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throughout the winter. Violets should be potted in August for 
forcing, which is most successfully done in a mild hot-bed. The 
double Neapolitan is the best for forcing.— Main . 
Chrysanthemum ,.—'This is only a half-hardy border plant— 
requires to be kept in pots, and nursed in a frame or house to get 
it to flower before frost sets in. They are propagated by slips 
taken off in March, by cuttings in May, or by layers in August. 
The first make tall and strong plants, but the last make the most 
handsome and bushy. Large flowers are obtained by thinning 
the flower-buds, i. e. all the secondary buds are pruned off. 
Such as flower in a cluster should be thinned more sparingly ; the 
Superb Cluster Yellow, for instance, should be allowed to show 
its character .—Gardener s Magazine. 
Dahlia .—This is one of our most splendid autumnal flowers. 
There seems to be no end to varieties obtainable from seed; and 
their cultivation is as easy as it is generally known. The seed, 
sown early in spring, will flower in the end of summer. The 
tubers must be taken out of the open ground in the autumn, and 
kept in a dry place out of the reach of frost in winter. In 
the early spring, the tubers of the favourite kinds are divided, 
and put into pots six inches diameter, and kept in a house or 
frame till all danger from frost is over, when they may be 
turned out in the borders. They are readily and expeditiously 
propagated, by taking the first shoots which rise from the tubers 
and striking them in a little heat. Such young plants produce 
the handsomest flowers. They flower earlier, and grow more 
dwarfish in the poorest soil; and if very large flowers are desired, 
all the inferior branchlets must be thinned out.— Main . 
BOX EDGINGS. 
The Box is at once the most efficient of all possible things, and 
the prettiest plant that can possibly be conceived. The colour 
and form of its leaf; its docility as to height, width, and shape; 
the compactness of its little branches; its great durability as a 
