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compost. This should be done immediately after blooming, and 
when the plants are being kept close and damp to start them into 
growth. Great care will be required to keep the old part of the 
ball damp, for, if allowed to get dry, the plants are frequently 
irrecoverably injured. As the roots occupy the new soil, commence 
feeding with clear liquid manure thrice a week until the buds are 
fully formed, and occasionally afterwards, increasing the supply 
again towards the blooming period, to bring them out strong. It 
is at this stage of the plant’s growth, when the annual growth is 
small, and the pots well filled with roots, that they bloom so 
profusely as frequently to cover the plants so that scarcely a leaf 
is seen. 
MANCHESTER BOTANICAL AND HORTICULTURAL 
SOCIETY. 
This Show, which has excited so much interest in the horticultural 
world, from its connexion with the Fine Arts Exhibition, took place on 
the 26th of May, and was altogether worthy of the occasion, and of the 
plant and fruit growers of Lancashire and the adjoining counties. But 
the exhibitors were not confined to the neighbourhood, for the committee 
and their indefatigable secretary, Mr. John Shaw, had spared no time 
in canvasing all parties who were likely to contribute to the exhibition. 
Many of our readers will be aware that the building for the Fine Arts 
Exhibition is built close to the Manchester Botanic Gardens, and visitors 
can pass from one to the other. The number of visitors then in Man¬ 
chester added, no doubt, greatly to the number of persons who thronged 
the grounds; the fineness of the day and the excellent music provided 
contributed to make the scene animated and striking. 
Among the most noticeable productions exhibited, we must mention 
the fine collection of miscellaneous plants sent all the way from the 
Exeter Nursery by Mr. Pince. These were contributed largely, and 
Mr. Pince deserves the highest praise for his liberality, as they were 
not entered for prizes. In the Exeter collection were several enormous 
bushes of Erica depressa and Cavendishi, such as nowhere else can be 
seen; a grand Medinilla magnifica; the showy Acacia hispidissima, 
one a standard, with a fine head literally covered with golden yellow 
blossoms, was very striking; some score of Azaleas, all specimen 
plants in fine condition; an extraordinary Aphelexis humilis, and two 
or three others scarcely inferior; two fine tall Arundo donax variegata, 
and many other specimen greenhouse plants, including a dozen Cattleya 
Mossise in every variety—in one we counted twenty spikes of bloom. 
We have not time to notice more of this collection than the singular 
Ouvirandra fenestralis, or Lattice plant, which was much admired. Mr. 
Cutbush, of Barnet, near London, had a superb collection of ornamental 
foliaged plants in excellent condition. In the local exhibition, Henry 
Nicholls, Esq., was conspicuous, his plants being well grown and 
bloomed. In greenhouse Azaleas, James Watts, Esq., was also a very 
successful exhibitor, and Mr. Fleming, of Trentham, who furnished 
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