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POINSETTIA PULCHERRIMA. 
and flowers in a season when few other plants are in 
bloom. The Euphorbia jacquiniflora, is a very beau¬ 
tiful plant, producing clusters of brilliant scarlet flow¬ 
ers, and the E. splendens is a prickly plant, with deep 
orange colored flowers. 
They are free growing plants, and are as easily 
managed as geraniums, and in many respects require 
similar treatment; but they are more permanent, and 
grow- to be large plants in a few years, (if well mana¬ 
ged,) and when in flower they make a splendid show. 
When they are taken into the house in autumn, place 
them in a warm situation, and keep the soil in the pots 
moist, while the leaves are growing, and until they 
have done flowering ; after which water them spar¬ 
ingly, as they will remain in a state of rest until spring. 
In May, they should be cut down, and turned out of 
the pots, and repotted in fresh soil, composed of sandy 
loam, peat or leafmould, in equal quantities. Plunge 
the pots in the ground in an open sunny situation, and 
water them as they require it during summer. They 
grow also very freely when planted in the ground, but 
as the roots spread considerably, they are injured in 
taking them up, so that the best way is to keep them 
in pots. In September, remove them into a warm 
room, where the temperature is about 60 deg., and 
they will flower well during the winter. 
Propagation. —They grow freely from the ripe 
cuttings, taken off when they are pruned in Spring, 
and planted in pots of sandy soil, and placed in a hot 
bed; and when rooted, they should be potted off, and 
treated as the old plants; or the cuttings may be stuck 
