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36 HOT-HOUSE SHIFTING PLANTS. [FEBRUARY. 



Of those that do not flower, three or four can be put 

 into one pot. 



About the end of the month, some of the plants of 

 Eurcuma, Jlmomum, KcBmpferia, Globba, Phrynium, Can- 

 na, Zingiber, Hedychium, and others that are on the dry 

 shelf, will be offering to grow. Let them be taken out 

 of their pots, some of their weakest shoots or tubers 

 taken off, and the strong ones repotted : give gentle 

 waterings until they grow freely, then give an abun- 

 dance. 



Dioncea mucipuk, or Venus fly trap, grows best in the|f 

 Hot-house, and will, about the end of the month, stand 

 in need of being repotted. This plant is very seldom 

 grown in any degree of perfectipn, having been always 

 considered a delicate plant in collections. The opera- 

 tor has never had courage to treat it according to its 

 nature in a cultivated state. If it is taken out of the 

 pot, just when beginning to grow afresh, and divested 

 of all the soil, leaving only a few of the young roots, 

 (it is a bulb, and will receive no injury by so doing,) 

 put it in new soil ; when potted, place the pot in a sau- 

 cer with one inch of water in it, giving always a fresh 

 supply, when necessary. A shady and moist situation 

 is best adapted to it ; this being repeated every year, 

 it will grow, flower, and seed in perfection. 



Gesnerias, if in small pots, give larger as they ad- 

 vance in growth. This genus requires to be well 

 attended to make them flower well. G. bulbosa ought 

 to have a situation in every Hot-house. It is remark- 

 able for its many brilliant crimson flowers, and conti- 

 nues in flower for a length of time. When the bulb 



