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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
MANDE VILLA SUAVEOLENS. 
BY A SUBSCRIBER. 
ANDEVILLA SUAVEOLENS is not very suitable for 
pot culture, at least I believe it is not ; for except the 
two first plants I bad of it, I have never attempted to 
grow it in this manner. I am convinced, however, from 
the success which I obtained with those, that it may be 
made to bloom rather freely in a pot ; and the fragrance and beauty 
of the flowers render it worth an effort to obtain them in that manner. 
Were I to attempt its culture in pots, I would treat it as follows : 
and although the display of blossom which I might get would be 
poor compared with what plants turned out in the conservatory 
border, and allowed plenty of space to ramble about would produce, 
it would nevertheless be ample compensation for the little attention 
which the plants would require. 
I would procure good strong young plants, lay in March, prune 
them back closely, leaving but one joint of the L st season’s growth ; 
then place them in a house where the night temperature might 
average about 50°, and when the plants started into active growth 1 
would give a moderate shift, and stop the’ shoots once or twice, to 
insure an abundance of young wood. 
When the pots become filled with roots, I would shift into the 
flowering pots, which should be fifteen or eighteen-inch ones, accord- 
ing to the strength of the plants. The vigorous habit of the plant 
renders a good-sized trellis necessary, which should be applied at 
once, and the shoots neatly and regularly tied over it. Water should 
be given rather sparingly at the root from the time when the plants 
are placed in the flowering-pots ; but the syringe should be used 
freely, and the plants be kept in an airy, light part of the house, and 
if the night heat can be conveniently kept as low as from 50° to 55°, 
it will be more suitable than a higher temperature. When the 
trellises are well covered with wood, which probably may be the 
case by the middle of June, remove the plants to the greenhouse, 
placing them in the warmest end of it for a few days, to avoid 
injuring the foliage, by a sudden removal from a moist atmosphere to 
a dry one ; and when they are inured to the change, expose them 
freely to sun and air, giving no more water at the root than will 
suffice to keep the foliage from flagging. This treatment, continued 
for three weeks or a month, will effectually check the tendency of 
the plants to make wood ; and when this is effected, they may be 
placed in the warmest corner of the greenhouse, where they will 
speedily begin to open their blossoms. 
The plants of the Mandevilla which I grew in pots were treated in 
the above manner, and I distinctly recollect that one of the specimens 
was very much admired, and produced a great number of clusters of 
flowers during August and September ; the other was a weak plant 
when received from the nursery, and produced but a few clusters, 
owing doubtless to its having been stopped back later in the season 
