THE FLORIST. 
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Cinerarias. —Follow the directions given for last month; they are 
equally applicable for this. Be on the alert; we sometimes have 
a sharp frost or two in November. Being natives of the Canary 
Isles, whence they were introduced in 1777, they will stand no 
frost; therefore be prepared with mats and litter occasionally. 
Queen Elizabeth Walk, Stoke Newington. A. Kendall. 
Dahlias should now be taken up and stored away for the winter. 
The usual places for keeping them are under the greenhouse 
stage, dry cellars, and tool-house, where the frost cannot reach 
them. If the soil at the time of taking up be tolerably dry, 
the tubers will keep better by having a little left about them. 
See that no water remains in the hollow of the stem, and 
that the name or number is firmly attached with wire. The 
roots should be gone over occasionally, to observe if any one is 
likely to decay, in which case, if a valuable or scarce variety, it 
should be placed in heat, and started into growth; others may 
require to be spread out on a fine day for a few hours, should 
they be getting damp and mildewed, — attention to these last 
observations will suffice for the next three months. 
C. Turner. 
Pansies. —If sufficient have been planted out for spring blooming, 
it will be the safer plan to pot off a few lights full for spring 
planting; for, should the winter be severe, they will be found very 
useful. If the plants are small, three or four in a pot, planted 
close to the edge, will answer as well, if not better, than singly. 
Those for blooming in pots will require all the air possible, and 
not to be crowded in the frame. The same treatment as for the 
Carnation, during winter, will answer admirably. Seedlings 
should now be planted out, and looked over every morning until 
they are established, firming those in the ground that have been 
disturbed by the worms. Many varieties have been flowering in 
good condition this autumn, being large, and fine in colour. 
There are a few that produce better flowers in autumn than at 
any other time. Fine stands of blooms could be shewn the two 
last weeks in September and the two first in October, if it were 
the fashion to exhibit them at this season. Those we have 
seen best this autumn are Bell’s Duke of Norfolk and Aurora, 
Youell’s Supreme and Marchioness of Lothian, Hooper’s Ber- 
ryer, Wonderful, and Blooming Girl, Thomson’s Almanzer, 
Constellation, Candidate, and Duchess of Rutland, Hall’s Rain¬ 
bow, Turner’s Gem, Miss Edwards, and Addison, Gosset’s 
Orestes and Polynices, Brown’s Arethusa, and Major’s Milton, 
&c. &c. Seed can still be procured, but we find that saved in 
the spring produces the best flow T ers. We do not say that a 
good and first-rate variety cannot be raised from autumn-saved 
seed, as we have done so ourselves, but the chance is not so 
good. C. Turner. 
Pelargoniums. —This being a quiet month with the Pelargonium, 
w T ater must be given very sparingly. The shifting being finished. 
