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common seasons. Those that are to be kept in pots, if not 
repotted, do it immediately, and give regular supplies of water. 
CHARACTER OF A POLYANTHUS. 
The pips large, flat, and round, with small indentures 
between each division of the limb, dividing the pip into 
heart-like segments edged with bright yellow; the edge and 
the eye ought to be of the same colour, the truss to consist of 
not less than five full-blown pips, supported on a strong stem, 
standing well above the foliage. 
POLIANTHES TUBEROSA FLORE PLENO. 
This very popular bulb, generally known as Tuberose, has 
been cultivated in England upwards of two centuries, whence 
we, no doubt, have received it, and now can return those of 
our production to supply their demand. The flowers are 
man}' and highly odoriferous, and of the purest white, and 
on a flower-stem from three to five feet high. To have them 
in the greatest perfection, they should be planted in a lively 
hot-bed, about the first of this month, in six inch pots filled 
with light rich earth, giving very little water until they 
begin to grow, when they ought to be liberally supplied with 
plenty of air, and about the end of next, month they may ba 
planted in the borders, providing a spot for them that is or 
has been well worked, and enriched with well-decomposed 
manure. Secure their flower-stems to proper rods. Pre- 
vious to planting the roots, all the off-sets should be taken off 
and planted separately ; keep the crown of the bulb level 
with the surface of the pot, and when they are replanted in 
the open ground, put them two inches deeper. 
But when the convenience of a hot-bed cannot be obtained, 
they will succeed very well if planted about the end of this 
month or first of next in the garden, in a bed of earth pre- 
pared for their reception. Let it be dug deep, and make 
the soil light and rich, by giving it a good supply of manure 
two years old, well broken and incorporated with the earth, 
adding a little sand where the soil is heavy. The black earth 
from the woods, produced from decayed leaves, is equally as 
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