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Care of choice Plants in Pots. 

 Campanulas, Rockets, Stocks, Wallflowers, and 

 other choice plants in pots, must now be duly at- 

 tended to with water, as above hinted. Also, let 

 the flower-stalks be neatly trained to sticks as they 

 advance ; stirring the surface of the earth frequent- 

 ly with a small stick, that it may the better admit 

 water. 



Those kept out of doors, to be carried into the 

 house in succession, as they come into flower, should 

 be plunged into the earth, and if placed in rather a 

 shady Situation, the season of their flowering might 

 be prolonged. 



If slips of all or any of these were made about 

 the end of March or first of April, and were put in- 

 to small pots as then hinted at, they will now re- 

 quire to be repotted into middle-sized pots. Plant 

 them in rich earth, water, and place them in the 

 shade for a few days ; then plunge them into the 

 ground as above. They will be fit for being remo- 

 ved into full-sized pots in July or August, and will 

 get fully established before winter. 



Making cuttings of choice Plants. 

 Cuttings of the above plants may now be made, 

 and will be well rooted and ready to be transplant- 

 ed in August. The young and recently made 

 shoots are to be taken for this purpose, such as have 

 grown to the length of three or four joints. They 

 may either be planted into nursery rows on a shady 

 border, or into small pots, as hinted at in April, re- 

 specting slips of these plants; which see. 



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