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house, and their places supplied by others from the beds. For early forcing, six 
weeks or two months are considered requisite to bring them to perfection ; but to 
have flowers at the end of February, or the beginning of March, (at which time 
they will unquestionably be far finer than at any former period,) a month’s forcing 
will suffice. At first, they are only subjected to a moderate temperature, which is 
gradually raised to 60° or 70 ° in the day. 
' As soon as the shoots are developed, those bearing flower-buds should be at 
once supported by stakes, as this brings them nearer to the light, saves them from 
injury, and gives the plants a neat appearance, which could not be realized unless 
by the timely performance of such an operation. If not narrowly examined, a kind 
of grub will destroy all the buds. It must be picked off by the hand, and demands 
considerable patience and vigilance. Should the green aphis appear, it can at once 
be killed by tobacco-smoke. The plants should be syringed freely each day, when 
the weather is such that their leaves can speedily be dried ; but syringing must be 
relinquished in dull damp weather. 
Thus tended, the flowers will open almost as finely as those grown in the open 
air, and as the plants get older and habituated to such treatment, their beauty 
will be augmented. Care should be taken to ripen their wood properly in a 
moderate temperature before exposing them to the external air, and for this purpose 
the light of the sun will be invaluable. 
In late forcing, a tolerably good plan is to surround a bed of moss roses or 
other fine sorts with a slight brick skeleton frame, or one which has a brick omitted 
at trifling intervals, and cover this with lights in February or March, surrounding 
it with heating manure. W e have seen excellent roses produced in this way for 
many successive seasons ; and when they have ceased flowering, the lights are 
removed, the manure taken away, and they are left flourishing in the same condi- 
tions which they enjoy in the open border. 
FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW OR RARE PLANTS FIGURED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS FOR 
SEPTEMBER. 
AbIttilon bedfordianum. Called Sida Bedfordiana , but evidently belonging 
to the genus Abutilon , which is a division from Sida. The species forms a small 
tree, growing about fifteen feet in height, and bearing large, smooth, cordate, 
toothed, seven-nerved leaves. The flowers appear on long erect peduncles ; in this 
respect, and in the shape of the reflexed calyx, differing from those of A. striatum , 
which they much resemble in colour and markings. It was found by Mr. Gardner, 
in the Organ Mountains of Brazil, towards the beginning of 1837, and sent, amongst 
