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Japanese characteristics : the former may be recognised 

 by their comparatively fine, hard wood, and in the case 

 of these the number of the blooms may be confined to 

 three, good examples being C. H. Curtis, Duchess of Fife, 

 J. Wynn, Le Peyron, Mrs. G. Denver, Nellie Southam, 

 Romance, and W. Pascoe. In the case of other varieties 

 which are stronger growers and in the larger pots, there 

 are likely to be better results if each plant is allowed to 

 carry four flowers. 



As soon as the required number of growths are suffi- 

 ciently advanced all others should be pinched off, tying 

 the selected shoots to the stake or stakes and continuing 

 this as the growths require it, remembering that the young 

 shoots if left loose are easily broken off by strong winds 

 or heavy rains. 



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Certain varieties give good blooms from first-crown 

 buds, namely, such fairly late varieties as Duchess of 

 Fife, C. H. Curtis, Edwin Thorpe, Frank Trestian, Mrs. 

 J. Judson, Mrs. ]. Wynn, and late plants of Buttercup. 

 These varieties in ordinary cultivation rarely produce their 

 first- crown buds till about the second week in August, 

 when they may be secured and all the side buds rubbed out 

 as shown in Fig. 2. The great majority of varieties come 

 best from natural second-crown buds, the first crown ap- 

 pearing during the last fortnight in July, and so the central 

 bud must be rubbed out and one of the side shoots grown 

 on again which, in ordinary circumstances, should again 

 produce a bud about the last week in August or early in 

 September. 



