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grow more freely, and useful-sized specimens are produced 

 in less time than by means of cuttings. But to insure 

 success, much attention is necessary, and some special 

 requirements, which only those who undertake to raise 

 considerable numbers at one time, can properly give. 

 Therefore, in cases where only a few plants are required, 

 by far the cheapest and best plan is to buy them; 

 selecting clean, healthy, vigorous, young specimens, well 

 furnished with shoots at the base. If procured in spring, 



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commences, attention should be paid to training, and in 

 doing this no more stakes should be employed than are 

 actually necessary; the use of these may be obviated 

 altogether by following the far better practice of pinching 

 back the shoots, and a good bushy growth is thereby 

 induced. During their growing period, the plants should 

 be freely encouraged, by keeping them well supplied 

 with water at the roots. They should be syringed over- 

 head in the afternoons of bright days, and the venti- 



FIG. 528. FLOWERING BRANCH or CORREA CARDISALIS. 



say, in Sin. or Gin. pots, after having them in possession 

 a little while, they may be shifted into pots lin. or 2in. 

 more in diameter. Soil for potting should consist c 

 good fibry peat, broken up into pieces sufficiently email 

 to drop between the ball of earth and the sides of the 

 pot. To this should be added a good proportion of silver 

 sand. The house or pit in which the plants are stood, 

 should be kept rather close for two or three weeks af 

 potting. As they become established, more air may be 

 piven, and water as required. Before active growth 



lators closed before the sun is off the glass, afterwards 

 giving air for the night. After blossoming, the plants should 

 be kept moderately dry for a time ; the flowering shoots 

 may then be shortened back, maintaining as much as 

 possible the bases of a well formed and furnished plant. 

 For the winter, Correas should be placed in any light, 

 airy structure with a night temperature of 40deg. 



C alba (white), fl. white ; petals about 4in. lone. April to July. 

 I ovate, downy beneath, and rather whitufi abova *. 10ft. 

 Victoria! South Australia, &c., 1793. (B. B- 51o.) 



