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greenhouse. 
PLANTS FOB 'WINTEE BLOOMINa. 
Alost of the usual mnter-blooming plants 
are now growing in the open garden, whei e, 
by pinching, keeping clean, and giving or le 
eeiving plenty of water, they are stocky an 
healthy. 
People who do not have greenhouses 
nothing but their windows to depend on for 
their winter blossoms — had better begin to 
lift and pot their plants early, in oi’der to 
have them well rooted and established in the 
pots while the weather is yet warm and 
favorable. Such plants bloom better and 
sooner than poorly rooted ones. See to it 
that all plants are properly cleaned and free 
from mealy bugs, red-spider, and scale. 
These insects increase immensely on indoor 
plants. Have soil and clean pots ready, and 
as soon as you pot a plant, if it needs it, 
stake and tie it. 
CAKNATIOSS. 
Cease pinching these. If you have cut off 
the flower-shoots that, appeared during the 
summer your plants should now be nice and 
stocky; but do not pot them till September. 
BOtrVAEDIAS. 
These blossom well out-of-doors, but at the 
expense of the indoor winter crop. Lift and 
pot them this month, or early next, and get 
them well rooted before cold weather sets in. 
They are tender, and unless carefully handled 
in lifting, wilt badly. 
POIXSETTIAS. 
These delight in warm sunshine, and like 
to be plunged out-of-doors in the summer, 
but not planted out, as they lift poorly. 
From the time they start into gi-owth in 
spring till they bloom in muter, they require 
to be kept warm and supplied with water. 
After they have finished bloomiug they 
should be kept dry. If we keep them outside 
in fall, during the cool nights of September 
or October, they will lose some of their 
leaves and become considerably enervated. 
CACTUSES. 
Do not let these stay out in cold or wet 
weather. As soon as the evenings get damp 
and chilly lift and pot the Cactuses, and 
place them on the piazza, or other dry, airv 
place. ■" J 
PUCUSIAS 
that have been pot giawn should be kept at 
rest. Summer-raised cuttings and winter- 
bloonung sorts keep growing. 
gloxinias. 
Don’t excite them to ginw till after they 
have had four months’ solid rest. If you have 
grown them in pots, keep them quite dry • if 
planted out in cold frames (I gxnw most of 
mine in frames, and get better growth and 
more flowers than from pot plantsl kpr.,, 
them a little dry as soon as they show signs 
of decay, and afterward quite drv • fh 
;;; 
flat boxes in earth or sand. 
CYCLAMENS, 
either planted out or in pots, will now have 
begun to make roots, then repot them. DoTt 
and 
the AMERICA^ 
soil; turfy loam 
CINEKABIAS. 
them up and treat each pot them 
plant. H you have raised seedh' g ’ P 
before they get pot-bound. Kejj 
cool as possible and faintly 
shine, and give them plenty of w 
CAliCEOLARlAS. 
von would Cinerarias, 
Ubo 
Treat seedlings as - , 
but be more careful in keeping them cool 
If luider glass,-frame or gi-een- 
thein as near the glass as 
and clean, 
house,—keep 
possible. 
ClIINESE PltlJIEOSES 
love to gi'ow in a cool, lightly shaded, cold 
frame. Repot them as they need it; do not 
let them get dry; keep them close to the glass 
and clean, and give them plenty of room. 
For yielding cut flowers the double ones are 
best; the blooms of the single ones drop so 
soon. 
CALLAS. 
No matter whether your plants have been 
set out in the garden or laid on their sides to 
dry up and rest during the summer, yon had 
better repot them and get them well rooted 
before cold weather comes, and thus insure 
early blossoms. They like an open, rich, 
turfy soil, and when growing freely a great 
deal of water. 
HELIOTROPES. 
Old plants lifted early and potted bloom 
well in spring; and plants raised from cut¬ 
tings in summer and kept growing in 23 ots 
also afford winter flowers. Of course the 
plants we lift in September or October may 
keep up and mature the buds they are show¬ 
ing at the time ; but then they are apt to cease 
gi-owing till they have filled their pots with 
roots. 
nasturtiujis ( Tropwolnm Lobbii) 
should be prepared for winter work. Raise 
young plants from seeds or cuttings, and 
^ow them in pots out-of-doors. From the 
time hey are a foot high they are in bloom 
and keep blooming as long as they live’ 
They are excellent window plants for winter. 
heoonias 
of the fuchsioUks and incarnm,, 
planted out, may bo left "S .bTf"’ '' 
month yet. They lift well and bln 
ously. ’ “ bloom copi- 
Cut off all) 
VIOLETS. 
than old ones. Ho,! ^ 
I’ANSIKS. 
Whore 
bo apt to got any munborof 
lot, plant them ii, cold rmi, "• 
Pl-me out-of-doors, as 
young Lettuces, to kocp ovorw'''*, 
youoansotontiubols 
OM'ly next spring. ’ or framos 
l'’AbOONE„. 
OAEE OP &EEAirnnjg_ 
It is altogether useless to ' I 
Geranium plants, whieh have ‘listl 
summer in the open air, will if all I 
aud potted, continue to bloom’ aji 
during the winter season also If 'veil'] 
are wanted for winter flowering 
be specially grown during summer i , 
it is not yet too late to prepare a f “ 
for that purpose. It plants have 
.specially reserved, a few should ' 
up immediately and potted, care hei '* 
to select the most compact and 
formed specimens. P^vfectljr 
In potting, select porous or sott- 
pots, proportionate to the size of the 
and place in the bottom of each at 1 ^ 
inch of broken pots, in order to ins!!*** 
feet drainage. Keep the plants in the ! T 
of tlie pots, and firm the soil well a 
their roots. When the plants are 
water thoroughly, and place in a shady > 
nation for a week or ten days, after 
time they should be exposed to the ° 
Have them well supplied with water ati 
remove all flower-buds until it is time t 
bring them inside, ivhich will he on the an- 
proach of cool weather. Give them a light 
sunny situation, and an average temperature 
of .55°. Do not crowd the plants, and turn 
them occasionally, so as to develop an even 
symmetrical shape. ’ 
The most suitable compost for Geraniums 
is a mi.x:turo of two-thirds well-rotted sods 
from an old pasture ; one-third well-decayed 
manure, aud a fair sprinkling of bone-dust 
thoroughly mixed and pulverized before 
using. Water should be given as often as 
necessary, care being taken to give an ample 
supiily, and when the pots become filled with 
roots, liquid manm’e water should be given 
twice a week. One ounce of guano, dissolved 
in two gallons of water, will be a proper pro¬ 
portion for this purpose. 
When large specimens are desired the 
plants should be I’epotted as often as the 
pots become flllecl with roots, or until they 
have I'eaehedthe desired size, when they can 
be treated as above advised. 
There are so many good varieties in culti¬ 
vation tliat most amateur’s find it qnite dii- 
cult to make a selection of the most distinct 
so for tlieir benefit I enumerate twelve double 
and twelve single flowering viu’ietics, all cf 
which may bo relied upon as first-class: 
Double.—./ os. Y. Murkland, Heroine, Hrs- 
A'. G. JJillj M<try Occriiig, Pocabontas, Aia 
f'ick, ,/. If. Kli])jmrl, J. P. Kirlland, diehejO 
UrcU, Hislioi) ll’ood, Am Gray, and Golden 
Pawn. 
Single. —Clement lioKtard, Master Cliristinei 
dean Sisley, 11'. C. Bryant, Mary TR 
Mow Life, Kvoniny Star, Mrs. Windsor, > 
Gordon, Progress, Cygnet, aud Aiirore. 
Chas. E. 
BOSES, ‘ 
‘‘ Hybrids,” for blooming in po*'®! 
bo thoroughly woll ostablisliodin pot® . 
I’all, iiiul not afterward excited in 
lorciiig tiino. Hut “'roas”may 
oithov 
y r 
Ki’owii all along in pots, or planto't o> 
aininuor, and lifted and potted in 
tor whiter use. But pot Roses shou > 
c.fcilod iid;o blooming growtli unlo®® 
pots are well filled with Jroalthy rootS' 
