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made a few inches' growth, rub off any small weakly shoots that may 

 he coming away ; tie the shoots into position, and use the syringe 

 freely, and by the end of March they will be coming into bloom, 

 when they may be removed to a warm greenhouse. When done 

 blooming, early in May prune them, as before recommended; give 

 them a slight start in heat ; when broken into growth remove 

 them to any light airy place that may be available, carefully 

 attending to them with water, giving them liquid maniu'e twice 

 a -week at least, Eemove the flower-buds as they appear, and 

 endeavour to get them into a good pyramidal form by tying the 

 shoots as they advance in gro^i:h. They should be shifted when 

 done blooming in April into a compost of good fibry loam, with a 

 little leaf-mould and year-old cow-dung added. If they be wanted 

 for early work next season they should be allowed to get drier by the 

 end of September and be pruned, cutting them to four or five eyes ; 

 and weakly shoots cut away as before. If obliged to turn them out of 

 doors during the summer, have the pots plunged and as much 

 exposed to the sun as possible, making them secure against wind; 

 have them all housed again by the end of September if possible. At 

 this time a few may b)e selected that are showing for bloom, and, 

 slightly encouraged, they will come in during November and December, 

 and be of great service at that season. In this way they will be 

 found to bloom finer each successive season, and in a fcAv years 

 produce results worth much more than the little trouble expended on 

 the plants yearly. Insects must not be allowed to gain a footing on 

 the plants at any period, but be destroyed on their first appearance by 

 fumigation or otherwise. Some sorts are subject to mildew, especially 

 when in a moist close atmosphere ; in such a case give them a good 

 sprinkling of sulphur, and keep any of them affected away from the 

 others. We will not attempt to enter into the merits of varieties in 

 this short paper, merely remarking that those sorts found to be of 

 robust growth and free ffowerers out of doors are good for pot-culture ; 

 that in the Tea section, most of which are delicate subjects out of doors 

 in our northern clime, we have subjects of rare beauty treated in 

 this way in pots. We have had plants of Souvenir d'une ami, 

 Devoniensis, Madam Villermoz, &c. &c., in flower in December and 

 January in a show-house among Camelias, Cinerarias, with other hard 

 and soft wooded plants in flower, and the Roses were most admired 

 by both employers and visitors. At this time of the year it is 

 surprising how long the individual blooms last if damp is guarded 

 against. In Marshal Niel the growers of pot -Roses have got a grand 

 acquisition, being both free of gro^vth and of flower. We would here 

 venture to assert that there are very few employers who, if once 



