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tilt the lights both back and front. Seed gathering is now 
nearly over, but if any choice kinds remain out, protect them 
from wet with a handlight or some such contrivance; tender plants 
placed out, with a view to their remaining so, should have dry 
litter strewed over their roots, as the autumnal rains are fre¬ 
quently more injurious to them than even frost. Box edgings 
may be renewed, and planting generally commenced. Prune 
deciduous trees and shrubs as soon as the foliage is off. Every¬ 
thing should be forwarded, so that the digging of beds and 
borders may be commenced next month, and completed before 
Christmas. Continue to pot hyacinths, tulips, and other bulbs 
for forcing; plunge the pots in old tan or ashes, in a warm part 
of the garden. Take up and pot for the same purpose, roses, 
lilacs, kalmias, rhododendrons, and other shrubs. Keep the 
grass and gravel clean and neat; frequently roll them both. 
The flower-beds and borders also should be cleaned as far as 
practicable. 
THE FLORIST’S LETTER-BOX. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
We must particularly request our correspondents who are de¬ 
sirous of receiving answers in the next number, to forward their 
questions by the middle of the current month, as we are obliged 
to go to press early for the convenience of country subscribers. 
We think very highly of Messrs. Mountjoy’s seedling Dahlia “ Virgil:” 
form perfect, with great depth and substance of petal; well arranged, and 
excellent centre, altogether first-rate. It arrived too late for a notice last 
month. 
J. Travers. The striped Dahlia possesses much regularity in the dispo¬ 
sition of the colours, (glowing crimson and white,) but unfortunately the 
petals are too much reflexed to allow its being classed with show flowers ; 
we wish to see more attention paid to striped flowers; the yellow is small 
and sunk in the eye ; it will not do. Also too late for last nionth. 
Tiios. Barty, Esq., Dunblane. To enter upon the management of 
peach trees would far exceed the limits of our work ; but the scale may be 
effectually eradicated by applying the following mixture : take soft soap, 
half the quantity (in bulk) of sulphur, mix them together, with sufficient 
tobacco water to form the whole into a moderately thin paste ; first prune 
the trees, and the largest insects may be removed with a stiff brush and 
water ; afterwards dab the mixture over every part infested; it kills both old 
and young. The second request is complied with in part, and will be con¬ 
tinued ; with respect to the last remark, nothing would give us greater 
