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pot; put the cuttings in with a small pointed dibble, closing the 
soil to the cutting, and place them in a cold frame on ashes, 
shading them during the day with a mat. As soon as they have 
struck root they may be potted off into 60-size pots in the 
above compost, and placed in the cold frame for two or three 
weeks ; admit plenty of air, and as soon as they fill the pots 
with roots they may be shifted into 48-size pots, and exposed 
to the open air in a full east aspect, where they can remain 
until they are taken to their winter quarters ; let them then be 
placed as near the glass as possible to prevent them from draw¬ 
ing. Water ought to be used very sparingly until March. 
Culture for large Specimen Plants. — In April select 
some of the best young plants just mentioned, and shift them 
into 24-size pots, stopping them all the summer at every third 
joint; by the beginning of June they may be exposed to an 
east aspect, and care must be taken not to let them get pot 
bound, or neglected for the want of water; and if they are 
infested with insects they must be fumigated with tobacco, and 
kept well syringed; by September they will be good bushy plants, 
and they may then be taken to the house where they are intended 
to flower ; place them near the glass without its touching the 
foliage, give them all the air possible in fine weather, and 
let them be frequently well fumigated; water must be sparingly 
used until March, when they may be shifted into the flowering 
pots, No. 6, or 8, or 12, well draining them as directed before, 
according to the size of the plants. The plants must be regu¬ 
larly trained round the pots. The manure water that I shall 
recommend there will be no danger in using, and it will be found 
very beneficial to the plants : — Take one bushel of sheep’s dung 
to 20 gallons of water ; or, if sheep’s dung cannot be got, two 
bushels of rotten horse-dung; let it stand three or four days, 
and then water them three times a week, until they show their 
colours. As soon as the plants have done flowering they should 
be cut down to the last two eyes of each leader; place them in 
a cold frame until they have broken, when they may be shaken 
out of their pots, and repotted into as small a size as they can 
conveniently be got into; place them again in the frame until 
they are rooted to the side of the pot, when they may be shifted 
into a size larger, sprinkling them over the head every evening. 
I do not recommend old plants to be grown, as neither their 
trusses nor flowers are so large, nor the colours so good, as those 
