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but suckers from under are allowed to grow, in order 

 to form young plants. 



When the shifting and top dressing are over, the 

 plants are set out upon bricks or boards ; if on the 

 former, make a bed of sand under the bricks ; if on 

 the latter, they are raised above the ground, so as to 

 prevent worms getting into the pots. {Caled. Hort. 

 Mem. iii. 230.) 



Mr. Emmerton says, upon the same point, that 

 certainly the best time for repotting is soon after 

 they are out of bloom, say about the third week of 

 May, and more especially if the weather is a little 

 inclined to be showery ; but they may be planted 

 with great success from the 29th of May to even as 

 late as the 13th of July; on no account remove a 

 general collection a week later, at least those you in- 

 tend to bloom very strong : by this means they have 

 three or four months to get well rooted before winter, 

 which they ought to have ; and if you transplant 

 them early in the spring, it will be so near their time 

 of blowing, that the check they will receive by trans- 

 planting will prevent their blooming strong. If a 

 very strong superior bloom of flowers be desired do 

 not suffer any offset to grow on the stock of the mo- 

 ther plant without fibres, but rub them off when 

 they are about the size of hemp seed ; but those that 

 spring up below the surface of the earth, you are at 

 liberty to use your own pleasure about. 



