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enable them to make their wood and set their buds early. 

 These conditions may be secured by shutting up the green- 

 house early in the afternoon ; syringing plants at the same 

 time, and give but little air during the day. But this treat- 

 ment would soon ruin the health and appearance of such 

 things as Calceolarias, &c., in bloom ; though it would answer 

 well for bringing on large Fuchsias and Pelargoniums for 

 succession. To grow these plants successfully, a separate 

 house should be provided. Pick off yellow leaves as they 

 .appear. Cleanliness must be strictly attended to ; this will 

 obviate the necessity for too frequent fumigation, which is 

 .always more or less injurious to the plants. Manure water 

 may be frequently applied, but it must be weak. Cut down 

 Pelargoniums as they go out of flower. Give Fuchsias for 

 late blooming a liberal shift, and water with manure water. 

 Shade plants in flower if their beauty is required to be pro- 

 longed. Newly-potted plants also require to be shaded and 

 kept rather close for a few days, till the roots lay hold of the 

 fresh soil. Put in cuttings of Pelargoniums. Propagate 

 'Chrysanthemums, and shift and stop established plants. 

 Afrer getting the final shift, stand, or far better still, plunge 

 the pots in open, airy quarters, and take special care that 

 they are well supplied with water. Green fly will now be 

 troublesome in the greenhouse ; the finger and thumb, aphis 

 brush, and, above all, the syringe, must be constantly in 

 requisition to keep this pest and the red spider in check. 



January. Admit air freely night and day, except during 

 sudden changes. Water plentifully ; syringe in the afternoon. 

 Continue to shift, pot, and regulate the plants as necessity 

 occurs. Graft Oranges, Camellias and Azaleas. Remove 

 Azaleas and Camellias that have done growing to a dry, airy 

 place, out of doors, to rest and harden their wood. Cinerarias 

 which have finished blooming may be cut down and planted 

 out of doors, or kept in pots if required to be grown for 

 suckers, or merely by thinning out, or dividing the old plants. 



Apply weak manure-water to late flowering Calceolarias. 

 Cut down those finished blooming ; thin the pods of those 

 left for seed, as one pod will give hundreds of plants. Those 

 which have finished flowering may be planted out on a 

 border facing south. Sow seeds of these and Cinerarias for 

 successful blooming plants. Cut down the most forward 



