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much required with this plant ; but water, in very 

 dry hot weather, early in the morning and evening, 

 with a very fine rose, made for that purpose, all over 

 the leaves, will be essentially necessary ; but by ten 

 o'clock the sun will have dried them. {Emmerton, 

 ]34.) 



Mr. Henderson, of Delvine, N.B,, agrees as to the 

 best time of repotting, but as his practice differs in 

 some particulars we will give? the details he has 

 afforded. He says, that tbe shifting season is always 

 about the third week of May, when the plants have 

 done flowering. At that season, shake the mould 

 from the old plants, and cut the end of the stump up 

 to the fresh young roots, if it has grown too long 

 (Mr. Henderson is speaking of those plants which 

 have been in the largest-sized pots for two years). 

 After dressing the wounds with gum-mastic, to pre- 

 vent gangrene, the plants are to be repotted in five- 

 inch pots. Next May they are shifted, with the ball 

 entire, into six-inch flowering pots. So that, from 

 the first potting of the young plants in small pots, to 

 a complete shifting, four years elapse ; the plants 

 having been one year in small pots, one in the second 

 size, and two in the largest, or third size. A little 

 river sand is put round the stems at all the shiftings ; 

 and if any wounds are made by taking off the suckers, 

 they are dressed with mastic. At all times the stems 

 are cleared of sprouts above ground as they appear. 



