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place them in a three-light box, or in a sheltered corner oi the 
melon ground, with other bulbs, covered with twelve inches of 
coal ashes or old tan, and from thence they are taken to the 
forcing-house as required, until the middle of March, when the 
remainder can be removed to a frame or greenhouse, and 
flowered for the drawing-room. They require plenty of air, and 
protection from frost, watering to be repeated every third day 
in fine weather, and once a week in dull seasons. I have placed 
pans of water under some, but without any beneficial effect. 
Indeed, after various experiments, I prefer the regular application 
of water as the season will admit. In the course of three weeks they 
will push forth sponglets into the moss, where they will flourish 
vigorously. The heat of the rose-house, or succession pine-stove, 
will bring them into flower in three or four weeks in December, 
January, and February, and in a much shorter period as the 
season advances. I always use clean water of the temperature of 
the house ; and where there is no cistern, vessels filled with water 
placed in the house during the night will be fit for use next 
morning. When the plants are in flower, they may be placed in 
a variety of shapes to advantage. They can be placed in fancy 
baskets, as they are extremely light, and the pots easily concealed 
by strewing a little fresh moss over the surface,—or in the most 
ornamental situations, without fear of injuring the furniture,—or 
the pots may be taken away by turning the plant down and 
tapping the pot all round with the hand until the moss and roots 
slip out, when they could be placed in baskets, vases, or in other 
ornaments, without injuring the roots or breaking the moss. 
Place some moss round the sides to keep them stead} 7- , sprinkle 
the whole with clean water, and remove them to their allotted 
places. Having placed the baskets on large tea-trays, water to 
be given from a fine rose watering-pot twice a w r eek over the 
flowers to refresh them, and to renew their very sweet odour.”— 
He advised when the plants are in flower to take them out of the 
pots as directed, and to pick all the moss from the roots, then to 
pass a thread loosely round the roots, and to slip them into the 
glasses filled with water. When the flower guards are put on, 
all are complete for windows, &c. &c. the glasses to be filled with 
fresh water every third day. 
[It gives us great pleasure to learn that the u West London 
Gardeners’ Association for Mutual Instruction,” whose Secretary, 
