"Take as many 3-inch pots as you want plants, drain them with pieces of mortar, and put over that a little of the roughest of your compost; till up nearly level with the top of the pot. and place three seeds in the very middle of each pot. and nine or ten seeds all over the surface; it you just cover them with earth it is enough, and press them down very tight. Water them, and put them in the win-dow, and if the seeds are good they will be up in ten days. The moment you see them, give them abundance of air. - no forcing, recollect, for the more haste, the less speed with them. When the day is at all tine, put them outside the window, from ten to three in the afternoon. They will not stand much water: a gentle shower with a rose would suit them very well, and the best time to give it them is in the morning, when you turn them outside, as they will have time to drain and dry properly before you take them in for the night. If the three seeds in the centre come up. it is a sign of success, and the weakest of the three must be pulled out as soon as you can get hold of it, - the rest will also be thinned one-half." The directions then state that you must choose the strongest and most promising plant, when all have grown up a little, and pulling up the others, place a neat small stick beside it, the stick to be about a foot long, and pushed down to the bottom of the pot. When the plant is about two inches long you must tie it loosely to this stick, and continue tying it as it grows till it gets to the top, when yon may give it a tailor stick, if yon wish a high plant. Whenever side branches spring out from the stem of the tree, nip them off at the second joint, thus leaving the stem with some leaves upon it to assist its growth; "it should look," Mr Beaton say,. "as leathery as the legs of a ban tam fowl," About midsummer shift the plants into 5-inch pots, and, if they have done well, they may need another shift at the end of July; after that it is recommended to let them alone. During all this time no flowers are to be allowed to form; nip them off as fast as they appear, and allow none to blow till the middle of October, when they will flower all winter. A later sowing may be made for spring flowering, say in June, and the tying-up and nip-ping-off of these will be winter work; for all the foregoing directions are certainly to be followed in summer, and might have been alluded to in writing of that season. Chrysanthemums are also winter favourites. They too need summer's forethought and culture, but they grow and flower in winter, and there is something very refreshing in the aromatic smell of these flowers in a season when sweet scents are only thoughts of the past. The various perfumes of flowers are as characteristic as their colours. - some are sweet and faint, suggestive of calm summer evenings; others rich and luscious, recalling summer's sunlight; others are fresh and invigorating, like morning air; while others again, like the chrysanthemum, seem to have something hardy and bracing in their fragrance, as if winter needed some such strengthening influence, instead of the more enervating sweets of summer.

In window-gardening we must bear in mind that our plants require as much care as we do ourselves in the matter of temperature, fresh air, and light; and this is one reason why they seldom succeed well in sitting-rooms. The windows are opened only in the early morning, admitting frosty or damp air; these are kept closed during the day, and the dust from the fire, and the heat of the gas at night, alike injure the plants. If kept indoors, they will thrive better in a room where the windows can be opened for an hour or two during the finest part of the day, where gas is not burned for several hours every night, and where the temperature is kept at a uniform height. When there is a greenhouse, from which plants in bloom can be brought into the sitting-rooms, care should be taken not to keep them there above a day or two, for, in general, the blossoms drop off, the leaves grow yellow, and the whole plant suffers from the effects of the gas and the dryness of the air. I have heard that if the plants are removed every evening to a room where gas is not lighted, they succeed much better and last longer; but this is a trouble few people care to take, and so the shorter time we keep flowering plants indoors the better.

A greenhouse might be made much more gay than it usually is in winter by a little forethought and care in autumn, so as to have common annuals and small shrubby plants potted in September; many of these would flower in December and January, and might be brought indoors occasionally to brighten up our rooms. Sow in June and July seeds of Clarkia pulchella, Nemophila insignis and maculata, Coreopsis tinctoria, and others, - sow either in pots or on a piece of ground, to be afterwards transferred to pots. These may be "grown either singly or in clumps, trained by placing twigs in the pots, through which the tiny branches may ramble, or arranging small stakes round the side of the pot and bracing them together with a thread, and removing them into the house before touched with frost in November" These will blow during the winter; and being common things, and so probably despised by the gardener, we may have the pleasure of tending them and bringing them indoors when we please. Besides these annuals, we might have in flower, during the winter months, pots of double daisies, heartsease, double primroses, and wallflowers; while in early spring, plants of Deutzchia gracilis, Dielytra spectabilis, and tree violets, would bring us round to the time when our outdoor enjoyment and work would recommence.

The difficulty is, as we said above, to recollect at the right season to prepare for winter. It would be a good plan to keep a book in which to mark down, under the heading of the different months, what we wished to do in each, so as to be reminded when the time came. There are, of course, such monthly calendars in all garden-books and in most almanacs, and most useful these often are; but a private calendar of this kind would suit each one better, as it would contain only what we happened to wish to recollect. Along with the notice of the work to be done, might be inserted a reference to the volume and page where the culture of the plant was detailed, which could then be studied anew, if requisite; the progressive work to be inserted under the month in which it was to be done. Thus, for instance, under June should be inserted the sowing of annuals for winter-flowering; in September, we would observe that these should be looked after, thinned out, and placed in a sunny situation; and in November, we would be reminded to bring them indoors, or into the greenhouse.