Few plants are better suited for forcing when properly prepared, than the above, and certainly as a rule, when well-grown are thoroughly appreciated, and yet how seldom do we meet with them even fairly cared for. Procure sufficient stock of the common white and purple varieties from a nursery, and pot them into 12-inch pots, using a good strong loam and potting quite firm; if lifted, as they probably will be from the open ground, place them where they will be shaded from the direct rays of the sun, and where they may be frequently syringed until they recover from the lifting, which will be seen by their making a start into growth.

After removing them from the house place them in any shady corner for a few days, until the foliage becomes hardened and able to stand the weather; now select some quite open situation, having a west aspect, if possible, and plunge the pots 2 inches under the soil in rows sufficiently wide to allow the sun and air to have free access, and also to allow of the plants being watered when necessary, also to keep free from weeds; they will need no further attention, and can be lifted as required. Of course, it is necessary to encourage as free a growth as possible to ensure good heads of flower. After the plants have been forced they should be gradually hardened off preparatory to being again plunged out of doors, and it will be necessary to cut them back, roughly pruning them into shape only; and it will be hardly necessary for me to say that the same plants will not be ready for forcing the following season, but in alternate years, so that it is necessary to provide a double stock. - Gardening World.

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