ON THE CHOICE OF PLANTS FOR A GREENHOUSE. 
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not stimulated too early in the spring ; and besides this, the 
plants come up more hardy, and less liable to be injured by frost, 
if kept during the winter in as cool a place as they can bear, only 
it must not be damp. Before they are put in the ground, they 
should be allowed to show bourgeons from the eyes in the 
crowns of the roots; but no more than one bourgeon must be left 
on each division of the crown, unless the lateral ones are to be 
twisted off and struck for additional plants, after they are advanced 
so far in growth. These are easily struck, and they come into 
flower as early as those which are left on the original root; and 
a Dahlia always has a bad appearance, if it has more than one root 
stem. The more it branches above this, it looks the more hand- 
some ; and, as remarked by the grower to whom we are indebted 
for our illustration, this branching is much promoted by pinching 
off the tops when the plant is partially grown. 
Conductor. 
REMARKS ON THE CHOICE OF PLANTS FOR A 
GREENHOUSE. 
BY W. SHERWOOD, GARDENER TO MRS. FRASER, CAMPDEN HILL. 
Sir, —The following remarks have reference only to small sub¬ 
urban and other residences, where the only house for plants is a 
greenhouse, and consequently only what is termed s Greenhouse- 
plants’ are kept. 
Premising that the proprietors of such establishments form a 
considerable portion of your numerous readers, and this being the 
time for getting in the plants, it may not be uninteresting to give 
the names, the mode of managing, and a brief description of 
some of the species, which will succeed each other in producing 
flowers throughout the winter as well as summer. I am induced 
to otfer these observations in consequence of having often seen 
small greenhouses filled with old hardweeded plants, such as 
Myrtles, Diosmas, Melaleucas, Neriums, Eugenias, two or three 
Camellias, (which often produce flower-buds but no flowers,) an 
almost leafless Orange-tree or two, and a few Geraniums, standing 
