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THE FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
The greenhouse plants should be got into their summer 
quarters. For this purpose a shady but airy situation should 
be chosen — a most excellent place is the tulip bed, after the 
bulbs are removed, as by means of the awning any quantity of 
shade may be given, and drying winds avoided. Keep the 
houses thoroughly clean and sweet, giving the plants retained 
in doors all the room and air possible. 
Many plants treated as inhabitants of the stove are better 
now in the greenhouse, or an intermediate house, if so miscel¬ 
laneous a collection is kept as to require great heat and mois¬ 
ture in the stove. Great attention is necessary to prevent any 
appearance of the plants being drawn ; at the same time, they 
must not be checked by sudden changes in their treatment, but 
a vigorous short-jointed growth maintained, and ultimate success 
may be confidently looked for. D. M. 
Florists’ Flowers. —Picotees, carnations and pinks, will 
now engross much care; constant attention must be given to 
preserve them in the necessary vigour and proper condition ; 
the flower buds of the latter should be looked over every day, 
and tied to prevent splitting as often as will appear requisite, 
and the stems of the former supported to the sticks as they 
advance. The awning may be got over them any convenient 
time this month, but should not be used more than can be 
avoided till the flowers are further advanced. Dahlias should 
be thinned and tied. Ranunculus require plenty of water in 
dry weather, and a slight shade to preserve the bloom. Tulips 
may be got up as soon as the points of the foliage appear brown, 
choosing not only for comfort sake, but for the safety of the 
bulbs, the end of two or three warm dry days, for the opera¬ 
tion ; continue to propagate pansies, and to protect the opening 
flowers, not by means of an awning, but by small caps placed 
over each individual bloom. Preparation should be made for 
striking pinks, and layering carnations, &c., so that no time may 
be lost when the new wood is ready. 
