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manner of hy emails, Wilmoreana, Bowii, Cavendishii, and several 
others should he pruned in a different manner; they are best 
when cut down close to the origin of the current season’s wood, 
and afterwards allowed to grow on without interruption, as the 
plant is then composed of strong shoots only, and the display of 
flowers is every way superior, while the habit of the plant is pre¬ 
served in its native luxuriance. W. B. 
HABROTHAMNUS FASCICULATUS. 
Various opinions are promulgated respecting this plant. 
Sometimes we are told it is absolutely worthless, and that it 
is attention thrown away to attempt its management; and again 
we hear of its magnificent aspect. Our own opinion is, that it 
will form a very handsome early-spring flowering plant in the 
conservatory, and as such must ever be valuable, though there 
can be no doubt of its receding before the gayer occupants of the 
same erection, that unfold their beauties on the approach of a 
warmer season. 
There are many other plants of the same useful class, and the 
present will certainly bear a comparison with the best of them. 
A specimen which came under our notice some little time since, 
though not quite perfect as regarded its growth or form, evinced 
a disposition to bloom that made it quite clear to us, to be a 
matter of only ordinary attention to secure perfect plants in all 
respects. 
There are, however, two or more varieties, and it is therefore 
incumbent on any one desiring the plant, to be quite sure, when 
they make their purchase, |hat they have the right one. 
As to its management, we fancy it to be one of the easiest a 
gardener can desire. Let young, healthy plants, of about a foot 
high and branched, be potted in May into large pots, filled with 
fibrous peat and loam, the latter predominating ; stand them in 
a cold pit, kept rather close and moderately damp, and their pro¬ 
gress will be most rapid. As, however, the natural habit of the 
plant is to grow erect, without producing branches, it will be 
necessary to stop the leading shoots twice or three times in the 
course of the summer : and by the end of August they will have 
