The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . ointsstopped occasionally, and be syringed twice daily inbright weather, affording them liquid manure if it should seem to be needed during growth, but when toomuch wood is being made it should be shading will be necessary, as the plants should beallowed all the sunlight possible, this being pro-ductive of bloom. By treating the plants as aboveadvised, the frames or pits they have hitherto stoodin may be put to other uses. The plants will notbloom so early as those in pots, but they wi
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . ointsstopped occasionally, and be syringed twice daily inbright weather, affording them liquid manure if it should seem to be needed during growth, but when toomuch wood is being made it should be shading will be necessary, as the plants should beallowed all the sunlight possible, this being pro-ductive of bloom. By treating the plants as aboveadvised, the frames or pits they have hitherto stoodin may be put to other uses. The plants will notbloom so early as those in pots, but they will form avaluable successioa to them. A small amount of of in the compost. Afford the plants abundance ofsunlight, placing them in a close pit, not using anyflre-heat, but shutting them up early in the the plants increase in size use the syringe freely,and admit more air, so as to ripen the wood. Late-struck plants will require an intermediate-house untilthey are shifted into their flowering pots, and theyshould be grown on without any check until theirpots are full of Fig. 120.—inflorescence of coNornALLos titasom : spadix 6 feet long : stalk ratuer less than •t FEET. 1 ROM DR. fiECCARIS DRAWING. (SEE P. 750.) care is required when lifting the plants in September,so as not to injure the roots, and it is well to j)utthem for a short time in a north aspect beforehousing. Syringe the plants night and oftener, if drying winds prevail, thereby prevent-ing the falling of the foliage—a loss which has oftento be lamented when the plants are put into a dryhouse immediately after lifting tht-ni. Bouvardias raised from cuttings last spring willrequire care, the object being to obtain plants forearly blooming. Tiie earliest will now be ready totransfer to the flowering pots—5-ineh pots—ani forthis potting rather more loam should be made use Sahiaa.—The plants struck early this season shouldnow be placed in their flowering pots or planted outin
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