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pots, when they should be gradually inured to a free circulation of 
air, and placed near the glass. Let the young plants be stopped as 
frequently as may be necessary to secure a bushy habit of growth, 
and attend to shifting when they require more pot-room. With 
ordinary management strong, bushy plants in seven-inch pots may 
easily be obtained by autumn from cuttings rooted in spring, and 
these with common care will form specimens of almost any desired 
size the following season. The plants are somewhat liable to damp 
off in winter unless properly treated, therefore place them near the 
glass in a light airy part of a house where the temperature is kept at 
about 50° by fire-heat, and give water sparingly while the plants are 
in a dormant state. Early in February cut back, and tie out the 
principal shoots sufficiently to secure a thick, bushy habit of growffh, 
and place the plants near the glass in a warm house, and thoroughly 
moisten the halls in order to induce active growth. Also see to the 
state of the roots shortly after placing the plants in heat, and give 
a liberal shift to such as are found to require more pot-room, and 
water carefully until the plants get into free growth, but moisten 
them overhead with the syringe in the afternoons of fine days, and 
maintain a moist atmosphere. As the season advances, give air 
freely on fine days, and attend to stopping any shoots that may 
incline to outgrow the others, and keep them nicely tied out, so as 
to promote a bushy habit of growth. When good sized bushes are 
obtained, which, with good management, will be the case by May, 
discontinue stopping, and in order that the flowering shoots may be 
as dwarf as they can be obtained, keep the specimens near the glass, 
and admit air rather freely on fine days, keeping the shoots thin by 
staking. If the specimens appear to want more pot-room, this should 
be seen to as soon as they start into growth after the final stopping ; 
and if they are expected to continue growing and flowering the 
greater part of the summer and autumn, they must be afl’orded suffi- 
cient space for their roots. When they are fairly in bloom they may 
be removed to a warm corner in the conservatory or show-room ; an 
occasional watering with weak, clear manure-water will be of great 
service in maintaining them in a vigorous healthy state, and securing 
a succession of flower ; and if necessary, they may be cut over, and 
removed to a warm situation, where they will soon throw up an 
abundance of young wood, and flower profusely a second time. 
When the specimens become useless for decorative purposes in 
autumn, they may be thrown away at once, as young plants grow so 
rapidly that it is useless wintering large bulky old specimens; but 
be provided with young plants before throwing away the old ones. 
Any light, rich, fibry soil, such as equal parts of loam, leaf-soil, and 
peat, with a proper admixture of sand, will answer perfectly for the 
growth of this plant ; but a small proportion of well decayed manure 
may be added with advantage at the last shift, and good drainage 
should be secured. 
