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do not recommend plunging the pots. It is 

 better that they should have some shelter from 

 the north and east by walls or buildings, if pos- 

 sible ; but they cannot get too much sunshine, 

 and when they can be placed in a favourable 

 position they make by far the best growth quite 

 in the open. 



JULY. 



This is usually a hot month, and insect pests, 

 both thrip and green-fly, may be troublesome. In 

 hot weather syi^inge the plants every evening, and, 

 if very hot and dry, in the morning as well. This 

 will usually keep them clean if they were free from 

 insects when they were turned out-of-doors. Re- 

 potting the plants will not yet be finished ; indeed, 

 some of the later propagated stock may not yet be 

 put out-of-doors, for I do not advise placing the 

 small plants quite out in the open. All through 

 the season watering requires to be done with care. 

 When the plants have filled the pots in which they 

 are growing pretty full of roots, water may be 

 administered liberally; but just after re-pottmg, 

 and before the roots have well run into the new 

 soil, great care is necessary — the new material 

 might become waterlogged, and the plants would 

 fail to make strong, healthy growth such as is 

 needed for the production of good flowers. 



AUGUST. 



All the plants should be in their flowering 



