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care in watering will be necessary until the plants get established in 

 their new pots. A slight shade tor a few hours in the forenoons of 

 bright days will be beneficial, but this must not be overdone, and a 

 free circulation of air should be maintained night and day, except 

 when cold drying currents of wind may prevail, and then the lights 

 should be raised on the sheltered side only, and the temperature 

 kept down by means of shading. The plants will be greatly benefited 

 by full exposure to the night dews when the weather is fine, but the 

 lights should be so placed as to ward off a heavy storm of rain, 

 should such occur; the lights should, however, be put on every 

 morning, for the purpose of securing a moist atmosphere, and the 

 plants should be moistened overhead, as well as the door on which 

 they stand. Inure the specimens to full exposure to air and sun- 

 shine by the beginning of September, in order to get the wood well 

 ripened before the damp foggy days of November ; and when cold 

 damp weather occurs remove them to a light airy part of the 

 greenhouse, which will be a proper place for them in winter, when 

 water must be carefully administered. The same treatment con- 

 tinue! during another season will furnish large handsome specimens, 

 and as soon as the plants ure large enough to be considered useful, 

 they may be allowed to remain in a cool airy part of the greenhouse 

 to expand their blossoms, after which they may be taken to the 

 show-house, or any cool place where their beauty will be most 

 enjoyable. When the beauty of the flower is over, the shoots should 

 be cut back as much as may be necessary to keep the specimens 

 close aud bushy ; and when growth recommences, give a moderate 

 shift, and allow the plants a fortnight under glass, until the roots 

 can lay hold of the fresh soil, then remove them to a warm sheltered 

 part of the plaut ground where they will make sufficient young wood 

 for bloom in the course of the summer. 



THE HYACINTH. 



i HERE are few plants in cultivation which so generously 

 repay the attention given them as the hyacinth, or which 

 are so accommodating in their habits. Hyacinths thrive 

 in almost any soil, and planted in moist saud or placed 

 on the surface of water, bloom almost as finely as when 

 planted in the richest compost, and there is not a habitation fit for 

 being the abode of man where they will not deign to grow and 

 bloom. It is, therefore, no matter for surprise that the hyacinth 

 has, from time immemorial, been a favourite with lovers of flowers 

 in all grades of society. Its accommodating habit and easy culture 

 bring its beautiful spikes of sweet-scented blossoms within the reach 

 of the inhabitants of a cottage, or the possessor of the smallest 

 garden plot ; and in beauty and fragrance it is not surpassed by the 

 most expensive plants, with which the opulent can decorate their 

 flower-houses at Christinas. Much has been written respecting the 

 cultur.- of (his lovely plant, the greater portioa of which has, un- 



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