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sprout, they should be potted off into small pots and 
kept in the house till frost is over, or they may be 
raised by cuttings taken off old plants in March. Put 
one cutting in a small pot and keep it in a shady part 
of the conservatory till rooted, then treat them as fol¬ 
lows, viz: as soon as the frost is over, manure and 
dig up a piece of ground in a moist shady part of the 
garden, and set out the plants without disturbing their 
balls, about a foot or 18 inches apart, and keep them 
clean of weeds, and water them in dry weather, and 
occasionally give them some manure water to encou¬ 
rage their growth, because the larger the plants grow, 
the stronger will be their flower stems, and in the 
month of October take up the plants with good balls 
of earth to their roots and put them into pots from 6 
to 12 inches in diameter, or according to the size of 
the plant—the soil most suitable for them is good 
rich loam and decayed manure well mixt together, as 
they are not only aided in strength, but also in bril¬ 
liancy of color by the richness of the compost they 
grow in — then place them in a cool shady part of the 
conservatory, exposed however to as much light and 
air as possible, but where there is not the convenience 
of a Greenhouse the windows of a Dwelling-house 
will answer very well; keep them a little moist 
through winter, and occasionally turn round the pots 
that the plants may grow regularly, and when any 
begin to shoot up their flower stems, they should be 
shifted into larger pots, using the same kind of soil 
as before, and keep them moist and give them manure 
water frequently. Those that do not show signs of 
flowering, may be planted out as in the preceding 
