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November 3, 1004. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



1207 



greenhouse in January or February they 

 will produce their umbels of chaste, 

 hawthorne-scented flowers throughout 

 March. Plants will stand a fairly high 

 temperature, but then the syringe must 

 be freely used, as red spider and thrips 

 are apt to disfigure the foliage if kept 

 too warm and dry. 



As much syringing spoils the flowers, 

 it is better not to subject the plants to 

 a high temperature till flowering is over, 

 when it is advisable to give a little more 

 heat and moisture in order to "draw" 

 the young growth a little, as these plants 

 naturally make short and stocky growth, 

 which is not so useful for cutting as 

 yfhtm drawn a few inches longer. When 

 flowering is over, potting should have at- 

 tention, and plants trimmed into shape 

 a bit if necessary, and, if convenient, 

 given a little more heat for a few weeks 

 as advised. They should be gradually 

 hardened off and finally set out in the 

 open by the end of June and kept care- 

 fully watered, when they will complete 

 and ripen their growth and insure a 

 crop of bloom for another spring. 



Cuttings of the young growth, with or 

 without a heel of older wood, root freely 

 in spring in any ordinary cutting compost, 

 set into a propagating pit, where some 

 bottom heat is afforded, and pots should 

 be kept fairly moist till cuttings are 

 rooted. 



• Unless they can be rooted early, young 

 plants are better not pinched, because, 

 flowering as they do on the points of the 

 young shoots, young plants unpinched 

 give one good truss; whereas, if pinched 

 the resultant breaks are often too late to 

 ripen properly, and fail to flower next 

 spring altogether. In fact, no pinching 

 of young growth should be practiced on 

 either old or young plants, as they can 

 be kept in shape by cutting back freely 

 when growth is starting in spring. 



Good fibrous loam with a dash of leaf- 

 mold and sand is a good potting medium, 

 though a little peat may be given cut- 

 tings at their first shift, which should be 

 into 4-inch pots. Plants in large pots 

 will do for several years with an annual 

 top dressing, and occasional waterings 

 with weak liquid manure wheg in full 

 growth. Any light, frost-proof structure 

 will keep the plants safe in winter until 

 wanted again for spring use. — Garden- 

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