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THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
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flaked and spotted. I believe ere beautiful varie- 
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parative st vc of dhe supposed difficulty 
r culture is not at all — if 
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Fic. 73.—MAGNOLIA STELLATA: FLOWERS WHITE, WITH YELLOW ANTHERS, 
year; but in winter, when the 3 ought to 
be brighest and best, the plants suffer 
from damp and cold. 1 — 
any 
species suffer in the same way, particularly P. 
one ape and to a less extent P. coe and 
Forbesii. 
ie plants will not develop good flowers in a 
house from which frost is merely excluded, and they 
will sometimes damp off at the neck, They are best 
for flowering in the late autumn and early winter 
months. When passing out of bloom the plants 
should be placed to rest near th 
ho 
perature from 7 to 50°, affording them just re 
water to keep the leaves from 
hs cuttings are opady to ta 
singly and firmly in 69-sized flower- eure using a 
ascent. and wh 
light sandy kind of soil. Place them in hand-lights 
kept close, and the cuttings being much like those of 
the Holl hock, require very similar treatment, an 
they should have no water afforded them for ten 
days at the least after insertion, and then only if the 
leaves The inside of the glass cover praen 
be dry once à day, 
coat aprend over he wil in each pot to absorb 
moisture, which will, to a certain extent, prevent 
decay in the cuttings. The cuttings will take from 
. 
e six weeks to form roots. ‘The formation of 
may be known — the gere on of new leaves, 
done when this is o a plaat, it should be 
placed in a bandit t to Aei more air is itted. 
It is, as any gardener er well, b a practice to 
take such a 33 t from a se frame or light into 
the free air of a KK ail at once; it must be 
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