102 BRECK'S BOOK OF FLOWERS. 



After a few days' hardening off, they are then removed to an 

 open situation, allowing the plants a sufficient distance from 

 each other to prevent their drawing, care being observed that 

 they do not suffer from want of water. About the third week 

 in July, we shift, for blooming, into seven-inch pots, using a 

 small handful of coarsely-broken bones at the bottom. The 

 soil we use consists of equal parts of well decayed (one year 

 old) pig manure, turfy loam* and leaf-mould, adding half a 

 barrowful of peat, and half ditto of road-drift to every four 

 barrows of the above. When potted, they are placed in rows 

 two feet apart, and they require but little attention, except 

 watering, for two months. At the expiration of this period, 

 we commence watering twice a week with liquid manure, 

 made with one bushel of fresh pig manure (free from straw) 

 to about eighty gallons of water. This will be ready for use in 

 two or three days. As soon as the plants show flower-buds, 

 we tie each shoot to a stick, and train them fan-shaped. Dis- 

 budding ought now to be attended to, reserving only one, or, 

 at most, two, at the top of each shoot ; but where two are left, 

 it is better to take out the second bud, and leave the third, to 

 prevent confusion. As soon as the buds show color, the plants 

 are then removed to the green-house or conservatory, giving 

 plenty of air, and substituting water for liquid manure. We 

 ought to have mentioned that, where a profusion of bloom is 

 required, two or three plants may be inserted in the pots where 

 only one is usually grown. This will afford an opportunity 

 of cutting away the weakest shoots, and reserving the strongest 

 only." 



CHELONE. 



Chdone larhata. Scarlet Chelone. A half hardy perennial, 

 from Mexico, three feet high, from July to September, with 

 orange scarlet flowers. It will be necessary to cover it well 

 with fine boughs or straw, in the winter, or they may be 



