Attend carefully to the stock of plants for summer and autumn
decoration, and do not allow them to suffer for want of pot room and
water.
Azaleas.--Continue to encourage all that have flowered by timely
potting, syringings, and applications of weak liquid manure.
Camellias.--Introduce a gradual declension of artificial heat amongst
all that have completed their growth. A curtailment in the supply of
water, giving merely sufficient to keep them from flagging, will induce
the production of blossom-buds.
Epacris.--Repot with a pretty large shift the early-flowering sorts
that have freely commenced their growth. Use good fibrous heath soil,
rejecting any of a spongy or greasy nature. Such plants, for some time
after being newly shifted, require particular attention in watering,
that the soil may not become soddened. Let the plants be placed in a
cold pit, and be slightly shaded during bright sunshine. The stopping or
pinching out the points of strong shoots must be regularly attended to
during their growing season, to establish a uniformity of sturdy growth.
Heaths and New Holland Plants.--All that have flowered, and have made
their season's growth, may be removed to cold pits, or frames, to allow
those that remain, and are promising to flower, more air, sun and light.