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sickly, and apparently cease growing ; give water sparingly, but 
keep them moderately moist. J. T. Neville. 
Calceolarias. —Let us hope that you have a fine head of bloom, and, 
having followed our advice in shading during the late hot w 7 eather, 
your eye has been gratified with brilliancy of colour and freshness 
of foliage. If you wdsh to raise seedlings, cross such flowers as 
appear likely to yield the most desirable colours and shapes. If 
you have never attempted this before, consult Mr. AVoodhouse’s 
article on the subject. No. III. of this work, p. 55. As your 
plants fade in beauty, cut off the flower-stalks above a joint, and 
re-pot into a larger size, placing them in a shady situation, pro¬ 
tecting them from heavy rain, but allowing them a free circulation 
of air, and exposure to the night dew T s, which are very favourable 
for the production of the young shoots, which you require to make 
your succession stock from. W. H. Holmes. 
Nursery, Sudbury, Derbyshire . 
Carnations and Picotees. —We will take it for granted that all 
have been top-dressed, as recommended last month, and the dead 
yellow foliage removed, as often as it has appeared, wuth a pair 
of scissors. Disbudding will now 7 be one of the principal things 
requiring attention, and to keep them neatly and securely tied. 
In disbudding, as with Dahlias, some discretion and forethought 
must be exercised. For instance, Flora’s Garland will often carry 
three blooms. This variety would be too large if one only was 
left. On the other hand, Game Boy and Hepworth’s Brilliant 
require disbudding to one bloom ; but the majority w 7 ill very 
well carry two. The points, or young buds, are infested at 
this time with aphides. Destroy them with a small brush kept 
wet with tobacco-water. At the time wiien the buds are be¬ 
ginning to swell, we assist them with liquid manure. Sheep- 
droppings we prefer, steeped with soft water: care should be 
taken that it is not too strong. Carnations and Picotees have 
generally been looking yellow for the last three weeks, but are 
fast improving. C. Turner. 
Cinerarias.- —No one has volunteered to supply this part of our Ca¬ 
lendar at present. Editor. 
Dahlias. —The plants having been grown as directed in No. V., pro¬ 
ceed at once to plant them out for blooming. The distance 
should be six feet by five feet six inches. But if the plants are 
small, and cannot be planted out until a later time, a less distance 
will suffice. Stake them securely at once, and give them every 
encouragement at first, by watering, &c. Make use of the syringe 
or a fine-rose watering-pot every evening after the sun has left 
them, so as to wet the foliage all over with soft water. If green 
flies are attacking the tops of the plants, give them a good syring¬ 
ing w r ith tobacco-w r ater, or remove them with a small brush. 
C. Turner. 
Epacrises. — Lsevigata, Grandiflora, Obtusifolia, and other late- 
flowering varieties, may now be shifted. The earlier ones, I pre¬ 
sume, have been done, and neatly arranged in the shady side of 
