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grown considerably, remove them to the Greenhouse 
or a cool room, and treat them as other Greenhouse 
Plants by giving them water as they require it, and 
as much air as convenient in mild weather. 
Where they are kept cool or in the temperature of a 
Greenhouse, they usually come into flower in March 
or April, and as the weather is getting warmer, syringe 
them occasionally that they may make their new 
growth by the time for placing them out for summer. 
They are propagated by taking off cuttings of the 
young wood as soon as they have completed their 
growth, before it gets hard. Plant the cuttings in 
pots of sand, and plunge the pots in a hot bed, and 
cover them with a Glass, and in a few weeks they 
will be rooted. When they have struck root, trans¬ 
plant them into separate pots in the same kind of soil 
as the old Plants, after which plunge them again in 
the hot bed, till they begin to grow, then remove them 
into the Greenhouse, and treat them as the other 
Plants. 
CACTUS. 
A vert splendid genus of Plants, easy of cultivation, 
thriving well in rooms, and not requiring so much care 
as many other Plants. The kinds most commonly 
grown are the Cereus and Epiphyllum, they are usu¬ 
ally grown in too poor a soil arid kept too dry, but they 
