Having procured some nice bushy plants of the sorts intended to be grown, which had better be done early in the spring, and having prepared sufficient good fibry peat, by breaking it to pieces and mixing with it a liberal quantity of silver sand, and some lumps of charcoal or small pebbles, proceed to shift the plants from 3-ineh to 6-inch pots, or from 5-inch to 7 or 8-inch pots, and so on, as the case may be, using the peat coarser for the large sizes than for the small ones, and employing clean, well-drained pots. Press the mold firmly round them; if the peat is light, it must be pressed till it is quite firm, or the plants will probably grow very freely for a time, and then suddenly die. When they are shifted, place them in a cold frame and keep them rather close and shady for a few days, but do not go to extremes either way. Gradually increase the air, and reduce the shading till in fine days the lights are left off entirely.

As the weather becomes warm, leave air on all night, and in hot June, July, and August days shaed them in the middle of the day, and leave the lights off all night. Many of them would, no doubt, bloom; but if they are slow-growing kinds, and specimens are required, I would prefer stopping them all over as soon as they get into good growth. When they require it pass a strong band of matting or string round the pot, and with some fine matting draw the shoots regularly towards the edge of the pot, in order to allow the air to pass freely through them. - Any fine woolly growth they may make in the centre had better be out out, for it only turns to bloom, and all those of a straggling habit should be cut back directly after, while those of more dwarf habit may merely hare the extreme points pinched off some of them as soon as they can be caught peeping through the flowers; others may be pinched back on the top only, to allow weak side shoots to acquire strength before the leading ones break. The plan of merely taking out the point as it peeps through the flowers will be found useful in regard to some of the late blooming kinds; for by the time the flowers fade, the plant will be found to have broken a crop of buds just behind them.

Some of the earliest stopped plants will probably require another stopping by the middle of July, while others will be found breaking freely of their own accord. Those that require it had better be stopped; and as they grow, the shoots must be carefully regulated by drawing them out with fine matting, and perhaps a fine stick or two. - Some of the free growing kinds may be shifted again about the same time, if rapid progress is required; but as a rule I do not think it advisable to do so, for very quickly grown plants are mostly short-lived. I prefer placing the plants on inverted pots or pans, and in hot weather keeping the bottom of the pit moist, so as to maintain a healthy atmosphere round them. If the plants are much exposed to the sun the front of the pot must be shaded, and any of them that do not shade the soil in the pot had better have a few pieces of crock placed on its surface.

In wet weather the lights should be kept over the plants, but they must either be propped up by pots at the corners, or tilted by placing a block or pot under one edge. Heaths will take a great deal of water if properly treated; for instance, if a plant is allowed to get quite dry and is then well watered, the pot being filled up two or three times, it will absorb more moisture than one that is watered a little every day, and the soil will keep sweeter; care must, however, be taken not to let them get so dry as to make their very delicate roots shrivel.

As the winter draws on, if there is no proper house for them, with a little care they will winter very well in pits;* if by chance they should get frozen hard, if they are allowed to stand in the dark, they will take no harm; and if the weather should be damp and close, a few lumps of lime placed here and there between them will tend to keep them free from mildew, which, however, should be carefully watched for at all seasons, and as soon as it is perceived the parts must be dusted with black sulphur. By following the same course of treatment the next year some very nice specimen plants may be grown, and by persevering with them they will become noble plants, like the fine specimen represented by the accompanying woodcut. - J. B. in Florist.

ERICA CAVENDISHL.

* It would not be safe to rely on cold pits in this countery, In the north; for In order to avoid the consequences of severe frost, they would hare to be totally excluded from the light for weeks at a time. The best place is a cold greenhouse, where heat can be applied if necessary. - ED. IIoRt.