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prevail. Those on globular trellises should be pruned to within one or two joints of 

 where the leading growths last started from, and the roof plants ought to be unhesi- 

 tatingly shortened with equal severity, or to as near the main stem as can safely be done. 

 Soon after pruning give the plants a thorough soaking of water at the roots, and this coupled 

 with daily syringings, the maintenance of a moist atmosphere, and a temperature of 60° 



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to 70°, will cause them to break strongly. Before the young shoots have made much 

 progress (see Fig. 121, page 260), re-potting, re-tubbing, or re-planting, as the case may 

 be, ought always to take place. Turn them out of the old exhausted soil, leaving only 

 a little of this by way of a "ball," and freely shorten the roots. It should then be 

 decided whether the plants are to be flowered in pots, in tubs, or in pits. 



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