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heat of 60° to (>5 0 will soon form roots, and in 
about sis weeks will be ready to pot into single 
pots. The soil to be used should be turfy 
peat and loam in equal parts, with a liberal 
sprinkling of silver-sand added. The 
plants should be placed in a moist atmo¬ 
sphere, near the glass, the tempera¬ 
ture of which may range from 50° to 55° ; 
provide good drainage, pot moderately firm, 
and keep the plants well supplied with water, 
manure-water being given them twice a week. 
As they progress in growth pinch out the tops 
of the shoots, to induce them to form compact 
and bushy plants, but discontinue stopping by 
the end of June. About the end of July, if 
due attention has been paid to them, they will 
have formed nice bushy plants, and will then 
require to be placed in a frame, set upon coal- 
ashes well exposed to the sun, and gradually 
hardened off by admitting more air from day 
to day until the lights are left entirely off; 
but they must not be allowed to suffer from 
drought. By the end of September the lights 
should be put on at night, and by the middle 
of October the plants should be removed to 
the greenhouse to bring them into bloom. 
When blooming is over, cut the plants back 
to well-ripened wood, and keep them rather 
short of water until they begin to break, 
when they should be repotted, and treated as 
before recommended, during the growing sea¬ 
son. The plants must be removed into larger 
pots, as soon as the roots reach the sides of 
those they are growing in.—H. Ciiilman, 
Somerley. 
SUBURBAN GARDENING. 
ARCH.—There is already the faintest 
symptom of the first breath of spring 
being diffused abroad : it is passing 
over the rippling streams, it is setting its sign- 
manual on the growth of a rich emerald sheen 
over the pasture-fields, and it may be seen 
kissing, as it lightly skims along, the Snowdrop, 
Primrose, and other of the earliest spring 
flowers, as they open to receive its beneficent 
influence. The Spring is always a glad 
awakening time, though it comes attended 
with biting winds and killing frosts. 
Kitchen Garden .—Up to this time, very 
little sowing of seeds has been done. In nine 
cases out of ten, it is a great mistake to sow 
early, and caution is necessary just now, when 
the seeds generally are, owing to the bad har¬ 
vest-time of 1879, deficient in germinating 
power. March is the month for sowing the 
main crops of seeds of all the leading vege¬ 
tables except Beet , but it is advisable for villa 
gardeners with small gardens to make small 
successional sowings, instead of large ones, of 
any kind of vegetables. Beans and Peas may 
be got in, and lines of Spinach between the 
Peas ; of the latter, we can recommend Dr. 
Maclean , Veit cl is Perfection , Premier , and 
Omega —all dwarf free-bearing peas of fine 
quality. Brussels Sprouts , Dwarf Curled 
Scotch and Cottager s Kales , Improved Non¬ 
pareil Cabbage , Savoy Cabbage , Early Horn 
and Intermediate Carrots , Dwarf Erfurt and 
Walcheren Cauliflowers , Musselburgh Leeks , 
Paris White Cos , and Hardy White-Dutch Cab¬ 
bage Lettuces , and Small Salads , can be sown 
at intervals of a fortnight or so during the 
month. All the foregoing are good, useful 
vegetables for a suburban garden. 
Last month we alluded to the importance 
of getting Celery sown early. The first pans 
may be pricked out towards the middle of the 
month, on a warm border which has not been 
dug, but covered with six inches of dung, 
having a sprinkling of some good light soil on 
the top. The main crop of Onions should be 
sown about the middle of the month, on a 
piece of deeply-dug, strong ground, worked 
with manure, and the seed does well when 
covered with a sprinkling of fine charred rub¬ 
bish. Potatos should be planted; the best 
mode of doing this is to trench them in with 
the spade, so that the ground has not to be 
trodden on, either immediately before or 
after their insertion, which is the case when 
the dibble is used. Asparagus may be planted 
towards the end of the month. A clever 
gardener once said that the best plantations 
are made by sowing the seed where the plants 
are to remain, and thinning-out to the re¬ 
quired distance apart. Seakale may also be 
planted. 
Fruit Garden. —Advantage should be taken 
of fine drying weather to get Wall Trees 
pruned and nailed in. The buds will soon 
begin to swell, and if the work be delayed, 
there is danger of rubbing them off. Though 
all fruit-trees should have been planted ere 
this, they may still be got in ; a little extra 
care in case of drought will be necessary, as 
March is sometimes very trying for all kinds of 
newly-planted trees ; and where some attempt 
has not been made to keep in position those 
plants requiring it, it is requisite to do it, as 
strong winds work much damage to root and 
branch. Any digging required between Goose¬ 
berry , Currant, and Raspberry bushes should be 
done without delay. 
Flower Garden. — Ilarcly Annuals and Peren¬ 
nials can be sown ; and some Half-hardy 
Annuals in a covered bed. For the latter, a 
bed of leaves in the open air, with two inches 
