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syringings with clean soft water, with now and then a 

 fumigating with tobacco in the evening, and syringing 

 in the morning, till they are in flower, then the syring- 

 ing should be discontinued. As soon as the flower 

 heads are well formed give a weekly watering with 

 weak liquid manure half an ounce of guano to one 

 gallon of water is quite strong enough. The Cinerarias 

 will all have done flowering by the month of April, 

 when they should be removed from the house and 

 the stages cleaned, and then the Calceolarias may be 

 brought in. 



It is infinitely better to grow Calceolarias (I mean 

 herbaceous Calceolarias) in a cool pit or deep frame 

 all along from the seedling stage till they are in their 

 flowering pots and are actually sending up their flower 

 stems, than it is to coddle them in a greenhouse all the 

 winter, where they become infested with insect pests. 

 I have found that they are not at all liable, or at least 

 half so liable, to insects when grown in cold pits till 

 April, as when they are subjected to fire heat. The 

 plants will carry a luxuriant foliage completely covering 

 the pot and will be more robust w T hen in flower ; these 

 will succeed the Cinerarias admirably and make a most 

 unique show for many weeks, and if of good exhibition 

 varieties they will exceed most plants in richness of 

 colour. 



The herbaceous Calceolarias cannot be multiplied 

 by any other means than that of seed, which should be 

 sown in the month of May, for flowering the following 

 May ; the seed should be sown on the surface of seed- 

 pans filled with fine leaf-mould, maiden loam and sand, 

 and set in a shady place in a house or pit, and the 

 seed-pan covered with a flat square of glass till the 



