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cut short and made level, so as to have a neat appearance. After this is 
done, give them a good watering with a fine-rosed watering-pot, to settle 
the soil. The pots, in all cases, must be well drained with broken pots- 
herds. 
They should be placed at the hottest end of a stove, or Orchid-house, 
where a bank of moss can be made of the size required, in which to plunge 
the pots up to their rims, and deep enough to allow two or three inches of 
moss under the pots, to prevent them from drying. A few holes made 
through the slab, to allow the hot air to pass upwards through the moss, 
thereby to cause continual evaporation about the plants, will prove benefi- 
cial. Particular attention must be paid to moisture. After they are re- 
potted in March, they will require watering with a fine-rosed watering-pot, 
and the moss in which they are plunged must be well saturated about twice 
a week ; and the plants should be syringed overhead three or four times a 
day. As the summer advances, and the sun acquires greater power, they 
will require to be syringed oftener. When the temperature has risen under 
the influence of solar heat, in May, June and July, perhaps to 80° or 85°, 
they will require syringing a dozen times a day. The rule is, the stronger 
the heat the oftener they will require syringing overhead. As the heat 
declines, decrease the moisture by degrees. In winter, if the weather is 
dull, syringe about once a day ; but if there is a little sun, twice or three 
times ; and the moss in which they are plunged should be well saturated 
about once a week. They must be shaded from the burning rays of the 
sun. I would recommend to have the glass over them painted with a little 
thin paint, to prevent them from burning, as they are very liable to get 
injured in that way before the other plants in the same house require 
shading. 
Pitcher plants, if grown in perfection, like a hot, moist atmosphere. 
In summer the temperature should vary from 75° to 80° by day, and at 
night from 60° to 70°. It winter it should vary from 65° to 70° by day, 
and at night from 55° to 60°. The sphagnum on the top of the pots 
around the plants must be kept growing, and frequently clipped with a 
pair of scissors ;" and the moss must be replaced when required, in order 
to keep them always plunged up to the rim. They have been considered 
rather difficult things to manage, but by following this treatment they will 
be found to thrive, and will grow without diificulty. They are propagated 
by cuttings. — Grard. Cliron. Alpha. 
