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with beneficial results. Under no other 

 circumstances must shading be considered. 

 Cheese cloth stretched above the plants, 

 either inside or outside the glass, for three 

 or four hours during the hottest part of 

 days when the thermometer reads 90 

 degrees or more in the shade, will afford the 

 plants all the protection that they should 

 have. 



DISBUDDING 



With good treatment and favourable 

 conditions during the earlier part of the 

 season, the plants should arrive at the final 

 period of their development — the formation 

 of buds and production of flowers — in 

 vigorous health and with atleasttwo hundred 

 strong, flowering shoots, varying from 

 eighteen to thirty inches in length. About 

 September ist these shoots will begin to form 

 buds, generally a cluster at the extremity 

 of each shoot and several below in the axils 

 of the leaves. To obtain the best results, 

 all of these, except one at the extremity of 

 each shoot, must be removed. This operation 

 is termed "taking" the bud and "dis- 

 budding," and is described in full detail 



