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course of a year or two the plants would assume a stinted and sickly ap- 

 pearance, from which it would be difficult to recover them. The appli- 

 cation of heat must not, however, be carried too far, else the consequence 

 would be as bad on the contrary extreme, and the wood produced would 

 be slender and devoid of flower buds. \Mien the young wood has 

 completed its growth, the temperature should be raised to about ten de- 

 grees above that recommended ; this increase of temperature is intended 

 to enable the plants to form their flower buds in perfection and abundance. 

 It requires some degree of observation, to ascertain the proper period of 

 thus increasing the temperature, as it should take place just as the young 

 wood has completed its growth, and before it has begim to tmn hard, or 

 of a woody texture. 



