THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
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giving water, and there should be no dribbling, or mere surface 
watering, but enough should be given to thoroughly moisten the 
ball, giving no more until it is absolutely wanted. As the season 
advances, it will probably be necessary to afford a slight protection 
against bright sunshine, but only a thin shade should be used, and 
this as sparingly as can be safely done. 
As soon as the pots are found to be well filled with roots, give a 
second shift, unless that should be the case until towards the end of 
the growing season, when it will be better to avoid shifting till the 
following spring. 
Maintain a thoroughly moist atmosphere, and syringe the plants 
over-head on the mornings and evenings of bright days in summer, 
and also keep the shoots regularly tied out and stopped, as may be 
necessary to secure a compact bushy habit ; but in case of plants 
intended to bloom the following spring, stopping must not be 
practised later in the season than will allow of getting the young 
wood properly matured before the winter. 
If the plants can be placed in a pit or house where the tempera- 
ture may range about 55°, this will form a suitable situation for 
them in winter, and if proper care has been exercised to get the 
wood well ripened in autumn, the night temperature may be allowed 
to fall as low as 45° in hard weather. Give very little water to the 
soil at this period, only just sufficient to preserve the roots in a 
healthy state, but draw the syringe over the foliage occasionally on 
the mornings of a bright day, so as to clear it of dust, etc. If it is 
intended to grow large specimens before allowing the plants to 
flower, place them in a moist temperature of about 65° by lire heat, 
as early in the spring as circumstances will permit, and afford them 
a brisk bottom-heat, to induce them into a vigorous root action. 
See to the state of the roots, and shift before these suffer for 
want of pot room, also keep the shoots tied out and stopped as may 
be necessary to secure bushy growth, and otherwise treat the plants 
as recommended for last season. 
While in bloom the specimens may be placed in a cool house, 
but they must be carefully guarded from damp in the atmosphere, 
and after flowering they should be cut back as may be required, and 
re-potted; but with an occasional watering with manure water during 
the growing season, they may be kept in good health without re- 
potting. For soil use good hbry peat and loam, in the proportion of 
three parts of the former to one of the latter, adding a sufficient 
quantity of silver sand to ensure a free percolation of water through 
the ball after the decay of the fibre. Cuttings of moderately young 
wood soon root if planted in sandy soil, covered with a bell glass, 
and afforded a sharp bottom heat of 80° or 90°. 
June. 
