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first move they should be shifted into their flowering pots, 10-inch 
ones being sufficiently large for this season. The trellis should be 
applied at once, and the shoots neatly tied to it, taking care to cover the 
lower part of the trellis first. As the sun becomes powerful in spring, 
a slight shade during the forenoons of bright days will be of advantage 
to the plants, and they should be syringed night and morning, and 
every means used to encourage active growth, so as to obtain specimens 
of considerable size early in the season, for when once flowers begin to 
appear it will be nearly impossible to obtain rapid growth. The best 
situation for the plants, after they commence flowering, will be a rather 
shady position in a house, where the temperature may range from 60° 
to 80°, and if properly supplied with water and kept clear of insects 
(this plant not being particularly liable to any), they will continue 
growing and blossoming for two or three months. After flowering the 
specimens should be wintered as directed for last season, and in spring 
they may be turned out of their pots, the balls reduced if the soil is 
found to be unhealthy, and repotted in smaller pots, and treated much 
as they were last season. It will of course be necessary to cut back and 
prune the plants, but the winter will probably do the great portion of 
this work ; the stronger shoots should be shortened, so as to secure a 
supply of young wood at the bottom of the trellis, and the weaker 
pieces should be altogether cut out; carefully managed, the plants will 
make good sized specimens in 12-inch pots, but it will be unsafe to 
depend upon them after this season, and a stock of young plants should 
therefore be kept up. 
Rich light sandy turfy loam and good turfy peat, in the proportion 
of three parts of the latter to one of the former, with a liberal quantity 
of sharp silver sand, which should be regulated according to the nature 
of the loam and peat, and a slight admixture of broken potsherds, or 
lumpy bits of charcoal, will form an excellent compost for this plant. 
Care should be observed in potting to secure perfect drainage, by 
using plenty of potsherds; and when used, the soil ought to be in a 
proper state, as respects moisture. 
Cheadle. 
BOUQUET FERNS. 
The following is a list of twenty Ferns for growing in pots and suitable 
for cutting for bouquets. They are easily grown, and will succeed even in 
a pit heated by a common brick flue. They should however be kept from 
sun during summer; and if grown in a pit heated by a common brick flue 
they will require more moisture at the roots than if cultivated in a more 
suitable Fernery, as the heat from the flue will dry them a good deal. 
Ferns should never be allowed to get dry at the root; if so, they will 
most likely die or lose all their young fronds, which would disfigure 
them for some time. 
The soil that I find most suitable for Ferns is turf, loam, peat, and 
leaf-mould, in equal parts, mixed with a portion of silver sand, all 
chopped well together. The more vigorous growing kinds require the 
soil to be a little rough, but the more delicate kinds like it finer, and with 
