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owner of. As the fall closes in, and the trees gradually put on their autumn 
garbs, this will do so likewise, and ultimately fall as they do. The watering 
should have been gradually withheld until finally discontinued altogether, 
and the plant stowed away for winter. Where there is no hot-house, the 
plant can be started in the first hot-bed to get the cuttings, or left till warm 
weather does it in the green-house ; but in this case, the plant will do but 
little the first season. 
In commencing with the second year, it will be unnecessary to begin so 
early, as a plant is already obtained of tolerable dimensions. Some time in 
March, put the plants in a gentle warmth to break, having previously pruned 
in the points of th6 shoots to good firm wood, and to a desirable shape, 
which is globular. When sufiiciently broke, that is, when they have pushed 
an inch or two, knock them out of the pots, and shake off a good portion of 
the soil, but do not mutilate the roots ; repot into the same sized pots again, 
only use clean ones ; and if you have the means, plunge them in a gentle 
bottom heatj- this will induce a healthy root action, and when the roots are 
nicely showing around the outside of the ball, repot into pots two or three 
inches larger than those they have come out of. 
Keep the shoots spreading by tying out, and as soon as the green-house 
ranges as high as 50 at night regularly, let them have the front shelf again. 
They will soon now give earnest of good things to come. 
The only point we should deviate from the foregoing afterwards would be 
to allow those over two years old to come along naturally in the green-house 
§is the weather becomes warmer, shaking out and repotting as before, but 
rarely giving any larger pot, depending upon liquid manure water for the 
supply of nutriment suflScient for the well-being of the plant. 
TiLGATE. 
TYD^A GIGANTEA. 
A stately stove plant, obtained by crossing Sciadocalyx Warczewiczii 
with Achimenes picta. It seems to have the noble aspect of the former and 
the gay yellow and scarlet spotted flowers of the latter. It was raised in 
the garden of M. Van Houtte by Mr. Roezl, and is no doubt one of the 
finest of its brilliant race. M. Planchon assures us that the flowers hansr on 
much better than usual, a circumstance which he attributes to their being 
sterile. — Planchon in Van Houtte, Flore des jSen'es tt. 975-6. 
