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moved into their flowering positions in March. One great 

 advantage of the treatment here recommended is that plants 

 are obtained with a great mass of fibrous roots, and when 

 moved it is rare that even a single plant fails. If plant- 

 ing is done in September, growth will continue all through 

 the winter months whenever the weather is mild, and by 

 the time the plants begin to bloom in April and May they 

 will be fine clumps, several inches in diameter, capable of 

 producing large, beautiful flowers. They will continue for 

 several months to flower, and in July or August the "old 

 wood/' or, more properly, the strong shoots, which have 

 flowered should be cut away, and the young fresh shoots 

 in the centre of the plant left to continue the flowering. 

 Treated thus, most of the plants will bloom again in 

 autumn, and even stand over another winter. Any specially 

 meritorious variety can be propagated by cuttings, as re- 

 commended in another chapter, just the same as named 

 varieties. 



