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the varieties of the magnificent Rhododendron arbx)- 

 reum. Any wall in the interior of the house may be 

 furnished with a trellis, and covered with such climbing 

 2:)lants as Lpnicera Japonica^ Maurandia semperflorens, 

 and Barclayana, and the trailing Pelargoniums. In the 

 management of the conservatory, abundant air should 

 be admitted, and care should be taken not to allow 

 the plants' to become draivn, or too tall and spindle- 

 formed by overcrowding. They should be so pruned 

 as to keep them comparatively short and bushy ; but 

 after all pains have been taken, the time at length ar- 

 rives when they either disfigure themselves by pressing 

 against the. roof-glass, or must submit to the no less 

 distorting process of a violent amputation. To meet 

 such exigencies, it is recommended that, wherever there 

 is also a green-house, a few plants should be kept in 

 training for the conservatory, and substituted in the 

 room of any that, from excess of growth, become un- 

 manageable. After all, the* fourth, fifth, and sixth 

 summers of the conservatory w^ill always be the finest; 

 and when a longer series of years have gone by, and 

 the plants have outgrown the space allotted to them, 

 perhaps the best thing that can be done is to change 

 the whole interior of the house, plants, earth, and all. 

 If this operation be anticipated, and for a year or two 

 prepared for, sufiiciently large plants may be had in 

 readiness, and the appearance of a well-furnished house 

 be again pretty well attained in a single season. It is 

 scarcely necessary to add, that the neatness which is 

 so desirable everywhere in the flawer garden is abso- 

 lutely indispensable in the .conservatory. 



Stove Plants. — There are many beautiful plants, na- 

 tives of tropical regions, whi-ch arc cultivated in our 



