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house: these like the others should be allowed to become dor¬ 
mant during the winter months, and started again in February. 
They may all of them be propagated by cuttings taken off in June 
and planted in a pot of sand and peat, and plunged in a very 
gentle bottom heat, covering it with a small cap glass; they stnke 
readily, though some care is necessary to keep the glasses dry, 
they should be wiped once or twice every day, and all symptoms 
of mouldiness removed. 
THE APPROACHING FLOWER SHOWS. 
We are now entering on a period of the most intense inteiest 
to the florist, and to the general cultivator also, but more par¬ 
ticularly to the florist, the period of the flower shows—the time 
in which he is to receive the reward for all past trouble, a time 
looked forward to with the pleasing anticipation of triumph, not 
unmixed with some anxiety though ; yet this anxiety is not of 
that painful nature which characterizes the feeling when applied 
to the every-day occurrences of life; a good deal might pos¬ 
sibly be learned from a close examination of the nature and 
character of this same anxiety. What renders it less painful 
and so of a more amiable character, with all the other et ceteras, 
from it we imagine a good moral lesson might be derived; but 
as we are not about to write an essay on morals, but merely to 
speak a few words about the approaching shows, we shall not 
enter farther into the discussion. We anticipate a very great share 
of pleasure this season at the various metropolitan shows, for from 
what we have heard whispered and seen, we expect there will be 
some very close competition for some of the principal prizes; some 
of the new flowers, too, are likely to prove perfect gems. Our 
readers may depend on our unceasing efforts to obtain the 
earliest and fullest description possible of such as may appear 
most worthy of notice within our own sphere of action ; and it 
