The Garden Under Glass

A GREENHOUSE CALENDAR 337 them in pots. An airy situation in a cold house will best suit them. Two-year-old plants in large pots may be top-dressed with Peruvian guano or Clay’s. Tree carna-tions will also benefit by a similar top-dressing. These will now be giving their flowers very freely, but an eye must be kept on them, else many will be destroyed by earwigs. The present is a very good time for making a stack of turf for potting purposes. If made now with layers of manure between it will be in a good state by the spring. A dusting of lime during the process will benefit it considerably. Gather together all possible tree leaves for forming leaf-soil. It needs to stand a year or even two to be really useful for potting. Clear away old hotbeds, working the material in the ground during digging or trenching. Calanthes are showing colour and will not now require any water. If arranged among maidenhair ferns, they give a decidedly pleasing effect. Roman hyacinths and Paper-white Narcissi may now be removed from the ashes and introduced into the greenhouse after a few days’ sojourn in a cold frame. Force retarded crowns of lilies of the valley. Pot up all outdoor plants intended for forcing, and piunge the pots in ashes in a convenient part of the garden. Get up dahlias, cannas, Salvia patens, Lobelia cardinalis and early-flowering Chrysanthemums from the border and put in boxes in a frame, except the dahlias, which may be stored in any dry frost-proof shed. Pot or box old plants from the beds of such as are required for furnishing cuttings in the spring. Move cinerarias to 7-inch pots. Stake freesias now being moved along in the greenhouse. Cypripediums are now throwing up their flower spikes and should be set in such a position as to pro-vide a telling effect. Primula obconica will also be flower-ing freely and may be expected to do so for many months to come. Wash off all permanent shading from green- Y