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times, rich free soil, judicious " stopping," and ordinary management 

 in other respects, will always ensure an abundant bloom upon these 

 plants in autumn and -winter, when we have little else to render our 

 greenhouses and conservatories gay. And as they are grown all the 

 summer in the open air, those who have a cool vinery or any other 

 empty house in the autumn, can easily have plenty of flowers at that 

 season, with but little extra room. They may be removed to the 

 house about the middle of October, when some of the earlier kinds 

 are just coming into flower. It is a bad plan to take them in too 

 early, as the leaves generally begin to fall soon afterwards. 



Those who wish to mal<e very large specimens with little trouble, 

 sometimes plant them out in a rich border in April or May, as soon 

 as the cuttings are rooted. Here they grow with great luxuriance, 

 and are very large and bushy when the time 'comes for taking them 

 up and removing them into the greenhouse. In autumn they are 

 taken up carefully, and placed in a shaded situation for a few days, 

 until they recover from the effects of the operation, and are then 

 taken to the greenhouse. There is another plan for making small 

 dwarf flowering specimens, which deserves especial notice. The 

 young shoots which have [grown to a considerable length have their 

 points "layered " about the month of August in small pots. As soon 

 as they are well rooted they are cut from the parent stock, repotted, 

 and placed for a short time in a shaded place until they recover. 

 They are then subjected to the same treatment as the others, and ge- 

 nerally flower on stems about a foot or eighteen inches in height. I 

 had a splendid stack this size last autumn ; after blooming I cut the 

 tops eff, and placed the plants in a cool frame, sufficient to protect 

 from frost, giving air whenever likely, and fully expose them at the 

 end of March or early in April. 



ARTICLE V. 



ON A NEW METHOD OF POTTING PLANTS. 



BY A FORKMAN OV A LONDON NURSERY. 



Yovjr having inserted on former occasions several communications I 

 forwarded for the Cabinet, induces me to forward some remarks on 

 what has recently been the subject of considerable remark, and is now 

 termed one-shift system of potting plants. Considerable doubts 



