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THE PLANT STOVE. 
by the production of useless flower -buds be- 
fore they are required. The stopping back 
of the plants should be so managed as to 
secure a successional bloom from the time 
they first come in. 
Cuttings of any of the choice varieties may 
still be put in, when it is desired to increase 
the stock ; this will, however, now be chiefly 
the case with seedlings of merit which may 
come late into bloom, a stock of the older 
varieties being secured earlier in the season. 
Calceolarias. — The old plants, as they go 
out of flower, should have the flower-stems 
cut away, and the surface soil renewed ; the 
plants should then be put into a cold frame, 
and encouraged to produce young shoots, 
which are required for propagation. Young 
stock should be raised every year. The shoots 
produced after flowering root freely, and make 
strong flowering plants for next year. If any 
cuttings have been already rooted, get them 
potted and shifted on as rapidly as possible. 
Calceolarias grow well in rotted turves — 
grassy turves — of heath soil. 
Cinerarias. — A few more young plants 
should be provided from the suckers of those 
which have done blooming, and have been 
planted out for the purpose. These suckers 
are to be placed in small pots at first, and 
shifted occasionally as often as they require 
it. Those young plants that were separated 
earlier, and are now established, must be 
repotted into larger pots, in rich, light, loamy 
soil, once or twice during the autumn. Those 
intended for the earliest blooming must be 
helped forward as much as possible, by giving 
them an extra shift, and keeping them a trifle 
closer than the rest. The ordinary stock of 
plants should have perfect ventilation. 
Fuchsias. — This is a good time to see 
to propagating a stock of young plants 
of any kinds that may be required. The 
specimen plants blooming in pots, will require 
abundant supplies of water, for they absorb 
large quantities. If the pots are getting full 
of roots, the strength of the plants must be 
kept up by using manure water ; apply it in a 
clear diluted state, at every alternate water- 
ing. The plants for autumn flowering may 
now get their final shift. We would again 
recommend to notice the old species mentioned 
at page 292. A new one in the same style of 
growth and flower, but very much larger than 
any of them, is in the possession of Messrs. 
Lucombe, Pince, and Co., of Exeter ; it is 
named corallina, and has leaves something 
like those of F. radicans. 
Seedling Plants. — Where a few valuable 
seeds of any of these plants — Pelargoniums, 
Calceolarias, Cinerarias, Fuchsias, &c. — have 
been saved, it is better to sow them at once 
than to reserve the seeds till the spring. 
The seeds should be sown in pots of light rich 
soil, placed in a mild hotbed, so as to get the 
plants up as quickly as possible ; they must 
then be potted singly into small pots, and be 
kept in the very best places that can be found 
for them in the green-house, in order to get 
them on as forward as possible. The seedling 
plants of each of these kinds will flower suffi- 
ciently well in a six-inch pot, to which they 
may be removed at two stages, from the three- 
inch ones they were first potted into. These 
plants should never be stopped ; the object is 
to get them to throw flowers as soon as pos- 
sible, in order to know if they are worth keep- 
ing or not. When the plants can be got for- 
ward in the autumn, they will generally bloom 
in good time during the next summer. The 
character of no seedling should be considered 
as established till it has bloomed in two seasons, 
first as a seedling plant, and then the follow- 
ing year grown into a specimen. Sometimes 
seedlings bloom well the first season, and 
never come well again, and this is why they 
require testing. Of Pelargoniums, varieties 
of a bright purple and bright scarlet colour, 
and fancy bright coloured spotted ones, like 
Anais, are particularly worth attending to. 
The carnation-striped Calceolarias are most 
desirable. 
THE PLANT STOVE. 
As in the green-houses, so here, some limi- 
tation must be made to the freedom of growth. 
It is not necessary yet to stop the plants from 
growing altogether, but still their growth must 
in some measure be checked. The first step 
should be taken, in bringing them into a 
state of repose for the winter. This, however, 
may be deferred till towards the end of the 
month, so that the plants may have the advan- 
tageof growing throughout the earlier part of it. 
Tem-perature, ifc. — In the earlier part of the 
month, the temperature and atmospheric hu- 
midity recommended at page 292 — 80 degrees 
by day, and 65 to 70 degrees at night, with 
plenty of moisture — may be kept up, in con- 
junction with moderate ventilation during the 
earlier part of the day. Towards the end of 
the month the average temperature must be 
allowed to drop two or three degrees, and 
a little less moisture must be kept up. This 
will prepare the plants for still more sensible 
declensions of heat and moisture next month. 
The same must be said of watering at the 
root, but the plants must be fairly supplied 
for some time yet. 
Pruning. — In the case of all the shrubby 
and half shrubby species, the stopping of the 
shoots should be from time to time attended 
to, in order to keep the plants dwarf and 
bushy ; this is specially to be done with all 
such plants as throw their flowers from the 
