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flourish well in sandy peat, mixed with a little 
loam, having plenty of lumps of crock, sand, 
or charcoal, mixed throughout ; keep air on 
night and day. Those in flower must be 
removed to the conservatory, but only for a day 
or so at a time. 
Fuchsias. — Keep warm, and water with 
liquid manure ; perfect specimens can be 
grown in this way in one season. 
Gompholobiums, and other tender creepers, 
must be looked over, and kept neatly tied up 
and clean. 
Hawortkias, &c. — Shift, if not done; shake 
away part of the old soil, and replace it with 
brick rubbish and good loam ; keep them a 
little warmer. 
Lcschenaultias will do well in a heat of 
50 degrees, and if the plants are small this 
will soon improve them ; place them near the 
light. 
IAlium. japonicum (Japan lily). — Add a| 
little fresh lumpy soil about the stems, and 
keep the atmosphere moist, and yet have the : 
leaves all dried in the middle of the day. 
Mignonette. — Bring on the successional 
crops ; do not crowd them, and they will grow 
strong and fine. 
New Holland Plants. — Keep these rather 
cool ; many will be ready next month for 
being placed in the open air. Those early 
shifted may be the better for a larger pot now. 
Shift such as require it, that are not likely to 
bloom for a few weeks. 
Oranges. — Maintain an even temperature 
about them ; and a moist and warm one is 
preferable. 
Oxalis. — Coolness and an occasional syring- 
ing suits them ; they require a steady atten- 
tion to watering, and to be gradually dried 
when past growing. 
Pelargoniums. — Continue to propagate from 
the good sorts, and those only ; the tempera- 
ture must not fall below 42 degrees at night ; 
a final shift may be given to those required to 
bloom in August and September. 
Primulas. — Do not allow a yellow leaf nor 
a seed pod to remain, unless to secure seed 
from improved varieties; throw the bad sorts 
away at once, when they are past flowering. 
Proteas,Banhsias, and Dryandras. — Give 
air constantly, unless it be a very cutting 
wind ; be very careful in watering, to keep 
them regularly supplied. 
Rhododendrons in bloom must be taken to 
the conservatory ; a slight shading will pro- 
long the duration of the flowers ; keep all the 
others in a cool and moist place. 
Roses must be fumigated often ; also 
watered all over ; give them plenty of air. 
Some will require a larger pot. 
Salvias. — Such as S. patens do best raised 
from seed ; bring on the old plants gradually, 
and increase by propagating for house culture 
such kinds as S. sp/endens. 
Stapelias. — Increase the supply of water, 
and give them the additional necessaries of 
potting afresh, and extra warmth ; they make 
tine growth in a hotbed frame. 
Tropceohuus. — Tie these again, but do not 
aim at overneatness in this respect ; when the 
pots are well filled with roots, give them a 
supply of liquid manure. 
THE CONSERVATORY. 
Temperature. — From 55 to 65 degrees by 
day, and from 45 to 50 degrees at night. 
Ventilation. — The quantity and manner of 
giving the air must be regulated by the tem- 
perature externally ; if cutting or hard winds 
prevail, ventilate sparingly, and chiefly by the 
top, but if mild and soft, admit air profusely. 
Watering. — "Water no two plants alike, but 
according to their individual wants ; healthful, 
growing, and flowering plants must have a 
great deal more than resting and sickly ones. 
Syringe the plants not in flower, and keep 
the house more moist. 
Arrangement. — It is easjr now to make a 
gay display ; but it is as difficult as before to 
place every plant to the best advantage. 
Avoid crowding or crushing any plant, and 
especially the handsomer ones. Make con- 
spicuous those which are symmetrical, and 
well grown, and keep turning them daily. 
Routine. — Clean daily, and once a week 
have additions of gay plants, and remove such 
as are fading. This rule cannot be strictly 
attended to, as there are many flowers that 
must be put and taken away within a week, 
still these are exceptions, and do not alter 
what should be a general practice. 
THE PLANT STOVE. 
Temperature. — From 70 to 80 degrees by 
day, and about 65 degrees by night. 
Ventilation. — Be careful in admitting air, 
as the sharp winds would affect the young 
and tender shoots now forming. Top air is 
most safe, but in warm and mild weather the 
front sashes will also require to be opened ; 
and a little air every night is of great benefit. 
Watering. — Plants recently potted do not 
require much water ; those whose pots are 
more or less filled with roots, and those in, 
and about to flower, require most ; damp 
the floors and walls of the house morning and 
evening, and syringe daily in bright weather. 
Potting. — Never become weary of looking 
over the plants, and attending to their indi- 
vidual requirements as regards pot room. 
Those which are wanted to bloom early and 
in small pots do not shift ; but when large 
specimens are wanted, do not, if possible, 
allow them to show flower until the plant is a 
