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into the green-house, or some place where they can be 

 sheltered by sashes, before there is danger to be appre- 

 hended from frost, as the Bouvardia is a very tender plant, 

 and will be injured by a very slight degree of frost. They 



Fig. 40. BOUVARDIA HENDERSONII. 



may either be grown in pots, or planted out from the pots 

 on to the benches, as we do with Carnations and many 

 other things. Our own practice, as we have before said, 

 is to set all such plants out in the benches, as the flowers 



