332 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Sevv., 1899. 
now be coming forward, and these will in many cases require a very sinall stake 
to keep some of them upright. Stakes should never be used if they can be 
dispensed with, and when used should not be made obtrusive on any account. 
Shade-garden and yeranda plants will now stand in need of repotting. It 
generally suffices to pot a fair-sized plant into the same-sized pot as that from 
which you take it. There seems to be a general idea that plants always want a 
shift into a larger pot, and you sometimes, or rather often, hear a person say, 
when contemplating some miserable specimen in a pot seven sizes too large for 
it, “Oh, yes, it is not doing well; I must shift it into a larger pot.” Above all 
things in potting plants, have the pots clean. ‘They should be washed and dried 
thoroughly before bemg used again. Remove from the surface of plants in the 
shade-garden as much of the dried and used-up soil as you can without injuring 
the roots, and replace it with fresh earth. Itis better to do this a little at a 
time, so that the plants may have a continuous supply. 
