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never make an appearance. The small seeds being 

 from the finest blooms, they perish from the moisture 

 if not sufficient heat to make them germinate at once. 



Those who do not possess facilities for potting their 

 seedlings singly, should make a slight hotbed, as heat 

 is required for the first few days only ; on which 

 place a common cucumber-frame, with rich light soil 

 over the manure to the depth of four or five inches, 

 into which the young plants should be placed three 

 to four inches from each other. In a few days the 

 plants will allow of the lights being pulled back, 

 should the weather be fine ; in fact, on all occasions, 

 night or day, when this is the case, the great object 

 being to keep them dwarf ; and a week before plant- 

 ing out for blooming, let the frame be taken away as 

 well. The young plants should be carefully drawn 

 from the seed pans, beginning with the most forward, 

 leaving the late ones for another day, between which 

 a little fine soil should be shaken, and watered with a 

 finfe rose before placing the pans again in the hotbed. 

 Plants will continue to make their appearance, which 

 would be lost if Mr. Glenny's plan was adopted, by 

 giving air as soon as the first plants are large enough. 

 If properly done, with moderate attention, stove 

 plants can be produced from four to six inches in 

 height. Such, of course, would bloom in excellent 

 time. 



Cuttings taken from the stems growing in the open 



