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and Germania. The plants are quite robust, but the 

 flowers of neither stand damp in the sUghtest 

 degree. 



We grow a few of the winter-flowering sorts, 

 but I have nothing special to say about their 

 culture. 



Circumstances have led me to adopt a system 

 of glass culture which is different from anything 

 that I have seen elsewhere, and of Avhich it may 

 be interesting to have the details. 



It originated as follows. Finding that I lost 

 many ncAv varieties which were sent to me in 

 late autumn badly rooted, I began to grow on 

 such plants in pots ; and instead of planting them 

 out in spring, I gave them a shift and flowered 

 them in the greenhouse. 



Plants thus treated, and kept in a temperature 

 conducive to growth, commenced flowering in May, 

 and finding the cut flowers at this time very valuable 

 I began to cultivate them extensively in this manner, 

 with the result that I found myself with several 

 hundreds of plants of valuable varieties for which 

 I had no house-room. These I planted out, 

 placing sashes over them, and protecting them at 

 the sides mth mats ; a four-inch pipe for heating 

 was run round this impromptu structure, and the 

 result was so unexpectedly successful that the 

 idea has been embodied in a permanent glass pit. 

 This is over one hundred feet in length, by twelve 



