in g plants, will greatly help to make a rich display in places 
where there are no houses for forcing flowers. Its culture is 
not difficult. Supposing a plant to be purchased in flower, 
after the bloom is past the shoots should be shortened back 
below the part where the flowers have been produced, and when 
the plant begins to grow—say in May or June—it can be shifted 
(if required) into a larger pot and placed in a pit or frame for 
the summer, where it can be protected from the excessive heat 
of the sun and sheltered from very heavy rains ; it should, how¬ 
ever, be exposed at night, so that it may have the benefit of the 
dews, which will make it grow robust and healthy. In a gene¬ 
ral way the plant does not require stopping, but should a shoot 
or two start away from the rest it will be well to stop them, 
so as to equalize the growth and get the plant as compact as 
possible. A mixture of good fibrous peat and sand is the most 
suitable soil for growing it in, to which, if the peat is very light 
and poor, a little loam may be added. All the Hoveas are 
straggling growers, and this sort is especially so, and perhaps it 
is on this account that it has not met with so much attention at 
the hands of plant-growers as it deserves. The only really good 
specimen of it that I have ever seen was several years ago, in 
one of the greenhouses of the late Mrs. Laurence, of Ealing 
Park, and she thought more of this Hovea than of any dozen 
plants in her magnificent collection.” 
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