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It may be well to say how I manage with those which are in 
reserve, awaitinghheir turn to be admired, as, for instance, the 
Cacti, which are only seen in the case in winter. These are every 
spring repotted and placed in a southern window for the summer. 
Here they require to be frequently watered and encouraged to 
grow, and sometimes I am rewarded with a splendid flower. 
This course of treatment keeps them healthy, and they increase 
in stature a little—a matter, however, of but little consequence, 
as it is not desirable to have them large for the purpose. Then 
the Gesneraceous plants are kept quite dormant in a closet from 
the time they are taken from the case till the following March, 
when they assume a peripatetic character, and usually travel to the 
hot-bed of a friend, where they luxuriate for a month, and return 
to their old station in the case. 
The spring section I do not deem worth growing a second time, 
and they are therefore taken out as they decline and thrown 
away, though I doubt not, were they attended to, would form 
useful additions to the borders of a flower garden. 
Flora. 
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The successful cultivation of this pretty greenhouse plant is a 
matter of much consequence to most gardeners, and how to 
ensure it with proportionately little trouble must even be worth 
consideration ; the following method will be found to possess 
peculiar advantages, and may be confidently recommended espe¬ 
cially where they are required in quantity. 
Sow the seed in February in the usual manner, and as soon as 
the young plants can be handled prick them into pans filled with 
a mixture of well decomposed leaf-mould and sandy peat; keep 
them under the influence of gentle heat, and by May they will 
be ready for treating in a manner that may be a novelty to some, 
but remarkable for its efficacy in forming fine plants with but 
little trouble through the summer. In a frame of whatever size 
you may have to devote to the purpose, put a compost of one half 
friable loam, the other half leaf-mould and rotten dung, thoroughly 
