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grow "beyond the pegs, and turn up, every main rod then having the 

 form of the letter U. When the flower-buds are beginning to swell, 

 a plentiful support is afibrded by neat stakes driven into the pot (as 

 shown in the skeleton figure), and the pegs are withdrawn, and 



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the plant is ready for the greenhouse stage, or any other place in 

 which it is to be flowered. The result is a grand globular mass 

 of the most beautiful vegetation, which entirely or nearly conceals 

 the pot from view. S. H. 



WINTEE FLOWERS 11^^ ABUNDANCE. 



T!T AV. BKADEgRT. 



|T is SO difficult to maintain a good display of flowers 

 during the winter season -without the assistance of a 

 ■warmer temperature than that of an ordinary green- 

 house, that I would strongly advise amateurs who like 

 to have an abundance of flowers at all seasons of the 

 year, and who do not mind the expense, to have a plant stove. It 

 need not be a very large or a very expensive structure, as it can be 

 built plain and in precisely the same manner as an ordinary green- 

 house, excepting that a greater heating surface must be provided. 

 A span-roof house, ranging from ten to twelve feet in width and 

 from twenty to thirty feet in length, would aflbrd ample accommo- 



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