ON CULTIVATING GARDENIA RADICANS AND FLORIDA. 
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shift, which will most probably be the only one they will need during the season. 
At this time of shifting, the compost should be made still stronger by another 
addition of the materials before recommended ; and it is necessary here to remark, 
that the pots used at each shift should be only one size larger than the preceding, 
as nothing can be more injurious to plants than placing them in pots which are too 
capacious, and nothing is more beneficial to such plants as the present than frequent 
shifting, provided it is performed with skill. After the plants have received their 
final potting, they must be constantly well watered, and the flower buds will 
speedily appear ; at this stage of their growth especially, as well as throughout the 
whole preceding and succeeding period, great care should be taken to prevent the 
ravages of insects. The red spider, however, their greatest enemy, will be effectually 
repelled by the evaporation from the water, and the green or black fly may be easily 
destroyed by fumigating the plants with tobacco smoke. 
"When a considerable number of flowers are expanded, the plants may be 
removed from the cistern and placed in a cool part of the stove, (not in the green- 
house,) where they will remain in flower for a considerable length of time if they 
are slightly shaded from the powerful rays of the sun, and liberally supplied with 
water. After their removal from the cistern, and even while they are placed in 
that situation, they should occasionally be syringed with water over the leaves and 
branches, which will tend much to invigorate them and keep them in a healthy 
condition. When in flower they might likewise be introduced to the drawing- 
room if desired, where their delightful fragrance would render the atmosphere very 
grateful and agreeable for a long time, and where also, as they would be efliciently 
shaded, they would remain in flower for several weeks. After the flowers have 
faded, the plants may be kept in a cool part of the stove through the autumn and 
winter, with due attention to watering them and preserving them from insects ; 
and early in the spring they should be re-potted, and again placed in the situation 
before recommended. 
These remarks refer more particularly to G. radicans^ but this treatment may be 
successfully applied to G.florida^ and if these plants are carefully and faithfully 
managed according to the directions thus given, we are convinced that they will no 
longer be seen in the sickly and unhealthy condition in which so many of them are 
now found ; and, instead of being kept shut up in frames, where they are rather an 
incumbrance than an ornament, they will be constantly placed in a situation where 
the rich glossy appearance of their deep green foliage can be seen and admired, both 
after the flowers have withered and before they are produced. It should, however, 
be added, that the cistern in which the plants are placed must be a rather shallow 
one, lest they should be too much deprived of light by the sides of the cistern, 
otherwise, they will be much benefited by being kept at a moderate distance from 
the glass. 
