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Auriculas. — May now be shifted. Be careful that the pots be 
perfectly clean and well drained. 
Tulip, Hyacinth, and Ranunculus beds, or stands, should still be 
shaded, if necessary. Carnations in pots require good nursing, by 
being assisted to grow strongly by applications of manured water. All 
sorts of tender and half-hardy annuals and perennials may now be set 
out in the open borders. Sow in hot-beds successions of stocks, and 
any annuals wished to blow late. Transplant annuals previously 
sown too thick. Plunge in the borders all sorts of green-house plants 
which can be spared from the collection, and which flower so readily 
in the open air, as petunias, fuchsias, &c. Sow biennials, as sweet- 
williams, campions, &c. Again, prune down roses for a late bloom; 
strike cuttings of ericas and other green-house plants; also slips of 
double wall-flowers, and others of similar character. This is likewise 
a good time to prepare a slight hot-bed for striking cuttings of both 
hct-house and green-house plants. 
The general collection of green-house plants should now be removed 
to their summer station, if not already done. It is customary to shift 
the principal part of them on this occasion; and as it is a scene of 
disorder and bustle, every preparation should be previously made to 
get it over as quickly as possible. Different kinds of compost, pots, 
crocks, props, ties, &c, should all be got ready, so that the house may 
be cleared, cleaned, and again furnished with the hot-house annuals 
and plants intended for it. The green-house collections are usually 
placed in some shady recess, or sheltered situation, or in such order as 
to shelter and support each other, and where the plants may be seen 
from a walk, and aggregately show an ornamental character. If near 
a basin or tank of water, the better, but not under the drip of high 
trees. 
The arrangement and distribution of every ornament of the flower 
garden is, at this season, a business requiring both thought and action: 
not only is it necessary to know the names, habit, times of flowering, 
and colour of the flowers of the numerous trees, shrubs, and herbaceous 
plants admitted into the flower garden, both within the conservatory 
or green-house, and out of doors, but also the seasons in which their 
seeds should be sown, cuttings struck, or the plants otherwise propa¬ 
gated ; and also how every one may be advanced or retarded, in order 
that the garden may be at all times as gay and floriferous as possible. 
Floriculture, in fact, is a distinct branch of gardening, and as such 
requires as much botanical and physiological knowledge as any other 
branch of the calling. 
