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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
resources for future elaboration and development. No plant can, 
with impunity, undergo constant and uninterrupted hard forcing 
without producing constitutional debility, disease, and death. In 
nature every plant has its season of rest, and if we in artificial 
management drive cultivation to its utmost limits, we must on no 
account alter the immutable laws which maintain and perfect every 
vegetable production. Should our object be to have these desirable 
plants in beauty in early spring, we should commence in November 
following with the system previously detailed, and those plants 
which were earliest excited the previous season will be the most 
suitable to commence with. 
TABERNCE MONTANA CO RON ARIA FLORE PLENO. 
JHIS fine stove shrub has long been common in well- 
managed collections, although it is not so generally 
cultivated as it deserves to be. Its large white flowers 
are hardly inferior to those of the Gardenia in fragrance, 
and last longer in beauty, and are produced very thickly 
under proper management. Being a native of the East Indies, it 
requires a warm, moist temperature while growing, with a liberal 
supply of water at the root ; but when the wood is formed, from 
which flowers are expected, it must be subjected to a period of cool 
dry treatment, to thoroughly ripen the wood, which is essential if a 
good display of blossoms is wished for. 
By the exercise of a little forethought and attention, to get the 
wood properly ripened, and allow the plant a period of rest, it may 
be had in bloom at any time from March to November, as properly- 
ripened wood will never fail to produce flowers. 
Young plants should be placed in a moist growing temperature 
at about 65° by night, and 75° by day, a3 early in spring as circum- 
stances will admit ; and if they can be afforded a bottom-heat of 
about 85°, this will greatly assist in promoting active growth. At 
this season the plants should be kept near the glass, and afforded all 
the light possible, admitting air whenever the state of the weather 
will permit, in order to prevent long-jointed weakly growth. If 
dwarf short-jointed plants have been selected, the points of the 
shoots may be pinched out, tying the latter down to induce the 
lower buds to start, but if the plants are straggling they had better 
be sufficiently cut back to secure a close habit. 
Shifting must be attended to as soon as the pots are moderately 
well filled with healthy roots, using pots one or two sizes larger, 
according to the vigour of the plants. If in bottom-heat, great 
caution will be necessary, for a fortnight or so after potting, to 
apply water properly : for when the pots are plunged, it is not easy 
to judge of the state of the soil, as when they are exposed ; and so 
little is required in this case, that beginners are very apt to water 
too frequently, and many a promising plant is thus ruined. Care 
should always be exercised to ascertain the state of the soil, before 
