Feb."] HOT-HOUSE OF REPOTTING PLANTS. 145 



sun has got on the house in the morning, observing all the 

 directions given in January. , 



OF INSECTS, &c. 



Perhaps sufficient observations were given under this 

 head last month ; but the importance " of keeping these 

 disagreeable visitors out of the house constrains us to make 

 a few more remarks. Man cannot be too frequently guarded 

 against his foes, more especially when they are summoning 

 all their forces, and no profession has more than that of the 

 Horticulturist. Let a strict examination be made about 

 the end of the month for the red spider; they will be in 

 operation some weeks before their depredations are ob- 

 served on the foliage. The under side of the leaf is their 

 resort in the first instance, and on such plants as have been 

 already mentioned. 



Observe daily the young shoots, in case the green fly 

 becomes numerous. They give the foliage a very disa- 

 greeable appearance, and it is too often intolerable, before 

 their career is arrested. It also takes a stronger fumiga- 

 tion, which has frequently to be repeated the following day 

 to the same degree, much to the injury of many of the 

 plants, and adding to the disagreeableness of the continued 

 vapour in the house. 



OF REPOTTING PLANTS. 



About the end of the month some of the plants of Cur- 

 cuma, Amomum, K&mpferia, Alpina, Phrynium, Cdnna, 

 Zingiber, Hedychium, and others that are on the dry 

 shelf, will be offering to grow. Let them be taken out of 

 their pots, some of their weakest shoots or tubers taken 

 off, and the strong ones repotted: give gentle waterings 

 until they grow freely, then give an abundance. (Soil 

 No. 17.) 



Dionsea mucipula, or Venus fly-trap, grows best in the 



hot-house, and will, about the end of the month, stand in 



need of being repotted. This plant is very seldom grown 



in any degree of perfection, having been always considered 



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