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neck of a plant above the mould, as is very often 

 the case during 1 their quick growth in the spring, 

 such plant beyond a doubt ought to be fresh potted 

 the moment it has done flowering. I have no ob- 

 jection either to your fresh potting in May or June 

 such plants as you mean to shake completely from 

 the mould, for I have found plants so treated to take 

 twelve months to establish themselves again in the 

 pots; but those plants that you mean to remove 

 with a ball of earth to them, had better be deferred, 

 for the reasons above given, till the beginning of 

 August. 



MODE OF TREATING FLOWERS WHICH ARE 

 APT TO CUP. 



SOME flowers, whose petals are of thick, firm tex- 

 ture, are generally inclined to cup, as Kenyon's 

 Ringleader, Bearlis's Superb, and several others; 

 when this is the case, they should be exposed a few 

 hours for two or three days in the very face of the 

 sun, under a hand-glass, shaded with a piece of 



