THE FLORAL "WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
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occurs, the plants may be removed to a cold ground or pit, which 
can be kept rather close and moist, which, with a little management, 
will form an excellent situation for them during the summer. A 
thin shade will be useful for a few hours on the forenoons of very 
hot days, but this should be used sparingly, and air should be given 
freely, shuttiug up early in the afternoon after syringing. Attend 
to stopping and training, etc., as the specimens advance in growth, 
and as soon as they appear to require more pot-room, shift into the 
flowering pots. 
If large and fine specimens are desired, they may now he afforded 
fifteen-inch pots, which will be sufficient for very large bushes; or in 
twelve-inch pots, if only moderate- sized specimens are wanted, with 
the assistance of manure-water, will be sufficiently large. Keep the 
shoots regularly stopped and tied out, as may be necessary to secure 
close bushy growth, till about the middle of September, after which 
they should not be stopped ; and if the weather begins to prove 
unsettled, remove them to a light, airy part of the sto7e, or where 
they cau have the assistance of a little fire-heat. Give them a liberal 
supply of manure-water after the pots are supposed to be full of roots, 
and turn them partly round every week, to prevent them growing 
one-sided. The specimens will commence flowering from the begin- 
ning to the middle of December, and will continue to produce an 
abundant succession of their bright-coloured flowers throughout the 
winter and great part of the spring; but they must be afforded a 
temperature of from 50 ° to 60 °, keeping them near the glass, and 
out of the way of cold draughts; for, although the plant will exist 
and bloom in the ordinary temperature of the conservatory, its 
foliage gets discoloured, and it is never seen in perfection save in a 
somewhat warmer temperature. When the specimens become shabby 
in spring, they may be severely cut back, and stored away in any 
spare corner of the greenhouse, keeping them rather dry at the root 
for a month or six weeks, removing them to a warmer situation by 
the beginning of June to induce growth. 
Turn them out of the pots as soon as they start into growth, and 
reduce the balls sufficiently to allow of repotting in the same sized 
pot; and keep close and moist until they get over the operation, 
treating them during the remainder of the season as directed above, 
and they will afford specimens of any desired size before winter, and 
will bloom even more freely than young plants. 
November. 
