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of growth appear, and as soon as the bulbs have made 

 an inch or two of growth, repot them, using the same 

 pots. Take the bulbs out, and shake most of the soil 

 from them ; put a good drainage at the bottom, and 

 some rough peat and rough turfy maiden loam mixed 

 over the crocks, and then fill up with the same compost, 

 the fine mixed with it, but not sifted. Place the bulbs 

 in the pots, and fill in all round up to the top of the 

 pots, .and set them in a warm greenhouse. All the 

 shoots may be removed from the crown of the bulbs, 

 except one or two, and each crown shoot may be 

 potted singly for plants. Give a moderate quantity of 

 water, with a weekly watering of liquid manure, all 

 through the growing season, and I am sure there is no 

 plant nor class of plants that will better repay the small 

 amount of trouble. 



The Shrubby Begonias. — B. Bex is a remarkable 

 plant for splendid foliage. It is easy to grow in any 

 ordinary warm greenhouse, in large pots of rough peat 

 and maiden loam, with some decayed manure. It may 

 be propagated by cuttings of the stems or by the leaves, 

 inserting them in pots of fine peat, and set in a mild 

 heat. Fuchsioides and its class require a warm green- 

 house or a stove in winter. All the shrubby class are 

 propagated by cuttings of the firm young growth 

 during the spring or summer. Most of the Begonias 

 can also be raised from seed sown in seed-pans filled 

 with fine peat and maiden soil and leaf-mould in the 

 spring, and set in a mild heat. The seed is very fine, 

 and should have a flat square of glass laid on the pan 

 to prevent the soil drying till the seed is up. 



The Cineraria (Asteracece). 



This is an extraordinary free-flowering class of plants, 

 and is also most showy in the display of its flowers. 

 In their natural state they possess a rich yellow as 

 their prevailing colour ; every one knows the English 

 variety, displaying its bright golden-yellow flowers in 

 large heads in the open fields and in the hedges during 



