans, and place them in the greenhouse or a 
frame, keeping the soil moist but not wet. During hot sunshine lay 
a sheet of paper over the pans to assist the germination of the seed, and 
shade the young plants when up. 
Myrtles should be placed in any open place in the full sun, a 
situation they enjoy; let them be well attended to with water, and 
washed overhead as well. Oleanders may be kept in the greenhouse ; 
when the buds appear supply them well with water, or place them in 
bottom pans kept filled; and give them all the light possible. 
Hydrangeas in pots out of doors should be well supplied with water. 
Where these can be made to produce blooms of a blue tinge they give 
a variety, and should be encouraged. We shall say something on this 
point at the proper time. 
Geraniums which have done flowering will be placed out of doors in 
the full sun, and when the wood becomes brown cut the shoots back to 
within two or three eyes of the old wood ; make these into cuttings, and 
place three or four of them in a 5-inch pot in sandy soil; plunge the 
pots in a frame, or even in the open ground, and the cuttings will soon 
make roots. 
Balsams are nice plants for filling the greenhouse in September. 
Small plants should now be shifted into 8 or 10-inch pots in rich open 
soil, decayed turf, and leaf mould; put them in a frame, and keep them 
close for a few days till they begin to grow, then give more air; if any 
flowers appear, pick them off for the present. 
The early Fuchsias will now be in bloom; if there are any smaller 
plants they should be shifted into larger pots. These will bloom on till 
Christmas. 
Chrysanthemums should also be shifted, and the plants plunged and 
carefully watered; this, however, is not generally a lady’s flower. 
If the opportunity occurs, a few Achimenes and Gloxinias may be 
introduced into the greenhouse for autumn blooming; they make a nice 
variety. The way to raise these we shall show at the proper time. 
A few pots of blue Nemophila and Mignonette should now be sown 
for placing in the house in the autumn; keep them in the shade 
till wanted. We advise ladies to dispense with window plants for the 
present, as cut flowers are now so abundant. 
Walls and Trellises .—There are very few things more beautiful for 
covering low trellises or rustic work than the major Convolvulus and 
orange Tropseolum or Nasturtium mixed together ; the blue Mau- 
randya and Lophospermum purpureum are also very fine, and a 
new Tropseolum called elegans. Yellow and white Banksian Roses 
will now have done blooming, and the wood which has produced 
flowers should be cut away, and some of the young shoots now making 
growth trained in the place of the old, for flowering next year. Every 
lady with a south or south-east wall should have a plant of the white 
