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CALENDAR FOR SEPTEMBER. 
would give a good idea of how many of each it would be neces¬ 
sary to propagate and keep through the winter, making allow¬ 
ances, of course, for deaths, or for furnishing the common borders, 
and other purposes. This applies only to the summer bedding 
plants; but it would be easy, and indeed indispensable, to extend 
the same practice to the spring crop of bulbs and annuals as well, 
so as to establish a regular routine in the cropping and manage¬ 
ment of the flower garden. 
The plants in the flower garden will, many of them, now as¬ 
sume a ragged appearance, if not very regularly attended to. 
They should be kept very clear of dead leaves and flowers ; and 
as soon as they are too far past to be longer ornamental, they 
should be potted up if wanted, or else destroyed, and the beds 
should be prepared for the next crop of bulbs, or annuals, for 
spring flowering, or, if not intended to be so occupied, they 
should be filled with evergreen shrubs in pots, so as to prevent 
the garden from having too dreary an appearance during the 
winter. A good effect may be thus produced by filling only some 
of the beds, which might be edged with crocus and snowdrop, so 
as to be very gay at a very early period, while the other beds, 
filled with bulbs, would succeed them. 
All the greenhouse plants must be got into their winter quar¬ 
ters before they receive any injury from frost, or too much wet. 
Let them be carefully cleaned, staked up, and the pot and mould 
be examined before they are finally staged, so that the condition 
of each may be known. Give all the air possible, day and night, 
as long as the weather permits. Pot hyacinths and other bulbs 
as soon as they can be obtained, as it is of the first importance 
to get their pots full of roots before they are forced. 
The occupants of the stove should also be treated in a manner 
according with the decline of the season ; the amount of moisture 
must be reduced in whatever shape it may have been applied, and 
to meet the chill of evening a slight fire heat will be necessary; 
the pruning, tying, shifting, and examination mentioned pre¬ 
viously, will also require attention in this department. Let tne 
plants receive all the sun-light and a good share of fresh air every 
fine day, in order to properly mature their new wood, and pre¬ 
pare them for the winter. 
D. M. 
