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THE FLOWER GROWER'S GUIDE. 



3 feet square. The loose brick walls can be taken down each spring, returning 

 them after some of the old exhausted soil has been removed, and fresh com- 

 post substituted. It is unwise to allow the plants to grow promiscuously. The 

 wires for them should be strained across' the rafters not less than 1 foot apart, and 

 the growths trained along, not across, them. Thus arranged, the pruning, cleaning, 

 and other operations can be carried out expeditiously with a minimum amount of injury 



Fig. 13. Stephanotis flokibunda. 



to the plants. Train long, strong, well-matured growths round stakes, to make them 

 break regularly, and subsequently take them straight up the roof — either at one 

 end or in the centre of the house, and train the lateral growths along the wires. 



Two methods of pruning are open to growers of Stephanotis. Some prefer to 

 shorten the old flowering growths severely in February, with the result that long, 

 strong shoots are formed, which do not commence flowering till they have made 



