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THE FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
as near as can be, its natural temperature, its natural soil, 
and its natural rank and station amongst others. If, then, he 
should occasionally interfere with nature’s laws, in bringing forth 
flow'ers out of season, he is not only excusable as their cul¬ 
tivator, but it is creditable to him as their guardian. These 
observations are particularly called forth at this time, while 
witnessing on all sides the fading of many flowers, which were 
only a day or two ago in the greatest beauty. To have them 
always in beauty would diminish rather than advance them in 
our estimation ; but the recurrence of a flower when not ex¬ 
pected, and especially if obtained without any derangement or 
mutilation of the plant operated upon, would be a delectable 
rarity, and really a desirable incident in a flower-garden. Every 
body knows that transplanting Rose trees late in the winter, or 
pruning them twice, or late in the spring, procures a late bloom, 
perhaps a month later than the ordinary time of flowering (we 
are speaking of the common Provence rose) ; though this treat¬ 
ment of Rose trees is less necessary now than it was before the 
introduction of so many French and Chinese species and va¬ 
rieties, some one or other of which is always in flower through 
the summer and autumn months. The Laburnum is a highly 
ornamental plant, from the middle of May to the end ; but, if the 
flowering shoots be cut back, and the tree divested of its racemes 
of pods, a partial bloom will again come forth later in the 
summer. Indeed, the whole of the Cytisus genus may be made 
to flower twice in the summer, by careful cutting back after the 
first flowers fade. The Rose-acacia, and several others of its 
congeners, will flower a second time, if pruned back after the 
first; and so will the Althaea frutex, presenting its second flowers 
as late as October, when flowers of any kind are much wanted. 
Checking the growth of herbaceous border flcfwers, by repeatedly 
transplanting, or by divesting them of a few or the whole of 
their stems to retard the flowering, or allow it only to be deve¬ 
loped gradually, is an old expedient; and, what with attention 
paid to this management of perennials and biennials, and to the 
many different times at which annual flowers may be sown and 
transplanted, a continued galaxy of blossoms may be maintained 
throughout the growing season. 
Delta. 
