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which time they are removed to the greenhouse to perfect their 
blooms. While standing out of doors they should not be placed 
too thickly, or they are very likely to lose the lower leaves. As 
the blooms appear they should be thinned, not allowing them to 
expand more than two or three flowers on each plant; they 
require the same treatment while in the house with the plants 
they are placed amongst. When done blooming they may be 
removed to a back part of the house or a shed, as they only 
require a partial protection from severe frost ; as soon as the 
weather breaks they may be placed out of doors again till the 
season for propagating arrives. I then turn them out of pots, and 
remove all suckers, which generally supply me with cuttings for 
the next season ; the old plants are then repotted into pots a size 
larger than those used before, in the same kind of earth, and cut 
down to within two inches of the earth: these break out and 
make fine bushy plants. The shoots as they appear should be 
thinned, leaving three only ; subject them to the same treatment 
as before, and this, the second season, the plants will be seen in 
perfection. I keep them till the third week in May for the sake of 
cuttings, and then turn them into the flower borders, where they 
should have a warm situation and be kept thin of wood. It is a 
great pity the Chrysanthemum is so difficult to seed in this king¬ 
dom, as we should then, in all probability, have as many and as 
fine varieties as those obtained from Calceolarias. I have occa¬ 
sionally gained a small quantity, but am supplied plentifully from 
the continent and the island of Guernsey. To raise plants from 
seed, it should be sown as soon as obtained, in shallow pans, in 
sandy loam, and placed on a shelf in the greenhouse, or what is 
better, in a very mild hot bed. Harden the plants by degrees; 
the after treatment is the same as recommended above. I may 
here observe, this seed sometimes will lie a long time in the earth, 
so that the pans should be kept, though apparently all the plants 
may have been potted from them. 
PHILOSOPHY OF FLORICULTURE. 
ON THE SEEDING OF CULTIVATED FLOWERING-PLANTS. 
The obtaining of fine flowers, or indeed the cultivation of 
plants for any one purpose, is always procured at the sacrifice of 
some of those properties which are perfect and exactly balanced 
