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in 2 1 -inch pots, and grow them in frames. Top to make them bushy and shift into 

 larger pots before they become root-bound. 



After either young or older plants have ceased flowering they may be arranged on 

 a bed of ashes in the open, soon afterwards pruning them into the desired form. When 

 breaking afresh they should be turned out of the pots, and after having their balls of 

 soil and roots considerably reduced they may be planted out in good garden soil 



vate, and when in good condition are so very attractive that it is a matter for regret 

 that correas are not so frequently seen as they used to be. Cuttings of firm young 

 shoots inserted firmly in a mixture of loam, peat, and sand, placed in a greenhouse and 

 covered with a bell-glass, seldom fail to root, but are slow in developing into service- 

 able plants. The choicer species succeed best when grafted on stocks of C. alba — the 

 plan adopted by nurserymen who supply these plants. 



to complete their growth ; re-pot in the 

 autumn, or return the plants to the 

 same-sized or slightly larger pots than 

 they were in formerly. A rich loamy 

 soil suits this free-rooting plant, and 

 when growing freely up to the end of the 

 flowering period they must never be 

 allowed to become dry at the roots. 

 Winter the plants in a cool greenhouse, 

 and apply liquid manure freely to all that 

 are well established in their flowering 

 pots. 



COEEEA. 



Fig. 80. COEEEA CAKDINALIS. 



Correas, or, as they have been called, 

 South African Fuchsias, are among the 

 prettiest of cool greenhouse, hard-wooded 

 plants. The few species usually grown 

 are of a neat, erect, branching habit, and 

 produce their brightly coloured tubular 

 flowers freely from the autumn to the 

 spring. They are not difficult to culti- 



