142 HOT-nousE — OF REPOTTING PLANTS. [^February. 



comes numerous. They give the foliage a very disagreeable 

 appearance^ and it is too often intolerable^ before their career 

 is arrested. It also takes a stronger fumigation^ which has 

 frequently to be repeated the following day to the same de- 

 gree, much to the injury of many of the plants, and adding 

 to the disagrceableness of the continued vapor in the house. 



OF REPOTTING PLANTS. 



About the end of the month, some of the plants of Cur- 

 cuma Amomum Kdempferia, Aljnna, Ph?'^nium, Cdnna, 

 Zirt giber, HedycJiium, and others that are on the dry shelf, 

 will be offering to grow. Let them be taken out of their pots, 

 some of their weakest shoots or tubers taken off, and the 

 strong ones repotted : give gentle waterings until they grow 

 freely, then give in abundance. (Soil No. 17.) 



Dionsea mucipula, or Yenus fly-trap, grows best in the 

 hot-house, and will, about the end of the month, stand in 

 need of being repotted. This plant is very seldom grown 

 in any degree of perfection, having been always considered 

 a delicate plant in collections. Take it out of the pot just 

 before beginning to grow afresh, and divested of all the soil, 

 leaving only a few of the young roots (it is a bulb, and will 

 receive no injury by so doing), put it in new soil; when 

 potted, place the pot in a saucer with one inch of water in it, 

 giving a fresh supply every other day; this being repeated 

 every year, it will grow, flower and seed in perfection. (Soil 

 No. 5.) 



Gemen'm, if in small pots, give larger as they advance in 

 growth. This genus requires to have plenty of pot-room to 

 make them flower well. G. oblongata, G. Zebrina and G. 

 Sd'bidi ought to have a situation in every hot-house. They 

 arc remarkable for their many brilliant crimson flowers, and 

 continue in flower for a length of time. When the bulbs 

 begin to push, shake them out of the earth, and repot them 

 into smaller pots; and, as soon as the roots reach the side of 

 the earth, which will be in about one month, put them in 

 larger pots, and continue to do so until flowering, which will 

 be about the first of June, observing always to keep the ball 

 of earth entire. G. Dougldsii, G. riuilla, G. acauHs, and 

 some otherS; are all well worth attention. (Soil No. 11.) 



