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they will grow, but scarcely any water will be 

 required during resting, or until tliey again begin 

 to grow. The time best suited for potting or 

 blocking is when they are making their fresh roots 

 from the base of the young shoots. 



A slight deviation from this treatment is, how- 

 ever, necessary on the part of L. acuminata, 

 which will not fully expand its flowers in a tem- 

 perature at all lower than Ib^ ; it will grow in as 

 cool a place as any of the others, but the blossoms 

 are then only imperfectly developed. 



