The Garden Under Glass

340 THE GARDEN UNDER GLASS end of November or early in December. If well grown, with plenty of feeding most of the spikes should produce eight to ten or even twelve flowers. I have had as many as thirty-three buds form from one bulb. Calanthes also repay good treatment. A few years ago I had one bulb produce four spikes with eighty-two flowers on. The best produced thirty-nine, the others twenty-four, ten and nine. The last two were thrown from the upper part of the pseudo-bulb. As the flowers are cut off the plants may be set on their sides beneath the staging, or preferably on a shelf until they start again in March or April. Choose the best rooted cuttings of Calceolaria amplexicaulis, and pot up for growing into taller plants. December Fruit and Vegetables—If vines have not been pruned last month the work should be done at once, eise they will probably bleed, which means that the sap will exude from the cut surface. This occurs when the vine has practically completed its season of rest and is starting into renewed activity. It will easily be noticed by an observ-ant person. To remedy it, wipe the face of the cut surface quite dry and apply carpenter’s “ knotting.” But avoid pruning so late in the following season. After dressing with winter-dressing as previously advised, tie in the growths of peaches and figs. There is plenty of time in the new year to tie vines permanently into place. Sow a few tomatoes, such as Carter’s Sunrise, thinly in a box or pan, and put them in a temperature of 550 to 6o°. They will germinate in rather more than a week. Towards the end of the month they may be pricked off in boxes a few inches apart, but do not use any manure of any kind in