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smaller, particularly where the space intended to be filled 

 is considerable, is preferable ; when a small number of plants 

 are kept, or when they are placed distinct from each other, 

 or in a single row, then it is desirable to look to the size of 

 the blossoms, in preference to their number. 



We are much indebted to Mr. Wells for his account of 

 the cultivation of these plants, he has caused the saving a 

 great deal of labour and expense, by bringing the plants to 

 maturity from cuttings in the same season ; perhaps the time 

 of striking them proposed by him is rather too late, and the 

 growing them under hand-glasses in a shady border is not 

 always to be depended on, particularly if the season should 

 prove unfavourable in consequence of cold, as it often does in 

 the beginning of May ; besides, the trouble of taking up, 

 potting, and shading them until they recover, is considerable. 

 When the cuttings are struck in small pots, their removal 

 afterwards causes very little trouble, and they require no 

 shading after potting, nor is any care necessary in doing it, 

 for one man will re-pot a hundred small plants in an hour. 



After all the cuttings that are wanted are taken from the 

 old plants, they are turned out of their pots, the old mould 

 is entirely taken away from their roots, and the suckers are 

 rubbed off ; they are then potted in forty-eight sized pots, 

 and when they have filled those with roots, they are shifted 

 into thirty-twos. In the month of August they are either 

 put into twenty-four or sixteen sized pots, according to their 

 size and vigour. They are generally kept with one stem, 

 but sometimes three or four stems are allowed to rise ; each 

 of these is trained to a stick, and when the collection is 



