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possible opportunity. The same with Chrysanthemums that flowered in 

 pots during the winter — these should be put out in very rich soil so that the 

 new wood may afford luxuriant wood for next year's cuttings. 



Green House. — One of the sweetest and most desirable things in flori- 

 culture is the Tuberose — pot a dozen or so singly in 8 in. pots and get them 

 along early ; sand, loam, and cow-dung, in equal proportions suits them. 

 Azaleas and Rhododendrons require a large supply of water while in flower, 

 and manure water once a week. If it is desirable to re-pot them, do so 

 as they are about to go out of flower, and before they start into a new 

 growth. They will do better if kept close and warm while growing. In 

 general they do not require potting often — growing to a very large size, 

 healthy, and flowering abundantly in very small pots Save seeds of the 

 finest flowers of your Chinese Primroses as they ripen, and sow them at 

 once. They will make fine plants for next winter's flowering. Next winter, 

 too, requires at the present time attention in other quarters. For blooming 

 then, commence now to propagate Spiroea Reevesiana, white; Eupatorium 

 elegans, ditto ; Stevia serrata, ditto ; Henfreya scandens, and Spiraea pru- 

 nifolia ; also pink colored, Begonia incarnata, and Pentas carnea, scarlet ; 

 Euphorbia jacquinoeflora, and Poinsettia, Habrothamnus elegans, Cyrtan- 

 thera {Aphelandra) Gcheisbrechtii. For yellows there are nothing prefera- 

 ble to Jasminum revolutum, and Cestrum aurantiacum. In some cases the 

 Strelitzia reginse is a valuable winter blooming plant. I have one which 

 has this winter born over eighty flowers. Don't follow old rules about 

 throwing away your Hyacinth bulbs after flowering, turn them out in a bed 

 of rich sandy loam, take them up in the summer, re-plant in a fresh bed in 

 the fall, let them stay there all winter and flower there the following spring; 

 then take them up again, and they will be as good as ever. This will save 

 you many a thirty cents for fresh bulbs. The venders will not quarrel with 

 you as they will get your spare money for other things which you cannot 

 raise. I hope to see the Hyacinth more generally loved than it is, and 

 America the chief mart for their exportation, vice Holland, as the old ga- 

 zette would say, "superseded." The Jerseymen should see to this. Camel- 

 lias, while growing must have a bountiful supply of water, and the free use 

 of the syringe. The aspects and circumstances under which they are grown, 

 will of course vary the treatment in some degree. 



Hothouse. — x\t this season of the year insects should get a closer look- 

 ing after in this department than at most others, as, if a few have escaped 

 the winter's crusade against them, they will soon be as bad as ever; one kill- 

 ed now, will save your plants more than a thousand in the fall. Tillandsias^ 

 Bilbergias and Bromeliaceous plants, amongst the finest winter flowering 

 plants for the dry stove, should be repotted now into rich loam, grown in a 

 strong heat, with plenty of water, for a couple of months, then placed in a 

 hot, sunny spot, where they will get little water, till September, when, re- 



