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THE PRACTICAL GARDENER. 



[Nov. 



the sun. This last simple process is too httle attended to ; 

 hence the many deformed and mis-shapen plants for which 

 most green-houses are so very conspicuous. Cultivators often, 

 for want of attending to this, allow many plants to become 

 one-sided, as it is practically termed, that is, having one side 

 only fit to be seen, and the other, which has been shaded for 

 some months, unfit for being exposed to sight. This once 

 being the case, they go on increasing in deformity, until at last 

 they become either a disgrace to any ordinary collection, or die 

 altogether. This would never be the case if attention were 

 paid to this point, occasionally turning them round, allowing 

 every side of the plant to enjoy a share of sun-shine, par- 

 ticularly during the dark months of winter. The plants in the 

 conservatory should be also regularly attended to, all dead 

 leaves should be picked off, and all decaying parts of flowers. 

 The surface of the borders should be frequently stirred up, 

 and attention paid to tying up and supporting such plants as 

 require it. The climbing or creeping plants should be some- 

 what pruned in, that is, all straggling and ill-placed shoots 

 either removed or shortened, both that the shade which they 

 create may not injure those under them, as well as to make 

 room for a supply of young wood for the flowers of next 

 season. All annual or temporary plants, which may have been 

 introduced for their flowers during summer, should now be 

 taken out, that the house may not be crowded with plants not 

 its own, and that room may be made for such as belong ex- 

 clusively to that department. 



