MAY — THIRD WEEK 



THIRD WEEK. 



GREENHOUSE AND CONSERVATORY. 



Attend carefully to the stock of plante for summer 

 and autumn decoration, and do not allow them to suffer 

 for want of pot room and water. 



Azaleas.— -Continue to encourage all that have flowered 

 by timely potting, syringings, and applications of weak 

 liquid manure. 



Camellias. — Introduce a gradual declension of artificial 

 heat amongst all that have completed their growth. A 

 curtailment in the supply of water, giving merely suf- 

 ficient to keep them from flagging, will induce the pro- 

 duction of blossom-buds. 



Epacris. — Repot with a pretty large shift the early- 

 flowering sorts that have freely commenced their growth. 

 Use good fibrous heath soil, rejecting any of a spongy 

 or greasy nature. Such plants, for some time after being 

 newly shifted, require particular attention in watering, 

 that the soil may not become soddened. Let the plants 

 be placed in a cold pit, and be slightly shaded during- 

 bright sunshine. The stopping or pinching out the points 

 of strong shoots must be regularly attended to during 

 their growing season, to establish a uniformity of sturdy- 

 growth. 



Heaths and New Holland Plants. — All that have 

 flowered, and have made their season's growth, may be 

 removed to cold pits, or frames, to allow those that re- 

 main, and are promising to flower, more air,, sun and 

 light. 



stove and orchid-house. 



Keep up a liberal supply of humidity, with ventilation, 

 at favourable opportunities. The plants here should now 

 be growing very freely, and should; therefore, receive 

 frequent attention as to stopping, training, &c. Keep 

 them properly accommodated with pot room, and allow 

 them all the sunshine they will bear without scorching % 

 also, allow them sufficient space for the development of 

 their foliage. Plenty of moisture is now requisite to 

 encourage a free growth in Orchids, to get their pseudo- 



