

PLUNGING GREEN-HOUSE PLANT*. 



facings of borders and clumps, being of a trailing nature, as 

 the different varieties of Verbenas. Vines and creepers are 

 best adapted to the covering of arbors, trellises^ and so on. 



The Thunbergia alala, Maurandiu Barclayana, and the 

 like climbing plants, may be trained to appear to advantage 

 on a trellis of an ornamental form, as that of a fan, balloon, 

 or pyram id, which should be of a size corresponding to the 

 place they are planted in. 



There are many kinds of plants belonging to the green- 

 house, that ought to be propagated either in the fall by cut- 

 tings, and remain in pots in the house through the winter, 

 or to be propagated early in the spring, for the express pur- 

 pose of ornamenting the flower garden in the summer; as, 

 the different varieties of the Heliotrope, the Fuchsia, or 

 Ear-drop, the Verbena, and soft, free-flowering plants, which 

 should be plunged out of the pots ; they should be mixed 

 indiscriminately among the other plants in the vacant places ; 

 however, in some cases they are planted separately in beds 

 by themselves, as in small figures on grass plats, where they 

 have a very pretty effect in the flowering season. 



All plants-set out not to be taken up in the autumn for the 

 green-house or rooms, should be plunged into the ground out 

 of their pots. But those intended to be taken into winter 

 quarters, as most kinds of evergreens and the like, should be 

 plunged in the pot, into the ground. Being plunged in the 

 pots, the luxuriant growth they would acquire, will be 

 in a measure repressed, owing to the roots being curtailed ; 

 whilst if turned out of the pot they would extend their 

 roots some distance in the soil, and when taken up in the 

 fall, the roots would be severed and the plants weakened 

 so as to require some time to recover. 



The management of green-house plants in this way is 

 simply to water them when they need, and prune any strag- 

 gling branches that appear during the season. 



