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FIRST WEEK IN MAY 



little or no water in their earlier stages, their great danger 

 being that they may become rotten from excess of sap ; in 

 fact, in the case of cacti, it is desirable to dry the cuttings 

 for a few days before putting them in. Aloysia citriodora 

 (lemon verbena) and the splendid kowi, or parrot-beak 

 flower of New Zealand (Clianthus puniceus) are so apt to 

 droop, however, that slips of the new shoots of these plants 

 should be closely covered for the first few weeks with a 

 bell-glass (a single slip doing well under a tumbler) until 

 new growths appear, after which the glass can be gradually 

 raised until the young plant is inured to the open air. 



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