158 BRECK’S NEW BOOK OF FLOWERS. 
posure, in good rich loam, As they are coming into bud, 
give them occasional waterings with liquid manure. 
To produce handsome, dwarf, bushy plants, the follow- 
ing course may be adopted, as practised by Youell & Co., 
England, which plan, they say, “if carried out, will ensure 
dwarf plants from one and one-half to two feet high, cov- 
ered with rich dark-green foliage, and carrying blooms 
from five to seven inches in diameter. . In the last week in 
May we select the tops of the strongest shoots for cut- 
tings, putting four or five round the edge of a three-inch 
pot, and placing them in a gentle warmth. When rooted, 
they are potted singly in the same-sized pot, and kept in 
a close frame for a few days, until they have become es- 
tablished. The tops may then be pinched out, leaving 
five or six joints to remain for lateral shoots. After a few 
days’ hardening off, they are then removed to an open sit- 
uation, allowing the plants a sufficient distance from 
each other to prevent their drawing, care being observed 
that they do not suffer from want of water. About the 
third week in July, we shift, for blooming, into seven-inch 
pots, using a small handful of coarely-broken bones at the 
bottom. The soil we use consists of equal parts of well 
decayed (one year old) pig manure, turfy loam, and leaf- 
mould, adding half a barrowful of peat, and half ditto of 
road-drift to every, four barrows of the above. When 
potted, they are placed in rows two feet apart, and they 
require but little attention, except watering, for two 
. months. At the expiration of this period, we commence 
watering twice a week with liquid manure made with 
one bushel of fresh pig manure (free from straw) 
to about eighty gallons of water. This will be ready 
for use in two or three days. As soon as the plants 
show flower-buds, we tie each shoot to a stick, and train 
them fan-shaped. Disbudding ought now to be attended 
to, reserving only one, or, at most, two, at the top of 
