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BOUVAEDIAS AS DECORATIVE PLANTS. 
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delicious blossoms for months in succession ; and especially during mid-winter, i 
when one is often perplexed to find a sufficiency of cut-flowers, they will be ■ 
found to be unsurpassed for decorative purposes. ! 
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Bouvardia Humboldtii coryaibiflora. 
As regards the arrangement of pot-plants not planted out, much the same 
treatment must be pursued. They delight in a rich light soil, and should have 
an abundance of liquid manure as soon as the pots become well filled with roots, 
the young plants being shifted on as they require it during the early stages of 
growth. I find that 5-in., 6-in., and 7-in. pots are sufficiently large for every 
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