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care bestowed in raising and replanting tlie trees. If on walls, the 
proper aspects should be regarded for the kinds; and if in the orchard, 
attention should be paid as to whether they are large or dwarf-growing 
sorts. 
As the eggs of most of the insects which infest fruit-trees in the 
spring and summer are laid on the branches in autumn, it is an excel¬ 
lent plan to wash them frequently after the fruit is gathered with soap¬ 
suds, tobacco or lime-water, or with a decoction of the leaves and stems 
of the common fox-glove. This decoction should be made with boiling 
water, the more effectually to extract the nauseous principle of the 
plant. These applications, if continued through the winter and spring, 
would go far to prevent the trees being chosen for nestling places for 
the insects. 
Fruit-trees established in pots for forcing should now be shifted into 
larger pots, if necessary, or, if not, should have the surface of the earth 
in the pots refreshed with an addition of new rich compost. If their 
bearing-wood be well ripened, the pots may be set under a north wall ; 
but if not, they should be kept on a south aspect. 
Flower Garden. —Dahlias are still in beauty, and only require firm 
staking against wind. If any new seedlings have not yet flowered, and 
are expected or promise to prove excellent, they should be guarded by 
some temporary covering against being nipped by an unexpected night 
frost. Chinese chrysanthemums, standing in the open borders, are in 
the same predicament; their flower-buds may be destroyed before they 
open, if not screened by some light covering. Those in pots are easily 
removed to a place of safety. All kinds of green-house plants should 
now be housed, if not already there ; and all tender plants plunged in 
the borders for summer show, should be taken up and housed, if worth 
saving. Pinks may still be bedded out, and carnation layers potted. 
These, as well as auriculas, and all other flowers in pots, should be 
duly assisted with water. About the end of the month prepare a heap 
of light sandy loam, and a sufficient number of pots for the reception of 
as many bulbs and tubers as are intended for early flowering; such as 
polyanthus, narcissus, tulips, hyacinths, crocus, &c. Prepare also the 
beds for tulips, hyacinths, anemones, and ranunculuses in the fixed 
places, to be planted next month. Dig the clumps and borders for 
hardy bulbs and tubers, which now require to be put in ; as crocus, 
snow-drops, aconite, &c. Begin pruning shrubs as soon as the leaves 
are off. Pot roses for forcing, as well as Persian lilac, and the different 
sorts of American and other plants proper for forcing. Sow some more 
pots and boxes of mignonette, to go into frames; take up overgrown 
roots of perennials, part and replant them ; plant out also any seedlings 
of those yet remaining where sown. 
