EUGENIA IN POTS AND BORDERS. '169 



The shrub fruits the most freely when allowed to assume its natural habit, 

 limiting the pruning to thinning the growths for preventing crowding and to shortening 

 irregularities, as after close cutting back some time elapses before the fruiting habit 

 is acquired again. 



The Eugenia succeeds well either grown in pots, or planted in well-drained borders. 

 The pots should be clean and well drained, and, as before stated, the soil firm. FLi 3 

 fruiting specimens may be grown in 12 to 15-inch pots. When crowded with roots, 

 surface dress with old cow manure, and support with clear soot- water ; keep the soil 

 moist at all times, yet avoid overwatering. Syringe moderately in summer, except when 

 the plants are flowering, and avoid wetting the fruit after it commences ripenicg. Afford 

 all the light possible, and free ventilation. The winter temperature should be 40 

 to 45 artificially ; at and above 50 give abundance of air. The plant is well worth 

 growing in light conservatories and green-houses for its flowers and fruits. The latter 

 when ripe emit an agreeable perfume, pervading the whole house. A specimen upwards 

 of 20 feet high grown with camellias in the border of a conservatory near London was 

 highly cherished and produced ripe fruit in great abundance over a long period. 

 Eugenia Ugni is only grown by amateurs or connoisseurs, the fruit having no com- 

 mercial value. 



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