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and the plants repotted in the same sized pots, using rich fresh soil. 
The best time for disrooting the plants is after their beauty is over 
in autumn, and they should be afforded a close growing atmosphere 
for a fortnight or so after potting, to induce the roots to strike into 
the fresh soil, after which they may be removed to their winter 
quarters. Good rich turfy loam and decayed leaves form an excel- 
lent compost for the growth of this plant. The loam should be 
broken into moderately small pieces, rejecting all but the prime 
fibry portions, and be well intermixed with the leaf soil, adding 
about one part in four, and a proportionate quantity of sharp sand, 
according to the nature of the loam, and a sprinkling of lumpy pieces 
of charcoal or broken potsherds will also assist in keeping the soil 
open and ensuring perfect drainage. 
ACROPHYLLUAl YENOSl'M. 
HE finely serrated bronzy-coloured foliage of this plant 
renders it a pretty object at all seasons of the year, and 
when seen in the form of well-flowered specimens, it has 
a very striking effect. Unfortunately, however, it is 
very impatient of improper treatment, and must be 
allowed to be rather difficult to manage successfully. Its culture, 
however, is not so much a matter requiring any particular shill as 
careful and constant attention, and with this any grower of mode- 
rate experience may produce moderate specimens. Short-jointed, 
rather firm bits of the young wood, slipped off with a heel and care- 
fully managed, are not very difficult to root ; but beginners will save 
time, and probably disappointment, by procuring nice dwarf, bushy, 
healthy young plants fr ninths nurseries. Thes •, f procured at once, 
should be considered to have completed tbeir growth for this 
season, and should be placed near the glass in the greenhouse, or a 
well-ventilated pit, taking care, however, n it to expose them to cold 
drying winds. During winter, water must be very carefully admi- 
nistered to the soil, for if this ever gets sodden, the plant will be 
ruined; and although it may linger for a while, it will be only to 
excite hopes which will never be realized. Therefore endeavour to 
keep the soil in a healthy state as to mois r ure ; but let it be bordering 
upon drvness, for any little excess in this direction is not so likely 
to be injurious as the opposite extreme. About the middle of 
March young plants may be induced to start into growth, by placing 
them where the night temperature is maintained at from 49° to 50°, 
allowing it to rise some 10° with sun-heat and a circulation of air; 
but there must be no approach to fore ng, aid the heat shoal 1 be 
maintained as much as possible bv shutting up early in the after- 
noon, for it would be very unsafe for beginners to subject this plant 
to much artificial heat. Keep it near the glass, and maintain a nice 
moist atmosphere by sprinkling the passages, etc., as often as may 
be necessary, and lightly syringe the plants overhead on the after- 
October. 
