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resources for future elaboration and development. No plant can, 

 with impunity, undergo constant and uninterrupted hard forcing 

 without producing constitutional debility, disease, and death. In 

 nature every plant has its season of rest, and if we in artificial 

 management drive cultivation to its utmost limits, we must on no 

 account alter the immutable laws which maintain and perfect every 

 vegetable production. Should our object be to have these desirable 

 plants in beauty in early spring, we should commence in November 

 following with the system previously detailed, and those plants 

 which were earliest excited the previous season will be the most 

 suitable to commence with. 



TABERNCEMONTANA CORONARIA FLORE PLENO. 



HIS fine stove shrub has loDg been common in well- 

 managed collections, although it is not so generally 

 cultivated as it deserves to be. Its large white flowers 

 are hardly inferior to those of the Gardenia in fragrance, 

 and last longer in beauty, and are produced very thickly 

 under proper management. Being a native of the East Indies, it 

 requires a warm, moist temperature while growing, with a liberal 

 supply of water at the root ; but when the wood is formed, from 

 which flowers are expected, it must be subjected to a period of cool 

 dry treatment, to thoroughly ripen the wood, which is essential if a 

 good display of blossoms is wished for. 



By the exercise of a little forethought and attention, to get the 

 wood properly ripened, and allow the plant a period of rest, it may 

 be had in bloom at any time from March to November, as properly- 

 ripened wood will never fail to produce flowers. 



Young plants should be placed in a moist growing temperature 

 at about 65° by night, and 75° by day, as early in spring as circum- 

 stances will admit ; and if they can be afforded a bottom-heat of 

 about 85°, this will greatly assist in promoting active growth. At 

 this season the plants should be kept near the glass, and afforded all 

 the light possible, admitting air whenever the state of the weather 

 will permit, in order to prevent long-jointed weakly growth. If 

 dwarf short-jointed plants have been selected, the points of the 

 shoots may be pinched out, tying the latter down to induce the 

 lower buds to start, but if the plants are straggling they had better 

 be sufficiently cut back to secure a close habit. 



Shifting must be attended to as soon as the pots are moderately 

 well filled with healthy roots, using pots one or two sizes larger, 

 according to the vigour of the plants. If in bottom-heat, great 

 caution will be necessary, for a fortnight or so after potting, to 

 apply water properly : for when the pots are plunged, it is not easy 

 to judge of the state of the soil, as when they are exposed ; and so 

 little is required in this case, that beginners are very apt to water 

 too frequently, and many a promising plant is thus ruined. Care 

 should always be exercised to ascertain the state of the soil, before 



