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potted, using soil of a light and rich description. Keep down spider with the 

 syringe. Ipomceas, thunbergias, and other creepers, should be neatly trained 

 to their respective trellises as they advance, keeping them fresh and healthy 

 by frequent watering, and by picking off all decaying leaves ; and, where the 

 plants are flagging, water them with very weak liquid manure. 



1438. Brugmansias, and similar plants of vigorous habit, should be fre- 

 quently assisted with manure-water ; as they are often troubled with the 

 led spider, the engine and syringe must be kept constantly at work to keep 

 them down, taking care, however, not to injiire the fine foliage. Succulent 

 plants, as cactuses, euphorbias, cereuses, sedums, and others of similar habit, 

 require to be abundantly supplied with water, and also a full exposure to 

 the sun, in order to obtain a fine bloom. 



1439. r'^eDio''^6 from the conservatory or show-house those plants which 

 show, by their faded blooms, that they are past their best : their prolonged 

 presence would detract from the freshness essential to beauty and good order. 



1440. Achimenes, gloxinias, &c., out of bloom should be removed to a pit to 

 ripen their bulbs. Clerodendrons, &c., in the same way may be transferred 

 to vineries, or any place where there is a dry cool atmosphere. 



1441. At no period of the year do heaths and hard- wooded plants in general 

 require moi-e care than the present, more particularly such as have been 

 recently potted. To keep the old ball sufficiently moist to preserve the plant 

 in health in the high temperature without getting the new soil in a sour state, 

 requires great nicety in watering, supposing the plants to be imder glass. 

 At this season all the air possible should be given to the greenhouse and most 

 stove plants, keeping it on all night. 



1442. Greenhouse plants, after they have done blooming, should have a 

 comparatively cool temperatm-e, and no structure presents so many advantages 

 for this purpose, as well as for growing delicate-leaved plants through the 

 summer, as houses ha\-ing a north aspect ; while for the purpose of retarding 

 plants, or for preser-ving them in bloom, it is indispensable. Such plants, 

 therefore, as epacrises, leschenaultias, pimeleas, aphelexis, and others of 

 similar habit, which have been kept for late bloom and are now over, should 

 be placed in a house of the above description, or in deep frames, with the 

 sashes turned towards the north, having first picked ofi" the old remaming 

 blooms ; here, with gentle syringing once or twice daily, the plants may 

 remain till the new growth commences, when any pruning they may require 

 may be given, and afterwards placed in a more favourable situation for 

 ripening their wood. 



1443. Camellias, whenever the young wood appears getting ripe, may be 

 removed to the open air : they thrive best in the shade ; they must be placed 

 on a dry bottom to prevent worms from getting into the pots. 



1444. Chinese azaleas should also be turned out. Unlike camellias, they 

 require full exposure to sun and air, and should be placed in an open situation, 

 that their wood may become thoroughly ripened. It will, however, perhaps 

 be necessary to place them for a week or two in a partially-shaded situation. 



