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brought in from the open air (having been plunged out during summer), the pots 

 are laid on their sides under the stages in a moderately warm house, and are 

 gradually dried off. When started in February or March of the following year, 

 they resemble a monster Capo bulb, full of pithy vitality, which, in a genial 



Ml»a .mterba. 



heated atmosphere, rapidly gives forth a succession of leaves. For whatever 

 purpose intended, the ripening-off during winter seems to be a cardinal point in 

 its treatment. — T. Moore, 



THE FAILURES IN WALL FRUITS IN 1873. 

 BELIEVE Mr. Fish is quite right (see Florist and Pomologist, p. 231) as 

 to the scarcity of superior wall-fruit, when he says that the cause must be 

 m attributed to the immature state of the wood and flower-buds made last 

 'ijP summer and autumn. Of a long south wall here, principally covered with 



