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down against the side of the j)ot. 

 Struck cuitiugs may be potied off, 

 small plants shifted to lar^'er i^ols, 

 and other cuttings may be struck 

 as soon as the growth is complete. 

 Cuttings of the last season's wood 

 will always strike freely. 



Calceolarias in flower must be 

 sliaded to prolong their bloom. 

 Seed may be sown in pans of rich 

 light soil, if not done before. 



The Camellias, though removed 

 from the greenhouse to a shady 

 part of the garden, must not be 

 neglected. While tlieir growth 

 continues they require to be 

 watered ; but as soon as their shoots 

 are completed, which may be known 

 by the buds at the end forming, 

 they must have no more water than 

 will just keep them from tliigging, 

 and have no sun at all. It is one 

 of the best possible contrivances to 

 have a canvas roof over them, to 

 keep away both wet and sun ; but 

 you must then attend to the giving 

 of nece-;sary moisture. 



Climhiny plants must be at- 

 tended to every two or three 

 days, that the growing shoots 

 may be trained to their proper 

 places. 



Hard-wooded plants generally 

 are making rapid progress ii) com- 

 pleting their season's growth, and 

 are best as much in the shade as 

 may be. Under a canvas ro'f is 

 better than in the greenhouse, 

 but wherever they are, they must 

 be attended to in the watering. 



Ericas require all the air they 

 can have, plenty of light, and 

 great attention should be paid to 

 them twice a day to see that they 

 get not too dry. Water them 

 etiectually when they are to be 

 wateied. Nothing is worse than 

 to wet the soil a little way down, 

 and not idl through. 



Fiischias must be shaded, but it 



should be with thin calico, or 

 something that will not take awuy 

 the light, and they should have 

 abundance of air. 



Geraniums out of bloom may be 

 cut down to rather sttimpy skele- 

 tons, and the cuttings may be put 

 in under a handglass in the com- 

 mon border. Shaded merely from 

 the heat of the sun, and well 

 watered, they will strike soon. 

 The early plants may be shifted, 

 the earth shook out of tlieir roots, 

 and in repotting use loam from 

 rotted turves two-thirds, peat one- 

 third, and stand them in the open 

 ground on a hanl bottom, but 

 where they may have all the sun, 

 When you cut them back remove 

 the weakly shoots altogether, and 

 only leave short limbs of those you. 

 do, in such positions as to form a 

 good foundation of a handsome- 

 headed plant. 



Greenhouse Rhododendrons which 

 have made their fresh growth 

 should be placed out of doors in 

 the shade, where they have a hard 

 impervious bottom to stand on, 

 and worms cannot work through 

 into their pots. Those which have 

 not made their growth complete 

 should have abundance of wate;-, 

 air, and light, but not the heat 

 of the sun at mid-day. 



Pruning of Flowering Plants. — 

 "When a plant is pruned into some 

 sort of form yoti may calculate to 

 a nicety how much growth it will 

 make in a season, and if you can 

 keep it in good health the less it 

 grows the better. 'I he principal 

 thing is to form the tree while 

 young, checking its exuberance 

 where it is growing too fast, and 

 encouraging the shoots that are 

 in a riglit direction; but the time 

 to prune a plant into foini is just 

 before it i egins to make its sea- 

 sou's growth, at wliich period 



