172 the florist’s journal. 
be properly taken into account. The principal difficulty con¬ 
sists in the space required to preserve them through the winter 
in a healthy state, and to submit them to a gentle excitement 
in the early spring months. These remarks tend towards 
another; viz. that however desirable, on account of space, it 
may be to preserve vast quantities of these kind of plants 
crowded together in cutting pots during winter, or, on the 
other hand, to depend on spring propagation for a supply of 
plants, neither method can be regarded as that most conducive 
to gaiety and display during the ensuing season. When it is 
considered how little an amount of protection, judiciously ap¬ 
plied, such plants require for their preservation, and the advan¬ 
tages of having strong and established plants at the planting 
season, it is surprising that no greater efforts should be made, 
not only to propagate early in the summer, but also to provide 
that kind and degree of protection which would render such a 
step eventually successful. The trimming up of all plants 
whose meridian of beauty is past, and the securing of all those 
which are advancing, continue to be necessary operations. For 
the rest, the season and the particular circumstances of each 
case will speak to the intelligent mind. Among florists the 
Auricula will this month require attention, this being the 
approved season for re-potting: it will be found that nearly every 
grower varies his compost for this plant, by the addition oi 
omission of a small quantity of some out-of-the-way manure, 
and imagines all his success depends on its presence, or the 
contrary, as the case may be; but the tyro is advised to abstain 
from the use of any excessive stimulants, and grow his plants 
in fresh rich loam, leaf-mould, and a little well-rotted hot¬ 
bed manure, trusting mainly to an effective drainage. Ihe 
laveriner of Picotees and Carnations must be finished speedily. 
J & , T. M. 
