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like a long-haired shaving brush, has been 
the best remedy we have ever adopted, and 
if taken in time, it never fails of success ; the 
greatest care is required in the application of 
the brush, which should be pushed, as it were, 
into the corners, until the insects are routed; 
and syringing afterwards with clean water is 
of great use to cleanse them thoroughly from 
the soap. Orchideous plants that you are 
desirous of increasing, may be separated and 
potted into small pots, or fastened to blocks, 
or placed in baskets. Fill pots with pieces 
of turfy peat the size of a walnut, and peg 
them altogether until they form a cone above 
the pot; among the lumps that are above the 
pot put some good moss, and on this place 
3-our plant, which is, in fact, a piece cut off 
another plant, and with four pegs, or wire, 
make it fast ; let the roots go where they 
please in the pot, or outside it. Orchideous 
plants of every kind depend but little on 
nourishment independent of the air and mois- 
ture, which is generally enough for them. 
For this reason some cultivators place the 
majority of plants on a wall. Those which 
throw out roots all over them, are as well 
hanging up on a hook in the wall, or on the 
stump of a tree, as they are placed on a pot ; 
the only object in potting is to stand them on 
shelves, which could not be done if they were 
on blocks, or in baskets. Oncidium papilio 
is a constant bloomer, and every joint of the 
flower-stem will throw out flowers in due 
time ; be mindful, therefore, that you do not 
.cut off what appears to you, perhaps, to be 
dead stems. 
THE GREEN-HOUSE. 
Here much the same routine as recom- 
mended last month is to be pursued. Most 
of the plants are out of doors. Cuttings of 
all kinds may be struck, under glass ; and any 
that have already been struck, should be pot- 
ted off, according to their habits, in small or 
large sixty-sized pots. Hard-wooded and slow- 
growing kinds, will do in the smallest size, 
Fuchsias, Geraniums, and other fast-growing 
plants, in the larger ones. Plants that you 
wish to grow bushy and short, should have 
their top bud pinched out ; others may have 
their natural growth until you see one portion 
of the plant growing too strong for the re- 
mainder, when you may check it by pinching 
out the end bud, or heart, or by cutting it 
back. Fuchsias blooming in the green-house 
must have plenty of air ; and, indeed, there 
should be as much as possible given to all 
plants. Camellias have now set their bloom- 
buds, and made their growth ; they should be 
stinted of moisture, and if the season be very 
dripping and wet, they had better be placed 
where they can be protected from any excess, 
or it may induce a second growth, which is by 
no means desirable, except in new and valua- 
ble sorts; and to produce a second growth with 
them, they should be taken to the stove, or 
propagating-house, and after shifting into a 
pot one size larger than they are in, they may 
be well watered ; and if the bloom-buds swell, 
pull them off as soon as you can do so without 
damaging the growing buds by the side of 
them. Tender annuals, in pots, require a 
good supply of water as soon as the flower- 
buds are swelling, but the drainage must be 
very free, or they would soon take harm. 
The generality of plants are out in the grounds, 
or in pits, where they are setting their blooms, 
if they be not already set ; and preparations 
may be made in the house for the return of 
the principal plants early in September, or, 
in some cases, even at the end of the present 
month. These preparations should consist of 
well scrubbing and washing all the shelves, 
and cleaning out all crevices and corners, to 
expel any kind of insects that may be locating 
there, and syringing wherever you cannot 
reach. It may be necessary to paint, in which 
case the plants must be all turned out into 
various places, wherever they can be best pro- 
tected, and by setting several men to work, let 
all the painting be done quickly, taking off all the 
lights, and leaving the house entirely open 
during the remainder of the month, for white 
lead has been found prejudicial to plants, and 
therefore requires to be well dried off, and the 
effluvia got rid of, before the lights are put 
on again. Care should also be taken, that 
when all the other parts are cleansed, and the 
produce of the sweeping, brushing, and syring- 
ing, is on the ground, to Avell cleanse the 
ground at the same time, or, so far as insects 
are concerned, you would soon find them re- 
turned to their old habitations ; therefore, 
having brought everything to the ground, let 
not a moment be lost in clearing the ground 
also. 
THE CONSERVATORY. 
This, which is a show-house of an esta- 
blishment, and always liable to the visits of 
the family, must be kept well at all times. 
Roses are of great assistance at this period, 
and there is no lack of variety among them. 
For this purpose a good many should be grown 
in pots, for they are always useful and desira- 
ble. The flowering annuals are also of great 
service, and must be placed in requisition. 
The stove affords the noble Ixoras. The 
orchideous-house yields its portion of floral 
beauty in the Oncidiums, which last for 
weeks, if not months, in flower; besides its 
constant but temporary supplies of more ephe- 
meral subjects, Stocks, Mignonette, Clintonia 
pulchella, Rodopne Manglesii, the numerous 
