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OUEEN-IIOUSE PLANTS FOU AVINTKU IKKiUETS. 



pot or syringe, and place them gradually in the full light as they seem able to bear it 

 Thi'v will "miss the change" but very slightly, and besides the requisite labor attend- 

 ini:: plants kept in pots the whole season, will be much hotter jilants. The exceptions 

 to the above (deciduous shrubs) are best left in the ground till their leaves are ready to 

 fall, say about the end of September, as, if they are lifted before the wood is ripe, they 

 seldom flower freely. 



The plants should be all housed before the weather becomes even "white frosty," 

 and at the return of spring, or, in this latitude, early in May, set out of doors a few 

 days, then cut down as is usnul with Geraniums, and afterwards planted out to grow, 

 as in the previous season. When the plants turned out of doors have begun to grow, 

 a few young shoots of each kind should be taken oft' and struck. Young plants thus 

 raised will come into flower a few weeks after the old ones are gone out, and will 

 besides come in useful to retain wherever the old ones grow too large. 



Besides the plants I have above noted as permanent green-house plants, there are 

 many special things that cannot be dispensed with. The Camelias Double White, 

 Candidisshna myrtifolia, and Lady Hume's Blush — are essential in a collection of 

 boquet flowers ; nor can Azaleas indica alba, Phcenecice, and Smithii. These can 

 be successfully grown with the other plants by giving them an open, turfy soil, well 

 drained, and an abundance of water while growing, little when comparatively at rest, 

 and 'partially shaded in summer time. 



The Horse Shoe or Scarlet Geraniums, Geranium ComjJtonianum, the Oak-leaved, 

 and Rose-scented, are essential ingredients in my ideas of a winter boquet; and in the 

 spring of the year of the lighter colored Cinerarias and white and scarlet VerhermS' 

 Cuttings of all these should be put in expressly for this purpose early in the summer 

 and grown for a few months in the fall. Miynionette and Phlox Drummondii should 

 also be sown in pots with these, for the same object. 



The Rose must not be forgotten. For a small green-house, I would select the fol- 

 lowing kinds as blooming very freely under very common treatment — Cels, white ; 

 Devoniensis, pale lemon ; Madame Bosanquet, creamy white ; Souvenier de Mulmai- 

 son, rosy white ; Caroline, salmon white ; Lyonnais, salmon ; Common Daily or 

 Monthly China, pink ; Hermosa, rose ; Carmin Bean, purplish rose ; Agripini and 

 Louis Rhilijype, crimson. Roses for blooming early in winter, should in all cases be 

 turned out of their pots, and lifted in August, in the same manner as already described 

 for a class of plants. When they are re-potted, a good proportion — say one-third — 

 of coarse stable manure, with the turfy loam employed, will be of great service. 



There are many other plants, and tribes of plants, which are indispensable to make 

 a green-house gay in the fall, winter, and spring, as Chrysanthemums, Cactuses, Hya- 

 cinths, Lechenaultia, Pimclia,kc. But I have thought it best to confine myself in 

 this article strictly to your correspondent's object — " plants which will serve at once to 

 adorn the green-house, and to cut for the centre-table." ,, 



[We thank Mr. Meeiian for his prompt and excellent contribution to this depart 

 raent. We hope soon to acknowledge similar favors from others. — Ed.] 



