130 THE FRUIT-TREE AND SHRUB PRUNER. 



July, when it should be discontinued. It is necessary 

 to do this to induce a handsome and dwarf habit, and 

 also to get a full plant in a pot. At no time must the 

 Chrysanthemum be allowed to suffer either from water 

 or from awant of it, otherwise the foliage will suffer 

 below, or it will altogether fail. 



The Polygala. 



P. Dalmaisiana is a pretty growing and a handsome 

 flowering variety, and is well worth a place in every 

 conservatory, on account of its freedom in flowering and 

 the value of its flowers for bouquets and vases. It 

 bears these on the current year's wood, i.e. a bunch of 

 flowers comes on every few inches of new growth as the 

 new shoots are made through the season. 



Young plants should be frequently stopped, and old 

 plants may be cut back pretty close and new growth 

 made. If the early stopping 'of the leaders and first 

 laterals are not well attended to, no one can obtain a 

 dwarf, full, and handsome specimen. 



The Corrcea. 



These are all beautiful evergreen greenhouse flower- 

 ing shrubs of a moderate growth, with handsome flowers 

 of the shape Cuphea Platycentra, only larger ; more- 

 over, they are not of the same order. I merely men- 

 tion this as a comparison, that those persons who may 

 not know the Corroea may form some idea of it. If I 

 were to use the type of the natural order for this genus, 

 which is the Eue, no one would see much resemblance 

 in the^ Rue flower to that of the Corrcea. The latter 

 bears its flowers upon the wood of the previous season's 

 growth ; therefore when it requires pruning it must be 

 done immediately after the flowering is over, and a new 

 growth induced at once by stimulants, heat, and liquid 

 manure. 



