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that known as Enchantress, the flowers thus produced are 

 exceedingly fine. It is not good practice to cut these 

 plants down into the hard woody growth for the purpose 

 of getting a dwarf, bushy specimen ; but simply cut back 

 the flowering stems and the growing shoots. Two-year- 

 old plants invariably become tall and leggy ; but the shoots 

 may be twisted around four or five stakes set in the sides of 

 the pots, and the growing points turned upwards. These 

 tall plants are most useful for placing at the back of groups, 

 or for providing central plants in stage arrangements. 



Previous to potting on the one-year-old plants, they 

 should be given a slight pruning, as recommended above, 

 about the end of February, afterwards placing them in 

 a house where the atmospheric temperature is 55 to 60. 

 The plants should be watered but sparingly until they have 

 started into growth, but on bright days, lightly spray them 

 over with a syringe in the morning and afternoon. By 

 the month of April they will have made numerous young 

 shoots, and be ready for potting into 8, 9, or 10 inch pots, 

 in which they will flower during the following winter. In 

 potting, do not disturb the roots, beyond removing the 

 loose drainage and surface soil. Cultivate the planti in 

 the same conditions as they were grown in previously, and 

 treat them during the summer in the same way as the 

 younger plants. 



SUMMER TREATMENT OF POT-PLANTS IN 

 THE OPEN 



The final potting over, the young plants are returned 

 to their houses, pits, or frames, where they are grown on 

 as before, gradually hardening them off, until, if desired, 



