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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[June, 
to grow stove plants successfully in the open ground. The same preparation of 
ground to husband heat would also grow Tuberoses, and a light rich south border 
would suit admirably, though they should not be planted close to the wall, on 
account of the troublesome red spider. 
The details of treatment are as follows :—Pot the bulbs early in May in 
4-in. pots, in rich soil; bury but a small part of the base, not so much to avoid 
the danger of rotting, as to prevent having all the roots at the bottom of the pot ; 
place them in a warm house, give but little water until they are well rooted, and 
then abundance; harden off, and plant out when the ground has become 
thoroughly warmed, placing the top of the bulb at least three inches below the 
surface. Nothing more is required but keeping the border thinned and clean. 
If they are good roots, and the position is sheltered, the flower-stems should not 
want tying. They should commence to flower early in September. When the 
nights get cold, take up and pot all those from which the flowers have not been 
cut. If taken up with care, potted in 9-in. or 10-in. pots, without breaking their 
roots or earth-balls, and duly watered and shaded, they should open every flower. 
Those which do not then show flower-stems will come up after, so as to keep up 
a succession of flowers until Christmas, and probably later, if they are kept in a 
temperature of from G0° to 70°. A bottom heat some 5° to 10° higher than 
this is of service. One caution —they take lots of water, and if the roots get dry 
the buds shrivel up without opening. A better and less troublesome plan even 
than potting, is to plant them in a stove or melon-bed, in rich soil, and treat 
them as to heat, Ac., like winter cucumbers. 
I saw during the last winter a house 300 ft. long filled with Tuberoses planted 
out. We have had forty-seven flowers on a stem, and one of our customers informed 
me that he had as many as sixty-nine on one. It would not interest your readers 
to hear how we grow them by tens of thousands for the trade, but if they should 
cross the Atlantic they might see for themselves. I may add that the bulbs 
when dry should be kept warm—the temperature not less than 50°—or the 
flower-germs decay. A place where Oaladiums keep well is first-rate for 
Tuberose bulbs.— James Taplin, South Amboy, New Jersey, U.S.A. 
A HOUSE FOR POT VINES. 
WOULD draw attention to the accompanying section of a Vinery wherein 
some 20 years ago I used to fruit upwards of 70 pot Vines yearly, com¬ 
mencing to cut fruit in April. The-sorts were Black Hamburgh, West’s 
St. Peter’s, Black Prince, White Frontignan, Black Frontignan, Grizzly Fron- 
tignan. White Muscat, Canon Hall Muscat, Kempsey Alicante, Black Morocco, 
Chasselas Musque, and Chaptal. The house in question had Vines well 
established in an outside border. By a manoeuvre in the front lights these were 
easily turned out-of-doors, and tied to stakes along the front of the house, and 
in this position they rested until the early pot Grapes were ripe, when the Vines 
