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niums. In the management of the conservatory, abundant 
air should be admitted, and care should be taken not to 
allow the plants to become drawn, or too tall and spindle- 
formed by overcrowding. They should be so pruned as to 
keep them comparatively short and bushy; but after all 
pains have been taken, the time at length arrives when 
they either disfigure themselves by pressing against the 
roof-glass, or must submit to the no less distorting process 
of a violent amputation. To meet such exigencies, it-is re- 
commended that, wherever there is also a green-house, a 
few plants should be kept in training for the conservatory, 
and substituted in the room of any that, fiom excess of 
growth, becomeunmanageable. After all, the fourth, fifth, 
and sixth summers of the conservatory will always be the 
finest ; and when a longer series of vears have gone by, and 
the plants have outgrown the space allotted to them, per- 
haps the best thing that can be done is to change the whole 
interior of the house, plants, earth, and all. If this opera- 
tion be anticipated, and for a year or two prepared for, 
sufficiently large plants may be had in readiness, and the 
appearance of a well-furnished houge be again pretty well 
attained in a single season. It is scarcely necessary to add, 
that the neatness which is so desirable everywhere in the 
flower garden is absolutely indispensable in the conserva- 
- tory. 
Stove Plants.—There are many beautiful plants, natives 
of tropical regions, which are cultivated in our stoves, but 
which, owing to the high temperature they require, can be 
only occasionally visited with pleasure. This may account 
for the fact that ornamental plant-stoves are seldom found 
but in first-rate gardens, even where the price of fuel is 
inconsiderable. It is unnecessary to be minute respecting 
the culture of dry-stove plants, it being precisely that of 
