TWO-YEAR-OLD PLANTS 77 
that known as Enchantress, the flowers thus produced are 
exceedingly fine. It is not good practice to cut these 
plants down into the hard woody growth for the purpose 
of getting a dwarf, bushy specimen ; but simply cut back 
the flowering stems and the growing shoots. Two-year- 
old plants invariably become tall and leggy ; but the shoots 
may be twisted around four or five stakes set in the sides of 
the pots, and the growing points turned upwards. These 
tall plants are most useful for placing at the back of groups, 
or for providing central plants in stage arrangements, 
Previous to potting on the one-year-old plants, they 
should be given a slight pruning, as recommended above, 
about the end of February, afterwards placing them in 
a house where the atmospheric temperature is 55° to 60°. 
The plants should be watered but sparingly until they have 
started into growth, but on bright days, lightly spray them 
over with a syringe in the morning and afternoon. By 
the month of April they will have made numerous young 
shoots, and be ready for potting into 8, 9, or ro inch pots, 
in which they will flower during the following winter. In 
potting, do not disturb the roots, beyond removing the 
loose drainage and surface soil. Cultivate the plants in 
the same conditions as they were grown in previously, and 
treat them during the summer in the same way as the 
younger plants. 
SUMMER TREATMENT OF POT-PLANTS IN 
THE OPEN 
The final potting over, the young plants are returned 
to their houses, pits, or frames, where they are grown on 
as before, gradually hardening them off, until, if desired, 
