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in about a month these cuttings will have made 

 good roots ; pot them off in No. 60, one in each 

 pot ; pinch out the lead, and replace them in the 

 cutting-frame or any dung heat for a time, until 

 they are rooted, when let them be removed into 

 the flower-house and put near the glass. Shift, as 

 they fill their pots with roots, until they are in 

 No. 8. About the beginning of May, place them 

 in the warmest part of the greenhouse, and in June 

 remove them into the open air, at which time take 

 out the lead of every shoot, if you wish for bushy 

 plants, and pinch off the buds of the next shoots 

 which have pushed, leaving only two joints. Plants 

 under this treatment make fine bushy ones, and 

 bloom in abundance in September, October, and 

 November. But it is desirable to have blooming 

 plants earlier than September : those which you 

 wish to select for this purpose should remain in 

 No. 12 pots, and you are not to pinch off the lead 

 of the last pushed shoots, but allow them to grow. 

 In July you will have a profusion of blossoms by 

 thus treating the plants, but not in so splendid a 

 display as you would have by the former mode of 

 proceeding. 



Soil. — Two parts loam, one part dung, with 

 about one-sixth rough sand. 



