REPLANTING OR POTTING PLANTS. 79 
larger sized ones. When the flower buds show themselves, 
it will be easy to detect those that will be single, which 
should be rejected. Hyacinths, Polyanthus Narcissus, 
and many other bulbous-rooted plants, flourish in the 
parlor. 
I have named more kinds of plants than are commonly 
cultivated in parlors, but the directions given in this 
chapter apply equally to small conservatories, connected 
with the sitting-room, where professed gardeners are not 
employed. For such appendages a greater variety of 
plants will be required than for the parlor. 
REPLANTING OR POTTING PLANTS. 
By the middle of August, or the first of September, the 
plants will require to be re-potted; this must be done with 
care and judgment. The following directions are minute 
and to the point: 
To ascertain if a plant wants fresh potting, turn it care- 
fully out of the pot, with the earth attached to it, and ex- 
amine the roots. If they are matted about the sides and 
bottom of the ball, the plant evidently requires fresh pot- 
ting. Then carefully reduce the ball of earth, to about 
a third of its original bulk; single out the matted roots,, 
and trim away all that are mouldy and decayed. Proba- 
bly the same pot may then be large enough, but, if it re- 
quires a larger one, it should be about two inches broader 
for a middle-sized plant; three or four for a large plant. 
If the roots are not matted, but the pots are filled with 
fibres, keep the ball entire and carefully plant it in a 
