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month or six weeks, and then they are placed in others a size 
larger, the best plants getting another shift about the end of 
September. During the whole of this time they stand at the 
foot of a north wall, protected from rough winds and the heaviest 
rains, but open to all other weather. I am careful to give them 
plenty of room, keeping a clear space round each plant, that 
they may not suffer for want of air, which I believe to be a pro¬ 
lific source of evil, occasioning loss of foliage, and encouraging 
the spread of insects. At each shifting the points of the shoots 
are pinched back, to induce other branches, and, by a little care 
in placing sticks and tying, they are trained into handsome 
round specimens, that only require plenty of water to preserve 
the leaves to the bottom of the plant. For general purposes 
eight-inch pots are large enough, though a few of the best, if 
required to stand singly, may be put into larger ones, and those 
intended to bloom early should not be stopped later than the 
middle of September. Plants from cuttings, treated in this way, 
I find generally make the best-formed specimens, though a few 
very dwarf ones may be had by laying the points of some stiong 
shoots into small pots about the beginning of September. These 
occupy about three weeks in making roots, and may then be 
separated, and treated the same as the larger plants. The 
whole should be taken into the greenhouse in the first week of 
October. 
M. Fairlove. 
CLERODENDRON MACROPHYLLUM. 
Some time since, having occasion to travel in the west of 
England, I was led by an instinctive love of plants to spend a 
day at Exeter, that great centre, from whence has, of late, ema¬ 
nated so many of the choicest of our floral treasures. Calling at 
Veitch’s, I was shown without hesitation through their now truly 
magnificent collection, and the greatest rarities were pointed out 
with an urbanity that might be profitably imitated in some of 
our metropolitan establishments. Here I revelled in the midst 
of proved and untried novelties, till my attention was arrested by 
