14 THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
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atrike, after which the-shading must he 
dispensed with, ard when they. are well 
furnished with . roots. at once remsve 
them to 6-inch.pots, in, which they may. 
he allowed to flower. Keep them quite 
cool through the autamn—any pit, frame 
or. house will answer. It.is better not to 
subject them to frost; they will cast 
their. leaves . before winter, nothing 
remaining but the woody shcot with the 
bud at its extremity. But never allow 
the soil to become dry, or the roots wil 
suffer. fips 
« — Producing Barly logan 
it so desired, a portion of the 
plants _ may be- had-in) b’aam ‘early: by. 
putting them in a, moderato heat about, 
the end of June; they wi4) soon oe ym- 
Hydrangea. 
mence growing, making two or three 
pairs of leaves below the flowers. As 
soon as they begin growing freely those 
that are intended to come with pink 
flowers may be assisted once a week with 
moderately strong manure water, which 
will cause the production of much larger 
heads of bloom ; but we have never been 
able to produce flowers of a decided b'ue 
color if manure-water was used. When 
it has been viven to them, even when 
they were grown in all peat, or-with alum 
or iron in the soil, they have become 
neither one thing nor the other, but a 
not very pleasing mixture of both. 
— A Succession of Flowers. — _ 
"Such as are wanted later may be put in 
a little warmth, and some allowed to come 
on with the assistance of solar heat in an 
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ordinary greenhouse temperature. So 
manazed, a succession of flowers can be 
kept up for six months. 
After the blooms have become Sia 
the shoots that have borne them may be: 
cut out at the bottom, as suckers are sure. 
fo spring that will make more compact 
plants ; plunge them out-of doors for the 
Summer, Winter out of reach of the 
frost, andin the Spring, just as they 
show signs of beginning to grow, head 
them right down to the bottom. They 
will quickly: throw up shoots that will 
produce large heads cf bloom, on much 
shorter growth than if borne upon the 
old wood formed the preceding year. The 
writer has kept plants for three years in 
the same 6-inch pots they were first 
potted in, without either change or addi- 
tion of soil, simply by using manure- 
water during the time they were growing. 
In the second and third year they 
produced from three to half-a-dozen fine 
heads, x 
