FEBRUARY.

Continue as directed in last month. Prepare stocks for roses to be

grafted on, R. bengalensis, and R. canina are the best. Great care must

be paid to thinning out the buds of roses to insure perfect blossoms, as

well as to rubbing off the succulent upright shoots and suckers that are

apt to spring up at this period. Collect seeds as they ripen, to be

dried, or hardened in the shade.

Collect seeds as they ripen, drying them carefully, for a few days in

the pods, and subsequently when freed from them in the shade, to put

them in the sun being highly injurious. Give a plentiful supply of water

in saucers to Narcissus, or other bulbs when flowering.

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