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When the seedlings are strong enough, prick them off 
into pots, and place them in a close situation. When 
large enough pot off singly, and put them upon a shelf 
near the glass in an airy greenhouse. Raising plants 
from seed every year is far preferable to increasing the 
stock by cuttings. The Herbaceous Calceolarias we now 
have in cultivation is so very fine, that it is labor wasted 
to trouble with cuttings, as the great majority of the 
plants from a batch of seed will prove all that can be 
desired. The soil for growing them should be composed 
of three parts rich light loam and sand, about two parts 
good leaf mould, and the remainder well decayed sheep 
manure. When well grown they are very ornamental, 
and serve to decorate the greenhouse and conservatory 
just at the season the hard-wooded plants are failing; 
consequently they are of double value. They are subject 
to attacks of Green Fly, which must be destroyed by 
fumigation as soon as it appears; and if the plants are 
kept in a dry atmosphere at a high temperature, Red 
Spider and Brown Spot will disfigure them very rapidly ; 
therefore care must be taken to keep them in a cool, 
moist, airy situation. The Shrubby kinds are more com- 
pact and hardy, and although they are serviceable to 
some extent for in-door decoration, their chief use is for 
bedding purposes. They will not, however, do much as 
bedding plants in the South, our Summers being too 
warm for them, and it is only through the Fall, Winter 
and Spring months that the Herbaceous sorts can be 
raised in greenhouses with any degree of success, and 
then with much care and watchfulness. Itis only where 
parties have plenty of time to experiment and are usually 
successful with flowers that their growth should be at- 
tempted; amateurs and inexperienced flower raisers 
would be sure to fail with them. 
