136 THE FORCING GARDEN. 
syringings with clean soft water, with now and then a 
fumigating with tobacco in the evening, and syringing 
in the morning, till they are in flower, then the syring- 
ing should be discontinued. As soon as the flower 
heads are well formed give a weekly watering with 
weak liquid manure—half an ounce of guano to one 
gallon of water is quite strong enough. The Cinerarias 
will all have done flowering by the month of April, 
when they should be removed from the house and 
the stages cleaned, and then the Calceolarias may be 
brought in. 
It is infinitely better to grow Calceolarias (I mean 
herbaceous Calceolarias) in a cool pit or deep frame 
all along from the seedling stage till they are in their 
flowering pots and are actually sending up their flower 
stems, than it is to coddle them in a greenhouse all the 
winter, where they become infested with insect pests. 
I have found that they are not at all liable, or at least 
half so liable, to insects when grown in cold pits till 
April, as when they are subjected to fire heat. The 
plants will carry a luxuriant foliage completely covering 
the pot and will be more robust when in flower; these 
will succeed the Cinerarias admirably and make a most 
unique show for many weeks, and if of good exhibition 
varieties they will exceed most plants in richness of 
colour. 
The herbaceous Calceolarias cannot be multiplied 
by any other means than that of seed, which should be 
sown in the month of May, for flowering the following 
May; the seed should be sown on the surface of seed- 
pans filled with fine leaf-mould, maiden loam and sand, 
and set in a shady place in a house or pit, and the 
seed-pan covered with a flat square of glass till the 
