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bloom, as all the shoots produce flower at nearly the same time. With 
the increase of light which the advance of the season affords, I increase 
the temperature, allowing it to rise during bright days as high as 90*^ 
or 95°; shutting up early, and keeping the atmosphere as damp as 
possible. The plants should be sufficiently forward by the middle of 
April to require their final shift. I use 13-inch pots, and to the more 
promising plants I give 15-inch pots, with an extra stopping, so as to 
bring them in for late flowering. When the plants have commenced 
to grow vigorously, after their final stopping, they should be sufficiently 
staked to prevent injury fjom accidents, and they should be placed as 
near the glass as possible, which will assist to keep them dwarf, and 
hasten their flowering. If any shoots exhibit a disposition to outgrow 
the others, these should be checked by being nicked, or broken down, 
which may be done without farther injury than retarding their growth 
for a week or so. 
As soon as 1 discover that the plants have filled their pots with 
roots, I water with clear manure water. As they approach the flowering 
state they are neatly trained, using as few stakes as possible, but as 
many as may be necessary to support the shoots in such a position as 
to secure a well formed specimen. When they commence flowering, 
they may be removed to a cooler and drier atmosphere, but they 
should not be subjected to sudden change. With proper management 
they will be in flower early in June, and may then be removed to the 
conservatory, where they will remain in great beauty during most of 
the summer season; that is, if the conservatory is kept rather close, 
and they are furnished with a place in the warmest corner of it. I 
avoid giving air opposite to my specimens of Allamanda, and I keep 
them as warm as is consistent with the general management of the 
- house. 
When their flowering season is over, the plants are thrown to the 
rubbish-heap; but if they can be kept over winter, they form large 
specimens for early blooming next season. If they are to be wintered, 
care must be taken to secure the perfect ripening of the wood, and 
such plants had better not be allowed to remain in the conservatory 
until late in autumn, as in that case they sometimes drop off at once. 
They should be removed to the stove, or some other place where the 
temperature will assist their ripening, and they should receive very 
little water. They will amply repay those who can give them a warm 
house, as they will grow and flower continuously from April to 
December. ' 
A. 
CALENDAR FOR THE MONTH. 
Azaleas and Camellias .—Look over former Calendars, and attend 
to previous directions respecting Azaleas. Plants growing in heat must 
be very carefully and rather liberally watered at the root, syringing 
them freely overhead every evening, and sprinkling the floors, &c., 
sufficiently often to maintain a nice genial moist atmosphere. Black 
thrips will probably now be very troublesome upon plants growing in 
