Culture for the Exhibitor 



After the plants are an inch or so in height, 

 the boxes or pots containing them should be placed 

 in a cold frame keeping the sash on when weather 

 is very wet, snowy or frosty. For two or three 

 days after the plants are removed from the 

 greenhouse, the sash had better be kept close 

 over the plants till they get used to the new 

 conditions. Watering will not often be required 

 unless there is a period of bright sunshine. See 

 that there are no slugs or snails about the 

 frame, and if birds are plentiful, a piece of 

 netting will require to be stretched over the 

 frame to keep them from picking the leaves 

 when the sashes are opened. The plants 

 should remain in the frame till the beginning of 

 the new year, when they should be carefully 

 taken out of the boxes or pots and put into boxes 

 of fresh sweet soil mixed with some leaf mould 

 or old spent hops, or potted up singly into three- 

 inch pots filled with a similar compost. If they 

 can be kept in a cool greenhouse for a month 

 after this change, so much the better, and then 

 put into the frames, but, if a greenhouse is not 

 available, they must be returned to the frame and 

 the sash kept on for a month or so continuously, 

 giving plenty of air during the day, especially 

 in sunny weather. After growth has begun, 



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