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off. It should then be placed on the soil (which ' the ball breaking, and so destroying the roots, 

 has been put in the pot and well firmed down previ- When a plant is potted the new soil should always 

 ously), and fresh soil packed, either with the fingers, be put in as firm as the old balLis, or when the 



Dieffenbachia Carderi. (See page u.) 



or a blunt piece of wood, rather firmly. Loose i water is applied it will run through the loose soil 

 soil holds too much water, and when plants which and leave the firmer portion, where the roots are, 

 are potted loosely are turned out there is danger of too dry. —Lotidon Journal of Horticulture. 



