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When roses are grown in pots for exhibition, they should stand 
in pits or frames from the first breaking of the leaf buds, or the 
foliage will not wear the necessary rich appearance, and here the 
application of tobacco smoke may be readily made a preventive to 
the attacks of nearly all insects, certainly all to which these plants 
are subject, except the froth-fly, which must bejremoved by hand, 
and sometimes from inadvertence the leaf-grub may have got so 
securely rolled up as to defy its effects, but they are easily seen 
and soon removed. 
Tulips will engross a considerable share of attention through 
the next three weeks if we have a propitious blooming time; 
water will be wanted in considerable quantities, and is best given 
about four o’clock in the afternoon, and, whenever it can be done, 
the awning had better be drawn up about the same time, that the 
leaves may be quite dry before night. As it is generally admitted 
that blanks disfigure a bed, and yet will occur with the most 
careful, I generally grow a few roots in pots, which prepares them 
for removal, and about the time that the bed is wanted in its 
best state, these plants are carefully transferred to the places 
where any have failed ; if it is done without injuring the roots, 
the pot plants do not flag or show any signs of removal. Every 
attention must now be given to the protection of the flowers, 
guard them carefully from wet and distressing winds, but let 
them have as much air as is consistent with the above rule. 
Florista. 
GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED UN BOTANICAL 
DESCRIPTIONS. 
Ob. In Latin composition indicates an inverted position ; thus, 
obovate is inversely ovate, or, more familiarly, an ovate leaf 
is attached to its petiole by the broadest end, thus tapering 
towards the apex ; while an obovate leaf tapers towards the 
petiole, the broadest part being near the point. 
Occidental. Coming from the west. 
Ochraceous. Pale yellowish brown. 
Officinal. Medicinal, or used in the arts. 
