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Cattleyas will require 10° or 15° less to bring them to a 

 healthy state of rest ; for if kept in constant excitement 

 they will continue to sprout buds from their pseudo- 

 bulbs, which generally adds to the size of the plant at the 

 expense of the blooms. 



Achimenes picta. — Promote their growth by every 

 attention, also Gesnera zebrina, which adds much to the 

 beauty of the stove during winter. 



Begonias. — Encourage the different kinds for winter 

 flowering by giving them larger pots if required. 



Euphorbia eulgens and splendens.— These are also 

 worthy of especial attention, as they contribute to enliven 

 the house at the dullest season of the year when flowers 

 are scarce. 



FORCING-HOUSES, 



Cucumbers. — To prolong the season of fine crisp fruit 

 it is necessary to keep the plants clean and healthy by 

 giving them plenty of top and bottom heat. 



Pigs. — The trees having no fruit likely to come to 

 perfection, and whose leaves are fading, to be kept cool 

 and dry, to induce an early rest. A seasonal rest should 

 also be given by the same means to trees in pots, that 

 they may be in a fit state for forcing early. 



Melons. — Continue to maintain a warm, dry atmo- 

 sphere, to give flavour to the fruit. They will require 

 little or no water after this. 



Peaches. — Vacancies to be filled with trees from the 

 walls on the open ground. This is a plan preferable to 

 having young trees from the nursery, which are usually 

 some years m covering the space allotted to them. Where 

 the lights have been wholly removed, after being re- 

 paired and painted, they should be put upon the houses 

 to protect the trees and borders from unfavourable 

 weather. 



Pines. — Bipening fruit to be kept in a dry, warm 

 atmosphere, to give it flavour. The swelling fruit to have 

 a warm, moist atmosphere. Water to be given to the 

 plants cautiously ; every one to be examined before it 

 receives any, and manure water to be dispensed with 

 altogether. The heat of the dung-pits to be kept up by 

 renewing the linings. The crowns and suckers that are 



