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either kills (with kindness) or enervates for the season. In 
arranging the plants, try if a scientific disposition of them into 
“ natural groups,” having properties in common, will not be more 
pleasing to the eye than the stiff and formal arrangements ge¬ 
nerally adopted. Water sparingly; and" remove with alacrity 
all vestiges of decay. 
Flower-Garden. If there are any plants which it is desired 
to preserve, either for blooming or for propagation, they should 
be taken up before they are at all injured by frosts. Flower-beds 
which are still gay and blooming, may often be preserved be¬ 
yond the ordinary limits of the season, as affected by locality, if 
a slight covering is cast over them at night, when frost is anti¬ 
cipated, and removed in the morning. Plants which become 
destroyed, or much disfigured by frost, should be removed as 
soon as possible, and their place supplied by small evergreens in 
pots (see p. 20.). Continue to use all possible means to secure 
a full and healthy supply of plants for next season ; and remember 
that if plants are not provided now, the flower-garden will not 
be gay at an early period next summer. Prepare and renovate, 
where it can be done, the situations intended for the planting of 
bulbs for spring flowering. Sow a few hardy annuals early, in 
a sheltered position; if they survive the winter, they will add 
to the cheerfulness of spring. Perhaps at this season, when the 
recollection of the flowery past is vividly painted on the mind, 
and the dreary future flits before it, the characteristics of neat¬ 
ness and good order are more pleasing or satisfactory, as well 
as more fully appreciated than at any other period. 
Layers of Picotees and Carnations that have taken root 
should be potted at once ; they have then a better chance of 
becoming well established before the winter. Pinks should be 
planted into the blooming bed without delay. Tulip-growers 
are now busy arranging their roots previous to planting : this 
should have due attention, as on it depends much of the future 
beauty of the bed. Auriculas and Polyanthus require protection 
from heavy rains, more perhaps at this season than any other. 
Dahlias are now rewarding the cultivator for his past care, yet 
even now they require constant attention: sticking, tying, 
thinning, &c., must still be carried on ; and last, though by no 
means least, those “ insidious gentry” the earwigs, must have 
their share of attention. 
T. M. 
