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are much more durable ; but whatever the kind or form of trellis 
used may be, it should be applied before the shoots make much 
progress, as allowing them to grow without support, and clinging 
together in clusters, tends to produce long-jointed useless wood. 
Plants continued in bottom-heat during spring will make great 
progress, and some attention will be requisite to prevent too rapid 
growth, as the temperature required by many plants at this season, 
would be injurious to this Passion-flower, and unless the tempera- 
ture can be kept about 60° or 65° by fire-heat, it will be better to 
remove the plants to a cooler situation as soon as they are fairly 
started into growth. 
With careful after-management, they may be shifted into their 
flowering pots at once, but in most instances it is more convenient 
to give a second shift when required. To have large handsome 
specimens, the last shift for the season must be into a fifteen-inch 
pot, and this should be done before roots become matted, or plants 
suffer from want of pot-room. When the trellises are well covered 
with young wood, the plants may be induced to flower at almost any 
time, by merely allowing them to become rather dry at the root for 
a week, and then giving a liberal supply of water, or removing them 
to a cooler house for a short time, and replacing them in a warm 
moist temperature, will have the same effect; and sometimes they 
will bloom freely, without any particular management. By the time 
they have done blooming, they will be making fresh growth, and if 
placed in a moist growing temperature, cutting back the shoots to 
the young wood, and encouraged with manure water in a clear 
weak state, there will soon be sufficient wood to afford another crop 
of flowers, and in this way the same plant may be had in bloom 
three times in one season. The flowers will remain longer in per- 
fection, and attain a higher colour, if the plants are removed to a 
close part of the greenhouse while they are in bloom. After 
allowing them a season of rest, as directed for last season, they may 
be turned out of the pots, reducing the balls, so as to remove all 
unhealthy soil, and repotted in as small-sized pots as convenient ; 
and afterwards placed in heat, and carefully watered, until they 
start into growth. By thus reducing the balls, and cutting the 
shoots closely back every season, they will last any number of 
years, and old plants will be found to flower more freely than young 
ones. Any rich, light porous soil will suit them; I use light turfy 
loam, and good rich turfy peat, in the porportion of three parts of 
the former to one of the latter, breaking it up rather fine, and add- 
ing a liberal admixture of sharp silver sand, lumpy bits of charcoal, 
or small potsherds. Short-jointed bits of the young wood planted 
in sandy peaty soil, covered with a glass, and afforded a gentle 
bottom-heat, root freely, if selected before they get too hard. 
