The Garden Under Glass

336 THE GARDEN UNDER GLASS but to keep a tidier appearance many will come off if brushed upwards with a birch or a bass broom. If there is red-spider or scale on them it would be better to burn them all straight away. What grapes are left now would be better cut off the vines and bottled, as they will keep better in a dry room than they would in a house where there are so many plants, and where there would naturally be too much moisture. Strawberries will be best plunged in a frame in some fresh gathered leaves. This is done to preserve the pots and to keep the plants free from heavy rains. Plenty of air should be given, the lights being drawn back on all possible occasions. Flowers.—Stake heliotropes and ivies with thin stakes and pinch out all the side growths of the former. Stake as neatly as possible the growths of begonia, Gloire de Lorraine, and allow now the flowers to develop. Sow sweet -peas in pots four in each 5-inch pot, and plunge them in ashes in a cold frame. They will germinate in a few weeks’ time, and from that time onwards may be kept as freely ventilated as possible. Cover the frame with a net to keep out sparrows, which are very fond of nipping off the young growths. Move the best pots of mignonette from 5-inch to 7-inch pots, using plenty of mortar nibble in the com-post. Select the best rooted cuttings of fuchsias to form standards, and pot them singly in 3-inch pots. Get the decorative and single Chrysanthemums inside at the end of the month. Move Calla lilies into the greenhouse. Pot up early-flowering Chrysanthemums from outside to afford flowers until the others come on. There will by the end of the month be plenty of viola cuttings, which may be pulled from the centre of the plants with a few roots attached. Small pelargoniums will now bear removal to 3-inch or 4-inch pots. Border carnations at present in 3-inch pots may be moved to 6-inch if it is intended to flower