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growth completed by the end of September, and should be kept dry 
at the root, and cool for a month, which will effectually check all 
tendency to the formation of wood, and prepare the specimens for 
blooming. After allowing a short period of rest, give them a liberal 
supply of water at the root, placing them in a temperature of 50 tf 
or 55^, when flowers will soon be produced in abundance. Under 
the most favourable circumstances, the individual blossoms are not 
of long duration, and care should be exercised to prevent them being 
injured by damp, and to remove them as soon as they fade, other- 
wise the decayed flowers will greatly detract from the beauty of the 
finest specimen. After blooming, cut back the shoots severely, 
leaving only sufficient wood to form a good foundation, and place 
the plants in any spare corner of a pit, or wherever they will be 
safe from frost, and give no more water to the soil than will suffice 
to prevent its becoming very dry. 
In the case of old plants, from which only a moderate growth is 
expected, it will be unnecessary to start them into growth until 
towards June; but young plants may be started after allowing them 
about a month’s rest. Old plants should be turned out of their 
pots, reducing ball, so as to be able to re-pot in fresh stuff in the 
same sized pots, placing them in a nice, moist, warm tempera- 
ture, to induce free growth, but avoid over-watering at the root at 
this stage. If thrips make their appearance upon the plants, and 
they are somewhat liable to this pest during the early stage of 
their growth, apply tobacco smoke, in moderate doses, on two succes- 
sive evenings, which will entirely destroy the thrips. Good mellow 
turfy loam, mixed with a little well-decayed cow dung, or leaf soil, 
and a portion of clean sharp sand to keep it porous, will be found 
more suitable for the growth of this plant than a lighter compost. 
CYTISUS CANARIENSIS. 
fHIS beautiful and free-flowering shrub is exceedingly 
well adapted for conservatory display during the spring 
mouths, inasmuch as it presents an admirable contrast 
to the delicate colours of the Chiuese Azaleas, and the 
more gorgeous masses of Indian, and hybrid Khodo- 
dendrons which ought to abound in all such structures in the earlier 
part of the season. It is also an excellent subject for bouquets, the 
bright yellow colour of its spikes yielding sprightliness and variety 
when used in conjunction with Camellias, Roses, Primulas, Cinerarias, 
and such like; whilst Violets, Sweet Briar, Balm of Gilead, and 
sprigs of Myrtle, furnish the requisite sweetness. It is grown here 
in bottomless pots, plunged to the rim in the conservatory bed. By 
this means it is kept within moderate bounds, and flowers more 
freely when grown in the open soil. This system also insures a 
positive degree of health which large pot-bound specimens seldom 
present for any lengthened period ; the plants are moreover readily 
May. 
