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THE FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
luxuriant growth, on which are based all future expectations ; 
while growing, the plants should be kept in a temperature of 
about 55° or 60°, and receive a very liberal supply of water: this 
usually occurs about the latter end of April and beginning of 
May, sometimes a week or two later, according to the period of 
flowering, and the formation of the new wood generally occupies 
from three to four weeks. After which follows the most parti¬ 
cular point of their management: if the watering and warm tem¬ 
perature is continued beyond the period necessary for the due 
completion of this first growth, another production of new wood 
immediately follows, which is the sole cause of the non-produc¬ 
tion of flowers: the prevention of this second growth is what 
consequently requires the cultivator’s most particular attention, 
and is almost the only important point in their culture. It must, 
however, be observed, that it is necessary to get the first formed 
wood as large and strong as possible, or puny and few will be 
the flowers ; but it is also equally necessary to discontinue 
the watering, and to place the plants in a cool situation out of 
doors immediately it is completed : to do this exactly at the right 
time requires some considerable amount of practical skill; but 
when once ascertained correctly, every thing is perfectly easy; 
the plants then only require just enough water to preserve them 
from flagging. During the heat of summer, and at the usual 
time of housing plants, a warm situation in the greenhouse should 
be secured them. If an early bloom is required, they may be 
placed in a gentle heat directly after Christmas, though this is 
better avoided, from the trouble it causes to properly check and 
ripen the first growth ; because at that early period of the season 
in which forced wood will be produced, it is not safe to place 
them out of doors, and a "green-house is seldom cool enough to 
prevent the second growth. 
It must be understood, all that has been said relates only to 
mature flowering plants. The propagation and management of 
young plants being more particularly a nurseryman’s business, 
I have said nothing of it, though there is no material difference, 
except that, as it will of course be desired to have them'as 
large as possible in the shortest possible time, the second growth 
may be encouraged rather than prevented. 
Anglicus. 
