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(although in the greenhouse), for three or four days. They may then be released 
from the hand-glasses first; next, placed on the shelves, where they can be 
shaded an hour or two through the hottest sun; and lastly, as they get better 
established, put upon any of the shelves near the glass, where they cannot be 
overlooked as to watering, or be otherwise neglected, and they will be done 
with, except for the ordinary attention that belongs to all plants, until their roots 
reach the edge or sides of the pot, and begin to get matted and cross each 
other all over the surface next the pot. 
The plants will show whether they have made their first growth fairly and 
want a rest by one thing, which is unerring in all plants : while they are 
growing and want no rest the top leaves of each shoot are smaller, and the 
centre leaves smallest, but when these end leaves have grown nearly the colour 
and size of the others, and there are no young leaves opening, or rather the 
youngest have grown nearly to their size without others coming, the plant will 
be better for rest—that is, it may be placed in the coolest part of the green¬ 
house, have no more water than is just enough to preserve it from drying, and 
merely be watched until there is a movement in the fresh growth ; then shift 
them all into pots a size larger, say from small 60’s, which may be called 
24 inches across, to large 60’s, which are inches across, or even to 48-sized 
pots, which are 4^- inches. But although large shifts, as they are called, which 
means a jump over one or two intermediate sizes, saves trouble, they are not 
beneficial to the plants, and it is preferable to move them only one size at a 
time. Let the draining of these second-sized pots consist of crocks an inch 
in depth. Water them all as fast as they are changed from one pot to the 
other, and place them in the shade till the next day, when they may take their 
places on the shelves or out of doors, according to the season, as the case may 
be. After May they are better out of doors, on a hard bottom impervious to 
water and worms, because their roots cannot then strike into the soil, w r hich 
causes an unnatural growth for the time, and a violent check in the end when 
they are returned to their winter quarters. If there is plenty of accommoda¬ 
tion, a common garden frame and light in a northern aspect will be the best 
summer residence, but it is essential that the bottom be hard, and that water 
may not lay there nor sink into the earth, but run away altogether. 
When the season’s growth is over, there will be the same reason as before 
for giving rest by stinting the water and keeping the plants cool and light, 
especially if they are to be wintered in the greenhouse. They will in all pro¬ 
bability the third season produce bloom ; wdien, therefore, they start growth, 
let them be instantly repotted with the same kind of compost, in a size larger 
pot, and be treated as before during the growth, whether it be in the green¬ 
house or in the garden. They will now grow till they show bloom, or at least 
many of them will; and by the time they are to be* moved to the greenhouse 
they will be in bloom, and continue so the whole winter, when all that are 
good for nothing—that is to say, all that do not equal those we have as to form, 
and with new colours, or are not better in form and equal as to colour, should 
be thrown out. To multiply varieties by recognising trifling differences has 
been the bane of floriculture. Hundreds of flowers, so like each other that 
common observers cannot see the difference, are nevertheless cultivated for sale, 
and growers find no difference but the name. It is, therefore, of the highest 
consequence that everything that is not a manifest improvement upon what we 
possess already should be thrown away. Choice novelties may be propagated. 
In the Correa we have for a universal stock C. alba, a robust and healthy 
species, growing freely, and for the most part greatly assisting any less robust 
kind that may be grafted or budded on it. The grafting of the Correa is easily 
performed. Shave a flat side to the stock, and a similar flat side to the piece 
