THE GREEN-HOUSE. 
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the green-house. Six or eight weeks of this 
liberal treatment are about enough for these 
plants, and the progress they make during this 
time is surprising ; but they must not too sud- 
denly be removed back to the green-house. 
Mignonette. — A few seeds may be sown to 
obtain some plants for growing as specimens 
to flower in winter ; these plants may be kept 
in pits, and shifted on as their roots increase, 
and the flowers must constantly be removed 
as soon as they are detected ; they may thus 
be grown to a large size, so as to assume quite 
a tree-like character. There is a frutescent 
variety of Reseda odorata, which is better 
suited than the common, for pot culture, but 
it is rarely to be got. 
C'oronil/as. — These are nice plants for au- 
tumn flowering.. Raise a few now from cut- 
tings, and grow them on till the end of the 
summer in pits ; thej r will be very ornamental 
during the autumn and early part of winter. 
Coronilla glauca, and C. valentina are suitable. 
Oestrum aurantiacum is a fine plant for 
winter flowering : the plants should be grown 
on freely now. 
Cyclamens. — Sow the seeds of the different 
Cyclamens, in a compost of three parts peat 
and one of loam, with sand added ; pans or 
shallow wide-mouthed pots are best for them. 
Hydrangeas. — Take off some more of the 
terminal shoots, with plump buds, and plant 
them as directed at p. 100. 
Succulents. — Offsets may be taken off for 
propagation. The old plants require to be 
very carefully watered at all times ; any that 
may require it may be potted now. 
Removing the plants. — Many of the* dupli- 
cate plants, and all the hardier ones, may be 
removed early in the month, the most hardy 
being placed under a temporary protection, 
and others, rather more tender, placed in pits 
or frames. There are two principal advan- 
tages attending Ibis practice ; one is, that the 
plants are kept cooler, and in consequence 
make more steady progress, and eventually 
become better furnished with blossoms ; ano- 
ther is, that more space is gained in the green- 
house, which is an advantage to the most deli- 
cate kinds, retained there for some time longer. 
No plant can make its growth so successfully 
when crowded by other plants, as when both 
light and air have free play about it. A few 
plant-, which may have been kept in the cooler 
part el' the stove, — irot being legitimate stove 
plants, — may be placed in this house now, and 
this will give more room to the stove plants, 
which always, when growing, progress rapidly, 
and soon get crowded if not occasionally thin- 
ned. By the end of the month, if the weather 
is favourable, the majority of the plants maybe 
taken out ; and many of the hardier species may 
by thai, time be fully exposed for the summer. 
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Heath-House. — Temperature, fyc. — The 
heath-house should be kept on the cool system, 
admitting air night and da}*, but avoiding 
draughts or cold chilling winds. Syringe the 
plants freely over head, and keep them regu- 
larly watered with soft water, which, as before 
mentioned, should always be of about the same 
temperature as the atmosphere the plants are 
growing in.. The plants which are growing' 
freely, may have a watering once a week with 
clear diluted manure water, or clear soot water. 
Ericas. — Some of the duplicate plants, and 
all the commoner sorts, may be removed to 
frames ; this will give more room for the 
remaining plants; and, perhaps, advantage may 
also be taken of any spare space, to harden off 
quantities of the haif-hardy annual, and bed- 
ding plants for planting out soon: A cool 
house, such as the heath-house, or miscella- 
neous house, are the only ones suitable for this 
purpose. If the majority of the plants are taken 
from the latter house, perhaps the remainder 
might be taken to the heath-house; and the 
other might then be entirely devoted to the 
purpose here named. 
Putting. — Heaths require to be potted at 
various intervals all through the summer. 
Select out such as appear to require it, and 
let it be done without delay; keep in mind 
what has been already said of watering newly 
potted plants. 
Pruning. — The strong and free growing 
kinds of heaths often get very disproportion- 
ate in their figure, if not kept stopped back 
while they are growing. Sometimes, too, when 
they get too large, it may be desirable to head 
them down close, so as to form them into close 
short bushes : this may be done now with the 
best effect, but should not be done unless the 
plants are healthy. Give them less water for 
some time, after they are cut, until they begin to 
shoot out afresh, but they must not be injured 
by too great a deficiency. 
Shading. — Continue the shading of the 
plants in clear bright weather. 
]Yew Holland Plants, and others kept in 
this house, must be treated in the same way 
as Heaths, in every respect, such as [lotting, 
pruning, watering, shading, removing to pits, 
or to the open air, &c. 
Camellia House. — Camellias. — The plants 
that have bloomed late, and are just past 
flowering, should now be re-potted and set grow- 
ing, as previously recommended for the earlier 
blooming plants. As it should he an object to 
maintain a succession of bloom, for the longest 
possible period, no one feature in the manage- 
ment of the 1 plants will so easily and effectually 
aid to so great an extent in doing this, as to 
cause the plants to make their young growth 
at different periods. The earliest plants in 
blooming, and making their shoots, and setting 
