THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE, 341 
The foregoing subjects are certainly quite sufficient to make a 
most attractive display, and although a special course of culture is, 
in most cases, necessary to have the plants in bloom, the details are 
not difficult to understand or carry out. For example, to have 
primulas in bloom, it is simply necessary to sow the seed a little 
earlier than usual, and to insure a good display of geraniums, the 
cultivator has only to pot up the plants in the early part of the 
summer, shift on as may be required during the season, and to 
remove the flower-buds as fast as they make their appearance, until 
about the middle of September, to prevent the plants being ex- 
hausted before the season in which they are required in bloom. I 
should like amateurs to devote more time and attention to the culti- 
vation of plants that may be had in bloom during November and the 
two following months, for in these months there are no flowers out- 
of-doors, and a bit of colour under glass and in a genial temperature 
is capable of affording an immense amount of pleasure, especially to 
those who are unable to go out-of-doors excepting when the weather 
is dry and open. To afford the amateur all the assistance I can in 
the matter, I will point ont the plants most suitable for the decora- 
tion of the conservatory during the ensuing months, and at the 
same time will give brief directions for their cultivation, to insure 
their flowering at the desired moment. 
Bovvarpias are very attractive and the flowers are most valu- 
able for bouquets. Plants raised from cuttings struck in March 
will, with good culture, make nice bushes by the autumn; but the 
best course for the amateur to take, will be to begin in March with 
plants raised from cuttings the previous autumn, and nicely estab- 
lished in small sixties. They should be first shifted into large six- 
ties, and, to afford room for a moderate quantity of new soil, reduce 
the ball of soil moderately. From these pots they must be shifted 
into six-inch pots, and then be transferred to others eight inches in 
diameter. They are in every instance to be repotted when the 
pots occupied are filled with roots, and not before. A warm pit 
will be the most ‘suitable place for them until the end of May, 
and after that time they can be grown in an ordinary frame. They 
must be regularly stopped until the end of August, when it must be 
discontinued, and the stock removed to the greenhouse. Mode- 
rately liberal ,supplies of water and an occasional syringing are 
needful for the maintenance of the plants in a healthy condition. 
A mixture of equal parts turfy loam, fibrous peat, and leaf-mould or 
manure, forms a most suitable compost. B. Vreelandi and B. 
Hogarth, two of the most useful varieties grown, may be planted 
out ina bed of soil early in June, and if they are regularly stopped 
up to the time mentioned, the middle of August, and lifted early in 
September, they bloom superbly throughout the autumn. 
Carnagions of the tree or perpetual-flowering section are of the 
utmost value, for they are not only highly ornamental when grouped 
with other plants, but they are also most useful for supplying cut 
flowers for button-hole and hand bouquets. In February or March 
select healthy shoots, cut them close under the third joint, remove 
the lower pair of leaves, and then insert them singly in thumb-pots 
November, 
