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To increase the strength of the foliage is of the 

 utmost importance ; therefore, when in the flower- 

 house, place them near the glass, that they may 

 have the benefit of light. In order to increase the 

 bulbs you should plant them very deep in the pots : 

 this causes them to produce offsets, but the bulb 

 always is weakened by it. 



To have them in bloom this month, they must 

 be put in the flower-house in February. There is a 

 little difference in the time of blooming. They have 

 blossomed with me about the middle of Septem- 

 ber when they were introduced into the flower- 

 house early in August, whilst others, brought in at 

 the same time, have flowered in the second week 

 of October. 



CARMICHAELIA AUSTRALIS. 



Class, Decandria. Order, Monogynia. 



Leguminos^e. 

 Native of New Holland. — Propagation, seed, 

 cuttings. 



This curious flowering pendent shrub is worthy 

 a place in every collection : its character, as to its 

 blooming, is similar to that of the epiphyllum. For 

 its treatment see Edwardsia. 



