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6ii. Calceolanas and Cinerarias enjoy a temperature of from 45° to 55°. 

 Well-rooted plants of the former should be shifted into the compost recom- 

 mended last month ; and plants for very late flowering of the latter may also 

 be shifted. The earliest cinerarias will now be opening their flowers in the 

 conservatory, and a succession coming on to supply their place. Green-flies are 

 particularly tond of these plants, and they must be destroyed on their first 

 appearance. 



6i2. Fuchsias, after re-potting, thrive best if plunged in a gentle bottom- 

 heat. Water carefully until fresh roots are emitted ; shade in bright sunshine 

 to prevent flagging. Thin out plants that have been cut down to a single 

 shoot, if the pyramidal shape is desired ; if bushes are wanted, leave three or 

 four ; and maintain a genial temperature of iiom 50° to 60°. Never cut down 

 and shift a fuchsia at the same time, nor shake them out for re-potting 

 before they have again begun to grow. After cutting down, allow the shoots 

 to grow two or three inches : plants that have not been cut down must 

 fairly break before they are re-potted. The young top-growths will then hasten 

 the emission of roots, and the plants, with a moist atmosphere provided for a 

 few days, will scarcely sustain any check. 



613. Forcing-Pit or House. — This is an indispensable adjunct to a well-kept 

 conservatory, and should now be occupied with bulbs for succession, — Rhodo- 

 dendrons, Azaleas, Ghent and Indian (most of which, especially the Indica 

 alba, force admirably), Roses, Lilacs, Anne Boleyn ; white and other Pinks, 

 True Cai'nations, Cloves, &c., maintain at a genial growing temperatm-e of 55° 

 to 65° ; on very cold nights, however, it may lall 5° or 10° with impunitj'. 



614. Plant-Stove. — JSIaintain a temperature of from 60° to Q5° fire-heat. 

 Start the first batch of Achimenes, Gesnerias, Gloxinias, kc. Prune plants of 

 Allamanda, Dij^ladenia, Clerodendron, &c. Pot Glorissa superba during the 

 month : it thrives best plunged in a brisk bottom-heat. Many Ferns, Bego- 

 nias, and other plants, should also be potted, and started into fresh growth. 

 Some of the Dendrobiums, Stanhopeas, and Maxillarias should now be wa- 

 tered and pushed into flower. Prepare plenty of good peat and loam, broken 

 potsherds, chai'coal, &c. &c., for a general potting of all plants that require it. 

 Hunt for and destroy mealy bug and scale, and maintain the semblance of 

 health and reality of cleanliness throughout the whole of the plant structures. 



§ 6.— Fruit-Cultuke under Glass. 



615. In the present day, this includes almost all known fruits, excepting, 

 always, the haws, hips, sour crabs, sloes, &c, &c., that furnished the tooth- 

 tempting, or rather setting-on-edge, dessert of the ancient Britons. How 

 they would marvel at the dinner, cl la Pusse, of their modern successors ! Nor 

 ■would their wonder be lessened, to be told that we are now enabled to feast 

 upon the fruits of the world, by mixing sand with a particle of soda ; and 

 going down into the bowels of the earth, and bringing up from thence bitumen- 



