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the case. The plant, when placed in a room as a window plant, 
is subject to one undeviating atmosphere, the temperature of 
which is kept as nearly the same as possible, and through a mis¬ 
taken kindness, supplied with water just as regularly; this is 
clearly the opposite of the plant in its natural state, for then 
during the summer months it has the full influence of the sun, 
with the benefit of the free air ; and in winter, its only advantage 
is its annual covering of snow, just sufficient to protect it from 
the effects of frost, and which yields but very little humidity 
until it becomes thawed ; and the same cause, namely the power 
of the sun, which supplies the plant with moisture by dissolving 
the snow, acts immediately on the energies of the plant, throwing 
it into a growth as luxuriant as it is sudden, and it is by this 
the treatment of the plant when in an artificial state should be 
regulated. 
In the autumn, let the supply of water be gradually but cer¬ 
tainly diminished, giving at last only just sufficient to keep the 
earth in the pots together; this should be continued from 
October till March, then let them be placed in a very gentle 
hotbed, if at hand, or in a warm window or part of the green¬ 
house, but the frame is the best, the heat of which should be 
about55°; the plants must not be plunged into but merely placed 
on the bed, and from this time increase the supply of water and 
air, and a good bloom will be the result. After the plants have 
done flowering, they should be repotted in a mixture of loam and 
peat, or loam and old leaf mould, and then place them out of 
doors, shading them for a few days from the intense heat of the 
sun till they become re-established, after which they should have 
all the sun they can get to ripen the wood, observing to give 
them plenty of water while growing. By the end of September 
they should be removed into the house, and the autumn treat¬ 
ment repeated. 
The remaining species are all, strictly speaking, stove plants; 
the finest of them is G. Florida, with its variety flore pleno ; 
these all delight in a mixture of loam and peat, with the ad¬ 
dition of a little fine silver sand : a good drainage is alwavs re- 
quisite. The season for repotting is immediately after flowering; 
they should never be overpotted, as they always grow best when 
the roots are touching the sides of the pots; after repotting 
they will be benefited by being placed in a cool part of the green- 
