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THE GREEN-HOUSE. 



or four inches diameter ; and when the plants have 

 three leaves, thin them out to four or at most five in 

 a pot. Protect them from heavy rains by a frame, 

 and from frost by coverings over the frame, and in 

 the summer months keep the young plants under the 

 shade of a wall. 



The tree mignionette, which is merely a variety 

 of the dwarf sort, requires exactly the same treat- 

 ment, excepting that only one plant must be left in a 

 pot, and this trained to a single stem. As mig- 

 nionette when trained as a tree lasts much longer 

 than when left to trail on the ground, one sowing in 

 spring will produce plants which will last a year. 

 In training, care should be taken to pinch off all 

 blossoms that appear before the stem has attained the 

 proper height. By pinching them off during a whole 

 summer, the plants will be two or three feet high by 

 the autumn, and will make a fine appearance, and 

 be profusely covered with bloom during the winter. 



April, May, and June. 



Mignionette and hyacinths as during the preceding 

 months ; and perhaps a pot or two of Neapolitan 

 violets, (a variety of Viola odordta so named,) of 

 spring cyclamen, of auricula, and choice wall-flowers 

 or stocks. But the proper green-house plants Avill 

 now make such a fine appearance, that few of these 

 extraneous articles will be necessary. 



