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may be expected the following season. About the beginning or 
middle of June, if all has gone on well, it will be found to have 
filled its pots with fine healthy roots, and should be shifted into an 
eleven-inch pot, using the same compost as before. After shifting, 
continue the generous growing treatment already recommended, 
until the end of autumn is approached, when water should be 
gradually withheld, and all the light and air that is possible given 
it, to ripen the wood well — an important point in the culture of all 
plants, but more especially so in that of the Allamandn. 
Keep it all but dry during the gloomy months of early winter, 
and about the middle of February start it into growth. Prime the 
unripe tops off the old wood, and if a large and fine specimen is 
desired, shift it when it begins to break, and plunge it again in 
bottom-heat. Train the branches well out on a barrel-shaped 
trellis, which may consist of seven or eight nice hazel rods, of suffi- 
cient length, placed in the soil immediately inside the pot, fastened 
to a hoop about their middle, and then to a smaller hoop at their 
top. Bend the shoots of the plant round this, so as to cover it 
regularly, and when the young branches have begun to grow freely, 
train the strongest of them near the bottom of the trellis, so as to 
have your plant regularly covered with flowers, which it will be 
by the middle of July if the foregoing directions have been carefully 
carried out. In the third and fourth years it will flower earlier and 
better than in the second, and it will not require to be shifted ; but 
it should be fed occasionally with clear liquid manure-water, to keep 
it healthy and vigorous, without being over-luxuriant. By liquid 
manure, I mean clear weak dung-water from the stable-yard. 
LIS IAN THUS RUSSELLIANTJS. 
Et the decoration of the conservatory from the beginning 
of July to the end of September, few plants can com- 
pare with the Lisianthus. Indeed, the only fault this 
plant has, is that it requires a very strong moist heat to 
grow it in perfection, and it is also somewhat liable to 
damp off during winter ; care, however, will prevent this, but unless 
a moist, high temperature can be afforded, while it is growing, it is 
useless to attempt its culture. The plant may be increased either 
by means of seeds or cuttings ; the latter root freely, and if firm bits 
of young wood are selected about April, planted in sandy peat, 
covered with a bell-glass, and placed in a bottom-heat of about 80° 
or 85°, and guarded from damp, they will be ready to pot singly in 
about six weeks, and will form nice little plants previous to winter. 
The usual method, however, of obtaining a stock of young plants 
is from seed, and probably seedlings are more vigorous than plants 
obtained from cuttings. The seeds should be sown as early in 
February as a temperature of 70° is at command. But unless some 
care is exercised as to the method of sowing the seeds, plants need 
hardly be looked for. Fit a pot nicely to a bell-glass, then half fill 
