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plants may have full air given after they are housed. A good many 
of the plants may require shifting at this time, and for doing which 
the necessary provision of pots, mould, &c., should be made, in order 
that any work of the kind may be finished expeditiously. Nothing 
looks worse than to see a collection of green-house plants standing about 
in disorder for several days together. When, therefore, such work is 
to be done, it is best done quickly. 
It is now the proper time to prepare the beds intended for tulips, 
hyacinths, ranunculuses, &c., in order that they may be properly settled 
by planting time; and, indeed, much of the beauty and order of a 
flower garden in the next season depends on the preparations and dis¬ 
positions made at or soon after this time, whether it be in improving 
the quality of the soil, or in altering the forms of the beds. Improve¬ 
ments in these respects are almost always practicable even in the highest 
finished gardens. Many such places continue to wear the same face * 
for years and years together, and thereby become tame; not because 
the manager cannot make judicious alterations, but merely because he 
does not happen to think of it. We do not mean that the face of a 
flower garden should be ever shifting, like the figures in a kaleidoscope, 
by which 
“ Nature’s corpse at Euclid’s feet is laid 
but by removing overgrowths, enlarging some features, and reducing 
others; or by division, to give greater variety, such pleasing changes 
may be made, as would make the place much more interesting than a 
constant semblance of the same forms can possibly do. 
REMARKS ON THE WEATHER. 
It very seldom happens that, in this changeable climate, a periodical 
writer has to report of so long a continuance of dry and extremely hot 
weather as has been experienced during these last six weeks. The 
utility of such reports may be questioned, because they can only relate 
what a great part of the people of the three kingdoms already know. 
This is certainly true; but as situation, elevation above, or proximity 
to the sea, and quality of the soil and subsoil of each particular locality, 
make great difference in the effects of drought on vegetation, these dif¬ 
ferences deserve special notice, as some of our readers may be affected 
much more than others at a very short distance apart, and the first, 
