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ing season, care being taken to disbud all others 

 directly they appear. They will also make from 

 six to ten growths for next season. 



Immediately the flower has been cut or is over, 

 fifty of the worst-shaped plants should be layered, 

 and the other fifty should at once be put into 

 No. 16 pots to grow on for two-year-olds, at which 

 age they are at their best. 



The stock is now well established, as in the 

 second year you should flower fifty fine plants, 

 carrying from six to ten blooms each, and 300 

 yearlings. When these have flowered, the two- 

 year-olds will produce as many layers as you can 

 possibly want (quite twenty-five each), so you 

 will be able, in your third year, to flower 300 

 plants in No. 16 pots and all the yearlings you 

 require. 



It is now very necessary to introduce new 

 blood into your strain every year, and that can 

 be readily done, if your stock is clean, by inviting 

 from another grower (taking care that his stock is 

 clean too), the exchange of, say, 100 rooted layers 

 annually. 



One of the greatest mistakes that amateurs make 

 is to try and push Malmaisons along in the winter. 

 The proper thing to do is to get all the strong 



