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THE FLOEAL WOELD AND GAEDEN GUIDE. 
desired. The plants should be removed to the front of the green- 
house, or to some light, airy situation, where they will be secure 
from frost and damp. As before stated, keep them free from insects 
and mildew, and remove any decaying leaves as they appear. When 
the flower-stems begin to elongate, they should be pegged or tied 
out, so as to keep the specimens open for the admission of light and 
air ; and manure water will be highly beneficial at this stage. When 
the plants are in flower, they should occupy an airy place, where 
they will receive abundance of light without being exposed to the 
full force of the forenoon’s sun ; but this applies only to plants 
flowering after the sun becomes powerful in spring. Those bloom- 
ing in winter like full exposure to the little sunshine and light 
which can then be afforded them. Where specimens are wished to 
flower in winter, cuttings should be selected about April, planted in 
light sandy soil, placed in a temperature of about 55°, and grown as 
freely as possible during the summer and autumn, and allowed 
to become pot-bound towards November, when, if placed in a 
temperature of 50°, they will be found to flower freely, and will 
be exceedingly useful for furnishing cut flowers. Seeds sown in 
April produce useful plants for winter-flowering, as they grow more 
vigorously during the summer. When the beauty of the specimens 
is over, remove the flower stems, unless seed is wanted, and then 
only a few spikes need be left. Place the plants in a shady situa- 
tion, and keep them clear of insects and properly supplied with 
water until a supply of suckers is obtained, when the old plants 
may be thrown away. Good fresh turfy loam, in the proportion of 
two parts to one of two-years-old cowdung, well intermixed wdth a 
quantity of clean, sharp sand, according to the nature of the loam, 
to insure sufficient drainage, forms an excellent compost for the 
Cineraria. For small plants, leaf-soil or sandy peat may be substi- 
tuted for the cowdung. 
CULTUEE OF THE PELARGONIUM. 
BY A CONTRIBUTOR. 
ELARGONIUMS, even in good establishments in diffe- 
rent parts of the country, are often very indifferently 
managed ; and as the following is a method by which 
I first-rate specimens may be produced, I have ventured 
to furnish it. I prepare the soil of an open border 
about the middle of July (this year I shall be a little later) ana 
plant my cuttings. The situation chosen is exposed to the sun 
during the middle of the day. In about six weeks, the cuttings will 
he sufficiently rooted to remove, and I put them in three-inch pots. 
To prevent the worms getting into the pots, they are placed on a 
temporary stage, and allowed to remain in a shady situation about 
three weeks, by which time the plants will be well-established, and 
bear removing to a more exposed spot, where, under the influence 
