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flowering in the following spring. Another good plan is to root cuttings in a close cool 

 frame in August, ready for potting early in spring. 



After either young or older plants have ceased flowering they should be cut back 

 moderately, and if possible placed in moist gentle heat. Ee-potting ought to take place 

 directly they are starting into growth. At this time they may have their old balls 

 of soil and roots considerably reduced, returning the weaker of the plants to the same- 

 sized pots they were in formerly, and the more robust to pots a size larger than those 

 they previously occupied. They are not fastidious as to soil, but succeed best in a 

 mixture of two parts of fibrous loam to one of peat broken up roughly, adding sharp 

 sand. Pot firmly, and for a few weeks keep the plants in a genial temperature of 55° to 

 60°. Top all shoots which seem disposed to take an undue lead. During the summer 

 arrange the plants on a bed of ashes in the open, and winter them on a stage in a light 

 greenhouse. When the pots are well filled with roots cytisuses should have abundance 

 of water, varied with an occasional supply of weak liquid manure. 



C. filipes is best grafted on clean straight seedling stocks of the common laburnum* 

 The crimson- winged Genista Andreana is also beautiful when similarly treated. 



DAPHNE. 



Daphnes are delightfully fragrant — hence their popularity. A single plant of either 

 of the greenhouse species when in bloom is capable of perfuming a large conservatory? 

 or a single truss of flowers any ordinary room in which it is placed. D. indica, of 

 which there are red and white forms, D. i. rubra and D. i. alba, was introduced from 

 China, and is cultivated for the beauty and fragrance of its flowers. D. japonica 

 variegata is also worthy of culture, the foliage being prettily variegated. All are 

 evergreen and succeed in ordinary greenhouse temperature. 



Cuttings of short side-shoots inserted in the autumn in well- drained pans or pots 

 filled with sandy peat should be placed on a greenhouse stage and covered with a bell- 

 glass. During the winter these will form a callus, roots following soon after introducing 

 them into heat in the spring. When well rooted pot singly and keep the plants 

 growing in gentle heat. Top to make them bushy and shift into larger pots, as they 

 well fill the smaller pots with roots. Winter on a cool greenhouse shelf. Unfor- 

 tunately plants on their own roots make but slow progress, and these daphnes are more 

 robust and serviceable when grafted on either D. laureola or D. pontica, both of which 

 are comparatively free-growing. These stocks may be raised from cuttings as advised 



