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to allow of new growth being made and matured or 

 fully developed before the winter. Plenty of water 

 must be given the plant during the summer. This is 

 one of our best window plants. 



A. Armata is a very handsome dwarf shrub, and one 

 which is well known. The pruning of this evergreen 

 shrub consists in the occasional cutting back of old and 

 large plants, and no one need be afraid to cut them back 

 severely. This should be done immediately after the 

 flowering, and the plant should be stimulated afterwards 

 by means of some weak liquid manure, being kept in 

 the greenhouse till six inches of new growth are made, 

 when it may be set out of doors under a north wall for 

 a few weeks until there is no danger of frost. Young 

 plants should be stopped in the leaders by frequently 

 nipping out the points, which will induce a compact and 

 handsome growth. 



The Chorozema. 



There are several varieties of this beautiful flowering 

 greenhouse shrub, all of them being fit for fine speci- 

 mens in any good common greenhouse. They are not 

 difficult to grow, as they do not actually require a high 

 temperature. In fact, they will not bear it. No more 

 handsome plants are grown than these when in full 

 flower. To form fine and symmetrical plants of the 

 Chorozema, early and frequent stopping of the leaders 

 must be done while they are young, to induce them to 

 branch out equally all round. It is the formation of 

 the future specimen in the young plant that is of the 

 greatest importance. 



Grow the Chorozema as fast as you can, and stop the 

 leaders as often as they have made two or three inches 

 of new wood. Old and large plants that ha^e^ been 

 neglected and have got out of order, but are still 

 healthy, may be carefully cut back pretty severely so 

 long as there is a good stock of young wood below. By 

 this means an old plant may be renovated. 



