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out the branches, to secure handsome bushy specimens. "When well 

 established after this shift, remove them to their flowering-pots, which 

 may be ten, twelve, or fifteen-inch ones, according to the season at 

 which ihey are ready for their final shift, and the convenience for 

 obtaining vigorous growth. Persons who cannot command a suffi- 

 ciently high temperature early in spring to induce active growth, 

 should give the plants a very moderate shift when they start into 

 growth, and at the final potting put three in a pot. When estab- 

 lished in their fiowering-pots, they will be greatly benefited by a 

 liberal supply of manure water, and the shoots must be tied out and 

 stopped until the desired size of specimen is obtaiued. When in 

 flower, they may be removed to the conservatory, greenhouse, or 

 wherever tbeir blossoms will be most valued ; but in the removal 

 care must be taken to prevent the plants getting injured. They 

 should be gradually accustomed to the change by removing them to 

 ihe coolest part of the pit or house previous to shifting them to a 

 cool house; and they should then be placed where they will not be 

 exposed to the direct rays of the sun, or drying currents of air. The 

 flowers remain long in perfection, and well-grown specimens will 

 last in full beauty from the middle of July to the middle of Septem- 

 ber, if properly tended with water, and placed in a situation where 

 the blossoms will not be injured by damp. 



Good fibry peat and loam, in about equal proportions, form a 

 suitable compost for the growth of the Lisianthus. The soil should 

 be rendered rather fine for small plants, adding a liberal proportion 

 of sharp silver sand, but for the final shift it should be used in a 

 rather rough state, and well intermixed with rough pieces of char- 

 coal, with a moderate proportion of sand. 



ROSES FOR WINTER BLOOMING. 



^gJr^SOR this purpose, a selection should be made from the 

 Tea and Bourbon families, on their own roots, or 

 budded very low. Presuming the plants bought from 

 the nursery are in the small pots they are generally 

 grown in for sale, they should at once be placed into 

 those a size larger, carefully and freely watered, during this and 

 next month, cutting off all the flower-buds they may show before 

 September. About the middle of the latter month shorten the 

 strongest shoots, and thin out the slender ones, turning the plant* 

 out of the pots, depriving them of some of the soil, and repot in 

 those a good size larger, usiug a compost of turfy loam, sand, and 

 manure in about equal proportions; they also like a little leaf- 

 mould ; put several pieces of broken crock in the bottom of the pot, 

 then a portion of soil ; place the plant so that the surface roots shall 

 just be covered, and then filling with the soil ; put them in a situa- 

 tion partially shaded, water sparingly, till they begin to grow, then 

 expose them fully to the sun, and water freely every day. There 



