190 THE FLOWER GARDEN COMPANION. 



growth too rapidly they are drawn very weak and flower 

 badly. In the process of growing bulbs, the water should be 

 changed every three or four days, and the fibrous roots rinsed 

 in clean water, as any putrid substance or impure matter, that 

 either collects about them or is in the water, is likely to injure 

 them in the process. 



If the weather is mild when the flowering is over, they 

 may be managed like those in pots, by planting them in the 

 flower beds, to regain their vigor. 



CHAPTER IX. 



Miscellaneous Tender Plants. 



ART. 1. Tender Green-house Plants for Winter Flowering and Planting 

 in the Flower Garden. 



THERE are several families of green-house plants that may 

 be yearly renewed, and planted in the borders for summer 

 flowering, that are not considered as important standard 

 plants grown for the purpose of remaining several years, as 

 the Camellia, &c. 



The method adopted for this purpose is either to strike the 

 cuttings in the summer or fall, and let them remain and flower 

 in the green-house, and turn them out in the flower border in 

 the spring ; or to strike them early in the spring and plant 

 them out so soon as the weather will permit. 



The Heliotrope is one of these plants, and it should be 

 propagated in July, when it will strike freely from the young 

 wood. When well rooted, the cuttings may be potted off 

 into small pots and placed in a shady place and well attended 

 until fall, when they are to be shifted into another size of 

 pots and placed in the green-house for winter flowering, and 

 in the spring they may be planted in the flower borders, 



