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THE MIXED GREENHOUSE. 



readily by cuttings planted in finely-sifted, light, rich mould, and the 

 herbaceous sorts divide at the roots, and both produce seeds which vege- 

 tate freely if sown on the surface of pots of fine, light, rich mould, in 

 February. When they have vegetated, as soon as they will move, the 

 seedlings should be planted out into other pots, and kept in a very shght 

 heat to forward them. By the latter end of May or the beginning of 

 June they will be fit to plant out into a rather cool shaded border, when 

 they wiU flower till the end of autumn. From these the finest varieties 

 should be selected, potted in autumn, and kept in a cool pit or green- 

 house during winter, when they mil flower beautifully the following sum- 

 mer. Cuttings taken off in autumn, and kept in a dry, airy place, where 

 frost is merely excluded, if potted into larger pots in springy, will also 

 flower in great perfection during summer. The whole family is very 

 subject to the attacks of green-fly : when that is observed, recourse must 

 be had to the fumigation of tobacco, and a shght syringing over their 

 tops the day following. The shrubby sorts are so hardy that they will 

 stand in the open border uninjured during ordinary winters, and so alsc* 

 would the herbaceous kinds were it not that they sufi*er from damp. 



GARDENIA. 



Most of this genus are hot-house plants ; but the two species G.forida 

 and G» radicans are best kept in a cool pit from the time that they go 

 out of flower till it be deskable to make them form flower-buds for the 

 succeeding season, when they should be shifted into fresh mould, plunged^ 

 or rather set, on the surface of a pretty strong bottom heat, a moist steam 

 heat being kept up in the pit, and the lights kept rather closely shui. 

 They will by this means show abundance of bloom buds, and beautiful 

 fresh fohage, and when they are just about coming into bloom, if re- 

 moved to the greenhouse or drawing-room, they will continue longer in 

 flower, and perfume the whole apartment with their delightful fragrance. 

 They are readily propagated by cutttings of the last year's wood, planted 

 in rich, light mould, without glasses, in a humid, rather warm atmo- 

 sphere. 



ALONSOA, AND BOUVARDIA* 



Both of these strike root freely by cuttmgs of the young wood placed 

 in a shght heat, without covering ; their whole culture is of the most 

 simple kind ; a soil half peat and half loam suits them very well. 



