The Garden Under Glass

310 THE GARDEN UNDER GLASS beans. Stake those that need it. Top-dress potatoes in pots and stake them. Set potatoes in a tray in greenhouse to sprout. This is a much better method than planting them without sprouting, as a better yield may be expected. Make up hotbed for cucumbers and for forcing vegetables. Harden peas and beans for planting out later. Get in a further supply of rhubarb, seakale and asparagus for forcing. Continue to sow mustard and cress each week. Flowers.—Prick off East Lothian Stocks quite early, as they are then less liable to damp oft. Sow asters, Stocks, verbena, salpiglossis, nicotiana, lavatera, Phlox Drummondii and similar half-hardy plants intended for summer flowering, also more antirrhinums, pentstemons, alyssum, salvia, hollyhock, Clerodendron fallax and primulas. Take cuttings as they become available of salvias, geraniums of all kinds, but especially of those intended for winter flowering. These are obtained from the old plants which will now be cut back hard and be kept dry until they again break into growth. Take cuttings also of heliotrope, lobelia, ageratum, verbena, eupatoriums, coleuses, scented geraniums, ivy-leaved geraniums for autumn flowering in pots and pentstemons from old plants which were potted up in the autumn. Pot up border carnations, being a second batch to follow those potted in October ; tree carnations just rooted into 3-inch pots and those rooted in the autumn to 5-inch pots. Split up and repot ferns of all kinds which are now com-mencing growth. Pot on coleuses, also Chrysanthemums as they become large enough, and bedding geraniums if not done last month. Start begonias for flowering outside, also fuchsias, any further gloxinias there may be, and caladiums. Begonias may be divided after they have started if the bulbs be