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expected to flower, it blossoms freely enough. Either a warm greenhouse or a 
cool stove will suit it. Still, it is perhaps the best plan to keep it in an inter- 
mediate house, or a kind of close conservatory. In such a situation, it only needs 
to be placed in soil that is not shaded, or liable to be saturated with moisture, or 
too far from the glass, or very deep, or imperfectly drained, and it will speedily 
arrive at a flowering condition. But, when it has grown sufficiently large to be 
capable of bearing flowers, the great point with it, as with others of the genus, is 
to refrain from pruning it, and let the branches take their natural course, unless 
they become too straggling. Under such management it will not fail to flower ; 
and it matters little whether it be planted in a pot or in a bed of earth. The 
compost suitable for it is quite an ordinary one, such as any mixture of heath- 
mould and loam, in which the latter constitutes the main part of the soil. 
About May or June is the fittest season for propagating it, and it should be 
raised from cuttings, which will need bottom-heat to start them. 
