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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GLIDE. 
summer months. A slight shade thrown over the glass for a few 
hours in the forenoons of bright days, will be of great service to 
them ; but this should be used sparingly, and should be of such 
material as will merely break the force of the sun’s rays, without 
darkening the pit. Too much air can hardly be given, except when 
dry parching winds prevail, when the lights should be raised on the 
sheltered side, shading the glass, to keep down the temperatnre, if 
necessary, and on mild settled nights the lights may be left off, so 
as to give the plants the benefit of the night dews. Maintain a moist 
atmosphere by sprinkling the plants overhead with the syringe on 
the mornings and evenings of bright days, and if the pots stand 
on a bed of coal-ashes, keep the latter frequently watered. 
A second shift will probably be necessary in the case of vigorous 
growing specimens, early in June; this should be afforded them 
before the roots get matted, and strong plants will bear a liberal 
shift at this season. 
They will require some means of support, and whether trellises 
or stakes are used, it will be necessary to commence training before 
the shoots get entwined, otherwise they will he troublesome to undo, 
and will probably sustain injury in the operation ; any gross shoot 
should also be stopped, in order to equalize the growth and secure 
well-furnished specimens. When the weather becomes cool in 
autumn, discontinue syringing overhead, and keep the atmosphere 
drier, with a view to ripen the young wood ; and when the weather 
becomes unsettled, remove them to a light, airy part of the green- 
house, which will be a proper situation for them during the winter and 
spring months, when they should be carefully watered, giving a libe- 
ral soaking when necessary, and no more until it is wanted. When 
in flower they should occupy a cool, airy' situation, and if they can be 
screened from the midday sun the blossoms will retain their beauty 
longer ; when large specimens are wanted without loss of time, 
however, it will be advisable to cut back the shoots so as to remove 
most of the flowering wood, and to start the plants into growth 
early in spring, allowing them another season’s growth before per- 
mitting them to bloom. And full grown specimens, after flowering, 
will require to be cut back rather severely, well thinning out the 
weaker shoots ; they should be kept under glass until they start 
into growth, when they may be removed to a shady part of the 
plant ground, and inured to exposure in the open air, where they 
will make sufficient growth during the summer months. With a 
small shift every season, or every alternate one, and careful watering,, 
etc., giving weak clear manure-water occasionall}', they will last for 
several years. Young plants are easily obtained either by means of 
cuttings of short-jointed pieces of young wood, when about half ripe, 
treated in the ordinary way, or by seeds, which are produced freely, 
and afford a ready means of getting a stock of young plants, and it 
is advisable to be prepared with these rather than to retain old ones 
after they cannot be afforded sufficient fresh soil to keep them in 
vigorous health. For soil, take good rich turfy peat and nice sandy 
turfy loam, in the proportion of about two of the former to one of 
the latter; and after breaking up the turf into small pieces, and 
