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the compost; train them singly to sticks. They will not flower 
much the first season ; in April following cut down to two eyes, 
select the strongest shoot, repotting, supplying plenty of water. 
Keep them in a warm greenhouse, and with proper management 
they will be about four feet long and three quarters of an inch in 
circumference. These plants will flower from February to May, 
when the plants are cut down to one foot high and plunged in 
the stove, will flower again from the end of August to November, 
the plants are then thrown away. By this method the largest 
flowers are obtained, often in clusters of six or eight at the axis 
of each leaf from a foot above the pot. 
Millhaven. J. Forbes. 
REMARKS ON THE CONSTRUCTION AND FURNISHING 
CONSERVATORY WALLS. 
The growth and preservation of tender plants in the open 
air has long engaged the attention of horticulturists, and with 
varied success. To acclimatize an exotic has ever been the 
highest and nicest point in gardening operations, so many and 
such opposite obstacles are to be surmounted; yet what will 
not perseverance guided by sound principles overcome ? It is 
true there are some plants that appear to be beyond our control 
in this matter, and that, too, without any assignable reason; 
but this only makes apparent the small amount of knowledge 
we possess of the laws which govern vegetable organization, for 
notwithstanding all our boasted advance/we are yet far, very 
far, from understanding the causes of many of the most simple 
phenomena which occur daily before us ; this, however, should 
only instigate us to renewed and stronger efforts to obtain the 
necessary knowledge. We have already several instances of 
the successful result of what was probably only the chance of 
trial and failure ; but still of sufficient importance to induce the 
experimentalist to make further trials : as a familiar instance we 
mention the Aucuba, which originally was considered and treated 
as a greenhouse plant, but is now found growing luxuriantly in 
every situation. How much we may be justified in expecting, 
as we become more and more acquainted with the governing 
