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moved and the plants placed for a week or 
two in a light situation; they should then 
be moved into 6 or 7 inch pots, according 
to the quantity of roots which they are 
found to have made when turned out of 
the cutting pots. Let them be potted in 
good fibrous loam, not broken too fine. To 
this should be added one-fifth rotten 
manure and an equal quantity of sand ; 
make the soil quite firm in the pots, and 
place them on a shelf as near the glass as 
they can be got. This is important in order 
to keep them dwarf and short-jointed, upon 
which in a great measure depends their good 
appearance afterwards more than in the 
case of most plants ; if allowed to become 
at all drawn no subsequent treatment can 
furnish them with stout, healthy leaves 
down to the pots until they have been 
headed down, which would entail the loss 
of aseason. They must never be allowed 
to suffer from want of water, or the leaves 
will be injured. Syringe freely every 
afternoon both the upper and under sur- 
faces of the foliage; they will require 
slightly shading in very bright weather 
until the middle of September, when it 
should be discontinued; give more air 
and reduce the temperature to 65° at 
night, and proportionately low during the 
day, lowering it 5° more as the days get 
shorter. During winter little growth 
will be made, and correspondingly less 
water must be given; but as these Cle- 
rodendrons do not require the wood to be 
ripened so much as that of most plants, 
they must never be allowed to get too dry 
at the roots, so as to cause the leaves to 
flag, or they will be injured. Keep them 
where they will have plenty of light, and 
continue this treatment until the middle 
of February, when the temperature should 
be raised 5° day and night, and the plants 
moved into 10-in. pots, now using the soil 
in larger pieces than before, but with a 
similar quantity of manure and sand added. 
After this be careful not to give too much 
water until the roots have got well hold of 
the soil ; towards the latter end of March 
raise the temperature 5° more, and begin 
to syringe overhead in the afternoon. 
They will now grow fast, and should have 
a little air in the daytime ; as the sun gets 
powerful a slight shade will also be neces- 
sary in the middle of the day. They make 
roots freely, and by the end of May they 
should be moved into 13-in. pots, which 
size will be large enough for the present 
season, using soil such as that recom- 
mended for the previous shift. The 
temperature may now be kept at 70° in 
the night if the plants are required to 
flower early in the season, but with this 
Greenhouse and Stove Plants. 
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heat they must be placed near the glass 
and be allowed a moderate amount of air 
every day. About the end of June they 
should show bloom, when they may have 
manure-water given twice a week. In a 
few weeks the flowers will commence to 
open; the plants can then be moved to 
the coolest end of the stove, or if a house 
is available where an intermediate tem- 
perature is kept up they may be removed 
to it, which will prolong their time of 
blooming. When the flowering is over, 
if the spikes are cut out at the bottom just 
above where they spring from the upper 
leaves, and the plants are again subjected 
to a brisk heat, they will push up one or 
more shoots from the points from which 
the flower-stems were removed, and will 
bloom again in September ; after this they 
may be cut down to within 8 or 10 inches 
of the bottom, and should be kept at about 
65° at night and a little higher in the day- 
time, syringing daily, but not giving much 
water to the soil until they have again 
begun to grow; the temperature may be 
lowered as in the preceding autumn, 
wintering them as before. As the days 
lengthen give them more warmth; in 
March take them out of their pots and 
remove one-third of the old soil, putting 
them in others 2 or 3 inches larger ; press 
the soil moderately firm, and treat them 
in every way as during the previous 
summer, except that they will not require 
pottinga second time ; they will flower again 
twice, but they must not be cut back 
after the first blooming further than just 
removing the flower-stems. Plants thus 
treated will last for years, and may, if 
desired, be grown in 18 or 20 inch pots, 
in which way they will attain a large size, 
bearing eight or ten spikes of bloom ata 
time. 
C. Kempfert. This handsome South 
American species bears scarlet flowers. 
It (and also C. fallax) can be raised from 
seeds sown as soon as ripe in autumn ; but 
in order to obtain them the first flower- 
stems of the season must not be removed 
but allowed to remain on the plant until 
the seed is matured. Sow the seeds 
singly in small pots, covering them with a 
quarter of an inch of soil. They will soon 
vegetate, and will require treating in every 
way similarly to young plants raised from 
cuttings. 
C. fragrans fl.-pl. This is a weaker 
growing plant than the preceding, produc- 
ing close, compact heads of pinkish white 
double flowers, so highly and agreeably 
scented as to be preferred by many to those 
of Daphne indica, Tuberose, or the old Clove 
Carnation. It requires similar treatment 
