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foUowino- they may be pruned in closely, i. e., to within two or three 

 buds of the base of each shoot, and remain plunged during the summer. 

 Additional vigour may be given by removing the sawdust or tan from 

 the surface of the pots in March, and substituting rotten manure. 

 Durino- the summer all suckers must be carefully removed, and in 

 June, July, and August all luxuriant shoots shortened, by pinching off 

 their ends, and superfluous shoots nipped in the bud ; so that each 

 plant is made to form a neat compact bush, not too much crowded 

 with shoots. If this is properly attended to, they will scarcely require 

 prunino- the following sprnig, but only a few of the shoots thinned out, 

 i. e. entirely removed. These plants will require abundance of water 

 in dry hot weather in summer, and once a-week in June and July they 

 should be watered with guano water ; one pound to twelve gallons of 

 water will be of sufficient strength. If not placed on slates, the pots 

 must be removed once a fortnight, to prevent the roots entering the 

 soil underneath the pots, which will give them much additional vigour: 

 but the check they receive when removed is very injurious ; this must, 

 therefore, be carefully guarded against. The above treatment is also 

 applicable to Moss and Provence Roses on their own roots, which, when 

 required for forcing, may at once be removed from the plunging-bed, 

 after having remained there one summer, to the forcing-house ; those 

 required for exhibition only may also remain there till near the bloom- 

 ino- season, when, if it is wished to retard them, they may be placed 

 under a north wall, if to accelerate, they may be removed to the 

 greenhouse, or to any pit or frame under glass. 



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This plant does not generally succeed Avell when grown in pots, and 

 removals for forcing injures it. We have found it to do admirably 

 as follows: — We had three small beds of the Lily of the Valley, of the 

 size of a one lio-ht frame, and over one bed the frame was placed early 

 in October. About a month afterwards a tolerable sized trench was 

 made all round the frame, and it was filled up with warm fermenting 

 stable manure and a wood covering, sloping from the frame over the 

 trench similar to one side of a house roof, which kept the dung from 

 beino- affected by heavy rains, &c., or cold atmosphere. This lining 

 requires forking over, or renewing once or more. With the usual at- 

 tention of air, water, and protection, the plants succeeded admirably. 

 One bed only forced each year. 



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Those who are desirous to obtain a nice clean lawn, without weeds, 

 would find the most effectual remedy to destroy them, and Plantains in 

 particular, is, when the sun shines bright and strong to put a pinch of 

 salt on the lieart of the plants ; they shrivel in a few hours ; but if 

 applied in a moist day it fails. 



