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to the flowers, and had a veiy charming effect. 
Let the inside as well as the outside of your 
stage be painted with some dark colour, which 
will serve as a back-ground to your flowers, 
viz. a dark chocolate or black, or any other 
colour you fancy ; as a well chosen contrast 
renders their appearance more beautilul and 
lively. 
Your plants, now placed on the stage for 
bloom, will, with their beautiful and delicate 
appearance, and sweet-scented smell, amply 
reward you for all your care and trouble, each 
flower striving which shall please you best; 
but they will still require your steady attention. 
As their blossoms have or are nearly expanded, 
let them have the morning sun for two or 
three hours, by opening your stage to the 
south, but shelter them from the heat by about 
nine or ten o’clock ; let them have as much 
air in cloudy mild weather as possible, other- 
wise their stems will be drawn up too weak 
to support their flowers, but they must be 
assisted with a stick and a piece of wire placed 
in it to hook round the stem. Air may be 
given by opening either side of your stage 
occasionally. If the wind and weather be such 
that you are obliged to keep but one side of 
your stage open for some time, the flowers 
