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imposing any check. At the turn of the year these should 

 be shaken out and re- potted in fresh soil in smallish pots, 

 and put into a temperature of 50 to encourage growth. 

 When inclined to move, the heat should be increased to 

 60, and after a time to 70, but beyond that it will not 

 be safe to increase the temperature. When the plants so 

 treated have filled their pots with roots they should be 

 shifted to the next size, and be again and again shifted as 

 needful, but never until the pots are filled with roots, and 

 never beyond a reasonable size of pot. If the shifting 

 into larger and larger pots is carried too far, there will be 

 immense growth but no flowers, therefore you may reason- 

 ably stop when the plants are in 8-inch or 10-inch pots. 

 Then let them flower, and you will be well rewarded. As 

 a matter of course they must be kept neatly staked, and 

 flowers that appear before the plants have attained to a 

 suitable size must be pinched out. A compost consisting 

 of loam, leaf -mould, and very old manure from a hotbed 

 is the best for them ; rank or fresh manure is objection- 

 able, and liquid manure should be given occasionally. 



