General Notices. 67 



cloudy days have set in, they will continue to grow for weeks, and even 

 months, after being brought into the greenhouse. 



This mode of treatment can only end in disappointment ; at the time they 

 ought to be loaded with flowers there may certainly be a few solitary blos- 

 soms, but any thing like a full crop is entirely out of the question. It is 

 remarkable, that camellias appear to be the only family of plants that are 

 rightly treated in this respect ; it does not seem to occur to many gardeners 

 that all other hardwooded greenhouse plants require exactly the same treat- 

 ment as camellias ; but instead of so doing, at the very time the latter are 

 carefully shut up in a higher temperature, to encourage the growth and 

 ripening of the yoiing shoots, as the means of insuring a fine display of 

 flowers, all, or nearly all, the others are turned out of doors to take their 

 chance of a hot or a cold summer, as the case may be. 



When greenhouse plants are housed for the winter, then is the time to 

 judge whether they have been rightly treated. If such is the case, they 

 will mostly have finished their growth ; the young shoots will have changed 

 from a green to a red or brown color, and of a hard firm texture, and the 

 flower-buds of many swelling out prominently, ready to start into flower 

 with the slightest excitement, rendering the forcing them into flower, at 

 any time when required, an easy and simple matter. Not only camellias, 

 but acacias, boronias, azaleas, epacris, corrseas, and in fact almost every 

 kind of greenhouse hard-wooded plant, should be at rest, and ready to 

 start into flower when the proper period arrives. On reading the reports 

 of the London Horticultural Exhibitions we are often surprised at the large 

 dimensions of many of the plants therein mentioned, especially when we 

 read that many of them are only two or three years old ! There cannot 

 be a doubt that this is accomplished by placing them in strong genial heat, 

 at certain periods, and will serve to show what can be effected in a short 

 time under proper management. 



Although the treatment recommended above is applicable to all hard- 

 wooded plants, there are some beautiful things that will not thrive at all 

 unless they are annually placed in a higher temperature to make their 

 growth, and for want of such treatment are rarely seen in good health. 

 Crowea saligna is a striking instance of this neglect, as it is generally seen 

 starving in greenhouses all the year round ; instead of which it should be 

 removed to the plant or Pine-stove in January, and allowed to remain till 

 May or June, when it will grow like a willow, making shoots from eight 

 to sixteen inches in length ; and when removed to the greenhouse it will 

 continue to flower all through the summer, a perfect gem, with flowers 

 twice the size we generally see it produce under the ordinary treatment it 

 receives. 



As early as the month of January, attention should be directed to such 

 plants as have done flowering and are beginning to grow ; these should be 

 removed to a higher temperature without delay, and, if necessary, it is the 

 best time to shift them into larger pots, and when the young shoots have 

 grown two or three inches in length and taken off with a heel, they will strike 

 root better than at any other time. By attending to the gradual removal of 



