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They will nevertheless be very much assisted by being gently 
syringed mornings and evenings. About the end of May or 
beginning of June, the plants which were shifted in the spring may 
be supposed to be again well established in their pots, and growing 
freely ; if so, occasional waterings of weak liquid manure will very 
much encourage a healthy action, and enable them to form large 
trusses of flowers iu autumn. But to old plants, with their pots 
pretty full of roots, liquid manure may be applied with advantage 
from the time they commence growing. Or, what answers a very 
good purpose is, a good mulching of half-decomposed cow or sheep’s 
dung, through which all the water applied to the plants must pass, 
and consequently carrying with it a certain portion of the fertilizing 
properties of the dung to the roots ; and by preventing evaporation 
in some degree, will so much encourage the roots nearest the surface, 
that the dung at the end of a few weeks will generally be found 
matted by them. A practice prevails with some gardeners of 
placing their Daphnes out of doors, with other greenhouse plants, 
during summer ; but unless the means be at hand of protecting 
them from the direct rays of the sun on the hottest days of summer, 
and heavy, drenching rains in autumn, no advantage can be gained 
by adopting such a course, as they will be found to succeed much 
better in a pit, where shading can be easily applied when necessary, 
taking the lights off in the evening to give the plants the benefit of 
the night dews, and putting them on again in the morning, before 
the sun gets too powerful ; admitting plenty of air during the day, 
to make the plants still' and short jointed. 
If in hot, dry weather, red spider should make its appearance 
upon the leaves, let them be well syringed with clean water, applied 
with considerable force, early in the afternoon, shutting them up 
close for the night, to keep a moist atmosphere about them ; 
repeating the operation for several days in succession, and that pest 
will soon disappear. 
By a little attention in summer, their flowering season may be 
very much prolonged. This is to be effected by setting aside some 
plants, and giving them only a partial supply of water for about six 
weeks, which will check rapid growth, promote the ripening process, 
and act on them, in some measure, as a season of rest. Then 
induce them, by giving copious waterings of weak, liquid manure, to 
make another growth in autumn, thereby causing their flowering 
points to be formed at a much later period than they otherwise would 
have been. Plants treated in this way will not commence flowering 
generally till some time in January, instead of the usual season, 
November. 
The Daphne Odora is easily propagated by cuttings in February, 
planted in sandy peat, and placed in a gentle bottom-heat, with a 
close, humid atmosphere. The cuttings I have found to make the 
best plants are the tops of last year's shoots, which have flowered 
during the winter ; allowing that portion where the truss of flowers 
had dropped from to remain on the top of the cutting, which, from 
the number of buds formed close together around that place, will 
generally break from three to six young shoots ; thereby laying the 
March. 
