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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE, 
Jasminum grandiflorum is a very useful plant in the winter 
season, and the blossoms being white and very sweet-scented makes 
it very desirable for cutting from for bouquets, etc. This plant is 
easily propagated by cuttings in the spring. After the plant has 
done blooming let it be cut back, and repotted in a mixture of loam, 
rotten hotbed manure, sand, and leaf-mould, in about equal 
proportions. When the new growth is made, and, in fact, all 
through the summer, they should be kept plunged out of -doors in 
cocoa-nut fibre, leaf-mould, or any similar light substance. Give 
them water when required, and in the autumn they may be lifted 
up and taken indoors, where all the winter they will he much 
prized for their delicious perfume and snowy blossoms. 
The Tree Carnations are most valuable for winter blooming, 
and there is no difficulty in having flowers on them from September 
until the May following. But to have them in flower during so 
long a period, it will be necessary to have strong young plants, 
which were struck early in the year, and kept growing all the 
spring and summer. I must just mention that they require very 
little water during the dull days of winter; give them just enough 
to keep them moist, no more. 
The old free-flowering Coronilla glauca may be had at mid-winter 
one mass of golden-yellow blossoms. It is very easily managed, and 
about as cheap as chickweed. It bears almost any knocking about 
without injury, but treated as recommended for jasminums, it will 
repay for the extra trouble by extra richness of bloom in the 
winter. It appears at all times to like a warm sunny spot with 
plenty of air, and to be kept at all times rather dry at the roots 
than otherwise. It is also moderately hardy, as it will bear eight 
or ten degrees of frost without any injury. 
To follow in succession we have the Cyclamen persieum in its 
innumerable varieties of colour. They are very desirable for our 
purpose ; for they are deliciously scented, and they continue to 
bloom in succession from Christmas to quite the end of April. 
After the plants have done flowering in May, they should be 
removed to the shelf of a greenhouse or to a frame, where they will 
have plenty of light and air. They should have little water given 
them, but beware of drying them up. In about six weeks, the 
corms will have a sound and ripe appearance, and the old foliage will 
be mostly withered. Then repot and start them into fresh growth. 
Have ready a mixture of good sweet turfy loam (the top spit from a 
meadow) one half, the other half to consist of equal portions of 
sweet powdery hotbed manure, leaf-mould, brown peat, and gritty 
sand. The plants may remain in the cold frame until the end of 
September, when they should be removed to the top stage of the 
greenhouse again, and close to the glass, where they may stay until 
they come into bloom, and are fit for decorating the conservatory. 
The Cinerarias should be gradually coming into bloom after 
Christmas ; these will continue gay for some months. The best 
way to obtain good varieties of these is to purchase a packet of 
seed from a good strain, and sow it in pans in the month of May, 
and when the young plants are strong enough, prick them off in 
