THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GDIDE. 
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to be grown in a greenhouse during the summer season ; but when 
kept in that temperature all the year round the plants do not make 
the new growth early enough in the season to admit of its being 
well matured by the autumn. With the aid of the temperature 
above alluded to they will commence to make new growth early, 
and the following season bloom superbly. The warmth is required 
to bring out the flowers at mid-winter, and to encourage the new 
growth, which begins to push soon after the flowers are faded. During 
the summer a sunny position in the greenhouse, with moderate sup- 
plies of water at the root until July, will be all that they require, 
and after the last-mentioned month they still require a roasting 
situation, but with little or no water. 
Bouvardia jasminioides, B. longiflora, B. Vreelandi, B. Hogarth, 
and several others, are most beautiful, and the flowers are unsur- 
passed for bouquets. These can be grown in a warm, sunny 
situation out of doors during the summer, and if lifted carefully, 
potted, and put in a genial temperature, they will flower superbly 
throughout the winter. The. main points in managing them in this 
rough-and-ready way is to put them out in well-tilled soil, to keep 
them stopped, to promote the formation of neat bushes, and prevent 
their exhaustion by the production of their flowers when they are 
not required. They must not be stopped during the last six weeks 
or two months they are in the open ground, for it is most important 
that they should, when lifted, be bristling with flower buds. 
Salvia gesnercefolia is wonderfully attractive towards the spring, 
when grown in the form of neat little bushes, and placed in a tem- 
perature between fifty-five and sixty-five degrees. The cuttings may 
be struck in the warm corner of the bouse about the middle of March, 
potted olf singly when nicely rooted, and then shifted into six or 
eight-inch pots. After the beginning of June, a moderately open 
position, with the pots plunged, will be the most suitable quarters 
for the summer. They must be well supplied with water at the 
roots, and have also an occasional skiff overhead from the syringe, 
and if they suffer from neglect in this respect, the lower leaves will 
fall, and the plants become very unsightly in consequence. They 
will require stopping two or three times in the course of the season. 
Remove them indoors sometime in September, and they will bloom 
much earlier than when kept in a greenhouse all the winter. 
S. sglendens is very beautiful during the late autumn, when assisted 
with a genial temperature. The cuttings should be struck early, 
and the plants grown out of doors during the summer. 
Begonia Bigswelliana, B. Saundersiana, 'and several others of 
the same character, bloom superbly and continuously during the 
winter season. The flowers are not of much value for bouquets, but 
they are very pretty when employed in the dressing of epergnes for 
the dinner table. The cuttings strike very freely at any season of 
the year, but the spring is the best season for propagating a stock, 
and the routine management consists in shifting the plants into 
larger pots as required, and stopping the young shoots once or 
twice to keep them stocky. It is not needful to propagate a stock 
every season, for the old plants may be cut down in the spring, the 
October. 
