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to date no flowers. "What shall we do 

 the coming season for we don't want to 

 give the case up yet. Shall the swainsona 

 be put into a box and prepared in that 

 way for next winter's bloom? If so how 

 large a box and what shall be the treat- 

 ment through the summer?" 



It" the plant is in good health I would 

 advise that it be cut back to within 18 

 inches of the pot and about the end of 

 May shifted into a 9 or 10-inch pot and 

 plunged out of doors for the summer. If 

 taken in before any- danger of frost, it 

 will undoubtedly flower next winter, or 

 you can throw this old plant away, be- 

 ginning with a young plant this spring 

 and shift on during summer till you have 

 it by fall in a 6-inch pot; shift no more 

 and it will flower as soon as the roots 

 have filled the pot. The swainsona is 

 classed as a sub-shrub, that is, a plant 

 hardly worthy of being classed as a shrub, 

 and is a native of Australia. It cannot 

 be expected to be continually in flower 

 but doubtless where it is many times dis- 

 appointing is because it is given too much 

 root room, and whilegrowing vigorously 

 it has no inclination to flower. 



A commercial experience with this 

 climbing shrub has proved this: Some 

 plants that were given unlimited root 

 room grew six feet high and very bushy 

 but scarcely flowered at all in one year, 

 while a number of plants planted by the 

 ride of the iron supports in a carnation 

 [continued page 220.] 



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