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by day, is quite high enough, and 3° or 5° lower at night should 
be insisted on. 
Greenhouse. In a cultural point of view, the remarks used 
above, will apply here also. In conjunction with cleanliness 
and atmospheric dryness, the simple exclusion of frost will be 
sufficient at this season. Use no artificial heat, beyond what is 
necessary to effect this. In fine weather the arrangement of 
greenhouse plants, in frames and pits, should be attended to, so 
as to present the readiest means of protection from frosts. 
Flower-Garden. All the dying and decaying portions of 
summer plants and annuals, which are not removed, should be 
speedily taken away. In cases where it can be done, and the 
weather is dry and favourable, all the flower beds should be 
prepared early in the month, by removing part of the old soil, 
and adding fresh compost, which should be placed so as to profit 
most by atmospheric changes. Ranunculuses and other bulbs, 
which are intended to be planted before the spring should be 
put in early in the month, choosing dry and mild weather for 
the operation ; and the beds in flower-gardens should be planted 
as they are intended to remain during the winter if the soil 
cannot be renovated, and the beds left bare, which may some¬ 
times be done in detached spots. The stock plants intended 
for next year, must be carefully preserved from frosts and 
damp; attention to guard against the latter will render them 
far less susceptible of injury from the former. The less damp 
plants of all kinds have about their foliage, and the more 
equable the moisture maintained at their roots, the more likely 
they will be to survive the winter without injury ; many hardy 
and half-hardy plants, may be very simply and efficiently pro¬ 
tected, by attending to these two considerations. 
Proceed with tulip-planting: offsets and weak roots should 
be got in first. Carnations, picotees, and auriculas require some 
care through this and the following month, to preserve them 
uninjured; the chief danger is to be apprehended from an excess 
of moisture; allow them to receive as large a quantity of fresh 
air as the state of the weather will permit. Dahlia roots should 
be taken up, dried, and stored away for the winter. 
T. M. 
