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young shoot made, to prevent them from becoming thin 

 and lank specimens. The Fetunia does not require 

 much heat at any time ; to the fact that too much is 

 given, and want of sufficient light, may be attributed 

 the poor plants we often see. A good light, a tempe- 

 rature as cool as is consistent with safety and the pro- 

 motion of a healthy growth, good pot and house room, 

 with constant stopping of the shoots, must necessarily 

 result in fine specimens of a superb class of ornamental 

 plants not to be surpassed. 



The Calceolaria. 



There are two classes of the Calceolaria, as most people 

 know, and each of these requires different management. 

 The Shrubby Calceolaria must be constantly stopped, to 

 get a dwarf and handsome specimen as a pot plant. 

 This nipping out of the points of the shoots may be 

 continued as long as you please, for the Shrubby kinds 

 will flower under almost any circumstances ; but, as a 

 rule, the stopping may be discontinued in May, when 

 the early autumn-struck plant should have arrived at a 

 fair size, and be of a symmetrical character, so as to 

 produce a fine bold flowering specimen through the 

 following summer for a vase or a pot. 



Old and healthy plants may be cut back moderately, 

 and kept for two or three years for vase or pot work. 



The Herbaceous varieties must never be stopped, or 

 the plants will be spoilt ; nor must the Cineraria ever 

 be stopped under any circumstances. 



The Chrysanthemum. 



No one can obtain a fine specimen of the Chrysan- 

 themum unless a constant nipping out of the points of 

 the leaders in the first instance is done ; and, in the 

 second place, every lateral must be regularly nipped 

 out as soon as it has made two inches of growth. 

 This practice must be absolute^ followed as long as it 

 is practicable, which may be until the middle or end of 



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