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wetting the floors, &c., are very desirable. When the first 

 blossom is over, it is well to cut off the flower-stems, and 

 sometimes to cut back the plant a joint or two, so as to induce 

 a good second crop. As the summer advances it will be 

 neivssan to give all the air possible both night and day- 

 take off the top-lights, or open them if they are fixtures for 

 the thorough ripening of the wood is absolutely necessary if 

 the plants are to succeed the following year. As the autumn 

 approaches the roof if a movable one must be replaced the 

 second week in October, but taking care that whenever the 

 weather admits thereof a free circulation of air is 

 allowed. Where the plants are being grown without heat, 

 pruning may take place about the middle of January ; but 

 where heat is provided, pruning may be conducted in October 

 of the previous year, after giving them a slight rest by dis- 

 continuing watering for a few weeks. No severe pruning is 

 desirable, merely the cutting-out of weakly and misplaced 

 shoots and slightly shortening the others. 



Pot Cultivation. 



It is best to procure Teas and Hybrid Teas on their own 

 roots, if possible, for pot cultivation, as the grower is 

 thereby saved all the trouble of underground shoots or 

 suckers. If these are not. to be had, let them be procured on 

 Briar Seedlings, but avoid either those budded on the 

 Manetti or grafted plants, which latter are a delusion and a 

 snare. But Own-root Teas or Briar Seedling budded plants 

 can now be had at most nurseries. It is best to procure them 

 in the autumn, and, as they are received from the nurseries 

 in 6o's, they should be at once potted up into 32 's 

 i.e., pots about 6in. across. The compost used should be 

 about three parts of good turfy loam, well chopped up (not 

 sifted), one portion of well -decomposed cow manure (or 

 Mb. of Clay's Fertiliser, With's Rose Manure, or the well- 

 known Ichthemic Guano may be incorporated with each 



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