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handsome and bushy, and will likewise assist their flowering ; then take off the old 
soil for an inch or two deep, and give a good top-dressing of new soil, as recom- 
mended for potting. 
After being potted place the plants in a cool part of the stove, and begin gra- 
dually to increase the proportion of water at their roots, and occasionally syringe 
them over-head. As they advance in growth remove them to a warmer part of the 
stove, where they will enjoy a damp and close atmosphere, and if they are kept well 
supplied with water at the roots, and syringed over-head in sunny days, they will 
soon show signs of flowering, and exhibit large leafy panicles from eighteen inches 
to two feet in length of shining waxy flowers, of a deep orange crimson colour ; 
which will be more than a recompense for all the attention they required. 
When out of bloom, which will be about the end of May or beginning of June, 
turn the plants out of their pots, and plant them, without breaking their balls, into 
the open borders, into a light rich soil, and during the summer allow them to have 
every encouragement to make a fine growth, by giving plenty of water if the weather 
should prove dry, and occasionally a little liquid manure. In this situation they 
may stand until the second week of September. 
In September carefully take the plants again out of the ground, pot them , with 
as little damage to the roots as possible ; place them in a close pit or the stove for a 
few days, until they have recovered from being shifted ; then remove them to the 
greenhouse ; gradually diminish the quantity of water, and treat them exactly as 
recommended before. 
These plants are well suited either for a greenhouse or conservatory, and will no 
doubt, in a few years, form splendid objects on our conservative walls, for which 
they are well adapted. 
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No one can have walked abroad during the past fortnight or three weeks, where 
flowering trees and shrubs, whose blossoms in any measure approach those of a 
conspicuous character, have come within the field of observation, without having 
been struck by the overwhelming quantity of bloom that every tree and bush, 
to the extent of branch and branchlet of each, is destined, however briefly, to 
support. 
In nature's and the cultivated garden, such a state of things have equally prevailed 
and thrust themselves upon our attention. Individual and assemblages of trees and 
shrubs, those with showy and those with inconspicuous blossoms, such as are grown 
for the value of their produce, as well as those maintained for ornament, have all 
exhibited, or indicate they will exhibit, similar features. There is enough in 
this, at least, to convince us that the influences which have wrought those effects 
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