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leaves turn yellow, they want no more water till they start 

 again. 



Greenhouse Bulbs are not very numerous. Crinums, 

 pancratiums, some of the lilies, ixias, sparaxis, and their con- 

 geners, will not bear oui' winter out of doors, and therefore 

 are called greenhouse bulbs, but there is nothing particular 

 required in their cultivation. 



All bulbs will do well in loam, leaf-mould, dung from an 

 old hotbed, and peat earth in equal quantities ; and if 

 nothing else tempted those who can afford to cultivate bulbs 

 extensively, the little trouble attending their growth and 

 their increase, without the least care or labour, ought to 

 insure for them a much more extensive patronage. 



Climbing Plants. — Of these there are many species, and 

 whether they are stove, greenhouse, or hardy, they only want 

 the same ti^atment as other stove, greenliouse, or hardy plants, 

 with the exception of the training ; the honeysuckle, the jas- 

 mine, Virginian creeper, passion-flower, and any other hardy 

 subject that grows up a pole, or on a wall, or over a verandah, 

 or on the front of a house, should be constantly fastened as 

 it grows, for if it once get into disorder by the neglect of the 

 cultivator, it is difficult, if not impossible, to get it as perfect 

 as if it had been fastened as it grew. In conservatories, and 

 houses where it is planted on the border, the same care must 

 be taken to " train it up," like a child, " the way it should 

 go." But when climbing plants are grown in pots, they want 

 some more careful management than plants in beds and bor- 

 ders. They are very difficult to shift when they get large, 

 but shifted they must be when they get pot-bound. The kind 

 of support to be given is varied according to taste. Some 

 have iron trellises, some large branches of trees — a very effec- 

 tive plan — cut into the form of a fine-grown beech ; some are 

 made to fill a large flat sliield of iron- wire ; others have 

 wooden stakes put all round the edge of the pot, and wind the 

 plant round close as it grows ; but in all these cases there 

 must be no neglect in fastening the plants as they grow, or 

 they will get tangled, confused^ and, in the effort to set them 

 right, materially damaged. 



Room-plants. — There are no plants, or class of plants, that 

 go by this name, but what is understood by the term is, 

 plants that will grow in a room. Now, all greenhouse-plants 

 will do so in summer-time, as will also all hardy plants that will 



