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December. — No water must now be given except the plants 

 turn soft for want of it, and then very little will suffice ; pick off 

 such yellow or dry leaves as can be removed without making a 

 wound, but do not force them off, which would probably make 

 a wound, and the neck be injured, and prove fatal; at this season 

 of the year keep your frame closer, as frost and snow, may now 

 be expected. 



January. — This month must begin as December ends, by keep- 

 ing all close in frosty or coarse weather, but give air every fine 

 or fair day, give very little water, if any, keep all as clean and 

 dry as you can about the plants. 



February. — The heart of the plants will now begin to look of a 

 fresher green, and the leaves to give evidence of a renewal of 

 life, they must have a little water to assist nature in her process 

 of forming the embryo flowers, about the second or third week, 

 according to the season, take off all the surface soil from the pot 

 without disturbing the fibres, and put some fine rich soil on them; 

 now is a good time for removing any rooted offsets, give water 

 once a week, but do not be too eager in setting them to grow too 

 soon, for if a severe fit of weather should come, your succulent 

 plants might be in danger, give all the sun and air you can and 

 cover with mats at night. 



ARTICLE III. 



ON THE TREATMENT OF MIMULUS' IN POTS. 



BY W. M. P. 



About the beginning of March I take off cuttings from my 

 various selected varieties, which I plant singly into 60's, using a 

 compost of two-thirds loam and the other third leaf and sand, 

 merely to keep the soil a little open, I them plunge them into a 

 bottom heat, and when they arc rooted I take them out and place 

 them on the front shelves in the greenhouse ; when the roots fill 

 the pots they will require to be shifted into 48's, using the above 

 compost with an addition of rotten cow-dung. When I finally 

 shift them, which is generally about the latter end of June, I put 

 them into as shallow pots as I can procure, from sixteen to eigh- 

 teen inches in diameter, as the roots always incline to run on the 

 surface, which ought to be pegged down and tied up neatly to 

 stakes as they grow. I allow them abundance of water as they 



