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giving water, and there should be no dribbling, or mere surface 

 watering, but enough should be given to thoroughly moisten the 

 ball, giving no more until it is absolutely wanted. As the season 

 advances, it will probably be necessary to afford a slight protection 

 against bright sunshine, but only a thin shade should be used, and 

 this as sparingly as can be safely done. 



As soon as the pots are found to be well filled with roots, give a 

 second shift, unless that should be the ease until towards the end of 

 the growing season, when it will be better to avoid shifting till the 

 following spring. 



Maintain a thoroughly moist atmosphere, and syringe the plants 

 over-head on the mornings and evenings of bright days in summer, 

 and also keep the shoots regularly tied out and stopped, as may be 

 necessary to secure a compact bushy habit ; but in case of plants 

 intended to bloom the following spring, stopping must not be 

 practised later in the season than will allow of getting the young 

 wood properly matured before the winter. 



If the plants can be placed in a pit or house where the tempera- 

 ture may range about 55°, this will form a suitable situation for 

 them in winter, and if proper care has been exercised to get the 

 wood well ripened in autumn, the night temperature may be allowed 

 to fall as low as 45° in hard weather. Give very little water to the 

 soil at this period, only just sufficient to preserve the roots in a 

 healthy state, but draw the syringe over the foliage occasionally on 

 the mornings of a bright day, so as to clear it of dust, etc. If it is 

 intended to grow large specimens before allowing the plants to 

 flower, place them in a moist temperature of about 65° by fire heat, 

 as early in the spring as circumstances will permit, and afford them 

 a brisk bottom-heat, to induce them into a vigorous root action. 



See to the state of the roots, and shift before these suffer for 

 want of pot room, also keep the shoots tied out and stopped as may 

 be necessary to secure bushy growth, and otherwise treat the plants 

 as recommended for last season. 



While in bloom the specimens may be placed in a cool house, 

 but they must be carefully guarded from damp in the atmosphere, 

 and after flowering they should be cut back as may be required, and 

 re-potted; but with an occasional watering with manure water during 

 the growing season, they may be kept in good health without re- 

 potting. For soil use good fibry peat and loam, in the proportion of 

 three parts of the former to one of the latter, adding a sufficient 

 quantity of silver sand to ensure a free percolation of water through 

 the ball after the decay of the fibre. Cuttings of moderately young 

 wood soon root if planted in sandy soil, covered with a bell glass, 

 and afforded a sharp bottom heat of 80° or 90°. 



Juno. 



