This is the season when most plants will require re-potting previous to their making their new season's growth. The difficulty always is to find the increased room that re-potting requires. Usually room is made by turning out the bedding plants into hot-bed frames, protecting them from frosts at night by mats. Much may be gained also by not increasing the size of pots, as pointed out by a correspondent, but merely changing the soil; where, however, plants are not shortened in previous to the re-pottal, care must be exercised in shaking out the soil, or serious results may follow. The ball of roots should be soaked in water, so that the particles of soil may fall away easily from the roots. The soil for potting, too, should be nearly quite dry, and then rammed into the pots about the roots very hard and tight. Immediately after potting the plant should be well watered, and placed in a close and partially shaded atmosphere till the roots take hold of the new soil again. Where the roots are not much disturbed these precautions are unnecessary. In addition to dry soil for potting it should be fibrous, that is, it should have a good portion of old fine roots through it to give a spongy texture.

It is this which gives the top soil of a pasture such value in the eye of a good gardener for potting purposes, as the innumerable fine roots of the grass through it render it particularly spongy or "fibrous" as the technical term is.

As the plants potted grow, those intended to be made stocky or bushy, should have their strong shoots pinched off, which will encourage the strength of the weaker ones.

The direct rays of our hot March suns are very fatal to flowers, and they soon fade unless protected. A portion of the house should have its glass shaded, and where it is desired to prolong the bloom the plants should be removed under it. A thin paint of sugar of lead on the outside is the most permanent and best shading for glass.

Pansies are now coming into flower. They like an airy frame, where they will not be roasted at midday nor exposed to drying winds, and yet have a free circulation of air and plenty of light out in such a frame, and the old shoots cut as soon as the plant has done flowering, the 11 keep healthy over till the next Mason.