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sliift should be in SeptemliLT^ as any disturbance of the 

 roots ill the later months of the year will interfere injuriously 

 with the floweriug. For a general rule, nine-inch pots may 

 be regarded as the largest allowable for plants well grown, 

 and in these they may be allowed to flower. As the fluwer- 

 spikes rise, weak liquid manure may lie given to assist them, 

 and the house must Ije warm enough to 2>romote a fine de- 

 velopment, say a temperature of 60^, rising to 1^)" with 

 sunshine. In a cold damp house they will do no good at 

 all. Tlie finest examjiles we have seen of tin's jilant were in 

 the greenhouses in the Royal Cnirdens, Kew. They \Aere 

 truly wonderful, and bad for companiijns ]ilants, not less 

 wonderful, of Sciiecu) G/ie-^hrccliI i, with gigantic heads of 

 orange-yellow flowers. In the same houses were epaeris, 

 cinerarias, heaths, cyclamens, acacias, and other of the 

 usual oc(?upants of a greenhouse, which are here named 

 to show that our Bolivian sage does not need the heat of 

 the stove even when llowering in February. 



