THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
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small pots, and keep tkem growing all the summer, shifting them 
into larger pots as they require it. They like a compost of two- 
thirds sandy loam and one-third rotten manure. They should be 
grown in frames all the summer, and be kept close to the 
glass, and have at all times abundance of air. They should also 
be kept well watered during the summer. Fumigate about once a 
fortnight, to keep them free from greeu-fly. Nothing more need be 
done to them until the autumn, when they must be removed to a 
place of safety from frost, but where they will receive plenty of air 
on fine days, and be kept safe on frosty nights. 
Some Upacris will also be coming nicely into bloom in January. 
The cultivation of these plants is so well known that I will say but 
little about them. After they have done blooming, they should be 
cut back to a nice close compact head, and removed to a cold pit 
or frame to break afresh. If the soil in the pot is low down, let 
them have a top-dressing of good sandy peat, and the plants 
occasionally to have a sprinkling of water overhead ; this will 
strengthen the young wood, and make them break close and bushy. 
They may stand all the summer out of doors, in a half-shady spot, 
but not under the drip of trees. The following six kinds will be 
found valuable for general cultivation, viz:., Garminata, Delicata, 
Hyacintliiflora fdlgens, Ladij Alice Teel, Salmonea, The Bride. 
A few pots of Mignonette can be easily had in the winter by 
sowing the seed in July. Let the soil be rich loam — three parts to 
one of manure ; and let there be over the crocks in the bottom of 
the pot a handful of manure alone. To grow good mignonette, the 
soil must not only be well pressed down, but actually rammed down ; 
the plants do the better for it, as all who have tried can testify. 
Of course they must have while growing all the light and air 
possible. 
I find the Echeveria retusa, with its orange-scarlet flowers, a 
good plant for winter work. It will last in bloom a long time, and 
bear any amount of knocking about at all times without injury. It 
is also easily grown in any ordinary glass structure. The cuttings 
may be put in early in the spring, and, when rooted, potted olF in a 
sandy loamy soil, and watered when required during its summer 
growth. About September they will throw up their bloom-spikes, 
and begin to show colour about November ; from that time until 
quite April they will form a conspicuous object in the conservatory, 
especially if they are grown as I have seen them — several plants 
together in large pans and pots ; thus giving a mass of bloom that 
cannot fail to be attractive. They must at all times be sparingly 
watered, especially in the damp days of winter, when but very little 
will suffice for them. 
November. 
