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PREFACE.

In completing another Volume of the Floricultural Cabinet, we can-
not forbear commencing our prefaratory observations by stating, that
it is with no ordinary degree of pleasing satisfaction, that we have had,
through the year, the assurance that our labours have been approved
by our readers. We have received very numerous testimonials by
letter to this effect; and the increased demand for the Floricultural
Cabinet, confirms the same. We assure our readers that our utmost
efforts have been directed to secure their approbation. In the se-
lection of articles on Floriculture, our care has been to insert
those only that would be either peculiarly interesting or practically
useful to the Floriculturist ; and to give as many figures each month,
of the newest and most showy plants, has been our endeavour as far
as practicable. Our attention, in future, will be directed to the same
line of conduct.

Weare enthusiastically devoted to Floriculture, and our efforts to
promote its extension have been richly rewarded—not only in the
liberal and increasing patronage we have received, but also in the
impulse we have in some degree given to the study of Floriculture,
by which, in its practical operations, new tints have been added to
the opening flower, fresh fragrance imparted to perfume, and in the
results of a judicious combination and culture, we have been sur-
prised and delighted, in many instances, to behold a new creation in
the new forms of beauty which have sprung up. Nor do the benefits
terminate here, there has been introduced a rich variety of beauty
and splendour in many places, where but a few of the most common
flowers were heretofore accustomed to grow, and naturalized some of
the gayest and most fastidious of Flora’s train on what was previously
supposed an inhospitable soil. In effecting this desideratum we
have been favoured with the very liberal and talented assistance of
several correspondents—to whom we are much indebted, and again

record our thanks for their liberality. We, therefore, solicit a con-
_ tinuance of their communications to a work already so largely indebted
fo their favours.

We shall enter upon our editorial labours for another year, encou-
raged by the success of the past, and animated by the countenance
and approval of our numerous friends for the future; and our very
best efforts shall be directed to render the Cabinet, if possible, a more
satisfactory work on Floriculture. The next volume will contain a
number of plans of Cutting-Houses, Pits, Frames, &c. We have
also several handsome drawings of some splendid Florists’ Flowers,
which will also appear in due course.

Worlley, Nov. 20th, 1836.

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THE

FLORICULTURAL CABINET,

JANUARY Ist, 1836.

i PART I.

ORIGINAL COMMUNIGATIONS.

ARTICLE I.—On the Culture of Orchideous Plants.
By A Country Fiorisr. ;

Observing a Query in Vol. III. of the Cabinet, page 116, on
the culture of Orchideous Plants, I forward, in compliance there-
with, the following observations upon this most interesting tribe

- ofplants. They are the result of a very successful practice with
upwards of six hundred plants, for eight years. Many of the
kinds requiring a very different mode of treatment from others,
I deem it best to give you a portion of my remarks for each
successive number of the Fourth Volume of the Cabinet. An
article on the whole tribe, would occupy so much room, that it

‘ would necessarily exclude other valuable and interesting observa-
tions on many other plants. With a view, however, of complying

~~ the wishes of the Querist, I shall confine my remarks to.a few
for eaeh month. A few general observations, however, must
first be given.

The tribe of plants under notice are peculiarly interesting : the
singular form of the flowers, the variation of colour in a single
flower, the peculiar mode of growth, and the powerful fragrance of
many of them, all combine to give interest to them. In their
native country they are not regarded by the natives, and it has been
stated by an English gentleman who collected for some time, and
to a very great extent, that he only saw one instance of any of the

VOL, IV. B

2 ON THE CULTURE OF ORCHIDEOUS PLANTS.

“Orchidex being noticed by a native, and that was Oncidium lan-
ceanium. The beauty of its flowers, and powerful fragrance, had
induced him to remove the plant, and cultivate it near the door of
his dwelling.

Among the Orchidez, some are terrestrial, growing like English
Orchises ; but the principal part of them, and by far the most inte-
resting, are those growing upon trees. Some of this class delight
in a very elevated situation, upon the summit of the highest trees ;
others, upon low bushes, or decayed parts of old trees. They are
not found growing generally through the forests, but are choice in
their place of growth. The trees overhanging a river, is in many
instances found to be a habitation for them, but even under such
an advantage, it is observable that a considerable number of miles
may be pursued and not a single plant be discovered, when a sud-
den turning in the course of the river presents itself, and most
probably rendering the atmosphere at such a situation somewhat
different from the general course of the river, a considerable num-
ber of trees have been found to be literally loaded with the plants.
Although fond of a damp atmosphere, this tribe of plants delight in
a free circulation of air. Collectors in general state, that whether
they are discovered upon old trees in a forest, or by a river, they
are nearly always found on the outskirts, where they can have
occasional exposure to the sun, and a free admission of air.

However numerous may be the plants growing upon a single
tree, not more than five species were ever discovered on the same
tree.

Collectors have informed us, that, like all other plants, the Or-
chide require a resting season. In their native country, it is ‘
during the jeriod there. termed the “ dry season,” when the heat ‘
is lower; and the growing and blooming time, in the wet season
of the year, the heat being much higher, reaching to, 90 degrees
or more. This particular should always be atfénded to by growers
of Orchide@ in this country. The greater the heat, the more
powerful the moisture, and the freeriiiiiimission of air. To have
the plants to flourish well, these particulars must be obtained ; and
‘as they are best realised in spring and summer, the most suitable
season of rest is from November to the end of February. During
this period the plants should not stand upon a heated flue, but
upon a trellis placed upon it. The heat of the house should be

ON THE CULTURE OF ORCHIDEOUS PLANTS. 3

“regulated so as to keep it at 60 degrees by night, and to allow it
to rise to 68 by day. The plants will not require much water
applying at the roots whilst resting, but at the middle of each day
the warm flue should be sprinkled with water, to cause a little
humidity. ay ;

When the resting season is over, many kinds will generally
require repotting; I have not confined my practise to that time
only, but when during summer a plant seems to want such exten-
sion of room, I allow it immediately by repotting, or in some cases
keep raising the soil, &c., by piling additional portions suc-
eessively. In order to secure the plant steady, I fix a strong
stick, at the first potting, nearly at the centre of the pot, and by
fixing two cross pieces of wood to it, extending crosswise of the
inside of the pot, near the rim, this, when the soil, &e. is filled in,
becomes quite firm, and is a very useful support to the plant ; in-
deed, in some instances it is quite indispensible.

The most suitable soil for the plants to grow in, is sandy peat,
not a soddened kind, but having as much stringy roots in it, as
when cut into portions of an inch’square, each piece will adhere
together. In some instances I use decayed wood from trees,
mixed with the peat, and a portion of vegetable mould.

In potting, 1 always give a good quantity of broken pots for
drainage, so as to allow the water to pass off quickly. If this is
not attended to, the water would become stagnant, the soil sod-
dened, and the plants would most certainly be sickly.

I always use water that is of a tepid temperature, that no check
be given from cold. I do not sprinkle the plants over the tops
more than three times during a year, and that me for the
purpose of washing off dust ; I prefer spunging ther over.

When the growing season commences, I raise the temperature
of te a. to 72 degrees by night, and from 72 to 95
by day. Instead of syringing over the tops of the plants, I sprin-
kle the flues twice a day, viz. about ten o'clock in the morning,
and two in the afternoon ; this supports them during powerful sun,
by rendering the air humid. I do not allow the flue to be moist,
when the sun has set; for, if the house be then closed in a very
damp state, some of the delicate plants would probably be killed
by it, and to very few is itbeneficial. The exceptions to this rule
I shall notice in my remarks on the particular kinds.

4 ON THE CULTURE OF ORCHIDEOUS PLANTS.

The term Orchidez is often used by persons who scarcely un-
derstand the application of it in some particulars. Dr, LinpiEy’s
Introduction to Botany contains the following observations on
what are—

“ Parasitical Plants ;—that is to say, such as are either desti-
tute of the power of pumping up their nourishment from the soil,
or of elaborating it completely ; or as cannot exist without absorb-
ing juices of other vegetables. These are found in all the pre-
ceding stations. They may be divided into, first, those which
grow on the surface of others, as the Cuscuta and Misletoe ; and,
secondly, intestinal parasites, which are developed in the interior
of living plants, and pierce the epidermis to make their appearance
outwardly, such as the Uredo and Aicidium.

“ Epiphytes, or false Parasites, are such as grow upon either
dead or living vegetables, without deriving any nourishment from
them. This class, which has often been confounded with the pre-
ceding, has two distinctly characterised divisions. The first,
which approaches true parasites, comprehends cryptogamous
plants, the germs of which, probably carried to their stations by
the very act of vegetation, develope themselves at the period when
the plant, or that part where they lie, begins to die, then feed
upon the substance of the plant during its mortal throes, and fatten
upon it after its disease ; such are Nemasporus, and many Sphe-
rias; these are spurious intestinal parasites. The second com-
prehends those vegetables, whether cryptogamic, such as lichens
and Musci, or phanerogamous, as Epidendrums, which live upon
living plants, without deriving any nutriment from them, but ab-
sorbing moisture from the surrounding atmosphere; these are
superficial fé se parasites: many of them will grow upon rocks,
dead trees, or earth.” a

Having thus premised with some general observations, I shall
continue my remarks of a practical kind, by eating of some of
the handsomest kinds in general cultivation.

Stanhopea.—All the species of this genus have not only hand-
some flowers, but are very fragrant. The flowers are produced
upon pendent stems. In order to allow them to hang over the
sides of the pots, it is necessary to watch them, and lead the end
of the shoot, when visible, to a proper direction; if this is not
attended to, the stem will often force itself against the side of the

ON THE CULTURE OF ORCHIDEOUS PLANTS, 6

pot, or into the soil. The best plan with this genus is to treat in
the manner I observed at Wentworth, when I visited that place in
1834, viz. :—A pot was filled with square pieces of peat mixed
with broken potsherds to the height of the rim, then the squares
of peat and pots were piled upwards to the height of several inches
above the top of the pot, and the outer piles of peat were secured
by means of thin splices of wood being fixed on the pot, and the
squares of peat thrust upon them. I observed that as the plants
advanced in growth, the peat piles were increased tier upon tier,
so that some of the oldest plants were raised near a foot high. I
have since adopted the same plan, and found it to answer admira-
bly. As the flower-stem arises from the surface of the roots, it
sometimes happens that it will push out, not at the surface, but at
the side of the pile of soil; and when no further obstruction is
encountered, the flowers will shew themselves very gracefully
down the sides. In potting this genus, it is, therefore, necessary,
in order that the flower-stems may push unobstructedly, to pot them
in the first instance, in an elevated manner as described, and to
increase the pile of peat and broken pots as circumstances require.

The plant being thus raised, the soil is more liable to become
dry, and additional care is therefore requisite, in properly attend-
ing to the watering.

The following kinds are what I possess, and all have bloomed
with me :—

1. Stanhopea eburnea. The flowers are of a pretty white, spot-
ted and blotted with a crimson-purple. Each flower is about two
inches across; they are fragrant. The plant is a native of Rio
Janeiro. It merits a place in every collection. Ko
_ 2. S. grandiflora. Synonym, Ceratochilus grandiflora. (Bot.

Cab. 1414.) The flowers are of a beautiful white, from two to

in across, very handsome and fragrant. The plantis a

native of Trinidad, West Indies. It merits a place in every col-
lection.

3. S. insignis. Synonym, Epidendrum grandiflorum. The
flowers are large, four inches across, and very beautiful. The
labellum is white, spotted and blotched with dark red. The colour
of the other parts of the flower is a sulphur-yellow, spotted with
dark red. They are very fragrant. The plant is a native of
Trinidad. It merits a place in every collection.

6 ON THE CULTURE OF LOBELIA CARDINALIS.

4. S. oculala. Synonym, Ceratochilus oculatus. (Bot. Cab.
1764.) The flowers are very splendid, nearly five inches ee
of a sulphur-yellow colour, beautifully spotted and marked with a
deep purple. The plant is a native of Brazil. The magnificence,
beauty, and fragrance of the flowers, recommend it to every col-
lection.

These species are readily increased by division of the plant,
are easily cultivated, and flower freely when the plants have been
established for a year or two. LoppicEs, Knicut, Lows, and
some of the Liverpool nurserymen, possess these kinds for sale,
and they may be obtained ata reasonable charge. A large and
healthy plant is pretty even without a flower, but its magnificence
is great when in bloom.

A Country AMATEUR FLorist.

(TO BE CONTINUED.)

ARTICLE I1.—On the Culture of Lobelia Cardinalis.
By Emity ARMSTRONGE.

In the progress of my remarks on a flower garden, in a former
Number of the Cabinet, I stated that, with your permission, I
would offer a few observations on the cultivation of the Lobelia
Cardinalis ; and I now proceed to redeem my pledge.

Having grown this splendid flower for several years, in various
ways, to ascertain the best, and yet at the same time the easiest,
manner of cultivation, I send you this short account of my method
of treatment; more especially as, after perusing the communica-
tions of An Arnpent Amateur and G. H., myself and many of

your readers, who possess neither stove, hothouse, nor Cael f

would be deterred from the cultivation altogether. I havea

a more simple and successful method than alles by Mr,
Joun Winrietp. If the plants should be left unprotected in the
open ground during the winter season, they drvop, and finally
decay early in the spring season. I have also found, on trial, that
though the plants were well mulched around each root during the
winter and spring months, with a flower-pot inserted over the
crown of the plants in ‘frosty or rainy nights and days, yet they
never reached a greater height than one or two fect; and this me-

é

ON THE CULTURE OF THE TULIP. 7

thod was attended with considerably more trouble than the follow-
ing simple mode:—After the flower-stalk has been cut down,
which takes place about the latter part of October, remove the
entire plant, including suckers, into large flower-pots, with a ball
of earth attached to each plant, sufficient to fill the pot; place the
entire in any vacant sunshiny room without fires; the first week
in the March succeedirg, take off the offsets from the parent plant,
as I am convinced spring is preferable to autumn; in the course
of six weeks, remove them into larger pots; this causes them to
strike freely, when they are transplanted into the garden border,
which should be airy, and yet sufficiently screened from cold winds.
This border should have been previously prepared with well-rotted
stable manure, to the depth of three inches, well trenched in,
over it; leaf mould, light mellow loam, pit sand, and yellow clay,
well incorporated six months previously, well sifted and raked, to
the height of eight to twelve inches over the trenched dung. The
border I choose in which to plant my roots is nearly level ; this I
prefer for the purpose of retaining a regularity of moisture, which
sloping ground does not admit. By the above treatment, I have
had strong plants throwing up vigorous flower-stems, to the height
of sia feet, covered with a profusion of flowers. Observe, during
dry weather, to water them frequently, as they require a large
portion ; and check the growth of all weeds around each plant, by
repeated turnings of the upper surface.
EmiLty ARMSTRONGE,

Castlerahan, Ireland, Oct. 13th, 1835.

ARTICLE IIl.—On the Culture of the Tulip. No. IT.
By Amator Frorum.

»»As you,seem disposed to think favourably of my last letter, I
will now finish’the culture of Tulips. I left the Tulip bed planted,
hooped over, witha net spread over it, protected from rain. By
the end of February, the hoops must be raised on posts 20 inches
high above the bordering, and the space from post to post closed
up by a piece of net strained tight: this is an economical way of
excluding cats and dogs, which often, if they get in, damage the
best flowers. But a neater way is to have some wire-work in dia-
monds, stretched in deal frames about 6 feet long, (any number

8 ON THE CULTURE OF THE TULIP.

according to the length of the bed,) and about 20 inches high,
outside measurement. These frames should either be made to
overlap each other one inch at the joints, or to fit closely together;
they should stand upon the bordering, and at every joint there
should be a post 23 inches wide Jet down just within the border-
ing. The frames should have a mortice to receive a staple from
the post, which of course need only have one staple if the frames
overlap, but two if they only meet; and the staple should stand
just far enough out from the frame, to admit a small peg. The
end frames should be only 4 feet long, according to the width of
the bed, and should have each four staples, two at each end; and
the side frame, which meets this at the corner, should have two
mortices, to receive the staples. There need only be at the four
corners a small post about 8 inches high, just put to steady the
corners, and it need have no staple. The frames should all be
marked with numbers, and the posts also, that each may be in the
same place next year. The frames, with the wire-work, will want
one coat of paint every year, and copper wire will be found cheap-
est in the end. On this fence the hoops, with their net, are to
stand.

As soon as the Tulips begin to separate their leaves, any water
lodged in their leaves should be drawn out with a water-squirt, if
there is any appearance of frost. This should be carefully attended
to as they advance in height, and when about 4 inches high, they
should be carefully protected from frost by covering them over at
night with mats or canvass, to be removed early in the morning,
_ to avoid drawing. If these two points are not attended to, the

bloom will be much injured. The spring of 1834 gave abundant
proof of this. Continue the protection from frost as the flower-
stems advance, and as soon as any begin to shew colour, erect the
tent called the Tulip-house. This should be at least 10 feet wide,
to include a walk (which should be turfed) 3ifeet wide all round
the bed, the length according to the bed. Provide some sticks 14
feet high, painted green, each with a wire hook standing out from
it about 3 or 4 inches, to support any flower-stem which may not
be able to support itself. Admit all the air you can, and when the
" flowers begin to open, exclude all sun ; if the bed lie east and west,
half the covering can be always rolled up, except in rain or high
winds; shut up at night. In hot weather, it will prolong the

ON THE CULTURE OF MAURANDIA BARCLAYANA. 9

flowering if the paths are well watered once or even twice a day,
but never on any account give the flowers any water, (although
they will always rather droop their heads towards evening,) as
this would make them run to colour the next year. As the petals
fall, break off the seed-vessel, unless seed is wanted, and when
most of the flowers are gone, take down the tent and frames, but
replace the hoops upon posts to keep off rain. As soon as the tips
of the stalk and leaves turn brown, take up the roots, and replace
them in the drawers, each in the division in which it stood before ;
this is easily done if the divisions are numbered, and entered in a
book, as before advised. i ‘

The first year, three parts of the Tulips will run to colour in
fresh ground, but let not the young florist be discouraged. Add
no fresh soil to the bed ; only trench it up next autumn, and most
of the flowers will come better. I have blown Tulips three years
on the same soil, without any change at all upon being obliged to
make a fresh bed; but this must be left to the judgment. By the
fourth year, generally, there should be some renewal, say about
one barrow-load to a yard. Ifa Tulip continues to run, plant it a
fortnight later, keep it dry, and generally, if the bottom is clear,
this will recover it; but if the bottom is not clear, there are no
hopes, and the best flowers will run sometimes. Offsets should
be planted (in depth according to their strength) in the beginning
of October, or set on damp sand till the old roots are planted.
Seed is generally saved from breeders (unbroken flowers), cut off
the seed-pod when it begins to open; keep it in a paper bag till
the time of sowing, September.

Should you think my correspondence worth having, you will

hear more from your constant reader and well-wisher,
Amator FLorum.

{We shall be glad to hear from our Correspondent.—ConD.]

ARTICLE IV.—On the Culture of Maurandia Bar-
clayana, Kecremocarpus scabra, and Verbena pul-
chella. By Mr. Bryant, Gardener to Viscountess
Dii10N, Bute House, Old Brompton.

Lam induced, at the request of your correspondent CaTaRINA

Maria ann T. (Vol. IIT. p. 258,) relating to Maurandia Bar--
VOL. Iv. ¢

10 PLANS: FOR FLOWER GARDENS.

clayana, to describe in a few words my method of culture, by
which the above plants flower abundantly.

Propagation.—About the last week in August, I select some
young cuttings of the Maurandia from the old plants in the bor-
ders, &c., and insert them in a little white sand, pressed firmly
round the stems. They are placed in a cold frame, with a bell-
glass over them, and in three weeks they are rooted. I then pot
them off into small 60’s, well drained, where they remain during
winter, taking care to tie them up neatly. About the first week
in March, I give them a shift into small 48’s ; and in April they
commence flowering, and continue all the semmer, if kept shifted.
I cut back six plants last August, which were in small 48's pots,
and I could now (the 16th of November) gather more than one
hundred flowers. We have got some fancy wire-work, on which
the Maurandia creeps, and produces a striking appearance. The
compost I grow the plant in is yellow loam, with a little leaf-mould
and sand. The plant also stands out with me during winter
against a south wall, where it flowers freely.

The Eccremocarpus scaber grows freely from cuttings, taken off
eatly in spring, and inserted in a little white sand, covered with a
bell-glass, and placed so as to have a little bottom heat. Plants
raised from cuttings flower much freer than those raised from seed.
I find the plant flowers best when planted out on a southern bor-
der against trellis-work. It likes a strong rich soil.

Of Verbena pulchella, I keep two or three plants in pots through
the winter, and early in spring I make two or three dozen cuttings
from each plant, and strike them as above described. About the
first week in May, I plant a small bed with them on a grass lawn,
where it keeps flowering all the summer, and seems to vie, if pos-
sible, with Verbena melindres. M. Bryant.

Nov. 16th, 1835.

ARTICLE V.—Plans for two Flower Gardens, having
Gravel Walks between the Beds, &§c. By Em1ny
ARMSTRONGE.

In the following plan (fig. 1.), 1 denotes gravel walks surround-
ing the different beds ; 2, wall; 3, entrance gates; 4, shrubberies,

PLANS FOR FLOWER GARDENS. ia}
with retired walks; 5, centre bed; 6, oval beds ; 7, large beds ;
‘8, border beds ; 9, exterior beds. The entire may be enclosed by

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well-clipped hedges of Thorn, Privet, Laurel, or Beech. For
edgings, Box is preferable for neatness and cleanliness ; but Gen-
tianellas, blue and white Campanulas, Evening Primroses, and
Polyanthuses, one kind around each bed, would have a very pleas-
ing effect, from the one unbroken line. The young floricultural
tyro—as I presume your Cabinet is written equally for the im-
provement of the mere novice in gardening as the more experienced
veteran—in so circumscribed a plan, might find it difficult, at the
commencement, to select a very moderate variety of annuals and
perennials, from the extensive catalogues supplied by your re-
spective valuable correspondents. I shall suggest to such the
names of a few varieties, possessing perfume and brilliancy of
colours, rejecting all diminutive flowers formerly cultivated ; first
premising, that flowers cultivated in oval beds have a considerably
more pleasing effect, from the contrast of colours, than when one

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12 PLANS FOR FLOWER GARDENS.

kind or colour occupy the entire ; masses of colours im borders,
or large square beds, on the contrary, would gratify more.

The centre bed, marked 5, would admit, from the size, of both
Tigridia pavonia and German Asters. By observing the treatment
narrated in the June Number, 1834, p. 132, Tigridia pavonia will
never fail having a splendid appearance.

The oval beds, marked 6, would be well adapted for annuals and
perennials of moderate height, or could be filled with varieties of
the Fuchsia tribe, named by Mr. Barratt, (to whom the floricul-
tural world is greatly indebted,) or varieties of Rose trees. The
few annuals I would most recommend are—

White-—Double-flowered Chinese Larkspur, African Hibiscus
(dark centre), Sweet-scented Candy Tuft, Hawkweed, and Lu-
pines.

Purple.—Qnothera tenella, Early-flowered Wall Cress, Purple
Siberian Larkspur, Shewy Stenactis, Sweet Peas (purple), Calce-
olaria, Hepatica (double), and Pentstemons.

Yellow.—Mignonette, Donglasi limnanthes, Chilian Monkey-
flower, handsome Calceolaria, and CGEnothera Drummondii.

Blue.—Shewy Insignis, Convolvulus minor, and Spotted-flow-
ered Calophanes.

Crimson, Scarlet, and Rose.— Verbena melindres, Shewy Calan-
drinia, Pretty Clarkia, Sweet Peas, Malupe trifida and grandiflora,
Hepatica (double), Chalcedonica Lychnis, Tufted-flowered Gilia,
Geums, Laratera, Qinothera Lindleyani, Large Snapdragon,
Painted-flowered Galardia, and Rose Campion ;—not omitting
Three-coloured Gilia, Great-flowered Collinsia, varieties of the
Potentillas, Lychnideas, &c.

A selection of the above-named flowers, together with any bul-
bous flowers, at the option of the cultivator, can be added to the
beds marked 7. ;

The two borders marked 8, should be devoted to Dablias and
Lobelia Cardinalis, one to each.

The six exterior beds, marked 9, should be filled with the most
beautiful varieties of the Picotee, Carnation, and Pink.

The subjoined plan (fig. 2.). is suited for beds upon a grass
lawn, A A being beds for two rows of Dahlias, backed by Holly-
oaks, 3B B, beds of Evergreen and other Shrubs, which shew off
the flowers before them to great advantage: these beds can be

PLANS FOR FLOWER GARDENS. 13

made wider than they are sketched, if the cultivator require it.
Cc C; &c., a number of standard Roses. D, either Mansion,
Fig, 2.

Greenhouse, &c. I have given a rather limited ‘scale, but, of
course, it may properly be extended to any size suited to the situ-
ation it may be designed to occupy ;—only being careful to plant
those kinds of flowering plants whose size will correspond with

that of the bed. 0) 18 EMIty ARMSTRONGE.
Castlerahan, Ireland, 1835,

14 ON THE CULTURE OF THE GUERNSEY LILY.

ARTICLE VI.—On the Cultivation of the Amaryllis
Sarniensis, or Guernsey Lily. By SNowpRor.

Notwithstanding GuttsLmus has sent you some observations
and directions on the culture of the Guernsey Lily, I am induced
to place at your disposal an extract of the mode adopted by Mr.
Kwicut, F.H.S., as recorded in the 6th Volume of the Horticul-
tural Transactions. The cultivator will, at all events, have a
choice of operation, and if one plan fails, the other may prove
successful :—

« A bulb of the Guernsey Lily, which had flowered in the
autumn of 1822, was placed in a stove as soon as its blossoms had
withered, in a high temperature, and damp atmosphere. It was
planted in very rich compost, and was amply supplied with water,
which held manure in solution. Thus circumstanced, the bulb,
which was placed in the front of a curvilinear roofed stove, emitted
much luxuriant foliage, which continued in a perfectly healthy
state till spring. Water was then given in smaller and gradually
reduced quantities till the month of May, when the pot in which
it grew was removed into the open air, In the beginning of
August the plant flowered strongly, and produced several offsets.
These, with the exception of one, were removed; and the plant,
being treated precisely as in the preceding season, flowered again
in August 1824. In the autumn of that year it was again trans-
ferred to the stove, and subjected to the same treatment ; and in the
latter end of the following summer, both bulbs flowered in the same
pot with more than ordinary strength, the one flower-stem sup-
porting eighteen, and the other nineteen large blossoms. One of
these flowered in the beginning of August, when its blossoms were
exposed to the sun and air during the day, and protected by a
covering of glass during the night, by which mode of treatment
I hoped to obtain seeds ; but the experiment was not successful.
The blossoms of the other bulb appeared in the latter end of
August, and were placed in the same situation in the stove, which
the bulb had occupied in the preceding winter; and I by these
means obtained three apparently perfect seeds. One of these, the
smallest, and seemingly the least perfect, was placed immediately
in a pot in a stove, where it produced a plant.”

SNowDROF.

PART II.

NEW OR RARE PLANTS

WHICH WE HAVE NOTIVED SINCE OUR LAST,

1. Bellis integrifolia, American Daisy. (Bot. Mag. 3455.) Synonym,
Ecliptaintegrifolia. F.A. Micuavx, the celebrated naturalist, who travelled
in North America, and pnblished an account of the trees, &c. of that country,
first mentions this rare plant as inhabiting the shady hills and banks of the
river Tennessee. A general opinion prevailed that no species of our favourite
Daisy was to be found in the New World. It appears that when Mr. NuTTaLt
published his genera of North American plants, he had not then discovered
the plant, but since that time it appears he found it inthe Arkansa Prairies.
Mr. DruMMonp sent seeds of it to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where
plants have been raised, and bloomed in the open air in June and July of
the present year. The plant is annual, and tho flower stems rise about six
inches high, each stem having one flower. The flowers are about the size of
our common Daisy, white with a purple tinge. Class, Syngenesia; Order,
Superflua. Natural Order, Composite.

2. Brassia caudata, Long-tailed, (Flower). (Bot. Mag. 3451.) Synonyms,
Malaxis caudata, Epidendrum caudatum, Helleborine ramosissima. A na-
tive of Jamaica, and now cultivated in many collections of Orchidee in this
country. The plant is profuse in blooming, and continues to flower for a
long time. The flowers are produced in spikes, each having from eight to
ten large flowers. Sepals have exceedingly long slender tails; they, as well
as the petals, are of a pale greenish-yellow colour, marked with fine dark
brown spots, producing a very pretty effect. Lip yellowish, marked with
red-brown spots. Gynandria Monandria. Orchidew. Brassia, in. compli-
ment to Mr. Brass, a collector of plants in South Africa.

3. Calliopsis Drummondii. (Bot. Mag.) A hardy annual, growing two
feet high, much resembling the (commonly called) Coreopsis tinctoria,—the
blossom being a little larger, with a less dark centre. Flowers, bright yellow
with a dark reddish-brown eye. Syngenesia Polygamia Frustranea. Com-
posite. Calliopsis, from Kallos, pretty, and op/is, an eye.

4. Centrocarpha chrysomelia, yellow aud dark flowered. (Maund’s Bot.
Gard.) Synonym, Rudbeckia Newmannii. A perennial border flower from
South America, in 1821, growing from two to three feet high, and blooms
from July to September. The flowers are showy ; yellow with a dark centre
(disk), about three inches across. Syngenesia Frustranea. Composite, Cen-
trocarpha, from Kentron, a sharp point, and karphe, chaff; alluding to the
sharp bristly points of the chaff of the receptacle.

5. Coccoloba virens, Green Sea-side Grape. (Bot. Reg. 1816.) This plant
is cultivated in the hot-house at Sir ABRAHAM Humr’s, Wormleybury,
Herts. The flowers are produced in racemes about two inches long, of a
greenish-yellow colour. The blossoms are small and uninteresting. Octan-
dria Trigynia. Polygonacee. Coccoloba, from Kokkos, a fruit, and lobos,
a lobe; referring to the lobed seeds.

6. Elichrysum bicolor, Two coloured. (Bot. Reg. 1814.) A new hardy
annual, growing about two feet high. The flowers are of a bright yellow,
the underside of the lower petals tinged with red. It is far handsomer than
the common yellow Elichrysum, an old inhabitant of our flower garden. It
is in the possession of Mr. Low, Clapton Nursery, near London. Synge-
nesia Polyandria. Asteracee. Elichrysum, meaning a golden spiral, It
ought to be spelt Helichrysum,

16 NEW OR RARE PLANTS.

rs Epidendrum conopseum, Florida Epidendrum. (Bot. Mag. 3457.) Tho
plant is rare in our collections of Orchidee. It is the ouly Orchideous para-
site yet discovered in the United States. It was sent to the Liverpool
Botanic Garden, by Mr. Gorpon, from North Carolina, where it had been
found growing upon the branch of a Magnolia grandiflora. The flowers are
small, not very interesting, of a greenish- yellow colour, Gynandria Mo-
nandria. Orchidee. Epidehdram, from Epi, upon, and dendron, a tree
referring to the habitat of the plant.

8. Eulophia lurida. (Bot. Reg. 1821.) This Orchideous plant was sent
into this country from Sierra Leone, where it grows in abundance upon the
trunks of trees. It is cultivated by Messrs. LoppieEs, in whose collection
it blooms nearly the whole year. The flowers are small, numerous, and
produced on a branching scape.

9. Galatella punctuta, Dotted leaved. (Bot. Reg. 1818.) Synonyms, G.
intermedia, Aster punctatus, A. desertorum. A native of Hungary, conse-
quently quite hardy in this country. It is an herbaceous plant, growing two
feet high, producing numerous aster-like flowers, of a purplish blue colour,
in acorymbous head. The plant forms a compact bush by its numerous
stems. Syngenesia Polygamia Frustranea. Asteracee.

10. Lupinus bimaculatus, ‘Twin-spotted Lupine. (Brit. Flow. Gard.) A
native of Mexico, a hardy perennial plant, cultivated by Dr. Nem, at Ca-
non Mills, near Edinburgh. The flowers are blue marked, with a yellow
spot. ‘The flower stems rise about a foot high, each producing a terminal
raceme of flowers about two inches long. Diadelphia Decandria. Legu-
minose.

11. Macradenia triandria, Triandrous long-gland. (Bot. Reg. 1815.)
An Orchideous plant, from Surinam, and cultivated in the collection of the
London Horticultural Society. The flowers are small, produced in a pen-
dent raceme, of from six to eight upon each. Each flower is of a blood-
colour in the inside, and greenish outside. Gynandria Monandria. Or-
chidee, Macradenia, from makros, long, and adne, a gland; referring to
the long caudicula of the pollen masses.

12. Ochranthe argula, Fine-toothed leaved. (Bot. Reg. 1819.) This
greenhouse plant was once cultivated in the Garden of the London Horti-
cultural Society, where it had been received from China, its native country.
It blossomed once and then died. It doesnot appear to have been increased,
and is probably lost to this country for the present. The foliage is large, of
a fine green. ‘The flowers are prodnced in a terminal thryse, small, white.
Pentandria Trigynia, Mypericacee Anomale. Ochranthe, from ochros,
pale, and anthos, flower.

13. Ovalis piotte. This very showy flowering species, it is said, is anative.
of the Cape of Good Hope, and is cultivated in the garden of Mrs. MarryatT,
Wimbledon. This plant produces a profusion of flowers, rising about two
inches high, Each flower is about an inch across, and of a fine salmon
colour, having a rosy-red circle near the centre. This plant is a valuable
acquisition ; itis a frame perennial, blooming from June to August. It will
flourish well in the open border in summer; and producing blossoms so
large and in so copious a manner, renders it a most lovely object. Decan-
dria Pentagynia. Oxalidacez.

14, Phacelia congesta, Cluster-flowered. (Bot. Mag.3452.) This very neat
flowering plant was sent from Texas, by the late Mr. DRumMonpD, and has
bloomed in the Glasgow Botanic Garden. Itis a greenhouse annual of
considerable beauty and gracefulness. The flowers are produced in corym-
bous racemes, of a bright purple-blue colour, each about the size of what is
commonly called Vorget-me-Not. We think it will do equally well in the
open borders, in summer, in warm situations, and will be a valuable acqui-
sition to the flower garden. Pentandria Monogynia. Hydrophyllee. Pha=
celia, from Phakelos, a bundle; alluding to the crowded quantity of
flowers.

NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 17

15. Rhododendron maximum hybridum, Laurel-leafed. (Bot. Mag. 3454.)
Cultivated in the Glasgow Botanic Garden. The leaves are larger than the
original species, and the flowers smaller; but the flowers are of a pretty blush
tinge.

16. Rhododendron pulcherrimum, The lovely Rhododendron. (Bot. Reg.)
This very handsome flowering plant is an hybrid, between R. arboreum and
R. caucasicum. It is quite hardy, and a profuse bloomer. The flowers are
of a fine rose colour, whitish towards the centre, slightly spotted, and very
handsome. Another kind is in cultivation, viz. R. Nobleanum, whose
flowers are of a deep rose colour, and very handsome.

17. Rubus Nutkanus, Nutka Bramble. The appearance of the plant is
yery like the Virginian Raspberry of our shrubberies, but the flowers in the
present species are white. It is a native of North America; a hardy shrub.
Icosandria Polygynia. Rosacez.

18. Silenia regia, Scarlet Catch-fly. (Brit. Flow. Gard.) The most splendid
ofthe genus. The plant is a hardy perennial, growing four feet high, and
producing numerous flowers in a panicled head. The flowers are about an
inch across, of a fine rich scarlet colour. The plant merits a place in every
flower garden. Itis cultivated in the garden of D. FALCONER, Esq., Car-
lowril, Scotland. Decandria Trigynia. Caryophyllee.

19. Veltheimia glauca, var. ved and purple-flowered. ( Bot. Mag. 3456.) Sy-
nonym, Aletris glauca, A native of the Cape of Good Hope, and cultivated
in the Glasgow Botanic Garden. The flowers are produced in a dense
raceme of a reddish-purple colour, marked with paler spots, and hanging
pendent. Hexandria Monogynia. Liliacee. Veltheimia, in compliment to
F. A. DE VELTHEIM, a German.

New Metuop or Dryine PLants.—Dr. HUNEFIELD recommends a
new method of drying plants, by covering them first with the powder of
iycopodium, and then placing them in a vessel containing chloride of cal-
cium. By this method, the colour and flexibility are preserved. On the
29th of July, 1831, the thermometer being at 534°, Dr. GOPPERT, of Bres-
law, placed in a 24-ounce glass two leaves of the Hyacinth, and a specimen
of the Fumaria officinalis, with two ounces of muriate of lime, in such a
manner that the plants were not in contact with the salt. On the following
day, the leaves began to dry, and on the 3rd of August, although not dead,
the Hyacinth leayes were capable of being reduced to a fine powder. Even.
fleshy plants, as the Sedum rupestre, are so much dried in seven days, that
they may be pulverised. The lycopodium powder prevents the sap from
escaping.—Records of Science, from Maund’s Pet. Gard. R

YOL, IY. ae:

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. PART III.

MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

—

QUERIES.

On Pear Sort,—Can you inform me, through the medium of the Cabinet,
the best plan to obtain peat in large quantities, convenient for water carriage ?
Bristol, 1835. A Constant READER.

On THE Mimvuius.—I should feel particularly obliged if any of your
readers would condescend to answer S. P.’s query, as I am quite as anxious
to have an answer as he is. Perhaps Mr. AppLepy or Mr. AsHFoRD will be
so obliging as to give us the desired information; if either of them will
have the kindness to do so, they will much oblige

A LawYeEr’s CLERK.

On a Waite Catcroraria, &c.—In your Floricullural Cabinet for August
last, you promise a drawing of Mr. Barratt’s pure White Shrubby Calceolaria.
Being a collector and admirer of that tribe, Iam desirous of seeing the
drawing. I have taken in your work since its commencement, and have
recommended it to’many of my friends. I reside some distance from London,
and being a member of the London Horticultural Society, I should be much
gratified if you would insert monthly a report of the Fiowers exhibited at
the meetings in Regent Street, with the names of the individuals whose
produce they are, in the way of Loupon’s Magazine, excluding the fruits.
Such an arrangement would add much to the interest of your work, and is
in strict accordance with its principle.

A FRIEND TO THE FLORICULTURAL CABINET.

[We have applied for the account, and, if we succeed in obtaining it, it
shall regularly be inserted.—ConpDvucrTor. ]

On a List or Frowers, &c.—Many of the readers of the Floricultural
Cabinet will thank the Editor to favour them with a monthly list of Flowers
that will bloom in every month—that in every month there may be some
flowers in full bloom. To give the height and colour of each flower ;—to
give also a description of the cultivation suitable to each flower ;—in what
way to assort the flowers in the beds, so as to produce the most pleasing
appearance in contrast of colour and of height;—to give forms of the beds
to suit a small flower garden ;—also to add hints how the cottager may orna-
ment his cottage garden every month with a few of the less expensive flowers.
Such an article or paper in every monthly number of the Floricultural
Cabinet, would much increase the value of it to many readers.

London, 1835.

[We shall be obliged by the contributions of any of our readers to enable
us to meet the wishes of our correspondent.—ConpucTor. ]

On a List AND Prices OF CaMELLIAS.—Having been a subscriber to
your very useful Cabinet from its commencement, I take the liberty of asking
you to furnish me, as well as some others who are admirers of the tribe of
Camellias, where we may be supplied with the different varieties upon
reasonable terms. Suppose I take a stock of fifty of the best and most
popular kinds, I conceive I ought to obtain them at a considerably less rate
of expense than by buying only three, or four, or six. Perhaps by inserting
this communication in your next number, some of your numerous readers
will be at the trouble of giving a list, with the price, not individually but
collectively. If there are objections to this public mode of trafficking, I shall
be most happy to meet their feelings, on your stating as much in your
periodical, I would have ‘addressed you earlier (being now the 15th), but

MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 19

have been engaged in planting my Tulips this week and the preceding one;
consequently have had bnt little thought of any thing else. I shall give
you my method of cataloguing and planting, which I conceive (barring con-
ceit) to be preferable to any I have yet seen or heard of.—It is applicable to
a stock of 100 or 5000—to the Ranunculus as well as the Tulip—combining
facility and simplicity. It is difficult to offer any thing new and good in*
the way of knowledge, where on all subjects the Floricultural, by its many
correspondents, has presented to the world so much able and genuine in-
formation on composts, method of treatment, &c. &c.; nor am I, perhaps,
warranted to communicate much on this head. However, to beguile time,
and hear the various modes of treatment by others, perhaps some of your
readers would like to know my way of managing Auriculas. Although
this year has been so wet and damp, I have only lost one plant out of a
hundred pots, and my stock is looking capital.

Nov. 15th, 1835- An Oxp Frorist.

[We shall be much obliged by the promised favour.—ConDvcTor. ]

On THE WuHITE Meaty INSECT, OR PINE Buc.—I should be greatly
obliged by you, or any of your Correspondents, informing me the best method
of destroying the White Mealy Insect, or Pine Bug, which attacks Stove
Plants as well as Pine Plants.

Banbury, Oct, 1835. A REGULAR SUBSCRIBER.

On a STAND FoR SHOwING Panstus.—I should be greatly obliged to
you, or any of your Correspondents, to inform me of the best method of
showing Pansies at an Horticultural Show, so as to make the flowers show
to advantage. I have seen them shown in a great many different plans,
but I do not like any of them: I should like to see the plan of one figured
in the Cabinet, so as to have one made by. I hope to see an early answer
to the above. -Js K.

On Carryine Dania BLooms.—Could you, or any of your Correspond-
ents, inform me of the best method of carrying Dahlia Blooms to a distance,
for the flowers to keep fresh, and not be injured much? I have been put to
great inconvenience this season by my flowers being spoiled in carriage to a
distance. J. K

On Superior Pinks.—Mr. J. Smitu, of Faversham, Kent, (Vol. III. p.
235), should grow such Pinks as Bows’ Suwarrow, P. L., Faulkner’s Duchess
of St. Alban’s, P. L., Bows’ Cicero, B. W., and Faulkner's Mars, R. L., &c.,
if he is desirous of having large and superior kinds. They are well laced,
and have rose-shaped leaves. When properly grown, they never burst. I
never saw a South of England raised Pink worth growing, being generally
bursters, and with the centre full of small leaves, also indifferently laced.
Perhaps Mr. Smiru, or some other Southern grower of Pinks, will inform
me why such Pinks are encouraged.

Lancaster, 1835. T. ConNNELLY, Jun.

ANSWER.

”

On Dissrectinc Leaves, &c.—In compliance with the wishes of A
Subscriber and Admirer of Floricultural Botany, I observe that I have dis-
sected leaves, calyxes, and capsules of flowers, by the following method :—
“Cherries, Pear, Poplar, Ivy, Holly or Maple leaves to be gathered in June
or July, when the young leaves are at their full growth; put them in an
earthen pan, full of rain-water, as it wastes fillitup, but do not empty out
any of the water. Some of the leaves will be ready to dissect in a month,
and some not in less than two. When the external membranes begin to
separate, then is the time to begin the operation. The leaf must be putin
a flat white plate, with clean water: squeeze the leaf gently with the finger
and it will open on one side, the green juice will press out; then the two
outward skins must be stripped off, first in the middle and along the sides,
where they closely adhere, and if an opening is made, they will easily come

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off: theu wash the skeleton in clean water, and put it between the leaves of
a book to dry. Pear and Holly have a double set of fibres, that must be
separated with circumspection; one set of fibres is more perfect than the
other.” I must observe that I was not able to procure rain-water for the
greater part of the leaves I have dissected, and that I succeeded without.
Box leaves I found to require to remain several months in the water. Some
leaves of the Spanish Chesnut I once had for more than a year in water,
and then was obliged to throw them away unchanged: I have not since been
able to try them again.—I have now a Query to propose. I have succeeded
perfectly in dissecting the leaves and the floral leaves of the Lime Tree, but
the skeleton of the Lime Tree leaves remains green, and no washing will
bleach it. Perhaps some reader of the Cabinet will have the kindness to
inform me how to bleach them, without injuring the fibre of the skeleton.
The above is a dirty, and not a very sweet job, but the admirable beauty of
the skeletons, in my opinion, fully compensates for the trouble.
Beds,, October 13th, 1835. A Practicat Lapy GARDENER.

REMARKS.

ON THE PROPER PRONUNCIATION OF DAHLIA.—As it is your intention, in
the forthcoming No. of the Cabinet, or its Supplement, especially to notice
the Dahlia; allow me to take this fitting opportunity of interceding for the
proper pronunciation of the word.—It was called after a Swedish Botanist,
Professor Dan, of Upsula. Nowasthe ah in his name is pronounced, both
in Switzerland and all over the world, broad, as in the English word ah,
and as the word Dahlia differs only in having the termination ta added,
nothing but ignorant conceit could have inflicted on it the pronunciation, as
if written Daylia ;—it is at best but a piece of affected Cockneyism.—Hoping
that this brief philippic may be effectual in saving my own ears and that
of many others from such mincing,—I am, &c. F. R. HORNER.

On Care Buss, &c.—JoHN YOUNG, nurseryman, Taunton, takes the
liberty of saying to the correspondent of the Floricultural Cabinet, Vol. III.,
p. 257, that for several years past he has been paying considerable attention
to the culture of Cape Bulbs, and will be glad to communicate with any one
of similar pursuits, whether for the purpose of exchange or sale, or inter-
change of sentiments, on the best mode of treating this interesting tribe,
which he thinks are too much neglected, believing, as he does, that most of
the varieties of Ixia will do as well, or perhaps better, in the open ground,
not/even protected by a wall, than in a frame or greenhouse. J. Y. has had
a bed of Ixias in this situation for about four years, and with no protection
for the last two; the bed is well drained: the compost, sandy peat. J. Y.'s
collection at present consists of about 20 varieties of Ixia (proper), 8 of
Tritonia, 6 of Sparaxis, 6 of Babiana, 2 of Trichonema, 3 of Vieusseuxia,
9 of Watsonia, 14 of Oxalis, and 30 of Gladiolus, together with some varie-
ties received from the Cape last year without names, but of which those that
have flowered are good, and not common. J. Y. also has Calochortus ve-
nustus, C. splendens, C. luteus, Calliprora lutea, Cyclobothra alba, Tritelem
laxa, Brodicea (3 varieties), and a few of the scarcer varieties of Cape Bulbs
not enumerated in the above list.

Taunton Nursery, 11 mo, 17, 1835.

On PicoTEEs.—From the doubts expressed by your Correspondents, Mr.
REVELL, &c., I was also led to doubt the dimensions of the Pinks mentioned
by InNovaToR ; but permit me to state, that this year I flowered a Mulberry-
coloured Picotee, twelve inches in circumference; also a White Picotee,
slightly tinged with purple on each petal, eleven inches in circumference ;
both very double. Perhaps this statement may contribute to remove the
doubts of Mr. REvELL, Mr. WicG, and B.M. I shall not occupy your pages,
at present, by detailing my mode of cultivation, there having been so many
and various remarks already made by your esteemed Correspondents, INNo-

vATOR, &c. Emity ARMSTRONGE.
Castlerahar, Ireland, 1835,

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FLORICULTURAL EXHIBITIONS.

——

WARWICKSHIRE FLORAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY,

Tho following Prizes were awarded at the Fifth Exhibition of the Warwick-
shire Floral and Horticultural Society, September 17th, 1835 ;—

Dautias.-—Best(—Countess of Liverpool, Sir Charles Throckmorton.

Selfs—1, Widnall’s Apollo, Forfeited, Mr. Kendall; 2, Lord Derby, Mr.
Adkins; 3, Yellow Turban, J. Willmore, Esq.; 4, Harding’s Lilac Perfec-
tion, Mr. Adkins; 5, Seedling, J. Willmore, Esq.; 6, Lord Liverpool, Mr.
Kendall; 7, Metropolitan Perfection, Ditto.

Striped or Spotled.—1, Picta formosissima, Mr, Kendall; 2, Queen of Dah-
lias, Mr. Burman; 3, Commander-in-Chief, Mr. Kendall; 4, Desdemona,
Ditto; 5, Widnall’s King, Mr. Adkins; 6, Seale’s Invincible, Ditto; 7,
Mrs. General-Grosvenor, Mr. Kendall.

Seedling.—Best, J. Willmore, Esq.

Scarlet and ruby.—1, Countess of Liverpool, SirC. Throckmorton; 2, Wid-
nall’s Apollo, Mr. Kendall; 3, Master Walter, J. Willmore, Esq.; 4, Newsal’s
Victory, Mr. Kendall; 5, Widnall’s Remus, Ditto; 6, Widnall’s Rising Sun,
Ditto; 7, Lass of Richmond Hill, Ditto; 8, Scarlet Perfection, Messrs. J.
Pope and Sons,

Crimson and Purple.—1, Widnall’s Granta, Sir C. Throckmorton; 2, Lord
Liverpool, Mr. Kendall; 3, Langley’s Purple, Sir C. Throckmorton; 4, Lord
Derby, Mr. D. Houghton; 5, Colville’s Perfection, Messrs. J. Pope and Sons;
6, Muntz, Mr. Kendall; 7, Seedling, Sir C. Throckmorton; 8, Man of Kent,
Mr. J. Moore.

Puce Maroon and Dark Maroon.—1, Lord Derby, Mr. Adkins; 2, Metro-
politan Perfecta, Mr. Kendall; 3, Othello, Mr. Tapp; 4, Vulcan, Mr. Cowdry ;
5, Dawson’s Victory, Dr. Cave Brown; 6, Lord Brougham, J. Willmore,
Esq.; 7, Hall's Mogul, Mr. Tapp; 8, Sir Walter, Scott, Dr. Cave Brown; 9,
Suttonia Superb, J. Willmore, Esq.; 10, Negro Boy, Ditto.

White Blush, Rose and Lilac.—1, Lilac Perfection, Mr. Adkins; 2, Lady
Grenville, Sir C. Throckmorton; 3, King of Whites, Mr. Tapp; 4, Leucan-
thera, J. Willmore, Esq.; 5, Springfield Rival, Mr. D. Houghton; 6, British

Queen, Mr. Kendall; 7, Superb Lilac, Mr.S. Yates; 8, Calypso, Mr. Kendall.

Sulphur, Yellow, and Buffi—1, Yellow Turban, J. Willmore, Esq.; 2,
Seedling, Mr. D. Houghton; 3, King of Yellows, Ditto; 4, Queen of Yellows,
Mr. Burman; 5, Hortensis, Sir C. Throckmorton; 6, Syren, Mr. Meyrick.

Globes—1, Crimson, Mr. J. Moore; 2, Rugby Beauty, Mr, Meyrick; 3,
Orange, Messrs. J. Pope and Sons.

Anemoneflora.—1, spectabile elegans, Mr. S. Yates; 2,'Painted Lady, Sir
C. Throckmorton ; 3, Crimson, Mr. J. Moore; 4, spectabile, Messrs. J. Pope
and Song; 5, purpurea, Sir C. Throckmorton.

Striped double.—1, Picta formosissima, Mr. Kendall; 2, Commander in-
Chief, Ditto; 3, Seale’s Invincible, Mr. Adkins; 4, Black Prince, J. Will-
more, Esq.; 5, General Grosvenor, Mr. Kendall; 6, French Rival, Mr.
Adkins.

Spotted double.—1, Queen of Dahlias, Mr. Burman; 2, Brown's Desde-
mona, Mr. Kendall; 3, Widnall’s King, Mr. Adkins; 4, Beauty of Cam-
bridge, Ditto; 5, Duchess of Buccleugh, Mr. Burman.

Seedlings.—1, Drusilla, Mr. D. Houghton; 2, J. Willmore, Esq.; 3, Sir
C. Throckmorton; 4, Mr. D. Houghton; 5, Sir C. Throckmorton; 6, Ditto ;
7, Mr. Adkins; 8, Sir C. Throckmorton.

Sincte Dauuias.—l, Painted Lady, Messrs. J. Pope and Sons; 2, Para-
gon, Mr, Cowdry; 3, Star of Bethlehem,

22 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

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Prants or Commencr.—], Gossipium arboreum and Zinziber officinarum,
Mr. J. Horton.
‘Enicas.—1, Hartnellii, J. Willmore, Esq.; 2, Irbiana, Ditto; 3, cerinthi-
oides (nova) Ditto; 4, Aitonia, Ditto.
Strovr Prants.—1l, Musa, coccinea, Mr. C, Ratheram; 2, Euphorbia
calabra, J. Willmore, Esq.; 3, Francisca Hopeana, Messrs. J. Pope and Sons.

GREENHOUSE PLants.—l, Nierembergia intermedia, Mr. C, Sharp; 2,
Cineraria hybrida, Mr. J. Moore; 3, Chironia frutescens, Mr. D. Houghton;
4, Oxalis Boweii, Mr. J. Moore; 5, Anagallis Willmoreiana, Ditto; 6, Ne-
rium splendens, Mr. D. Houghton; 7, Fuchsia globosa, Mr. Kendall; 8,
Fuchsia mutabilis, Mr. D. Houghton. .

OrcHipEots Prants.—l1, Catasetum tridentatum (var.), 2, Epidendrum
fragrans; 3, Epidendrum ciliare, J. Willmore, Esq.

Harpy Frame Prants.—Nuttalia grandiflora, Messrs. J. Pope and Sons;
2, Lobelia propinquia, J. Willmore, Esq.; 3, Erythrolena conspicua, Messrs.
J. Pope and Sons; 4, Lobelia unidentata, Mr. J. Moore.

Harpy AnnvALs.—1, Xeranthemum lucidum album; 3, Coreopsis splen-
dens; 3, unique French marigold, My. Adkins; 4, African marigold, Mr.
Burman.

HERBACEOUS PxLANtTs.—1, Amaryllis belladonna, J. Willmore, Esq.; 2,
Potentilla Hopwoodeana, Mr. J. Moore; 3, Yucca filamentosa, J. Willmore,
Esq.

Cocxscomss.—l, Mr. Adkins; 2, James Taylor, Esq.

TEenDER ANNvALS.—1, Thunbergia alata, Mr. J. Horton; 2, Globe ama-
ranthus, Mr. C. Ratheram; 5, white egg plant, Mr. J. Horton.

CaLcEOLaARIAS.—], dilectum; 2, pardenthera; 3, Lord Shrewsbury, J.
Willmore, Esq.

Grovps or FLowers.—l, Mr. C. Ratheram; 2, Mr. Charles Walthew.

Extra Prizes.—Design in flowers over the entrance, Mr. Kendall; group
of flowers, &c., Mr. Cowdry; Ditto, Mr. James Tomkins; group of pansies,
Nos. 1 and 2, Mr. Kendall; China asters, Mr. Tapp; Ditto, Mr. Adkins;
globe amaranthus, Mr, C. Ratheram.

DONCASTER HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

The fourth meeting of the Doncaster Horticultural Society for the season,
took place on Wednesday, the 29th of July, in the New Concert-room,
High-street. Although it has been generally admitted,—and not without
sufficient reason,—that the number of meetings this year has been far too
numerous, the attendance on the present occasion was never excelled in
point of respectability,—an attendance which embraced nearly all the families
of the gentry in the neighbourhood, particularly the female portions of them 3
and the exhibition, enlivened by the performances of the band, appeared to
give the highest degree of satisfaction. The show of Carnations and Dablias,
considering the extremely dry state of the weather, was numerous and beau-
tiful, and the Geraniums were particularly attractive. ‘The judges were, Mr.
Smith, Botanic Garden, Hull; Mr. Belton, Nostell Priory; and Mr. Dobb,
Rotherham.

Prants.—Stove—l, Musa coccinea, Messrs. Crowder; 2, Cyrtanthus pur-
pureus, Messrs. Crowder; 3, Hwmanthus undulatus, Messrs. Crowder; 4,
Begonia cordata, Mr. Appleby.

Greenhouse.—1, Nerium splendens, F. J. Woodyeare, Esq. (C. Stephens,
gardener); 2, Nirembergia filicalus, H. Cooke, Esq. (J. Stephens, gardener) ;
3, Nerium album, Messrs. Crowder; 4, Oxalis Boweii, Mrs. Elmsall, (J.
Blyton, gardener.)

MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 23

Exotic Climber.—Tropeolum pentaphyllum, H. Cooke, Esq. ; 2, Jasminum
floribus plenus, Mrs, Elmsall.

White Pelargoniwn.—Barratti, H. Cooke, Esq.; Dark Red, Lord Comber-
mere, Mr. Robinson, gardener to T. Walker, Esq.; Crimsom, Amadium, Mr.
Robinson; Pink, Flora M’Donald, H. Cooke, Esq ; Crimson Purple, Master
Walter, Messrs. Crowder; Lilac, H. Cooke, Esq.; Blush, Blandum, H. Cooke,
Esq.; Oak leaved, Moorcanum, H. Cooke, Esq.; Scarlet, Bath Scarlet, H.
Cooke, Esq.; Clouded, Yeatmanianum grandifiorum, Mr. Robinson.

Ericas.—1, Mr. Appleby; 2, 3, 4, Mr. Hall.

Fuchsias.—1, Globosa, Mr. Robinson; 2, Longiflora, Mr. Milan.

Mimuluses.—Bitrons, Mr. J. L. Crowther; 2, Mr. Hall. .

China Roses.—1, Yellow Noisette, Messrs. Crowder; 2, Mr. Milan; 3,
Smith’s Noisette, Rev. L. Hobson. Hardy Creeper.—l, Messrs. Crowder; 2,
Mr. Appleby ; 3, Sollya heterophylla, Hon. Mrs. Cochrane, (J. Cooper, gar-
dener); 4, Tropeolum majus, Hon. Mrs. Cochrane. Hardy Shrubs, 1, Yucca
gloriosa, Messrs. Crowder; 2, Hydrangea quercifolia, Mr. Hall.

Hardy Herbaceous.—1, Potentilla Hopwoodiana, Messrs. Crowder; 2, Mrs.
Bulmer.

Herbaceous Calceolaria.—1, Speciosa, Messrs. Crowder; 2, Ochroleuca
maculata, Mr. Robinson; Shrubby Ditto, 1, Juno, Mr. Robinson ; 2, G. C.
Walker, Esq.

Six Hollyoaks.—1, Mr. Jackson; 2, Mr. Milan.

Twelve Pansies—1, Mr. Jackson; 2, Rey. Dr. Sharpe. Six Ditto, 1, Hon.
Mrs. Cochrane; 2, Mr. Crowcroft.

British Plants —1, Geutiana Pneumonanthe, Mr. J. L. Crowther; 2, Utri.
enlaria vulgaris, Mr. Hopkinson; 3, Drosera anglica, Mr. J. L. Crowther.

Best Collection of British Plants——Mr. J. L. Crowther, 108 species.

Tender Bouquet.——Mr. Hopkinson. Hardy Ditto, 1, Mr. Hopkinson; 2,
Rey. Dr. Milner. Tender or Hardy Ditto, Col. Fullerton, (J. Flintham, gar-
dener). Annual, 1, Hon. Mrs. Cochrane; 2, Lady Cooke; 3, Mr. Hall.

Scarlet Stock—Mrs. Elmsall. Purple Ditto, Mrs. Elmsall; White Ditto,
Mrs. Elmsall.

CarnatTions.—Best Pan of Seven—Pike’s Eminent, Rowbottom’s Victory,
Unknown, Will Stukely, Unknown, Queen Adelaide, Unknown, Mr. Thorpe.

Scarlet Bizarre—l, Major Ripon, Mr. Ripon; 2, Mr. W. L. Crowther.

Pink Bizarre—1, Mr. Foulstone; 2, H. D. Cooke, Esq.

Scarlet Flake—1, Leighton’s Atlas, Col. Fullerton; 2, Madame Mora, Col.
Fullerton.

Rose Flake—Queen Adelaide, Mr. Thorpe; 2, Mrs. Branson, (T. Wood-
head, gardener).

Purple Flake—1, Mrs. Branson; 2, Hon. Mrs. Cochrane.

Red Picotee.—1, Will Stukely, Mr. Thorpe; 2, Martin’s Prince George,
Mr. Jackson.

Purple Picotee.—1, Pollett’s Triumph, Col. Fullerton ; 2, Mr. W. L. Crowther,

Yellow Picotee.—1, Seedling, M. Tasburgh, Esq. (— Wood, gardener) ; 2,
Seedling, M. Tasburgh, Esq.

Self—1, Seedling, M. Tasburgh, Esq.; 2, Seedling, Mr. Jackson.

Dauttas.—Best Pan of Six.—Lord Liverpool, Agrippina, Queen of Dahlias,
Zebra, Queen of Belgium, Criterion, Messrs. Crowder.

Scarlet—Countess of Liverpool, Mr. Jackson; White, King of Whites,
Dr. Bower; Rose, Queen of Roses, Mrs. Bulmer; Striped, Seal’s Invincible,
Mr. Appleby; Dark, Lady Fitzharris, Mr. Milan; Purple, Purpurea perfecta,
Mr. Appleby ; Orange, Formosissima, Dr. Bower; Shaded, Belladonna,
Mrs. Branson; Yellow, Queen of Yellows, Dr. Bower; Crimson, Barratt’s
Susanna, Mr. Milan; Lilac, Mr. Foulstone; Globe, M. Tasburgh, Esq.;
Anemone, H. Cooke, Esq.; Single, Lady Cooke, (H. Seaton, !gardener) ;
Tipped, Agrippina, Mr, Appleby ; Red, Mrs. Bulmer,

24 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

SHOW OF CARNATIONS NEAR WOLVERHAMPTON,

At a Meeting held at Ounsdale, Wombourn, near Wolverhampton, on the

27th of July last, the following prizes for Carnations were adjudged :—
Premier Prize—Duke of Devonshire, Mr. Abner Bullock.

Scarlet Bizarres.—1, Duke of Devonshire, Mr. Partridge; 2, Seedling, Mr.
Aston; 3, Seedling, Mr. Bullock; 4, Kinfare Hero, Mr. Aston; 5, Wild’s
Perfection, Mr. Walford; 6, Seedling, Mr. Bullock.

Crimson Bizarres.—1, Seedling, Mr. Bullock; 2, Spitfire, Mr. Nicklin; 3,
Seedling, Mr. Walford; 4, ditto, Mr. Aston; 5, ditto, Mr. Walford; 6, ditto,
Mr. Aston.

Scarlet Flakes.—1, Bishop of Gloucester, Mr. Elliott; 2, Seedling, Mr.
Bullock; 3, Stanley's Union, Wr. Richards; 4, Rob Roy, Mr. Downing; 5,
Lydia, Mr. Jones; 6, Fair Ellen, Mr. Aston,

Purple Flakes.—1, Bellerophon, Mr. Aston; 2, Squire Clarke, Mr. Wal-
ford; 3, Cleopatra, Mr. Richards; 4, Turner’s Princess, Mr. Aston; 5, Seed-
ling, Mr. Partridge; 6, Rosamond, Mr. Bullock.

Pink Flakes—1, Lady Grey, Mr. Walford; 2, Sir George Crewe, ditto;
8, Seedling, Mr. Aston; 4, Howe’s Princess, ditto; 5, Seedling, Mr. Elliott;
6, Lucy Maria, Mr. Bullock.

Red Picotees.—1, Vulcan, Mr. W. Wallace; 2, Sir Thomas, Mr. Walford;
3, Miss Bevan, Mr. Downing; 4, Prince George, Mr. Partridge; 5, Elliott,
Mr. Elliott; 6, Hird’s William the Fourth, Mr. Walford.

Purple Picotees.—1, Isabella, Mr. Walford; 2, Miss Emma, Mr. Wallace ;
3, Beauty of Northampton, Mr. Walford; 4, Hector, Mr. Aston; 5, Moon-
raker, Mr. Wallace; 6, Drucella, Mr. Aston.

REFERENCE TO THE EMBELLISHMENTS.

1, Chrysanthemum indicum, variety—The Sulphur Yellow. This kind is
also called Early Yellow, Sulphurea, Sulphurea Superba, Brimstone, and
Straw coloured. Itis one of the most graceful and handsome flowering
kinds, and merits a place in every collection. It comes into bloom at an
early period, before all others, excepting the quilled white. The flowers have
a very strong Chamomile scent. The leaves are very deeply indented, hay-
ing the lobes very distinct from each other, and the serrattures are sharp
pointed. This kind was introduced into this country from China by the
late Tuomas Evans, Esq., of Stepney, having been brought over for him by
Captain HENry WILSON.

2. C. indicum, var. Wheeler's Sanguinea.

3. C. indicum, var. Wheeler's Expanded Crimson. Both the latter kinds
are hybrids, recently raised in this country. They are a most valuable addi-
tion to this pleasing tribe of autumnal flowering plants. All the kinds may
be readily obtained at most of the public nursery establishments, at a very
moderate charge. Being of easy culture, the whole tribe recommend them-
selves to every lover of flowers. We cultivate about sixty kinds, and the
varieties in colour and form of flowers produce a most striking and beautiful

effect.

FLORICULTURAL CALENDAR FOR JANUARY.

DABLtiAs.—Seed should be sown any time about the latter end of the
month or early in the next. The old roots should be potted and placed in a
hotbed frame, or stove, for early flowering, or raising by slips.

Rosrs.—Those growing in pots, if placed in the stove, will bloom about

the latter end of March.
Turips.—The beds will require sheltering from severe storms of hail, rain

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FLORICULTURAL CABINET,

FEBRUARY lst, 1836.

PART I.

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ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

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ARTICLE I—A New Arrangement of the Doubleflow-
ered Chinese Chrysanthemums, witha simple Method
of Cultivating that beautiful Tribe of Plants. By
Mr. J. Martin, Gardener to J.S. POULTER, Esq.
M.P., Winchester. .

Having derived both amusement and instruction from your
useful and interesting publication, the Floricultural Cabinet, (to
which I have been a subscriber froin its commencement,) and
feeling desirous of promoting the object for which it is intended,
I herewith send you a list of my collection of Chrysanthemums,
with the simple method I practice in their cultivation. I have
some most beautiful varieties, which Mr. HawortH does not
mention in Vol. I., p. 76, &c.; but which, I think, highly merit
a place in your Cabinet.

T observed in Vol. II., p. 163, that Mr. PrEDERICK made an
inquiry respecting the season for transplanting the Chrysanthe-
mum, so as to ensure a good bloom the following autumn ; and as
I have not yet seen any answer to his inquiry, I recommend to
him the method of treatment I have practised, and which I here
describe ; and I am quite convinced that if it is properly attended
to, it will ensure him a good bloom, and in fact answer the utmost

_expectations. ,

Soil.—The soil I use is a very simple mixture, and might be

easily obtained. It is one-half good rotten dung, from an old
VOL, Iv. E

26 ON DOUBLE-FLOWERED CHINESE CHRYSANTHEMUMS.

cucumber bed, and one-half yellow loam. This I mix well toge-
ther some time before £ use it for potting in.

Cultivation.—About the first week in April, I take off suckers,

“always choosing the strongest, but most dwarfy, suckers for that
purpose. I take as many ofeach variety as I think I shall want to
flower, never keeping less than two plants of a sort. These suckers
I plant, one plant in a 48-sized pot, in the compost above described.
After I have potted them, I place them in the shade, for about a
fortnight, till the roots have got well established in the pots. I
then remove them to a south aspect, where they get the sun the
most part of the day.

I have sometimes known some of the sorts not throw up a sin-
gle sucker. When this happens, I always turn the old plant
out of the pot that it flowered in, and beat off the ball of soil ;
then trim off the long fibrous roots, of which the pot never fails to
be full, and again repot the old plant, and place it along with the
other pots. After I have done potting, I give them a good water-
ing, to settle the earth round the plant, and in about a week they
begin to make fresh shoots. About June I repot them into 32-
sized pots, always taking care to keep them well watered. After
T have repotted them, I cut off the top of every plant according
to the height I wish to bloom them. If I wish for tall plants, I
only just take off the extreme tops; but if I want dwarf plants,
(which I think are most desirable in pots,) I cut them off very
low, always taking care to leave three or four joints below the cut.
These tops, if put intoa bed where there is a little heat, will
easily strike root, and make very handsome plants. I have taken
cuttings off as late as the latter end of July ; these cuttings, when
struck, make beautiful little blooming plants about a foot high,
and covered with foliage quite down to the pot. After I have
potted them into 32’s, I frequently water them with manure water :
this I believe to be very beneficial to the plants. About the last
week in July, I repot them again into 24-sized pots, always using
the same compost as above described. About the middle of Sep-
tember, I shift them into 16-sized pots to bloom. The only ex-
ception is with the plants that are struck late: these I bloom in
32’s. When any kind is scarce, it can be increased by cutting
down the old plant when it is out of bloom, cutting in the shoots
to short lengths, and putting them into a bed where there is a

ON DOUBLE-FLOWERED CHINESE CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 27

little heat. Care must be taken to separate the lower end of the
cutting close under a joint.

I now subjoin a list of my collection of Chrysanthemums,
arranged according to their several colours, with a description of
a few varieties, so far as J am acquainted with them.

1
2
3
4
5
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Yellow-coloured Flowers.
Sulphur Yellow.
Superb Clustered Yellow.
Tasseled Flamed Yellow.
Quilled Yellow.
Tasseled Yellow.
Golden Lotus Flowered.
Golden Yellow.
Park’s Small Yellow.
Windsor Yellow.
Indian Yellow.
Warratah Yellow.
Semi-double Deep Yellow, or Pale Quilled Orange.
Changeable Yellow.—This fine variety is as the name im-
plies, the blossoms at first appearing of a rich copper co-
lour, and, as the flowers expand, changing to a pure yellow ;
and although only of the middle size, appearing rather late,
they make a very pleasing appearance, standing the wea-
ther well, and becoming much paler by age.
White-coloured Flowers.
Superb White.
Tasseled White.
Changeable White.
Indian White.
Paper White.
Semi-double Quilled White.
Quilled White.
Purple-coloured Flowers.
Starry or Changeable Purple.
Expanded Light Purple.
Quilled Light Purple.
Tasseled Purple, cr Old Red.
Brown Purple.
Late Quilled Purple.

28

ON DOUBLE-FLOWERED CHINESE CHRYSANTHEMUMS.

Purple-coloured Flowers—(continued),

27 Rosy Purple.

28 Wheeleriana, or Wheeler's Purple.—Of shortish growth,
and flowers in the middle season of its group. The flowers
are of a rosy purple colour, and the shape is somewhat
remarkable. The exterior petals are rather long, and
sometimes will! expand, but they are generally quilled.
The interior ones are short, quilled, and forked. Each
quill is divided at the top into five points, and the top of
each point is slightly tipped with white. Its flowers are
rather large, and very beautiful. The foliage is much
larger than any other variety of the Chinese Chrysanthe-
mum that I am acquainted with. It is a very distinct
variety from all others, and is very uncommon.

29 The Purple.—Of shortish stature, with pure purple, ex-
panded, early flowers ; and when full blown, is very Aster-
like, shewing a considerable disk.

Rose or Pink-coloured Flowers.

30 Quilled Pink.

31 Clustered Pink.

32 Quilled Flamed Pink.

33 Rose or Pink.

34 Pale Pink.

35 Dwarf Pale Rose.

36 Semi-double Quilled Pink.

37 Flat Pink.—Of middle size in stem and flowers, but rather
late in blooming, with expanded well-formed double flowers,

Blush-coloured Flowers.

38 Early Blush.

39 Curled Blush.

40 Blush Ranunculus.

41 Clustered Blush.—A fine-formed, early-flowering variety,
producing its very double blossoms in clusters, on shortish
firm footstalks, making a very neat appearance, and form-
ing a distinct variety from the Starry Blush, hereunder
mentioned.

42 Starry Blush.—This rather tall and beautiful variety flowers
in the middle season very abundantly. The exterior pe-
tals at first appear fewin number, but soon expand, and

ON DOUBLE-FLOWERED CHINESE CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 29

become more double ; when full blown, it resembles a

blush-coloured tassel. The foliage of the plant is singu-

larly shaped, being very long and narrow, of a dark-green

colour. It is a desirable variety in a general collection.
Buff-coloured Flowers.

43 Changeable Pale Buff.

44 Pale Buff.

45 Pale variety of Pale Buff.—A sport only from the preceding,
but now an established variety, and more beautiful than its
parent. The flowers are large, paler, more double, and
more showy. The stature of the plant is tal], flowering in
the middle season.

46 Orange or Buff.

Lilac-coloured Flowers.

47 Tasseled Lilac.

48 Curled Lilac.

49 Large Late Lilac.

Red-coloured Flowers.

50 Gold-bordered Red.

51 Two-coloured Red.

52 Sanguinea, or Expanded Red. This magnificent, fine-co-
loured variety is of tall stature in its group, producing its
blossoms in clusters, on firm upright footstalks ; and al-
though the flowers are but a little better than half double,
and only of the middle size, it has a most animated ap-
pearance, possessing a colour peculiar to itself. It flowers
early and freely, and I should think this is a very likely
variety to produce seeds of the most promising kind.—
[See figure in the Floricultural Cabinet for January : the
drawings of this and the other two varieties were taken
from specimens sent us by Mr. Marrin.—Conp. ]

Crimson-coloured Flowers.

53 Expanded Crimson,

54 Early Crimson.

Orange-coloured Flowers.

55 Large Quilled Orange.

56 Semi-doubled Quilled Orange.

Salmon-coloured Flower.
57 Tasseled Quilled Salmon.

30 ON THE CULTURE OF THE CYCLAMEN PERSICUM.

Brown-coloured Flowers.

58 Spanish Brown.

59 Semi-double Small Brown-flowered Japan. ,This is one of
the very dwarfest and smallest flowering varieties in the
whole collection, sending up its small reddish-brown blos-
soms singly, not more than half double, and some nearly
single. It flowers in the middle season, or later, and
makes but a poor appearance. I conceive it to be a dis-
tinct species, owing to its very small leaves and flowers.

I regret to say that there are four varieties numbered in my
list of which I am not able at present to give a full description,
not having long possessed them; but I shall be happy to notice
them at some future time, wnen I hope to be able to describe
them more accurately. In the meantime, I shall be glad to solve
any query that may be made on the Chrysanthemum, as far as
my limited knowledge will permit. Joun Martin.

Winchester, Dec. 20th, 1835.

ARTICLE I1L.—On the Culture of the Cyclamen Persi-
cum. By Loursa HARRIET.

Your valuable little work, the Cabinet, having afforded me
both amusement and instruction, I feel anxious to contribute my
mite of information to its pages. Perceiving in the April Num-
ber, (Vol. III.) that at page 91 a correspondent says a few obser-
vations on the culture of Cyclamens would be acceptable, and not
having seen the query answered, I send you the folllowing extract,
which you will perceive I have copitd from the Horticultural Re-
gister, which work T took for the first three years, until the Cabi-
net appeared, which suited me better, being more interesting and
useful.

« The Cyclamen Persicum begins to shew its flowers early in
the year, and is in beauty throughout the months of March and
April. As soon as the flowers fade, the pots are placed on their
sides (as a caution against their being watered) in a corner of the
greenhouse. In August the roots are taken out of the pots, and
the earth adhering to them being first carefully shaken off, they
are planted in an open, but sheltered border of the garden, where

ON THE CULTURE OF THE AZALEA. 31

they are allowed to remain until the cold forebodes frost ; they are
then taken up, the fibres being carefully preserved, and are put
into pots proportioned to the size of each root; the crown of the
plant is well covered with earth, and the compost used consists of
two parts leaf-mould, one ditto sandy peat, one ditto ashes of
burnt vegetables, and a small portion of thoroughly rotted dung.
The plants thus potted are then arranged in a cold frame, and
plunged to the rim in coal ashes; in mild weather the glass is
taken off ; but by night, protection from frost, and by day from
cold and rough wind, is indispensible. On the flowers appearing,
the plants are removed to the greenhouse, and are placed as near
the windows as possible, to have the advantage both of sun and
air; they are abundantly watered with soft water, of the same
temperature as the atmosphere they are growing in; the leaves
also are occasionally well sprinkled ; but this operation is gone
through in the morning, and the windows of the house are imme-
diately opened, otherwise the leaves would drop off, and the roots
decay. The pots are well drained with pieces of brick. The
dividing the roots to increase the stock of plants, is bad. The
roots are a long time recovering the wound thus given, and do not
afterwards flower so strong. Young plants are obtained very easily
from seed.” Louisa Harriet.
Buckinghamshire, December, 1835.

ARTICLE I1lI.—Remarks on the Culture, §c. of the
Azalea. By Mr. Cu. Van Geert, Nurseryman
and Florist, St. Willebrord, Antwerp.

The Azalea is a well-known plant throughout Belgium, and
forms one of the most splendid decorations of the flower garden.
It is generally considered to be the most beautiful genus of the
hardy shrubs. Its neat form and bushy growth, the vast profusion
of its flowers, the extensive variety and splendour of colours in
the flowers, their appearance at a season when few other flowers
are in bloom, and the little trouble which the plant requires when
grown in a suitable soil and a good situation,—all combine to
cause the plant to be much admired, sought after, and introduced
into nearly every pleasure garden in Belgium.

32 ON THE CULTURE OF THE AZALEA.

The varieties of this handsome genus are very numerous, and
have been raised in a short period. Twenty years since there
were only a few very moderate species, having small insignificant
flowers. Ten years since the A. pontica arrived in this country,
and sold at a most extravagant price, its beauty being very highly
extolled ; this species became the parent of a vast variety.

I think it deserves to be recorded to the honour of a baker, one
M. Morrtier, that devoting his leisure hours to the study and
pursuit of Floriculture, he, by impregnation of different kinds,
was the first to raise not only the first hybrid, but nearly all the
superb varieties which are now dispersed and cultivated so exten-
sively throughout Europe. After having most successfully raised
numerous varieties from 4. pontica and calendulacea, he impreg-
nated the .4. pontica with the pollen of A. viscosa. This co-mix-
ture afforded a greater reward than was anticipated, and the pro-
duce was the foundation of a new and very distinct section—that
of the dardives. In this class is displayed all the variations of
which the Azalea is capable, and it comprises those varieties
which are most admired and esteemed by amateurs and gardeners.
Having raised such an immense variety of kinds, and judging as
many were raised as could be classified, M. Morrier resolved to
give up hybridizing, concluding that to pursue the practice would
only perplex the classification. I observe, however, that other
persons have now taken up the practice, and some distinct and
handsome varieties have been the reward of such attention.

In the commencement of the preceding observations, I stated
that the genus Azalea required but little trouble when once pro-
perly planted. I shall, therefore, add some particulars respecting
its culture,

Sitwation.—If a garden be high and dry, select a situation
where there is a very free admission of air, but it must be wholly
shaded by trees or walls. If the garden be low and damp, select
a situation where there will be the best circulation of air, and
about half shaded.

Soil.—Take out a foot deep of the natural soil of the place, and
fill it with the following compost :—Leaves well decayed and rot-
ten, and which have not been submerged. The best kind is pro-
duced from the Oak. If this cannot be had, take decayed turf,
with a third part of that dry rottenness which is found in trees,

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particularly in the trunks of old willows, and which has been well
dried before using. Either of the above are good for the purpose,
but I prefer the former. With either of them, mix a tenth part of
sea sand for the humid situated garden or place, and the same pro-
portion of a good loamy soil for a dry garden, &c. In such a soil
the plants will flourish so as to bloom amazingly.

Some taste as to arrangement of the kinds and colours is re-
quired, so as to produce the greatest effect ; this the cultivator will.
doubtless attend to, so that a specifying of the kinds will be neces-
sary forme toadd. I shall, therefore, shortly senda list, with
colours of flowers, height of growth, &c. of the most superior kinds
which I cultivate in my nursery grounds.

Cu. Van GEERT.

Nov. 22, 1835.

ARTICLE IV.—On the Culture of Orchideous Plants.
By A Country Frorist.
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6.)

Oncip1ums.—The greater part of this genus are highly beautiful
flowering plants. The flowers are produced in branching panicles,
containing a considerable number of flowers upon each. The plants
are of easy culture, grow very freely, and bloom very profusely.
The whole species deserve a place in every collection.

1. Oncidium altissimum, The tallest growing. As the name
imports, the flower stem reaches to a great height ; with me it has
extended to twelve feet, and numerously branched. The flowers
are of a fine yellow, spotted with brown. It blooms in August and
September.

2. 0. ampliatum. This species is a most profuse bloomer, pro-
ducing its fine blossoms upon a branching raceme of considerable
size. The flowers are very showy, yellow, slightly spotted with
brown. Blooms in February and March.

3, O. barbatum, The bearded flowered. The flower stem rises
to near two feet high, bearing a panicle of yellow flowers, which
are singularly pretty. It blooms in April and May.

A. O. bicornutum, The two horned. This kind produces @

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many flowered panicle of flowers of a greenish yellow colour,
spotted and masked with brown and red. It yrows freely; and
although the flowers are not so showy as some others of the genus,
they are, nevertheless, very handsome. Blooms in May and June.

5. O. bifolium, The two-leaved. The flowers are of a pretty
yellow colour, produced upon a panicle, which rises about nine
inches high. Jt is an ornamental species. Blooms in June and
July.

6. O. Carthaginiensis, The Carthaginian. The flower stem
reaches to six feet high, and produces a profusion of flowers. They
are not of a very splendid colour, being of a reddish-green, but,
nevertheless, are very pretty. Blooms in May and June.

7. O. ciliatum, The eye-lash flowered.

8. O. crispum, The curled flowered. The flower stem has
reached three feet high with me, producing numerous blossoms of
a brownish-yellow colour. As the name imports, the flowers are
much curled. ‘They are very handsome. Biooms in June.

9. O. divaricalum, The branching flowered. The flower stem
rises two feet high, and produces abundance of blossoms; they are
of a greenish-yellow, with red spots. It is a very pretty flowering
kind. Blooms in July and August.

10. O. flexwosum, The binding flowered. A very neat and
handsome flowering species, the flower stem rising three feet high,
and producing numerous bright yellow blossoms, slightly spotted.
It is of easy culture. Blooms in July and August.

11. O. juncifolium, Rush leaved. The flower stem rises near a
foot high, and the flowers are a pretty yellow colour, appearing
very ornamental. It blooms in June and July.

12. O. Harrisonia. This is a very handsome species, which
was found by Mr. Wiziiam Harrison, on the Organ Mountains,
in Brazil. The plant is readily distinguished by its fleshy, slightly
channeled recurved leaves, each of which is placed upon a little
pseudo bulb. The panicle of flowers extends about a foot long
and they are arranged in a very gracefulmanner. The flowers are
of a bright yellow, spotted with red-brown. I have grown it very
finely in moss and rotten wood, and equally so, in turfy peat mixed
with broken potsherds. Blooms in April and May.

13. O. Lanceanum. This is a very showy, flowering species,
IT have a small plant which has bloomed profusely. ‘The handsome

oe

ON THE CULTURE OF ORCHIDEOUS PLANTS. 36

yellow flowers, slightly spotted, producing a very pleasing effect.
The plant appears of easy culture, Blooms in August and Sep-
tember.

14, 0. Lemonianum. ‘This species is very curious as well as
pretty. The flower stem rises about six inches high, producing a
few neat flowers, about six or eight; they are of a bright yellow
Spotted with red. Blooms in May and June.

15. O. luridum, The darkish flowered. The flower stem rises to
three feet high with me, and produces panicles of olive green
coloured flowers, which have a singular appearance. Blooms in
February and March.

16, O. pumilum, The dwarf. The flower stem rises to about
six inches high, producing a panicle of yellowish green flowers,
which forms a pretty appearance. Blooms in June.

17. O. papilio, The Butterfly plant. The flowers of this kind
are of a most singular structure, as the name imports, resembling
a butterfly. The flowers are produced singly, each upon a long
stem, rising two feet high; they are of a bright orange-yellow,
spotted with a rich red-brown. It ought to ve in every collection.
Blooms in March.

18. O. pulchellum, The handsome. One of the most handsome
of the genus, the delicacy of the flowers is superior. The flower
stem is about ten inches high, producing a profusion of flowers
being white tinged with yellow and pink. This kind deserves a
place in every collection. The blossoms are highly fragrant.
Blooms in July and August.

19. O, tetrapetalum, The four petalled. The flower stem rises
about one foot high, producing a panicle of lively yellow flowers.
It is an elegant kind. Blooms in July and August.

20. O. triquetrum, The three angled stem. The stems are
triangular, six inches high, producing a panicle of pretty yellow
flowers. It is an ornamental kind. Blooms in September.

21. O. varieyatum, The variegated flowered. This kind is a
very ornamental flowering one, the stem rising two feet high, and
producing numerous greenish-yellow flowers, blooming in June
and July,

In addition to the above named twenty-one species, I have re-
‘ceived thiree others (said to be new) without any specific name,
They have not bloomed with me. When they do, (if anew species)

36 ON THE CULTURE OF THE TREE ROSE.

the particulars respecting them shall be sent for insertion in the
Cabinet.

Most of the genus is of easy culture, growing freely in pots with
turfy peat soil, intermixed with broken potsherds. They will
also grow well if tied to a piece of wood, with the bark upon it,
(if slightly decayed the better,) and suspended in the stove; care
is required to have a good deal of moisture, by watering the flues,
&c. where they are thus grown. The Butterfly plant does well
in this way, as does O. Harrisouia, flexuosum, ampliatum, diva-
ricatum, crispum, and bifolium. When I fasten the plant at first
to the wood, I attach a portion of moss thereto, and to the lower
part of the plant ; this aids the roots in striking sooner, and thus
facilitates its growth. This mode of treatment has a singular ap-
pearance, but the panicle of flowers has never been so vigorous
with me as in pot culture ; but when practised it gives a pleasing
variety for notice. It is well worth adopting, as all the kinds are
easy of increase, and amply repay by the produce of flowers,

The general observations, at the commencement of this paper,
in respect to culture, are particularly observable in respect to the
treatment ofthe Oncidiums. I find that during the hot part of the
summer, that is, from the end of May to the end of August, the
plants require a slight shade. I have a Vine planted at the end of
my Orchidez house, purposely for the fine foliage to create a shade
during the period named. In procuring a shade by this means,
the Vine does not come close to the top of the house, but light is
admitted liberally there, anda few intermediate openings are al-
lowed, by thinning out some of the leaves in a suitable degree.

The period of flowering, as given to each kind, is that in which
they have usually bloomed with me, when potted in spring; but
plants may be forwarded or retarded by placing them in a low or
high temperature, and giving them rest at different seasons.

A Country Frorisr.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)

ARTICLE V.—On the Culture of the Tree Rose. By
Rosa.

As very considerable interest has been excited in the floricul-

tural class of the community, in consequence of the introduction

a

ON THE CULTURE OF THE TREE ROSE, 37

of the articles on Roses which have appeared in the Cabinet ;
and as no remarks have been inserted on the mode of forming
that most ornamental appendage to a shrubbery, the Tree (or, as
it is sometimes called, Standard) Rose, I am induced to send
some observations upon the formation and culture thereof. They
are the result “of my own successful practice. An eminent nur-
seryman, a great Rose cultivator, gave me the first hints on the
subject; and I have pursued the same treatment with satisfaction
to myself. In the course of experiment I have made some im-
provement in the practice. I shall, therefore, send, for insertion
in the Cabinet from time to time, the course of treatment I pursue
from first to last.

Selection of Stocks to bud, &c. upon.—Any time from the end
of October to the middle of February, plants of the wild English
Rose are procured. I find, however, that the earlier the better.
There are several varieties of stocks to be had: those I prefer
being far the best, and of a very upright growth, making shoots
nearly half an inch in diameter, and growing several feet high in
one season. The colour of such is either wholly green barked, or
green slightly tinged with brown. The ripe fruit of both is of a
long oval shape. These kinds are generally to be met with in
plantations or woods, and occasionally in hedges. There is a
spreading, bushy-growing kind, which has a red bark, and a small
roundish fruit: this I find does not answer near so well as the
others,—the buds not taking so freely, nor, if they take to uniting
at all, do they grow so kindly afterwards.

In getting up the wild stocks, I have always given strict orders
to my gardener to get them up with as much length of root as
convenience would admit. This attention is necessary in order
to get some fibrous roots ; and, after all, it will often occur that
nota single fibrous root will be found upon the main roots. They
are, however, very free to grow under either circumstance ; only
the former ones afford the advantage of making more and stronger
lateral shoots the first season, and also better-placed shoots for
budding upon.

Stocks of different sizes and heights are procured, in order to
suit a vigorous, or less so, growing kind, to be inserted by budding,
and to have some worked from two to five feet high. Care is taken
to get such stocks as are free from large knots, some such being

38 ON THE CULTURE OF THE TREE ROSE.

found upon the stocks when of several years’ growth. It certainly
adds to the beauty of the tree, to havea straight free-growing
stock.

Having got up the stocks, on a day that is not frosty, I have
them brought as soon as convenient, that the tender roots may
not be damaged by exposure to a cool air.

In planting them, I select a good soil about a foot deep, and
have a portion of well-rotted dung dug into it. The strongest
growing kinds of stocks I plant ia one piece of ground, and the
less so in another. This is easily ascertained by observing what
strength the lateral shoots have previously grown, before removal.
The necessity of this selection is requisite, because if a very vigo-
rous growing kind were inserted into a small stock, the bud would
take all the support, and grow toa single shoot, or form a poor
head.

Before planting, I have the stocks dressed, cutting clean away
all lateral shoots to the height at which I wish the stock to be kept,
and cutting off the head about a quarter of an inch above a bud,
in a sloping direction from the bud. Any damaged roots are
finished with clean cuts, either by a knife or fine-toothed saw.
The top cut of the stock I always cover over with a mixture of
bees’ wax and pitch, to keep out wet.

The stocks are planted in rows at from two to three feet apart,
arranging the tallest in the back row, and the lower ones in the
front proportionably. A trench being made, the roots are regu-
larly disposed, and covered from four to sixinches deep, treading
the soil gently upon the roots, and close up to the stem, to fasten
it properly. I then have a stake fixed so as to tie it to its place,
and prevent its being shaken with the wind. I have observed in
some nurseries a long stick, fixed horizontally at the height of
three feet, and to which the stocks were tied; but this does not
answer so well as each having a separate stake to keep it in an
upright position, the wind driving those secured in the cross-bar
manner in a falling direction.

Nothing more is required till the stocks push shoots in March,
or early in April. I shall, therefore, reserve the next remarks for
the March Number of the Cabinet.
Rosa.
Hertfordshire, Jan. 6th, 1836.

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ON THE CULTIVATION OF GERMAN ASTERS. 39

ARTICLE VI.—On the Cultivation of German Asters.
By Emity ARMSTRONGE.

Hartsease asked in the July Number of the Cabinet, 1834,
would German Aster Seed grow in the open ground, or must it be
sown ina hot bed? I answer, it will grow in the open ground,
bat the flowers will be poor and diminutive ; if he wishes for Asters
possessing beauty and magnitude, let him have the seeds sown ina
hot bed in the middle of the month of March, and when sufficiently
strong and large to transplant, remove them to the bed intended
for their blooming in. The soil of this bed should consist of horse
dung well rotted, and turned, for the previous six months, to the
depth of two feet in thickness, and trode level as subsoil; then
over it, rich fresh strong loam, from an old pasture, with a sixth
part of leaf mould, twelve months incorporated with the ashes of
the top spit of a moory pasture pared and well burnt, two feet in
height over the subsoil ; by observing this plan, it will supersede
the necesity of removing the plants between the first sowing and
final removing ; and if thus treated, they will attain a great height
and magnitude, and produce a mass of flowers of a superior size :
observe to have them well watered when transplanted, if the
weather should prove dry, to enable them to strike freely.

In the progress of my remarks on a flower garden, I stated, I
would offer a few remarks on the Culture of the Lobelia Cardinalis.
Having grown this splendid flower for several years, in various
ways, to ascertain the best, and yet, at the same time, the easiest
manner of cultivation ; I send you this short account of my method
of treatment, more especially, as after perusing the communications
of An ARDENT AmaTEvR and G.H., myself, and many of your
readers, who possess neither Stove, Hot-house, nor Green-house,
would be deterred from the cultivation. If the plants should be
left unprotected in the open ground during the winter season,
they droop and finally decay early in the spring season. Also on
trial, { found the plants though well mulched around each root
during the winter and spring months, with a flower pot inserted
over the crown of the plants in frosty or rainy nights and days,
yet they never reached a greater height than one or two feet, and
was attended with considerably more trouble than this simple way.
After the flower stalk has been cut down, which takes place about

40 PLAN OF A FLOWER GARDEN.

the latter part of October, remove the entire plant, including
suckers, into large flower pots, with a ball of earth attached to
each plant, sufficient to fill the pot; place the entire in any vacant
sun-shiny room, without fires in the room. The first week in tke
March succeeding, take off the offsets from the parent plant, as I
am convinced spring is preferable to autumn. In the course of
six weeks, have them removed into larger pots ; this causes them
to strike freely, when transplanted to the garden border, which
should be airy, and yet sufficiently screened from cold winds.
This border should have been previously prepared with well rotted
stable manure to the depth of three inches, well trenched in, over
it leaf mould, light mellow loam, pit sand, and yellow clay well
incorporated six months previously, well sifted and raked, to the
height of eight to twelve inches over the trenched dung. The
border I choose in which to plant my roots is nearly level;
this I prefer for the purpose of retaining a regularity of moisture,
which sloping ground does not admit. By the above cultivation I
have had strong plants throwing up vigorous flower stems, to the
height of sia feet, covered with a profusion of flowers. Observe,
during dry weather, to water them frequently, as they require a large
portion; check the growth of all weeds around each plant by repeated
turnings of the upper surface. Emity ARMSTRONGE.

ARTICLE VII.—Designs for Flower Gardens,—No. II.
Design 3rd. Communicated by Amicus.

Herewith I forward you several sketches of Flower Gardens, for
insertion in the Cabinet.

The scale given with the plan, fig. 3. (see next page), will
when laid out, occupy a space of twelve perches, that is, three
hundred and sixty-three square yards of ground. But, of course,
the plan will be applicable to a somewhat less, or larger piece of
ground, by altering the scale.

The plant represents walks, box edgings, beds and clumps.

I have not specified any plants to occupy the beds, as these will
vary, to suit the taste of the proprietor, or the situation the garden
may be placed in. Amicus.

Middlesex, 1835.

PLAN OF A FLOWER GARDEN. 4l

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42

PART II.

NEW OR RARE PLANTS

WHICH WE HAVS NOTICED SINGER OUR LAST.

1, Agrostemma Bungeana, Dr. Bunce’'s Scarlet Campion. (Brit. Flow.
Gard.) Synonym, Lychnis Bungeana. Class, Decandria; order, Pentagy-
nia. Natural order, Caryophyllee. The flowers of this very beautiful per-
ennial species very much resembles those of Lychnis fulgens, but are larger,
of avery fine scarlet, with a small white centre. The flower is nearly three
inches across, and has a showy appearance. The stem grows about a foot
high, branching, and each branch terminated by a solitary flower. The
plant is a native of Asiatic Russia, consequently quite hardy, and will flou-
rish in any good garden soil. It was received into this country by Dr.
NEILL, near Edinburgh, from Flotbeck Nurseries, Hamburgh. The plant.
flowered with Dr. Netrr. in July, 1835. It is easily propagated by cuttings,
and by seeds which are produced abundantly. The plant ought to be grown
in every flower-garden. Dr. BuNGE, after whom it is named, was the com
panion of M. Luprxzovr, in travelling over the Altai Mountains.

2. Aristolochia fetens, Stinking Birthwort. That very distinguished pa-
troness of floriculture, Mrs. Marryatt, Wimbledon, near London, received
this singular flowering plant from the West Indies, and during last summer
jt bloomed in the hothonse of that lady. The flowers are large, about five
inches across, very handsomely spotted and streaked with white, green,
yellow, and purple. As its specific name implies, the flowers have a very
disagreeable scent. The foliage has a noble appearance, being of a fino
green, heart-shaped, about eight inches long, and of a proportionate breadth.
Gynandria Hexandria. Aristolochiacere. Aristolochia, from dris/os, best,
and Jochia, parturition; referring to medicinal qualities.

8. Astragalus Monspessulanus, Montpelier Milk-Vetch. (Mannd’s Bot.
Gard.) A very pretty flowering species, a native of France, blooming in
June and July. The flower-stem grows about one foot high. ‘The plant
soon spreads, so as to make a good-sized patch, and when in bloom produces
a showy appearance. The flowers are of a rosy-purple colour. Being a
hardy perennial, it merits a place in the flower-garden, or on rockwork.
The plant may be obtained at most of the extensive nursery establishments.
Tt was introduced into this country in 1710, but is still uncommon. Dia-
delphia Decandria. Leguminose. Astragalus, from Aster, a star, and gala,
milk.

4, Cereus Napoleonis, Napoteon's Cereus. (Bot. Mag, 3458.) The
flower of this species is much like the Night-blooming Cereus (C. grandiflo-
rus), but appears to be somewhat larger. ‘The present species blooms in the
day, opening in the morning and closing in the evening. The flowers are
slightly fragrant, similar to the above-named species. It bloomed in tho
stove at the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, in September, 1835. The flowers
are about eight inches long, and as much across. The outer petals are yel-
low, and the inner ones of a pure white. Icosandria Monogynia, Cactea,
Cereus, from cereus, pliant; alluding to the shoots of some species.

5. Coreopsis coronata, Crowned Coreopsis. (Bot. Mag. 3460.) A very
showy, handsome flowering annual plant, sent from the Texas by Mr.
DruMMonD, in 1835. The plants bloomed the same year, through summer
and autumn. The flowers are more than two inches across, of a fine yel-
ow, having a handsome brown circle nearly midway up the petals. The
plant grows about two feet high, and blooms profusely. It deserves a place
in every flower-garden, As it will readily produce seeds, they will speedily

NEW OR RARE PLANTS, 43

be in possession of most of the general seedsmen, Syngenesia Frustranea.
Composite. Coreopsis, from Koris, a bag, and opsis, resemblance; alluding
to the seeds.

6. Cosmelia rubra, Red-flowered. (Bot. Reg. 1822.) A very handsome
flowering greenhouse plant, introduced from New Holland. The flowers
are-about an inch long, ventricose formed, of a pretty red colour. They
very much resemble some of the finer sorts of Ericas, as E. tumida. The
plant appears to be like the Bpacris tribe of plants. ‘The blossoms are pro-
duced abundantly from May to July. It deserves a place in every green-
house. It is grown by Messrs. Loppices, Hackney Nursery. Pentandria
Monogynia. Epacridacee. Cosmelia, from Kosmeo, to ornament; in allu-
sion to its beauty.

7. Daphne odora, var. rubra, Red-flowered fragrant Daphne. (Brit. Flow.
Gard. 320) Synonym, D.cannabina. This pretty flowering variety was
introduced into this country from China in 1831, and has bloomed in the
nursery of Mr. GEorGE Smit, Islington, near London, where, in a com-
post of leaf-mould, peat, and sand, it grows very vigorously. It is quite
hardy, but doubtless, like the D. odora of our greenhouses and conservato-
ries, the variety would succeed admirably in a similar habitation, where it
would bloom for several months. The flowers are of a pretty red colour,
and highly fragrant. The plant merits a place in every shrubbery, green-
house, or conservatory. Octandria Monogynia. Thymelew. The name
Daphne has been given to the present genus, in consequence of its resem-
bling the Laurus nobilis in its leaves.

8. Dendrobium densiflorum, Dense-flowered. (Bot, Reg. 1828.) A very
splendid flowering Orchideous plant, grown in the collection of Messrs.
Loppicxs. The plant grows in a pendulous manner, about two feet long.
The flowers are numerously produced upon a raceme about ten inches long ;
they are of a handsome yellow colour, and make a very showy appearance.
It deserves a place in every collection, Gynandria Monandria. Orchidez.
Dendrobium, from Dendron, a tree, and dio, to live; growing upon.

9. Hibiscus Rosa sinensis, Single flowered Crimson Rose Mallow. (Bot.
Reg. 1826.) Although this species is an old inhabitant in the stoves of this
country, it is not near so frequent to be seen as the double flowering kindy.
The present species is very handsome; the flower is large, of a fine crimson
colour, with the centre darker. In its native country, (China,) this plant is
employed for hedges. Although to the botanist, a double flower of the
Hibiscus does not possess much interest, yet to the admirer of a showy flower,
the double crimson, buff, yellow, and white varieties of this simple flowering
species are very interesting. Monadelphia Polyandria. Malvacee.

10. Lasthenia californica, Downy Lasthenia. A new hardy annual,
blooming in June and July when sown early, and later when sown accord-
ingly. The plant grows about half a yard high. The flowers are single,
about an inch across, of a pale yellow colour. Syngenesia Polygamia Su-
perflua. Asteracee.

11. Lilium longiflorum, Long flowered. (Maund’s Bot. Gard.) ‘This
species was introduced from China in 1820. It grows from one to two feet
and blooms in June and July. The flowers are white.

12. Nierembergia calycina, Large calyxed. This singular flowering species
is a native of Buenos Ayres, where it was discovered on the banks of a rivers
by Mr. Tweepic, and by that gentleman transmitted to the Glasgow Bo-
tanic Garden in 1834. ‘The plant has the habit of the Petunia, and the
flower that of the Nierembergia. The plant has bloomed in the garden of
Dr. Neitz, Cannonmills, near Edinburgh. The flower has a narrow tube
near four inches long, which is of a sulphur-white colour, The limb of the
flower is about an inch anda half across, a pure white, having a few stains
of rosy-purple. The plant grows freely, and blooms profusely when grown
in the open borders daring summer. It will not withstand the severities of
winter, but is readily increased by cuttings or slips. The old plants can bs
easily preserved in winter, either in a dry cool frame or greenhouse. Pen-
tandrivy, Monogynia. Solanem,

44 NEW OR RARE PLANTS.

13. Pimelea liguslrina, Privet leaved. (Bot. Reg. 1827.) This very neat
and pretty species is cultivated by Mr. Lown, of the Clapton Nursery, near
London. A native of New South Wales, and of Van Dieman’s Land, where
it grows to the height of three or four yards. The foliage is very neat, and
when clothed with its unmerous globose heads of while flowers, must have a
very pleasing appearance. lt will form a hardy greenhouse shrub in this
country, and well deserves admission there. It is readily increased by
cuttings. Diandria Monogynia. ‘'Thymeleacee.

14. Pimelia hispida, Wispid-flowered. (Bot. Mag. 3459.) A most beau-
tiful flowering species, which ought to beinevery grecnhouse in the country.
It is a native of New Holland. ‘The flowers are of a fine rose colour, and
are produced in vast profusion. Both the tube and limb of each flower is
clothed with hairs. The capitate heads of flowers are of a large size, und a
plant a foot high is uniformly capable of showing forty such heads of
flowers. We expect the plant will find its way into all the public nursery
establishments.

15. Pleurothallis pieta, Painted flowered. (Bot. Reg. 1825.) A small but
pretty species, composing a tuft of two inches high. The flower stems are
produced numerously, rising about three inches high. ‘The flowers are very
diminutive, of a greenish-white streaked with red. We have seen it grow
well, kept under a bell-glass. Messrs. LoppicEs cultivate it in this man-
ner. Gynandria Monandria. Orchidee.

16. Troximum glaucum, Glaucous-leayed. (Bot. Mag.) Synonyms T.
cuspidatum, T. marginatum. A hardy border plant. It does not produce a
stem, but the flower stalks rise from the ground. ‘The foliage rises from the
crown of the root, similar to the common Dandelion. The flowers are of a
bright yellow, near three inches across, and being compound, make a very
showy appearance. The under side of the petals is streaked with red, The
plant blooms from June to August. Syngenesia A’qualis. Composite.

17. Verbena rugosa, Wrinkled-leaved Vervain. The flowers of this new
species are very like V. venosa, of a violet colour, and being produced in
profusion, make a very showy appearance. The plant grows about two
feet high, is a hardy perennial, of easy cultivation, readily increased either
by cuttings or parting the roots. The present species is cultivated in the
Birmingham Botanic Garden. Didynamia Angiospermia, Verbenacee.

18. Veroniea labiata, Fragrant white flowered Speedwell. (Bot. Mag.
3461.) Synonym, V. Derwentia. A very pretty greenhouse species, a native
of New Holland, and Van Dieman’s Land. Ronatp Gunn, Esq. trans-
mitted it to the Glasgow Botanic Garden. The flower stems rise to two feet
high, each producing, at the top, several erect racemes of rather large,
white, fragrant flowers. It is a very pleasing addition to a collection
of greenhouse plants. We hope it will soon be extensively cultivated. If
it increase as readily as the hardy kinds, this will unquestionably be the case.
Diandria Monogynia. Scrophularine.

There are some new species of Veronica yet unpublished, recently found
by Mr. CunnincHam in New Zealand :—

1. V. speciosa. A very showy, spreading, shrubby species, growing from
three to six feet high, producing numerous stems, crowned with racemes of
purple-violet coloured flowers. Of all the plants which have been sent from
New Zealand,—even the splendid Clianthus, now so much admired in this
country,—none are more showy and beautiful than the V. speciosa. When
introduced into this country, it will be a most splendid acquisition to our
gardens. We hope seeds of it will soon be transmitted, so that ere long
our shrubberies may be ornamented with this fine plant.

2. V. ligustrifolia, Privet-leaved. A slender shrub, growing two feet high,
producing numerous branches, terminated by racemous spikes of white
flowers.

3. V. diosmifolia, Diosma-leaved. A slender twiggy shrub, growing from
three to twelve feet high. The numerous branches are terminated by co-
rymbs of many white flowers, which make a very showy appearance.

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PART III.

MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

QUERIES.
On Burstne Roses, &c.—I should be obliged if any contributor to the
Cabinet would give a paper on raising Roses from seed. R.

On THe Cutture OF BLETIA TANKE RVILLLU.—If some correspondent of
the Cabinet would give me some information how to treat the Bletia Tanker-
villiw, so as to canse it to produce its singular and splendid flowers, I should
be very highly obliged. I have some very fine plapts, but cannot get them
to bloom. I should also be glad of the best mode of treatment with Zinzibar
officinalis (Ginger), so as to obtain fine roots to supply a family with.

Wellington. J.R. W.

On THE INTRODUCTION oF THE Danita.—A subscriber to the Ploricul-
tural Cabinet, and a cultivator of the Dahlia, would be greatly obliged for the
information, at what period this splendid genus was introduced to our gar-
dens, and by whom. Like the Tulip of Holland, this beautiful flower, end-
less in its hybrid varieties, is becoming more and more interesting and
valuable, even as an article of commerce ; and I think our gardens so much
indebted to the collector who introduced this noble plant, that some grateful
notice should be taken of the service rendered, by some honourable mention
of the name, at least, for the Metropolitan Society of Florists and Amateurs.

London, 1835. A. Z.

REMARKS.

On Care Butps.—The Floricultural Cabinet for the present month, (Nov.
1835,) contains some enquiries and remarks signed by A CULTIVATOR OF
Care Buxss, a beautiful class of flowering plants, which I observe with
pleasure are beginning to attract general attention. I am a great admirer,
and rather an extensive cultivator of them, for my own amusement; but I
regret to say, that with the exception of the Ixia crispa and Trichonema
cruenta, which I receiyed as a present last year from the Cape, I have none
of those the Correspondent inquires for. However, I think it may be of
interest to look over a list of what I have. I therefore enclose one, and shall
be happy to exchange any thing that may strike him, or other readers, for
any of the many varieties I haye not got. Application (post paid) may be
made to the Editor of the Floricullural Cabinet, Wortley, near Sheffield, who
has my address. I must remark that the whole of this tribe thrive here
jn the open air, or at least with a very slight temporary protection in the
shape of stable litter and mats, the flowers attain a size and brilliancy of
colour which I have never seen equalled in England. A vast number of
new and beautiful varieties of Sparaxises are annually raised from seed by
myself and other Amateurs; and I have a few seedling hybrid Ixias, which
T think would be acquisitions to any tollection. Having been raised here,
they are consequently much more hardy than any imported bulbs, which is
no small advantage. The Ixia heleni, or Cobourgia fulva, I have Leen
enquiring for for some time without success, I wish some Correspondent
would inform me, which is the best and most correct catalogue: I have found
the same plant under so many different names, that I am at a loss which to
abide by, and am frequently deterred from purchasing by the fear of only
receiving duplicates of what I already have,

Guernsey, 1835.

* Babiania rubro-cyanea,
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Tritonia conica.

——- concolor.

——_—— cristata, pink and white.
-__—__-___— scarlet.

lineata.

var. aurantiaca, tall growing.
Wateonia iridifolia.

—— fulgens.

roseus.

———— alteroides.

————--- carneus.

pyramidalis, four feet high, lilac, very handsome.
humilis.

Trichonema cruenta.

Wachendorfia cerifolia.
Ornithogalum merum.

Lachenalia (purple and blue).
Vieussenxia glaucopis, Peacock Iris.
Anomatheca cruenta.

Gladiolus cardinalis.

psittacinus.

Colvillii.

levis.

roseus.

communis alba.

hastatus,

venosus.

viperatus.

cardinalis inflatus.

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blanda angustiblanda.
cardinalis angustiblanda.
cardinalis versicolor,
inflatus blandus.

Don Quixotte.
floribundas roseus.

alba.

Sparaxis grandiflora.
———— tricolor (or stellata).
Griffinnii.
——_—— aristata.
———— var. Dwarf early yellow.
——-- var. Common straw.
———-- var. Buff, and blue outside.
———- var. Yellow, and brown outside.
—-———— var. White, and red outside, tall.
—_——-~ var. The Pheasant’s eye.

NEW SEEDLINGS.
———— No. I, pink, yellow eye.
——— No. 2, white, black eye.
————— No.3, lilac, yellow eye.
-——— No. 4, pale red, yellow eye.
————- No. 5, white, with a delicate pink strips.
— No. 6, black velvet, yellow eye.
yellow, shaded with brown,

Ixia viridiflora.

— grandiflora viridus, seedling.
— viridescens, do.
— viridiflora livida, do,
— aulica, bright pink.

crateroides, rich crimson, beautiful.
wbor, dark pink, branching growth.

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** Txia fucata, pale pink.

* — scintillans (dwarf), small, star-shaped blossoms.

* — leucantha.

maculata, small crimson eye, seedling.

— maculosa, large crimson eye, do,
purpurea, fine purple dark eye.
lilacea, beautiful seedling.
-— patens,
ochroleuca, buff with purple edge, very handsome.
polystachia, orange and black eye, very fine.
sulphurata.
sulphurata capitata, lemon, with dark eye.
multiflora, or capitata tricolor, pink and white with a black eye,

very beautiful.
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REFERENCE TO THE EMBELLISHMENTS.

1. Calochortus venustus.—This very handsome flowering, bulbous rooted
plant, was introduced by the London Horticultural Society, about two years
since. It was sent from California by the late Mr. Doveras. The flower
stems grow to about two feet high, each producing several blossoms, which
remain expanded for some days. The plant is of easy culture, growing well
in any good garden soil moderately enriched. The plant requires treating
similar to th® Tigridia pavonia, by potting early in spring, about February,
and turning them out entire, in April, into the open border. When the
blooming is over, the foliage is allowed to wither, as done by the Tulip, &c.
The plant is a valuable acquisition to the flower garden ; and when planted
in a mass, produces a most beautiful effect. Plants may be obtained at
several of the public Nursery Establishments. We perceive Mr. Youne, of
Taunton, states that he possesses it. (See Cabinet, Jan. 1836, page 20.)
Hexandria Monogynia. Siliacez.

2. Phacelia congesta, Cluster-blossomed.—This very neat and pretty flow-
ering annual plant was sent from Galveston Bay, by the late Mr. Drum-
MOND. It is a valuable acquisition to the flower garden. It requires to be
treated as a tender annual. The abundant corymbs of its neat flowers make
a showy appearance. As seeds are produced freely, it will speedily be in
general cultivation. The plant belongs*to Pentandria Monogynia. Hy-
drophyllee.

8. Eutoca viscida.—This very pretty flowering annual plant, we found in
cultivation in the garden of the London Horticultural Society in the last
summer; and though there was not a profusion of flowers, the fine deep
colours of the racemes of them, makea showy appearance. The flower stems,
we think, grow about half a yard high, but we neglected to make a minute
of that particular at the time. The liberality of the Society will soon cause
the seeds of this plant to be spread through the country, and become an
ornament to our flower gardens in general. We also got a drawing of the
beautiful new Mimulus cardinalis, which we shall shortly give. Pentandria
Monogynia. Hydrophyllacee.

4, Oxalis Piotte—Yhrough the kindness of a friend, we were favoured
with a drawing of this pretty, neat, flowering plant, which we observed
flowering in the neighbourhood of London during the last summer. It was
grown in pots; but we think from its appearance, that it would flourish
even better if planted in the open border during spring and summer, and
then be taken up, and protected in a greenhouse or cool frame during winter.
The plant is a most profuse bloomer for several months successively, and a
valuable acquisition to our flower gardens and greenhouses. We saw two
ns new and handsome species, which we have got drawings of for the

‘abinet,

48 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

FLORICULTURAL CALENDAR FOR FEBRUARY.

GREENHOUSE.—This department should have good attendance during this
month, similar in its operations to those directed in January, which see.—
Oranges, Lemons, and Myrtles will require water frequently, they usually
absorb much. The herbaceous kind of plants will require occasional waterings,
but less frequent and in less quantities than the woody kinds. Succulents, as
Aloes, Sedums, &c. should be watered very sparingly, and only when the soil
is very dry. Airshould be admitted at all times when the weather is favourable,
or the plants cannot be kept in a healthy state. If any of the Orange, Lemon,
or Myrtle Trees, &c, have naked, or irregular heads, towards the end of the
month, if fine mild weather occur, begin to reclaim them to some uniformity,
by shortening the branches and head shoots, by this attention they will break
out new shoots upon the old wood and form a regular head ; they should also
be repotted in rich compost, reducing the old ball of earth carefully, and re-
placing with new soil. After sifting it would be of great use to the plants, if
the convenience of a glass case could be had, in which to make a dung bed,
that the pots might be plunged in, this would cause the plants to shoot
vigorously, both at the roots and tops.

ANNUALS.—Towards the end of the month, sow most of the tender kinds
which require the aid of a hot bed in raising.

ANOMATHECA CRUENTA, the bulbs of should now be repotted into small
pots, to prepare them for turning out into beds, so as to bloom early.

Auricutas should now be top dressed, taking off old soil, an inch deep
and re-placing it with new.

Burss, as Hyacrntas, &c., grown in water glasses, require to be placed
in an airy and light situation. The water will require to be changed every
three or four days. The flower stem may be supported by splitting a stick
at the bottom into four portions, so as it will fit tight round the edge of the
glass at the top.

CaLcroraRias, seeds of, should be sown during the month, and be placed
in a hot bed frame.

CARNATIONS, layers should be transplanted into large pots towards the end
of the month, or planted in the open border.

CuTTINGs oF SAtviAs, Fucustas, HeLrorropgs, &c., desired for planting
out in borders or beds during spring or summer, should now be strack in
moist heat, in order to get the plants tolerably strong by May, the season of
planting out.

Dau tas.—Seed should be sown either in pots, or upon a hot bed. Pots
or boxes with seed placed in a warm room, near light, and admitting plenty
of air to the plants when up, will succeed well. Dahlia Roots should now
be potted or be partly plunged into a little old tan in the stove, or a frame
to forward them for planting out in May. As shoots push, take them off
when four or five inches long, and strike them in moist heat.

HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS, Brennrauts, &c.—May be divided about th ;
end of the month, and planted out where required.

HyprRANnGEAS.—Cuttings of the ends of the last year's wood, that possess
plump buds at their ends, should now be struck in moist heat; plant one
cutting in a small pot (60’s). When struck root, and the pot is full of roots,
repot them into larger; such plants make singularly fine objects during
summer.

MIGNONETTE, to bloom early in boxes, in pots, or to turn out in the open
borders, should now be sown. : :

RanvuncutvsEs should be planted by the end of the month,

Rose Trees, Linacs, Pinks, Hyactnrus, PoLYANTHUSES, NARCISSUS,
&c., shonld regularly be brought in for forcing.

TENDER ANNUALS.—Some of the kinds, as Cockscombs, Amaranthuses,
&c. for adorning the greenhouse in summer, should be sown by the end of
the month; also any tender Annuals, desired to bloom early in the open
border.

Ten Week Stocks, RusstaN anp Prussian Stocks, &c., to bloom
early, should now be sown in pots, placed in a hot bed frame, or be eown upon
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MARCH Isr, 1836.

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ARTICLE I.—On an Economical Mode of Heatiny a Pit
Frame, &c. By A CuLrivaTor o¥r CAPE BULBs.

“Having lately had occasion to apply stove heat to a pit, ona
very small scale, I am induced to send you an account of an appa-
ratus which I have employed with complete success, and which I
believe to be by far the most effective, as well as the most econo-
miical, both in original construction and consumption of fuel, of
any hitherto in use. It will enable any one, who has a three-light
Melon-pit, to cultivate as many stove plants as it will contain, with
very little trouble. The annexed plan will afford the best expla-
nation of my apparatus.

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50 ON HEATING A PIT FRAME.

b 6 isacylindrical boiler, 16 inches high, and 12 inches in
diameter, containiug within it a similar and concentric cylinder,
of the same height, but only eight inches in diameter. The two
cylinders are connected at top and bottom, forming a hollow cylin-
der, which is my boiler. The small inner cylinder being the fur-
nace, a pipe 24 inches in diameter connects this boiler with a cast-
iron water pipe, 4 inches in diameter, and 9 feet long, placed hori-
zontally along the front of the pit inside, and closed at either
extremity by a wooden plug, through one of which passes the pipe
which connects it with the boiler, whilst the other is pierced for a
small air-pipe. A steam-valve on the top of the boiler, and a fill-
ing screw like that attached to the oil-vessel of a lamp, completes
the apparatus ; the bottom of the furnace being formed by a cir-
cular grate, resting on three brackets about two inches from the
bottom of the furnace cylinder. A moveable cover witha chimney
to it, capable of being closed by a damper, regulates the fire. The
boiler and iron pipe being filled with water, either through the
filling screw or by a funnel attached to the air-pipe, a fire is lighted
in the furnace ; a small quantity of coke is requisite to light it at
first, after which cinders are the only fuel; and so slow is the
combustion, when properly regulated, that this small fire will
remain alight eleven hours without any addition of fuel, and keep
the water nearly at boiling heat the whole time. My pit is 10 ft.
6in. by 6 ft. 9in.; and 1 find the four-inch pipe rather too power-
ful a heater, as it raises the temperature upwards of 30 degrees,
and requires air to be given all day long: a three-inch pipe would
probably be quite sufficient, and judging from the power of my
boiler, I reckon that it would produce sufficient heat to keep a
twelve-light pit from 12 to 15, perhaps 20, degrees above the
external air. My boiler is made of tin, which (the furnace being
lined with fire tiles) will last some time; and the whole expense
of the apparatus does not exceed £2 5s. Its consumption of fuel
is very small. Of course, such an apparatus is susceptible of
several improvements, many of which I have in contemplation ;
but from its extreme simplicity and utility, I hasten to make it

known, even in its present state. As the boiler is not bigger than
"a watering pot, it may be detached, and taken away when not in
use. .

A CuLriyaToR or CarPz BuLss.-

ON A STAND FOR EXHIBITING PANSIES. $i

ARTICLE II.—On @ Stand for Exhibiting Pansies.
By Mr. Carey Tyso.

In reply to the query of your correspondent, “J. K.," in your

January Number, respecting the best description of stand for the

exhibition of Pansies, I beg to offer the annexed sketch of one

Fig. 5.

admirably adapted for shewing twenty-four varieties, that being
the number usually adopted by the most popular Horticultural
Societies. The top of the stand should be of stout tin plate, 14
inches by 9. Twenty-four holes should be cut at equal distances,
which will allow them to be about 2} apart every way; the holes
should be oval, and nearly 4 an inch in length. Pieces of tin 1}
inches in length, bent semicircular, and two ends should be
soldered on the plate under each hole, forming a receptacle (fig.
6.) which will hold a large table spoonful of water for each bloom,
and will admit of the flower stalks being 1¢ inches long. Four

Fig. 7.

52 ON THE CULTURE OF THE CAMELLIA.

legs should be fixed on, the two back ones an inch longer than the
front, which will give it a convenient elevation.

Stands for Pansies are frequently made with a tube running
under each tier of blooms, so that each row can be supplied with
water by filling at any one hole, but a stand so constructed cannot
be moved without danger of spilling the water.

The advantages of the stand above described are obyious. It
may be filled constantly by plunging in a tub of water, and the
water, being in small and separate quantities, there is not the
slightest danger of spilling in carrying it, or sending it any dis-
tance by coach. In the latter case, of course it must be enclosed
in a box just large enough to admit it.

There is a natural propensity in the flower stem of a Pansy to
curl an hour or two after gathering ; this assists in keeping the
bloom steady, by pressing the stem against the plate of tin. The
stand may be painted green, and as the petals lie flat on the sur-
face, they are seen to great advantage.

This stand has been used at the exhibitions of the Royal Berks
Horticultural Society. Carey Trso.

ARTICLE III.—On the Culture of the Camellia. By
SPECTATOR.

The universal estimation in which the Camellia is held by the
lovers of the floral world, induces me to offer for insertion in the
Cabinet, the following remarks on its culture und propagation :—

So1t,—Camellias may be grown to great perfection in either
of the two following composts, well broken, but not sifted :—First,
one part light loam, one part peat earth, one-half part rotten
leaves, one-half part old hot-bed dung, and one part coarse river
sand. Second, one part loam, one part peat earth, one-half part
dung, and one half-part river sand. |The loam and peat should at
least be one year old, from the time of lifting them from their
original situation.

Propacation.—This is readily done either by seeds, cuttings,
inarching, grafling, or budding.

Serps.—This is very easily obtained from a number of sorts, if
impregnation be carefully attended to, on any flowers that open
after the first of February; 1 find they will not readily swell their

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ON THE CULTURE OF THE CAMELLIA. 63

seed pods before that time. The following sorts are the freest
seeders of any that I am acquainted with, viz. :—Carnea, anemo-
neflora, semiduplex, variabilis, Chandlerii, insignis, peoniflora,
Pomponia, and all the single flowering sorts. The seeds should
be sown a few days after being gathered, in any of the above men-
tioned composts, and placed on a shelfin a pine or plant stove,
and kept moderately moist ; they will begin to appear im six weeks,
and in the course of three months, will be mostly all above ground;
they will be ready to be potted off singly, into small pots, the fol-
lowing August.

Curtinés.—The single red Camellia is propagated by cuttings,
and on them the other sorts are inarched, and sometimes grafted,
or budded ; I consider August to be the best time to put in cut-
tings, but they may be put in at any time except when making
young wood. The cuttings are formed of ripened, or ripening,
young wood, cut smoothly across at a bud or joint; two or three
of the lower leaves are only taken off. The cuttings are then
made firm with a small dibber, in well drained pots of sand and
loam, or sand alone, and placed in a cool shady place for a week
or two, and then plunged to the brims in a gentle hot-bed frame,
or bark pit, under a haud-glass; when they have struck root they
are potted off singly into small pots, in either of the above mentioned
composts, and again placed in a gentle hot-bed frame for two or
three weeks, after which they may be placed along with the general
collection,

Iyaxcuinec.—This is the surest and most yenerally adopted
method of increasing new and desirable sorts. As to the proper
season for inarching, the spring is the best, and just about the
time when the plants have burst their wood buds. This state of
Vegetation does not always take place at precisely the same time,
as some cultivators force their Camellias very early ; such, there-
fore, should be operated upon not by the exact period of the year,
but by the state of the plants; some will be fit for the operation as
early as January, others as late as May, The stocks require to
be about the same forwardness as the plants to be inarched from ;
they are prepared by taking of a thin slice off one side, just merely
to remove a small portion of the wood; the scion is prepared in
like manner. ‘The process of tongueing should be dispensed with,
as it tends to weaken both stock and scion, andis nv benefit to

64 ON THE CULTURE OF THE CAMELLIA.

them in uniting. They are fitted together in the usual manner,
and fastened with fresh matting, which is wound round the stock
from about an inch below the union, and carried up about an inch
above. No clay, but only a little fine moss is used to envelope
the part operated upon and afterwards kept moist. The leading
shoot of the stock should not now be shortened, but left till some-
time after the union is ascertained to be complete, it should then
be headed down to about two inches above the union, the remain-
ing part to be removed some time after. When the scion has
pushed its full length, and is beginning to ripen its wood, it should
then be cut nearly half through, and in a fortnight more cut a
little deeper, and in eight or ten days more cut entirely away from
the parent plant.

Grartinc.—The two following methods I consider to be the
best :—Where scions can be had of a proper length, that is from
four to six inches, prepare the scion at any convenient length
from the bottom, in the same way as for inarching the stock in
like manner. The lower portion of the scion is thrust into a small
potatoe or turnip, or a phial or a cup, kept full of water, or into
the soil near the bottom of the stock; or where scions cannot be
had of a convenient length, that mode of grafting termed side graft-
ing is preferred as next best. After fitting and fastening together
with fresh matting, and clayed or mossed, they are placed in a gentle
hot-bed frame or bark pit, and kept regularly shaded: little or
no air should be given till the grafts have pushed an inch or
two. The time before a union of the scion and stock takes place
is various in different sorts, and more especially in regard to the
state of health in which the plants may be. Observation alone can
dictate when the clay, and afterwards the bandage of matting,
should be removed ; there is an evil in allowing either to remaiu
on too long, as well as taking them off too soon.

Buppine.—This is done in the usual manner of budding other
plants ; after budding they are treated in the same way as grafts.

REPOTTING THE PLants.—This should be done just before
the plants are placed into heat to make their young wood and
flower buds. The size of the shift must entirely depend on the
state of the roots, some of which will require larger than others.
When the roots are in a good healthy condition, for small plants,
one inch clear all round the ball will be sufficient; and for large

ON THE CULTURE OF THE CAMELLIA. 66

plants, from two to three inches. An inch deep of drainage or
imore for large plants should be placed at the bottom of each pot,
and a little moss put over it to keep the soil from mixing with the
drainage. A shift once in two or even three years will be sufficient
for large plants.

Warerine.—From the time they begin to make their young
wood till they have finished growing, they can scarcely be over-
watered ; but during the winter season, if too plentifully
supplied, they will soon become sickly, and drop their flower
buds. For this no rule can be given: experience and observation
on the part of the cultivator can alone bea safe guide. The
plants should get a good syringing at least once a week during the
summer season, but more especially when making young wood.

Srrvation.—This very popular family have the best effect, and
are grown to most advantage, in a house entirely devoted to them-
selves; and as there are certain seasons in which they require a
treatment almost peculiar to themselves, their separate culture is,
therefore, the more necessary. Such house should be rather lofty,
as the plants never look so well as when eight or ten feet high,
trained in a conic form, and clothed with branches from the root
upwards. Where such a house cannot be had, they may be
grown to nearly equal perfection where there is the convenience
of a Vinery or Peach-house at work ; and where no such conveniz
ence can be had, by placing them in the warmest part of the
greenhouse, when making young wood and flower buds, a few of
the hardiest sorts will be found to do pretty well.

Heat.—For this no rule can be given, unless they are grown in
a house entirely devoted to themselves. Where such is the case,
from 60 to 65 degrees will be sufficient for the first fortnight, and
afterwards increased to 70 or 75 degrees. All the striped sorts re-
quire more heat than the self-coloured varieties, more especially
when the ground colour of the flower is red; unless such be given
when forming and maturing their flower buds, they very often
come one-coloured. This is more especially the case with va-
rieties Chandlerii, insignis, corollina, Altheaflora, &c.; whereas,
when grown to perfection, they are marked with large spots of clear
white. A little heat given in dull damp weather, at the flowering
season, will be found to be of very great advantage to the flowers.

Scotland, January 14th, 1836. SPECTATOR.

56 _ PLAN OF A FLOWER GARDEN.

ARTICLE 1V.—Designs for Flower Gardens,—No. III.
Design 4th. Communicated hy Amicus.

The plan represents a Flower Garden, with gravel walks, box,
or other edging, and some grass introduced upon which dwarf
ornamental flowering shrubs may be planted. The centre is occu-
pied by a small bason, for gold and silver fish.

A SELECT LIST AND DESCRIPTION OF CAPE ERICAS. 57

ARTICLE V.—A Select List and Description of Cape
Ericas. By SPECTATOR.

A selection of Ericas having been requested by Correspondents,
I have drawn up the following List of them, as a selection of the
most showy and freest flowering sorts, taken from a collection con-
taining upwards of three hundred kinds. I can assure the admirers
of this generally esteemed tribe of plants that they are all splendid
I have added the colour of the blossoms, and

month of blooming; so that persons desirous of making a small

flowering kinds.

selection may be enabled to suit their convenience.

DIVISION I.
Flowers long and cylindrical shaped.

Plukenetii Plukenet’s red April to July
pallida pale pale red May to July
picta painted orange yellow July to Oct.
Petivorii Petevor’s yellow March to July
coccinea scarlet scarlet March to July
-fusea brown brown March to July
verticillata whorled scarlet Aug. to Dee.
major larger scarlet Aug. to Jan.
Sebana Seba’s orange March to June
fusea brown brown April to June
lutea yellow yellow March to June
minor smaller orange April to June
Eweriana Ewer’s pink July to Oct.
glabra smooth pink July to Noy.
speciosa showy red July to Oct.
pilosa _ pilose flesh July to Oct.
grandiflora great flowering orange May to Sept.
humilis humble yellow May to July
cruenta bloody flowered dark red May to Sept.
versicolor various coloured _ orange and red May to Oct.
splendida splendid scarlet May to Aug.
mammosa ‘ nipple purple Aug. to Jan.
major larger purple Aug. to Jan.
pallida pale pale red Aug. to Jan.
epistomia spout flowered yellow and green May to July
gelida ice cold white and green April to July
albens whitish white and green May to Aug.
transparens transparent delicate pink June to Aug.
translucens translucent light red May to Aug.
perspicua clear flowered blush May to July
nana dwarf blush April to June
costata ribbed flowered pale pink March to June
superba = superb searlet May to July
spuria spurious pale red April to Aug.
Linneana linnza like purple and white March to Aug.
eurviflora curve flowered yellow Dec. to Feb.
pellucida pellucid white June to Aug.
rubra — red red and purple Aug. to Nov.
VOL, Iv. Ix

58 A SELECT LIST AND DESCRIPTION OF CAPE ERICAS.

Linnzana
oolorans
viridiflora
Bowieana
aurea.
pinea
pulchella
purpurea
Massonii
minor
yestita
incarnata
purpurea
coccinea
exsurgens_

blanda
Monsoniana
Dickensonii

rubra
eerinthoides

Linneus’s
colouring
green flowered
Bowie’s

gold colour
pine-leaved
pretty

purple
Masson's
smaller
tremulous
flesh coloured
purple
scarlet

rising

white

white and pink
dark green
pure white
orange

red

red

purple

red and green
red and green
white

flesh

purple

dark scarlet

dark orange

DIVISION II.
Flowers much inflated.

charming
Lady Monson’s
Dickenson’s
red

honeywort like

major larger

nana
princeps
earnea

tricolor

minor

major
inflata
metulaflora
oblata

Lawsoni
yentricosa

dwarf

princely

flesh coloured
three coloured
lesser

larger

inflated

nine-pin flowered

bottle

purple and orange

white

white

red

dark searlet
searlet

searlet
searlet

flesh

red and green
ved and green
red and green
white and pink
red

white and red

DIVISION III.
Flowers narrowed upwards, with a spreading border.

Lawson’s
bellied

coccinea scarlet
stellifera star bearing

-earnea
alba
superba
erecta
hirsuta
preegnans _
Irbyana
jasminiflora
alba
ampullacea
Shannonia
retorta
Cliffordiana
Aitoniana
eomosa rubra
alba
Daphneefiora

flesh coloured
white

superb

erect

hairy

swelled

Irby’s

Jasmine flowered

white

flask

Lady Shannon’s
recurved leaved
Lady Clifford’s
Aiton’s

tufted

white

_ daphne flowered

flesh

flesh

scarlet

flesh

flesh

white

scarlot

pink

flesh

flesh

pink

white and pink
white

blush

white and green
pink

white

whitish pink
red

white

pale purpls

March to July
April to June
July to Sept.
March to Dee.
July to Sept.
May to July
June to Aug.
July to Sept.
June to Sept.
June to Sept.
Sept. to June
Sept. to June
Sept. to June
Sept. to June
Sept. to June

March to Sopt.
April to Aug.
May to Aug.
May to Aug.
May to Nov.
Mareh to Jan.
March to Jan.
May to Sept.
May to Sept.
June to Aug.
June to Aug.
June to Aug.
June to Oct.
June to Sept.
March to Sept.

April to June
April to Sept.
April to Sept.
April to Sept.
April to Sept.
April to Aug.
April to Sept.
April to Oct.
April to Sept.
May to Aug.
June to Oct,
June to Nov.
June to Noy.
June to Sept.
June to Sept.
June to Oct.
Noy. to Feb.
Aug. to Dee.
June to Aug.,
June to Aug.
April to June

4&4 SELFCT LIST AND DESCRIPTION OF CAPE ERICAS.

Parmentariana

Parmenteir’s

rosea rose coloured

Bouplandiana

infundibuliformis

aristata |

minor
primuloides
Coventryana
mirabilis
Juliana

calycina
andromedeefiora
elegans
lacheefolia
nigrata
triumphans
Thunbergia
taxifolia
melanthera
flaccida
Solanaria
fragrans
obcordata
rubella

ardens
physoides
Lambertiana
inearnata
Blandfordiana
Savilliana
ollula
gracilis
preecox
declinata
Tamentacea
odorata
eampanolata
pura

triceps

ovata

restella
eubica

minor
seabriscula
palustris
formosa alba

rubra

florida

Boupland’s
funnel shaped
awned

small awned
cowslip flowered
Lord Coventry’s
admirable

July

pale purple

rose

pale yellow

dark purple

red, purple, & white
red and white
purple and white
pink

pink

red

DIVISION IY.
Flowers inclosed in an inflated calyx.

large calyxed

red

andromeda flowered pink

elegant
lachne leaved
black tipped
conquering
Thunberg’s
yew leaved
dark anthered
flaccida
Solander’s
fragrant
obcordate
reddish

pale red
white
white
white
orange
pink

pale purple
white
purple red
pink

pink

pink

DIVISION V.
Flowers small and globose.

glowing
flatulent
Lamberti’s
flesh coloured

Lord Blandford’s

Savile’s
pipkin flowered
slender

early
declined
ramentaceous
perfumed

bell flowered
pure

three headed
ovate flowered

scarlet
white
blush
pale red
yellow
red
purple red
purple
purple
white
dark red
white
yellow
white
white
purple

DIVISION VI.
Flowers small, not globoss.

smal) beaked
cube flowered
smaller
marsh
roughish
handsome
red flowered
florid

white
purple
purple
white
flesh
white
red
blush

July to Sept.
July to Sept.
April to Aug.
July to Oct.

April to Aug.
Feb. to April
April to June
July to Sept.
May to July

July to Aug.

March to June
March to May
April to Oct.
May to July
March to June
April to June
July to Sept.
Aug. to Nov.
May to July.
Dee. to Aug.
Aug. to Jan.
March to Juns
Sept. to Feb.
June to Aug.

April to June
March to June
Aug. to Jan.
April to Aug.
April to July
July to Sept.
Sept. to Jan.
Feb. to June?
Jan. to March
Sept. to Nov.
July to Sept.
June to Sept.
April to Aug.
Aug. to Sept.
July to Oct.
June to Sept.

June to Sept.
June to Sept.
June to Sept.
June to Aug.
June to Oct.

June to Sept.
June to Sept.
May to Aug.

59

60 GLEANINGS FROM OLD AUTHORS.

mucronata mucronated pink May to Aug.
quadriflora four flowered purple April to July
Solandriana Solander’s purple Dec. to March
pulchella pretty red July to Sept.
SPECTATOR,

Scotland, Jan. 14, 1836,

ARTICLE VI.—Gleanings from Old Writers. No. IT.
By Tutipa.

I hate flattery, and so make my remarks as short as possible,
The Cabinet will, no doubt, meet the reward it merits, which is
very great.

Extract FROM COWELL.

“The Fretilary or Chequered Daffodil, as some call it, is a
flower well known, but the varieties are very scarce and uncom-
mon.

“The seed will shew itself ripe when the husks wherein ‘tis
included, change of a yellowish colour, grow dry and crack, then
one may gather it about noon on a warm day, and keep it till
July, and then sow it’: you will soon find a diversity of leaves of the
seedling plants, and when they come to flower, much more sur-
prising appearances.

“The soil this root likes best is a light sandy ground, and
especially such as comes from heaths, mixt well with some fresh
earth from under the turf.”

On the Hepatica, from the same.

“There are divers sorts of Hepaticas, as the white, the blue
and the blush or pearl bloom colour ; of these there are the single
and the double, but ‘tis the single that is only useful to raise
plants from by seed. As soon as the seeds are gathered they
should be sown, for they being a sinall seed, and therefore ‘tis not
advisable to keep them lying out of the ground.

“To make a seminary of them, have large pots, about ten inches
deep and a foot or fourteen inches over, fill these with a black sandy
soil, such as one gets from heaths, and well mixt with an equal
quantity of rich garden soil.

“When the earth is gently pressed down, sow the seed, and
sprinkle over the seed, as much of the samie earth, as when it is

GLEANINGS FROM OLD WRITERS. 61

prest down, will cover it the thickness of half-a-crown, then water
it well with a fine rose watering pot.

“ Cover the pots with nets to keep the birds from the seed, for,
small as it is, they will have it if possible, and this being done, set
the pans under a wall exposed to an east aspect till June is past,
and then set them under anorth wall, for they love shade.

“When these plants have two or three leaves a piece, they may
be transplanted in a bed of fine earth of the sort before-mentioned,
but it must be done by a very careful hand, for the roots being
very small, should not be bruised by any means ; and then if the
plants are not replanted as soon as they are taken up, the fibres
will be endangered of drying by the air, and then the plant runs
the hazard of being lost.

“When you transplant these seedlings, set them six inches
distance, and water them well, and shade them for a week or ten
days.

“Fyrom one hundred of such seedling plants I raised above
twenty sorts, different from what I had before.”

The following remarks, (from the same Author, COWELL,) may
be of use even to your Floricultural Friends at this period, though
not coming exactly under the title, but in litt'e fancy gardens
about London I have no doubt it will be acceptable :-—

“My particular observations of vines amount to this extra-
ordinary direction :—That if we have vines in espaliers, or against
walls, we must always expect the young wood to bear fruit, for
‘tis from the young wood only that we have shoots that bear grapes.
I mean by the shoots which we ought to preserve, such as have
shot last summer, and of those in an irregular vine, save the
strongest in which you will see two sorts of buds and joints. In
one sort, the buds will lie pretty near one another, and in the
other, for three or four joints beyond them, the buds will be set
at long distances, and these last will not bear fruit till the second
‘Year ; beyond these again, we find the joints shorter for three or
four buds, which buds will bear fruit the same year.

“Tn the common pruning of these shoots, they ought to be
left long, in proportion to their thickness ; but be sure to leave so
much of each shoot upon the tree as has its joints short, and the

buds full, which will be about four or five.”
TuLiPas :

PART II.

REVIEWS.

A Catalogue of Flower Roots, Plants, §c. grown by J. Tyso &
Son, Wallingford, Berkshire, for 1836.

We have favourably noticed the former Catalogues of theso respected
Gentlemen, in the Cabinet, (Vol. 1. page 17.) The arrangement is on the
same excellent plan, but each year we perceive the collection advertised
becomes more select, both in Ranunculuses, Tulips, Goraniums, Carnations,
Picotees, Pinks, Dahlias, and Pansies.

The New Botanist’s Guide to the Localities of the Rarer Plants of
Britain, on the Plan of Turner and Dillwyn’s Botanist’s
Guide. By Hewett Cottrett Watson, Vol. I. ; England
and Wales. Longman & Co. 1835. 12mo. p.p. 403.

The object of the author is stated to be—Ist, to exhibit the ascertained
distribution of our less common indigenous and naturalized plants throughout
Britain; secondly, to form a Guide Book for Botanical Tourists, by speci-
fying the localities of each plant, as selected from the statements found in
different works, &c. on British Plants. We intend in a future number of
the Cabinet, further to notice this publication.

NEW OR RARE PLANTS

WHICH WE HAVE NOTIUED SINCE OUR LA8T.

1, Adesmia pendula, Pendulous fruited. (Brit. Flow. Gard. 322 ) Synonym,
Hedysarum pendulum. Myr. TwreEpie sent seeds of this neat, interesting
flowering plant, from Buenos Ayres, to Dr. Nerit, at Canon Mills, near
Edinburgh. It bas bloomed profusely during the last year. The plant is
a hardy herbaceous creeper, having numerous stems near a foot high, which
produce many solitary flowers, in an upright raceme, The flowers are small,
abont half an inch across; they are of an orange-yellow colour, striped with
purple. In its native habits in Buenos Ayres it grows in sandy pastures:
it will, therefore, be found to flourish well in this country in a sandy loam.
The plant is quite hardy. Itis cultivated in the Chelsea Botanic Garden,
as well as by Dr. Netti. Class, Decandria; Order, Monogynia. Natural
Order, Leguminose, Adesmia, from 4, without, and desmos, 2 bond; the
stamina being free. :

2. Barlonia aurea, golden flowered. (Bot. Reg. 1831.) The flowers of
this new half hardy annual plant very much resemble at first sight some of
the finest yellow flowering Ginotheras. ‘The stems rise to two feet high, and
are branching, each producing several flowers. Each flower is about two

NEW OR RARE PLANTS, 63

inches and a half across, of a fine deep golden-yellow colour. They expand
only under bright sunshine, and then produce a very brilliant effect. The
plant delights in a moist, and very rich soil. The late Mr. Doveias sent
seeds of the plant from California to the London Horticultural Society. ‘The
plant deserves a place in every flower garden. Icosandria Monogynia.
Loasee. Bartonia, in compliment to Dr. B.S. Barton, Professor of Botany
at Philadelphia.

3. Brunonia australis, (Bot. Reg. 1833.) The fragrant flowers of this in-
teresting plant very much resemble, at first sight, the wild blue flowering
Scabious. Mr. JaMES BackKHouss, of the firm of Messrs, BACKHOUSE, of
York, having been forsome time in Van Dieman’s Land, has introduced
this plant into this country. Itis perennial, requiring a slight frame pro-
tection in winter. The flower stems rise about nine inches high, each pro-
ducing a head of neat and pretty flowers. Brunonia, in compliment to R. C.
Brown, Esq. ’

4. Cooperia Drummondi, (Bot. Reg. 1835.) A native of North America,
and sent by the late Mr. DrumMonpD to Scotland. It is a bulbous rooting
plant, producing a single flower, rising upon a stem about nine inches high.
The flower is white about one inch across, Hexandria Monogynia. Amarylli-
dacere. Cooperia,.in compliment to our respected friend Mr. Cooper, of the
Wentworth Gardens. Nocultivator of plants, we think, more highly merited
such a compliment than Mr, Cooper, both from his practical skill in the
culture of plants, and other excellencies. We should have preferred a more
ornamental flowering genus than the present to have perpetuated our friend
to posterity.

5. Collomia Cavanillesii, Cavanille’s Collomia. (Bot. Mag. 3468.) Syno-
nyms, Collomia lateria; C. coccinea. An annual plant from Chili. Stems
rise about a foot high, branched, producing numerous flowers in an umbel ;
each ilower is about half an inch across, having a yellow tube, and the upper
surface of the petals of a deep, dull red colour, making a showy appearance.
Pentandria Monogynia. Polemoniacez. Collomia, from Kolla, glue ; referring
to the seeds.

6. /ris spuria, Late flowering Blue Iris, (Brit. Flow. Gard. 321.) An old
inhabitant of this country: the flower stems rise a yard high, having narrow
leaves, about half an inch broad. The flowers are very elegant, of a deep
blue, purple, and yellow. Itis a very showy species, and blooms from May
to July. Iris, from /ris, the eye; referring to the variety and brilliancy of
colours in the flowers,

6. Kayeneckia crategifolia, Crategus leaved. (Bot. Reg. 2836.) The
plant is growing in the garden of the London Horticultural Society. It is a
native of Chili; an evergreen shrub. It requires a slight protection in
winter. If planted against a good aspected wall, it would bloom in June
and July. The flowers, which are white, are produced in a short raceme,
each blossom being about half an inch across, something like the blossom of
the Bird Cherry. I[cosandria Monogynia, Roseacee. Kageneckia, in
compliment to M. de KacGeneck, a German.

8. Lupinus subcarnosus, Fleshy leaved. . (Bot. Mag. 3467.) Seeds of this’
handsome flowering species were sent by Mr. DrumMonp, from the Texas,
and bloomed last season. The terminal raceme of flowers are very showy,
of a deep rich blue, with a sulphur-white centre. The plantis annual. The
flower stems rise near a foot high. As it produces seeds freely, the plant
will soon become an inhabitant of flower gardens in general.

9. Lycium afrum, African Box Thorn, (Brit. Flow. Gard} Synonyms,
Rhamuus alter, Jasminoides africanum, J. aculeatum. This shrubby plant
was introduced into this country in 1712, from North Africa. The plant
thrives very freely if planted against a good aspected wall, where it can have
some covering for winter protection. The plant produces a vast profusion
of blossoms, They are tubular shaped, an inch long, of a crimson-purple
eolour; the bottom portion of the tube of a yellowish-green. They are

64 NEW OR RARE PLANTS.

produced from June to September, and make a very showy appearance. It
is probable that in sheltered, and sunny situations, the plant would flourish if
grown in the open border. The plant may be procured of most of the public
nurserymen. Pentandria Monogynia. Solanew. JLycium, from Lukion,
the name of a thorny shrub ; referring to the many thorns the plant contains.

10. Gnothera humifusa, Pencilled flowered. (Bot. Reg. 1829.) A creeping
annual plant, producing a profusion of bright rose coloured flowers. It com-
poses a patch of some extent, having a neat and striking appearance. Each
flower is near an inch across. The plant deserves a place in every flower
garden. It is cultivated,in the splendid collection of Mrs. MarryatT, at
Wimbledon, near London; and from the circumstance of producing seeds
freely, we expect it will soon be in the hands of the public.

11. Oncidium Russellianum, The Duke of Bedford’s Oncidium. Sent from
Rio Janeiro to the gardens at Woburn last year, where it has bloomed. The
flowers are produced on a raceme, each having about four or five. Each
flower is about an inch and a half across. The sepals are of a brown purple
colour, edged with green. The labellum is lilac, with a purple centre
edged with white. Gynandria Monandria. Orchidee. Oncidium, from
Ogkidion, a tubercle ; alluding to two prominences on the lip.

12. Pentstemon Cobea, Cobia flowered. (Bot. Mag. 3465.) By far the
most splendid of this showy genus. The specific name was applied to the
present perrennial plant, in consequence ofits strong resemblance to the
flowers of the Cobzea scandens. The flowers are produced in a spiked ter-
minal panicle. Each flower is of a whitish purple outside, inside white,
with a yellowish throat, streaked with red. The flower stems rise about two
feet high. [In November, 1835, we received a drawing of this splendid
species, representing four flowers, from a friend in Glasgow; they were not
as large as those of the Cobea, but about two inches long, and one and a
half across the mouth of the corolla. The drawing had been made from
memory only, not having a living specimen.—Conpucror.] This very
showy species ought to be in every flower garden. Didynamia Angios-
permia. Scrophularine. Pentstemon, from pente, five, and slemon, stamen.

13. Saracha viscosa, Clammy. This plant is a native of Peru. It has
all the general appearance of a Solanum. Its only distinction is its fila-
ments being woolly at the base, closing up the tube, and having heart-shaped
anhters. This plant is a greenhouse shrub, growing about half a yard high.
The flowers are whitish, an inch and a half across, succeeded by a berry of
a fine red colour, the size of a May Duke Cherry. Pentandria Monogynia.
Solanee. Saracha,in compliment to J. SARAcHA, a Spanish botanist.

14, Sarcochilus falcatus, Falcate-leaved. A very pretty flowering Or-
chideous plant, cultivated by R. BATEMAN, Esq.,at Kuypersley Hall, Messrs.
LoppicEs, and others. It is a native of New Holland, sent in 1821. The
flowers are produced on a@ short raceme of about three inches long, each
haying from three to six flowers. The flower is about three quarters of an
inch across; white with a slight tinge of yellow, and red at the centre.
Gynandria Monandria, Orchidew. Sarcochilus, from Sarz, flesh; and
cheilos, a lip.

15. Telekia speciosa, Large-flowered. (Bot. Mag. 3466.) Synonym, Bup-
thalmum cordifolium, B. speciosum, Inula Caucasica, I, macrophylla. An old
showy flowering inhabitant of our gardens. Stem rising six feet high, pro-
ducing yellow flowers, about four inches across. It is a hardy perennial.
Syngenesia Superflua. Composite.

18. Trifolium reflezum, Buffalo Clover. Seeds of this handsome flowering
Clover were sent from Texas by Mr. DrumMonp, in 1835. The plant is
hardy, herbaceous. Stems grow about nine inches high, crowned with large
heads of beautiful rose-coloured flowers. It merits a place in every flower
garden, Blooms from June to August. Diadelphia Decandria. Legumi-
nose. Trifolium, from fres, three, and folium, leaf; three leaves on each
stalk, .

65

EXTRACTS.

On the Cultivation of the Bouvardia triphylla. By Mr. Jou
MEarRNs.

I have at this time (April 13th, 1829) 100 plants of it which will blossom
strong this summer in the flower garden here, 60 of which are only from
roots of last year’s propagation; and many of these flowered the same seasen,
although not planted till April. ‘This year they will become strong flowering
plants towards the autumn, after the first bloom is over. My method of
treating them is as follows:—about the middle of April, I collect all my
Bouvardias together, from the places where they have been kept through the
dormant season, some among my orange tubs, others in cold frames, and
others under the stage of the green-house; I turn them all out of their pots,
shaking the soil from their roots; I trim off most of the large roots, yet
retain as many of the fine fibrous ones as possible; I likewise at the same
time cut down all the former year’s shoots, retaining only two, three, or four
eyes on each, according to the strength and age of the plant; I then plant
them in pots suitable to the size of the plant, taking care neither to overpot
them nor to cramp the roots by confinement. When I have got all potted
and watered to settle the earth about their roots, I place them in a cold
frame, which I cover with hay and mats at night; I keep the lights close
during the night, and even in the day, unless the sun is very strong upon
them, till they begin to grow, when I give them portions of air according to
the day, and their advance in gruwth. Subsequently I leave the lights off
through the day, and at last do not put them on at night. About a week
after they have been thus exposed, I plant them finally ont for the season
either in clumps to themselves, or distributed among other plants, when they
are soon in fine bloom, and continue to flower till Christmas. By the
autumn some of the year's shoots will have attained a yard in length, and
will be crowned with fine luxuriant clusters of their splendid trumpet-like
flowers. The beauty of the plants thus treated, has been the admiration of
those who have long known the plant, but have only seen it managed in the
usual way; under which one or two of them are kept stinted in pots, in
which its flowering season soon terminates, and its blossoms are not so
attractive as those of the scarlet Trumpet Honeysuckle.

As soon as I apprehend frost, I take up the plants with balls of earth
attached to the roots, and place them carefully in pots, with good mellow
soil. When they are thus replaced in pots and watered, those which are in
luxuriant blossom I mix among the greenhouse plants, where they make a
splendid appearance till January.

I continue the treatment of them as above stated, and it may be continued
for many years, for the application of fresh soil, the trimming of the old
roots, and the great luxuriance gained by growing in summer in the open
ground, renovate the plants, which could not be done by any other means of
culture.

I propagate the Bouvardia by cutting of the roots. I fill some large
fruiting pine pots with good fresh mellow loam, well blended with either
thoroughly rotten dung, or vegetable mould. I plant my roots all over the
pot, beginning in a circle round the outside, opening the soil, and planting
them with my finger, and continue filling up one circle within another, till
I finish in the centre of the pot, or pots, leaving no more of the roots visible
above the surface than just the top. I then water and place them ina hot-
house at from 60 to 70 degrees of heat by night. As soon as the shoots get
to between four and five inches high, I transfer the plants singly into pots
of a small size, and by degrees harden them after they have got established.
When they have made some progress, I plant them out into a bed four feet
wide, eight inches between the rows, and four inches in the row; where, if
the soil be good, many will soon be in flower, I pot them again before
frost, and treat as done to older plants.—Trans,. Hort. Soc.

VOL. IV. K

PART ITI.

MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

QUERIES.

On GLapDIoLusEs.—I shall feel obliged if you, or any of your correspon-
dents, will inform me of the names of a few of the leading sorts of Gladio-
luses, to flower in the greenhouse, in pots; with their proper treatment,
time of potting, &c.&c, An early answer will greatly oblige.

Dec, 23rd, 1835. AN East Hants Constant READER.

On Danita Prants.—I should be obliged if some subscriber to the Cabinet
would inform me, which treatment is best for securing good Dahlia plants
where only two or thvee of the same kind are required. Is dividing the
roots, or taking young cuttings early in the spring, the best? "

¢ Wow Ef

On Russian Viortets, &c.—I shall be obliged to you to inform me,
through the medium of the Floricultural Cabinet, what soil and management
best suits the Russian and Neapolitan Violets, to secure profuse bloom; also,
what culture and soil best suit the Violet Erythronium Americanum. I
have many roots of the Russian and Neapolitan Violets, both in pots and
in the borders; but they throw out little or no bloom, while the plants look
healthy and vigorous, and increase in leaf, and root rapidly. I shall be
glad to know, through the same medium, whether it is advisable to prune
the Honeysuckle (Lonicera flexuosa), when it has attained a great height
against a wall; and if so, how, and in what months. Also, which is consi-
dered the very best time of the year to prune Roses, as I find around us
various opinions as to which is the best, both among gardeners and amateurs;
and whether they should be pruned to one or two eyes; also, whether the
Moss, Yellow, Noisette, Borsault, Scotch, China, Banksia, &c. require each
a separate mode of treatment. Being a very great lover and admirer of
Roses, and anxious to see them bloom luxuriantly, I am very desirous of
finding out the best mode of treatment. Can you inform me why the Aza-
leas, and indeed all the American plants I have purchased from yarious
nurserymen in this neighbourhood, (viz. Basingstoke, Winchester, aud
Southampton,) such as Rhododendrons, Kalmias, Daphnes, and Magnolias,
are covered with moss, look shabby when they arrive, the leaves (especially
of the white and pink Azalea) turning yellow and sickly, and never do well
with us, though we have been at the expense of getting bog soil for them
from a considerable distance. I want likewise to know how old the Chimo-
nanthus fragrans (or, as some call it, Calycanthus precox) must be, before
it will produce flowers. I have three, all more than three years old, which
have not borne one bloom yet.—I have also a double Pomegranate, from
Pacx’s nursery, Southampton, which has been in our garden three years,
but has neyer blossomed. I have attended to the advice given in one of the
Numbers of your useful and entertaining work, and it has never been
pruned. Is there a sort which does not bloom ?—I have been long anxiously
looking for the promised drawings of greenhouses, which the Editor of the
Floricultural Cabinet long since promised to his subscribers and the public.
An early answer to the above floricultural queries will oblige.

Candover, Jan. 23rd. 1836. C.S.

[The plates will be given in due course, plans of gardens haying been
solicited,—ConDUCTOR. |

MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 67

On CAMELLIAS IN THE OPEN Arr.—Are yours the double or single-flow-

ering Camellias growing in the open air in the grounds at Wortley ?
FLora.

[Double white, red, and striped.—ConDvuctor. |

ANSWERS.

On PROPAGATING THE Bay TREE.—In reply to a correspondent, I beg to
say that I have propagated the Bay-tree both by layers and seed ; but should
prefer the latter method, as the leaf is much larger. Re TOW. TL:

On EccrEMOCARPUS SCABER, MAURANDIA Barciayana, &c.—In answer
to the question of CaTarina Marsa anv T., concerning the flowering of
Maurandia Barclayana and Eccremocarpus scaber, an amateur begs leave to
state, that these plants will not fail to succeed in a warm aspect and a fair
share of tolerably light, good soil. It is a very common mistake with ama-
teurs, who purchase a plant which they are told will grow out of doors, to
think that it will grow in any situation, Thus, if a creeper, it is often
placed against a wall, in a narrow space between two fruit trees, where, if it
has sun to its leaves, it has no moisture to its root; or, being intended to
cover an unsightly wall, it is put into the ground at the bottom of it, under
‘every disadvantage for want of warmth, light, and air, and is never likely to
reach the top, except in the owner's imagination. My experience of the
Maurandia Barclayana leads me to believe, that it cannot fail to bloom well
out of doors, if it has‘a good share of sun, and is planted out in the ground,
In very hot weather (my Maurandia being in a full south aspect), I have
found it useful to put moss about the root to keep it moist. The Eccremo-
carpus will grow and flower well in a less warm situation, but it must have a
tolerably rich soil, room, and a free circulation of air. Plants which are not
generally found hardy enough to stand our winters in the open air, require
as much of the warmth of our summers as possible, to bring them to any
thing like perfection. Slips of the Maurandia are easily struck in summer,
even without a glass, by placing the pot in which they have been planted in
a warm spot, under the shade of some leafy plant, care being taken that
they do not droop for want of water. The young plants may be preserved
during the winter in a warm room or light frame. Such as have flourished
well during the summer, in the open ground, will most likely stand the
. winter, if matted up before very severe frosts. I have known the Eccremo-
carpus against a north wall, to live without any protection for the last three
years. ° A. B. L.

On Growine Dwarr Prants oF CHRYSANTHEMUMS, &c.—In the Number
for January, 1835, of your excellent Cabinet, Hepatica enquires (page 22)
for the best methods for growing dwarf Chrysanthemums. Now the way in
which I succeeded admirably this year was, to take the shoots about the
second or third week in July, strip all the leaves off within a short distance
from the top; then having procured some strong packthread, tie it very tight
below about the fourth joint from which the leaves were taken off; the shoot
thus prepared is introduced through the bottom of a small pot, taking care
to let the part round which the string is tied be within the pot; then fill up
with good rich compost, placing a little moss on the top, and giving abun-
dance of water every day. The pot may be kept in its place by running @
stick straight through the bottom into the ground: the plants will be rooted
in about three weeks or a month. AN EnquireR in the Number for Feb.
1835 (page 43) will find the British Hybrid Chrysanthemums, raised by
Wuee er, of Oxford, very good; particularly the Expanded Crimson
Wheelerianum, Blood Red Incurving Pink, Dwarf Blush, and Grooved Red.
They have flowered very fine with me this year: he will be able to procure
them by applying to Mr. Humpurey’s, Nurseryman, St. Giles's, Oxford.
The way in which I would recommend A Supscriser, in the same page as

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the.above, to treat his Cyclamens, is to turn them out into a bed of good
soil as soon as the frosts in May will permit; and repot them in the autumn.
I have had plants with as many as fifty flowers out at once on plants treated
in this way. The seed should be sown as soon as} ripe in shallow pots.
Let the soil in the bed be a good sandy loam. I generally put a little sandy
peat with the soil in the pots. as

On a DwarFr YELLOW FLOWERING Prant.—In Vol. I. p. 210, Amicus
requests to know what yellow creeping plant would answer his purpose. I
beg to recommend Lysimachia nummularia, (Moneywort,) a favourite of
mine, neglected, perhaps, because a native. I have no doubt that it may be
easily obtained, for when it once has possession, it takes care not to quit,
particularly if the soil be moist. R.

ROSE BUDDED ON A Biack Currant Beusu.—In Vol. III. p. 21, Fos.
FeRrRAnIA begs to knowif it be true that by grafting a rose on a black
currant bush, the colour will be changed? To the greater number of your
subscribers it may appear idle to answer the question: but asit is one of
vulgar belief, it may perhaps be well to shew why it is impossible. The
rose and the currant are of two different natural families; no union can take
place between plants of different natural families, in whatever way the graft
may be inserted: but even were it possible to unite such dissimilar plants,
the stock can by no means be made to influence the colour of the grafted
flower, further than affording a greater or less degree of nourishment, in the
same manner as a richer or poorer soil would do. R.

[We admitted the Query into the Cabinet, solely with a view for such an
absurdity, so generally believed, to be refuted.—Conpbvcror.]

REMARKS.

On Pinks.—I see in your Cabinet a little bit of unfriendly advice given
by Mr. T. Connety, of Lancaster, to Mr. Smirn, of Faversham, It re-
quires no notice from me as far as Mr. SMITH is concerned, as he is too good
a judge of Pinks to be misled by it; but you have other readers not so well
acquainted with them; therefore, to them I would particularly address iny-
self. I shall begin with advising them on no account to grow any one of
the sorts Mr. T. ConNELLY has, in his infinite wisdom and judgment, select-
ed as the best flowers in England: they are all single, or eight-petalled
flowers, with three small triangular petals in the centre to form the crown.
Mr. C. tells him they are large and superior, whereas they are quite the
reverse, as I believe it to be impossible to grow any one of them’more than
two inches in diameter. He says, “they are well laced,”—admitted,—* and
have rose-shaped leaves.” Impossible: or how are they to be inserted into
the calyx ?—but [ suppose he means their edges are even, like the petal of a
Rose; if so, that is not true, as what is called a rose-edged Pink is a very
different sort of thing to any he has named. Again: “ When properly
grown, they never burst.” Monstrous! Why, a mouse running through
the Thames Tunnel would be just as likely to rip it up, as Mr. CONNELLY’s
Pinks with eight petals are to burst a pod they cannot fill! Mr. CONNELLY
then tells Mr. SmirH he never saw a South-of-England-raised Pink worth
growing. I question if he ever saw one at all, or he would never have ven-
tured such an assertion. That Mr.CoNNELLY may see there are such things
as good Pinks raised in the South of England, let hin hand over the needful
to Hoce, of Paddington, with an order for the following sorts :—Hogg’s
Fanny Kemble, White’s William the Fourth, Barrett's Conqueror, Prior's
Miss Blackstone, Wells’s Sultana, and Church’s Helen. These, if he grow
them properly, will at once let him into the light of what properties consti-
tute a good Pink, both as regards size, colour, number of petals, and rose-
edged flowers. And if Mr. ConNELLY would like to see a few of extraordi-
nary size, let him get Unsworth’s Omega, Hopkins’s One of-the-Ring,

MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE, 69

Mann's Duchess of Buckingham, Davey’s Britannia, Wood's King of Roses,

and Reynolds's Adelaide. ‘These are fine large flowers, possessed of the

best properties, and growing at least three inches in diameter. I will ven-

ture to say, that a single petal of Hopkins’s One-of-the-Ring will completely

coyer a whole bloom of Bow’s Cato, that beau ideal of a Pink of you northern

growers. INNOVATOR,
1836.

On Pinxs.—In perusing your Floricultural Cabinet for October last, I
find in page 235 a few remarks on Pinks, &c. by Mr. Smiru, of F aversham,
in Kent. I feel great pleasure in replying to his observations, heartily con-
curring with him in wishing you a “very extended circulation”; feeling
also surprise, indignation, and shame, on finding there should be any one
base enough to rob a grower of his fair fame, by representing under a false
name a flower as his own, which has been raised and grown by another
person: any one guilty of such an act, should be excluded from all Florists’
Societies. I observe that Mr. Smiriz states he has been a Pink grower for
the last twenty years, and has won the first prize many times, of which
statement I have not the least doubt. He also says that he has more than
once advertised to show against all Kent. I shall feel obliged if Mr. Smita
will be kind enough to state when, and where; feeling assured, that had his
advertisements been seen, there are many gentlemen connected with the
Woolwich Society, who would have backed the Woolwich Pink-growers
against any town in England ; and Mr. SmitH would not have gone without
a competitor. Should that gentleman feel disposed again to show with any
man in Kent, on making the same known to me, he will find his challenge
accepted.—I perfectly agree with his observations relative to the size of
Pinks as stated by InNovaTor. I have seen many very large Pinks, but
there was neither beauty, form, nor any thing in them, worthy the notice
of a florist. In auswer to Mr. Smiru’s inquiries where he can get the new
and first-rate sorts, I respectfully beg to inform him, he will not find a
better collection of Pinks in the kingdom than at Woolwich; and I further
beg to state, that I have three new sorts to be sold out next September,—the
first named the Victorious; the second, the Triumphant; the third I have
not yet named. Not wishing to speak in praise of the quality of the flowers
myself, I beg to refer him to the following approved judges, viz. Mr. NEVIL
and Mr. Smita, of Walworth; Mr. Morrizoy, of Holloway; and Mr. Cov-
sins,, of Welling,—who saw the flowers in bloom last season, and can
speak to their quality, &c. ; merely observing, that Mr. Situ, of Walworth,
says, “ there was never raised by one man, in any one year, three flowers to
equal them.” A respectable artist has kindly offered to give me a drawing
of them: if so, I shall feel great pleasure in presenting the same.to the
Floricultural Cabinet.—In answer to Mr. Smiru’s last question, concerning
the protection of Dablias from the ant, I beg to reply,—Give them plenty of
water, and the ants will quickly disappear. Being a Dahlia-grower myself,
I shall feel obliged if he can furnish me with a remedy against caterpillars
and earwigs. Tuos. IBBETT.

Mount Pleasant, Bull Fields, Woolwich, Jan. 14, 1836.

P.S. In reviewing a former Number of your Cabinet, I could see great
room for improvement in the mode of cultivating Pinks, having grown
from 5,000 to 6,000 annually, upon a plan which will not require so much
ground by one-fourth, nor so many glasses by one-fourth, as mentioned in
a former Number of the Cabinet. The method J adopt I will transmit in
the course of next month.

[We shall be obliged by the promised favours.—ConDUcTor. }

Ox Mr. Rivers’s List or RosEs, &c.—I have observed wth regret that
although 40 pages of your valuable little work have already been devoted to
Lists of Roses, we are still in want of a catalogue which will convey all the
required information. The alphabetical catalogue of St. Patrick (Mr. Woon’s
List) would have appeared with more grace among its fellow advertisements,
rather than in the body of the work; and I am afraid that the List of Mr.

70 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

RIVERS, jun. will fail under the same category. Mr. Rivers does make some
attempts at arrangement, but unfortunately no single principle is followed :
at one time it is according to natural affinity, as in China Roses; at another,
according to habit, as Climbing Roses; another time of flowering, as Autum-
nal Roses; another, scent, as Rosa Indica Odorata; another, size, as Miss
Lawrence’s Rose, &c.—Now, had this occurred in a “ Price Catalogue,” no
complaint could have been made; although it might have been regretted :
but in the body of your work it is a blot, defeating the end proposed
by its publication—instruction, by the occupancy of the place of more
valuable matter, and perhaps preventing some person from complying with
the request for a correct list of Roses according to natural arrangement, with
notices of cultivation, propagation, &c. It is not of very difficult accom.
plishment. The article Rosa in Loudon’s Catalogue (Hort. Brit.) may serve
as a guide to the plan. Although I have thus ventured, in what may appear
unnecessary severity in my observations on Mr, Rivers’s paper, I have not
been insensible to the excellent remarks made by him at the end of each
division of his arrangement; and regretted extremely, that a person who
appears to possess so great a capability of fulfilling the object required,
should have sacrificed it to minor considerations. Perhaps he will yet
comply with the request; and if he should, I think that your subscribers
will not have to complain that I have occupied so much of your publication
by my complaints. R.
[We hope Mr. Rivers or Mr. Woop will comply with the request of our
Correspondent.—ConDUCTOR. ]

ON THE SaLE OF Roses, &c.—I see in your last month’s Number, Mr.
RIVERS’s observations on the sale of Roses by auction. I beg to say I differ
entirely from him: I think they have done a great deal of good: they have
bronghtinto notice many new varicties which otherwise wonld not have been
known; and if a higher price was given for them, it was open to the pur-
chaser to offer what he pleased. I bought from the same stock, and so did
Mr. Rivers; and taking his own argument, it is impossible, with the very
dry season we have had, to judge fairly of the early-blowing Roses: for if
George the Fourth and the Tuscany have changed in some situations,
so as not to be known, (but which, by-the bye, did not happen with me,)
what must be the effect on plants planted in May? I have seen many of
the autumnal flowering Roses, and, in justice, I must say they are very fine.
Among others, I saw a very handsome parterre of them at Isleworth, near
London. Having resided twelve years in France, [ can affirm, that nothing
can exceed the beauty of their Roses. It was this which first induced me
to establish my Rose-gardens in England. We are indebted to the French
cultivators for nearly the whole of our new and beautiful Roses. I wish to
see all the lovers and growers of Roses joined in friendship, and deserved
merit, from whatever country it comes, encouraged. ‘The world is wide
enough for us all. WILLIAM Woop.

Woodlands Nursery, Maresjfield, Dec. 10th, 1835.

If you think the following communication worth mentioning in your
useful miscellany, the Floricultural Cabinet, it is at your service; perhaps it
is a desideratum not much attended to amongst florists, the raising that
beautiful tlower the Chinese Chrysanthemum from seed, as the seed is difficult
to obtain, and not easily recognised; but that they may be so raised, and
made to flower as an annual, the following facts will demonstrate. A Mr.
Robert FREESTONE, Gardener to W. BRERETON, Esq. near Holt, Norfolk,
has this year raised a great variety, which to an Amateur need only be seen _
to be admired. One a pure white, very double, and the petals naturally ar-
ranged in exquisite order, shaped like a double white Camellia; another a
fine changeable buff, well formed; a third, a beautiful fine white, with petals
so small and thick set, that it has the appearance as if covered with snow;
with many others, beautiful in colours, though not formed so compactly, all
of which will be offered for sale next year; perhaps Mr. F. is the only man
in this country that has made them flower the first year.

Holt, Norfolk, Dec. 1835, JOHN CARR.

MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE, 71

CHALLENGE TO RanuncuLUs GrRowers!—The Members of the East
London Ranuncula Society, held at the Salmon and Ball Tavern, Cambridge
Heath-road, London, challenge any six Ranunculus growers in England to
exhibit, on the 13th June next, six pans of Ranunculuses, each pan to con-
tain twelve dissimilar varieties, and to be of their own property and growth,
for the sum of twenty pounds or upwards: all communications to be ad-
dressed (post-paid) to Mr. C. D. Danny, Secretary, at the above Tavern.—
This challenge is not given with any invidious feeling, but in the hope of
bringing this beautiful and much-neglected class of flowers into notice,
considering open and honourable rivalry the best method of attaining that
end.

ON OBTAINING SELECT KINDS oF FLowers, &c.—I send the plan of a
small flower-garden, should you deem it worth insertion. When the beds
are laid in good turf, the effect is very good. I think of having one depart-
ment of my garden so laid in the spring (unless a better plan appears before
that time). Perhaps you will favour me with a list of what flowers would
have the bost effect in planting the beds. I shall also feel obliged if you
will inform me at what nursery or seedsman’s in Town I could procure roots
of the Galardia picta, and new Russian Violet, and the price per root. I am
very fond of gardening, and living retired, it forms my chief amusement;
but I reside in a place very unfavourable for improvement. The love of
flowers is not general here, nor is there a good nursery garden within twenty
miles. What Florists’ Shows are held in the neighbourhood are far from
good. Plants which have long been common in Town and its vicinity are
not to be seen here: for instance, I have never yet seen a Calceolariain this
part of the country. What new plants I get are rendered very expensive by
the carriage, and often die—I suppose from change of soil. 1 have often
thought that a plan might be devised by some respectable nurseryman in
the neighbourhood of Town, by opening a subscription of moderate amount
for country amateurs, and at the end of a year to distribute among the sub-
scribers such plants (not exactly common ones) as they often have a super-
abundance of, after their customers are supplied, and which are raised by
them with little trouble from seeds, cuttings, &c. Perhaps your experience
will enable you to devise some plan. Do not think I wish to turn censor
when I say, that like some other correspondents, I have felt sorry to observe
so much room devoted to the Exhibitions of Florists’ Societies, because I
have thought that more instructive matter could have occupied the space.

Buchinghamshire, December, 18365. Louisa Harrier,

On SECURING CARNATIONS FROM Snarts, &c.—Mr. Hoag, in his treatise
on the Carnation, says,—“ Mr. NicHo1, in his Gardener’s Calendar, recom-
mends a pencil or small brush dipped in oil, and drawn round the pot near
the bottom once or twice a week, when the plants are in bloom, to prevent
snails or earwigs from climbing up and doing injury to the plants.” Now
as this must be attended with a great deal of trouble, and would consume
more time than could be spared by many amateurs, I would suggest the fill-
ing of the pans in which the stage is supposed to be placed, with oil instead
of water. ‘The expense would be little or nothing more than Mr. Nscuou’s
plan, and there would be no time wasted. I likewise think the plan might
be extended to Dahlias, where the Bygrave slug-preventer is used. Mr, H.
likewise mentions, that sweet oil coming in contact with the body of any
insect, causes its immediate death. Query—Would not any other sort of
oil have the same effect ? JUVENIS.

Canonbury, 4th February, 1835.

On Coxtar STANDS FoR Dautras.—I wish to mention, through the me-
dium of your Magazine, a suggestion of mine respecting the collars used for
Dahlias. It is simply this—that they should be glazed inside, similar to
common flower-saucers. JUVENIS,

On PENDULOUS GROWING TREES.—Excuse me if, through your useful
and widely circulated Cabinet, I intrude an observation or two on pendulous
trees, as I am often astonished to find so small a number generally grown,

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when so many more are equally graceful with them. ®sculus pendula,
budded six feet high, is very beautiful ; Amygdalus pendula, a very fine one,
if six feet high; Betula alba pendula; Cotoneaster nummularia, if grafted
six feet high, is very fine; Crategus Georgica, the same; C. pendula; Cy-
tisus laburnum pendulus; C. capitatus, C. decumbens, C. aralensis, grafted
on Laburnums; Fagus sylvatica pendula; Fraxinus lentiscifolia pendula,
very fine; Populus pendula; Prunus Chinensis pleno pendula, if grafted
six feet high, looks well; Pyrus communis pendula; Quercus pendula; Ro-
binia pendula; Sophora Japonica pendula; Tilia pendula ; Ulmus pendula;
Abies pendula; Larix pendula; Pinus Fraseri; Cupressus pendula; Juni-
perus repanda. Some of these are new, and very scarce; they may be ob-
tained at some public nurseries—withort doubt from the extensive collection
of Messrs. LoppicEs, at Hackney, which is certainly the largest in the
country. N. Y.— ARBORETUM.
Jan. 6th, 1836.

DLAVATERA THURINGIACA. Monodelphia Polyandria. Malvacese.—This
lovely plant is worthy of the most extensive cultivation, and deserving a
place in every flower-garden. It forms a fine bush when planted singly,
being covered with a profusion of large expanded pink and lilac flowers
from May to November, and growing to the height of from four to six feet.
I have had some splendid specimens of this beautiful plant in flower the
whole of the summer, which have been greatly admired; but I am sorry to
say it is so little cnltivaied, as seldom to be seen except in general collec-
tions. Propagated by cuttings or seed. J. We,

Great Bookham, Surrey, Dec. 13, 1835.

REFERENCE TO THE EMBELLISHMENTS.

1. Bignonia Cherere.—This very splendid, climbing, flowering plant, is a
native of Guiana, where it was found by M. AuBLET. It is a showy plant
for a conservatory or greenhouse, if planted ont into a space having plenty
of room to root in. If so cultivated, it will climb to a great extent, and
produce numerous racemes of magnificent flowers. Each raceme generally
producing from six to ten flowers upon each, It merits a situation in every
greenhouse or conservatory, The plant blooms from May to August. It is
readily increased by cuttings. And may be obtained of most of the principal
nurserymen. The natives of Guiana make baskets and jbroad brimmed
hats, of the flexible shoots of this plant. Bignonia, in compliment to Abbe
Bienon, Librarian to Louis XIV. King of France. Cherere, after B.
CHERERE.

2. Phtox Drummondii—Myr. Drummonps. A very splendid flowering
annual Phlox introduced last year from Texas. Our drawing was taken
from a small specimen sent us. ‘ A large figure of it was given in the
Botanical Magazine for last November. The plant deserves a place in every
flower garden. Itis a most profuse bloomer. The stems rise about a foot
high, and blossom for a long time during summer. It will, doubtless, soon
be in the possession of the public seedsmen, nurserymen, &c.

3. Canavalia bonariensis—A very handsome hot-house climbing plant,
blooming a great part of summer. The flowers are produced in profusion,
upon pendulous racemes, six or eight inches long; making a most-graceful
and showy appearance. The plant grows freely, and climbs to a great
length, if in a rich loamy soil. Itis a native of Buenos Ayres. It deserves
a place in every hot-house. Messrs. Younc, of Epsom, possess plants of
this lovely climber.

FLORICULTURAL CALENDAR FOR MARCH.

We refer our readers to Vol. I. pages 21, 23, 32, 43, and 48 ; to Vol. II.
72; and Vol, ILI. 72, for directions as to what is necessary to be attended to
this month,

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APRIL Isr, 1836.

PART I.
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ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

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ARTICLE I.—On the Culture, §c. of the Rose. By Mr.
Wiii1amM Barratt, St. John’s Botanic Garden,
Wakefield.

After I had sent you an account of the method in which I trained
Roses, a thought struck me, that it might not be unacceptable to
some of your numerous readers, to make a few observations on the
kind of soil in which it is proper for them to grow, and the manner
in which they are to be pruned.

The compost in which they are to be planted, must, of course
depend on the nature of the soil ; if of a light sandy quality, adda
compost, in equal parts, of well-rotted cows’ dung, and well-rotted
turf, from an old strong clay pasture: but if the soil is a strong
clay, add well rotted stable dung, sharp sand, and well rotted turf,
from a light sandy pasture.

Pruninc.—The Garden varieties, bloom the best when the
young shoots are regularly shortened in winter, to about two or
three inches long, it makes them shoot fine bold buds, and the
flowers are consequently much finer than when not pruned at all,
or only shortened a little.

The Noisettes require a different treatment : they should be well
manured autumn and spring, to enable them to push vigorously.
Four or more shoots should be permitted to grow; and when
pruned, two of the oldest stems cut to about three inches from the
ground ; likewise the lateral branches of the stems not cut down;

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74 ON THE CULTURE OF ROSES.

should be shortened, leaving them from four to ten feet high; by
this method the blooming season is prolonged, and finer clusters
of blossoms are produced.

The Perpetual, or the Four Seasons Roses, require very rich
soil, which may readily be made so by manure, and improved by
plentiful supplies of manure water in August and September. The
flower buds which grow in June and July, should be cut off ere
they burst into bloom, and in winter, pruned as closely in as those
designated Garden Roses. Ifa sheltered situation can be giveh,
it is a great advantage, as the cold winds in September and Octo-
ber -have a bad effect on the opening buds, at that season. Ina
soil naturally wet, the beds should be drained, as too much mois-
ture at the roots in the time of flowering, is also injurious. This
class is worthy of a little extra trouble, being so splendid when
well grown.

The Climbers, for pyramids and arches, require an opposite
treatment with the knife, for if pruned after the manner of other
Roses, they can never produce many flowers. Two or more stems
should be grown as long and strong as possible, by very rich soil ;
at least half a barrow of well rotted dung for one, at first planting,
and half that quantity every succeeding year. When the stems
get too numerous, (say from seven to ten,) cut out one or two of
the weakest every winter, and shorten the largest lateral branches,
to keep them in that form the owner's taste may require.

The Odorata, or by some termed the Tea-scented Roses, will
grow best on an elevated bed, well sheltered from the north and
west. And if the ground has at all a tendency to retain wet, the
sub-stratum should be made with broken stones, six inches thick,
and the bed raised from fifteen to twenty inches above the level of
the garden. They require but little pruning, besides cutting out
the dead wood ; and if taken up in autumn, potted, and put into a
frame, or covered with a hand glass in the bed where they grow,
will do much better than if exposed all winter. While the plants
are weak, part of the flower buds should be cut off, as they fre-
quently flower themselves to death.

SranparD Roses.—These require the eye of the gardener fre-
quently upon them, to cut off the wild suckers and branches as
they make their appearance. Great care should be taken in the
winter pruning to make the heads as proportionate as possible, for

——— Se el

ON FORCING ROSES. 7)

if a greater number of branches, or stronger wood, be permitted
to remain on one side than the other, the tree becomes de-
formed. This is of importance, for by a neglect of one or two
seasons, a good form is irrecoverably lost: likewise, the shorter
the branches are cut, the better they bloom.

From the above remarks it will be readily seen, that to prune all
kinds of Rose trees after one method,would be highly improper ;
and that if done, it would cause some of the best kinds to be worth-
less. Wititam Barratt.

ARTICLE II.—On Forcing Roses. By A DEVONIAN.

After the clear statement of the best method of forcing Roses,
made by Messrs. Woop and WILLIs in the First Number of the
second volume of the Cabinet, a request for further information
‘may seem almost unnecessary ; but I am anxious to have a few
more hints on the same subject. In the first place, it is not in
the power of all florists to treat the plants in the manner recom-
mended by the former gentleman, as a hotbed on the plan de-
scribed by him cannot always be procured. The plan of the
latter is likewise open to objection, as few amateurs have hothouses
so numerous as to admit of their moving their plants from one
degree of heat to a greater—and, without removing them, the in-
ereased temperature required for the Roses might prove highly
injurious to other plants in the same house. What I am, therefore»
desirous of knowing is, whether it is possible to have fine forced
‘Roses late in December, and during the months of January,
‘February, and March, with the accommodation of one hothouse,
‘which is appropriated to the culture of the usual stove plants. A
minnte account of the treatment to be pursued is earnestly re-
quested, which J doubt not some experienced Rose cultivator will
accede to. I once attempted to force some Roses in the bark-bed

of a warm greenhouse, but I failed completely, the plants only
producing a few sickly blossoms of the smallest size. The Roses
were plunged in the bark in the month of J anuary, but the flowers
‘were not produced much before the usual blooming season in June.
In addition to the information already asked, {I am anxious to
know if the plants will hear being removed to a conservatory; after

76 ON RAISING NEW VARIETIES OF THE MIMULDS.

the blossoms are produced, or whether their blooming will be
checked by their being submitted to the lower temperature requi-
site for flowering Camellias, &c. &c. I wish also to know whether

Moss, Provence, and other summer Roses can be induced to
bloom as freely as Noisette, Perpetual, China, Tea-scented, and
Isle de Bourbon Roses. Perhaps the kindness of the correspon-
dent wko replies to these queries, will be further displayed in
giving me a few names of the best Roses for forcing. Messrs.
Rivers, in their new Catalogue, recommend the Dog Rose, from
its easily excitable habit, as the stock on which Roses, for forcing,
should be worked: what height should the stock be, to display
the flowers to advantage ?

A few hints on forcing the Persian Lilac, or any other plants
calculated to add to the beauty of a conservatory in early spring,
would also be very acceptable.

My last queries respecting conservatory shrubs and climbers,
have not been answered: a reply is much wished for, and an early
answer to the present is solicited.

Jan. 29th, 1836. A Devonian,

ARTICLE III.—On Raising New Varieties of the
Mimulus. By CALcEOLARIA.

Though I cannot answer “ T. P.” and “ A Lawyer’s Clerk” as
satisfactorily as I could wish, yet I can put them in a way of
obtaining several varieties of Mimuluses without much expense.
Let them get seeds of the different sorts advertised in your last
number by CHariwoop and Warwnsgr, and sow each variety as
soon now as possible in a seed-pan (which should be about a foot
in diameter, and four inches deep, with four or five holes in the
bottom). Place the pans in a greenhouse, hotbed, or even warm
window in the dwelling-house, and the young plants will soon
make their appearance ; give them plenty of air by day, when the
weather is tolerable, and early in June prick them out in patches
in the flower-garden, where they will flower all the autumn, I
adopted this plan last year with two varieties I obtained from
CxaRrLwoop—variegata and rosea; and though the former were
all execrable, the latter amply repaid me, for one small packet of

ON DESTROYING EARWIGS, &c. 77

seed produced several very pretty and distinct varieties, some with
white grounds, others with yellow, and all marked with spots of
purple or brown of different shades and form. From these I
selected a collection for the greenhouse, thinking the winter would
destroy them in the open air ; but I am happy to say that those I
left in the garden are now looking very well, not the least injured
by the frost. I also inoculated a few of the finest flowers, which
produced seed abundantly ; this I sowed in October, and have
now some fine young plants in pans, which, with my seedling
Calceolarias sowed at the same time, I expect will afford me some
little gratification this summer.

Mimuluses should be frequently watered in summer, and if in
pots, they should have a pan of water always under them : indeed,
a neighbour of mine tells me they may be planted in a small
stream of water, where they will grow like Water Cresses, and
produce a very beautiful effect. CALCEOLARIA,

| Feb. 11th, 1836.

ARTICLE IV.—On Destroying Earwigs, §c. By Han-
RIETTA.

In your October number, “ A Subscriber” reiterates the query
of several correspondents—“ What is the best mode of destroying
the wireworm ?” In reply, I beg to suggest the very simple and
efficacious remedy first recommended by Sir JosrrH Banks, viz. :
Let slices of potatoes notched narrowly in three or four places and
stuck upon skewers, be buried just below the surface of the mould
in your Carnation pots; they should be examined every morning,
and the wireworms, which will collect upon them, be destroyed.
Ranunculus beds may likewise be preserved from their ravages in
a similar manner. Speaking of this destructive vermin, Hoce
says, “Destroy this pest by every means in your power.” They
are generally to be found in new earth that has not been broken up
for some time, and I would sooner employ a man for a fortnight to
go over the whole by handfuls with a trowel, than run the risk
of losing treble the amount of his wages in Carnations, to say
nothing of the disappointment.

Earwics.—* Dianthus” sometime ago recommended the use of

78 TO CAUSE THE HYDRANGEA HORTENSIS TO FLOWER BLUE.

tin tubes, as traps for these rapacious enemies of the Dahlia and
Carnation, the inefficacy of which was complained of by “ Crito,”
in October, 1833. As an excellent trap, the service whereof I
have proved, I would recommend that pieces of Alder (of which
withered sticks may easily be obtained at this time of the year),
about half an inch in diameter, and with thé pith pushed out, or
the flowering stems of the Lupinus polyphyllus, should be cut into
six-inch lengths, and concealed in different parts of the Dahlias.
At the approach of day, the insects will retire into these traps, and
if they be examined every morning, greatnumbersmay be destroyed.

APHIDES, oR Pxiant Lice.—There is an insect of the Coccus
genus, which has various names in different parts of the country ;
such as God's-cows, Lady-birds, Lady-cows, &c., which are often
ignorantly destroyed on account of its being supposed to be inju-
rious to plants ; whereas, whatever little peculations it may occa-
sionally indulge in, are amply compensated for, by its rapacity in
its larva state for the Aphis; so well known is this to naturalists,
that it has received the cognomen of Lion of the Aphides. In the
early part of last summer, T had several Hollyhocks in my garden,
whereof the under surface of the leaves were covered with the
Aphis; here they would have nested as it were, and afterwards
slowly distributed themselves over the garden; one morning, how-
ever, I observed a number of dark grey wingless insects, about
three-eighths of an inch long, running over the leaves with great
rapidity ; within a week from their appearance, not an Aphis was
to be found on the plants.

HENRIETTA.
London, Feb. 5, 1836.

ARTICLE V.—To cause the Hydrangea hortensis to
Jlower Blue. By Mr. Maun, Gardener to the Rev.
G. Wray, Bramhope Hall.

The Hydrangea hortensis has a place in most collections
throughout England. When grown to perfection, it forms a fine
plant for the greenhouse during the summer months, amongst the
tender annuals ; it is also a showy shrub ina conservatory, and
beautiful in the vestibule.

ON THE CULTURE OF THE TREE ROSE. 79

When the flowers of the Hydrangea hortensis begin to decay,
and the wood sufficiently hard enough to endure the weather, I
place the plants out in some convenient part of the garden, where
I let them remain exposed till the last week in February, or first
week in March, when I proceed to pot them for bloom. The
compost I use is what I have grown my Cucumbers in the prece-
ding year, which consists of half the quantity of good loam, a
quarter of good spit dung from an old Cucumber or Melon bed,
and a quarter of decayed leaves. This mixture I lay in the com-
post yard for use. The Hydrangeas I bloom in a sixteenth-sized
pot: I divest the roots of the old mould. From those plants I
intend to produce blue flowers, I cut off the long fibrous roots,
reducing the ball to the size ofa thirty-two sized pot. I take one
ounce of oil of vitriol, and, with a quill or strong feather, I touch
the roots of two plants all over. The remaining oil of vitriol I
mix with a sufficient quantity of mould to pot two plants. When
I have potted them, I place them ina shed or some sheltered
situation for three or four weeks, until they have made new roots ;
then I place them in a forcing-house, and take especial care not
to let them dreop for want of water. The above method I have
practised with success for upwards of twenty years. The flowers
are equally as large as those that are pink.

Feb. 21st, 1836. ° Jonas Maup.

ARTICLE VI.—On the Culture of the Tree Rose. By
Rosa.
' (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 38.)

By the early part of April, the stocks will have pushed shoots.
When they have grown about half an inch long, or even a little
earlier, it will be necessary to look over the stems, in order to rub
off all those shoots not required for budding upon. A weakly
stock may have one or two left upon it, and a vigorous one three,
four, or five. In making choice of shoots, care must be taken to
reserve those that are properly disposed : as, for instance, if two
shoots, let them be opposed to each other; if three, let them form
a triangle; and for a greater number, let them be as near as pos-
sible at equal distances from each other, and so as to form the
handsomest head. It must be attempted to get all the shoots as

80 ON PRUNING THE GARDEN ROSE.

near the top of the stock as may be, so as to have them capable of
forming a desirable head.

If, after this regulation of shoots, any others push, they must
be rubbed off at the earliest stage; and should any suckers appear,
they must be carefully taken away. To guard against injury from
the above casualties, or by insects, the stocks must from time to
time be looked over: sometimes slugs or caterpillars will creep up,
and eat off the tender points of the shoots, or otherwise damage
them, so as to cause the head to be deformed.

If the stocks had good roots, and were attended to in collecting,
conveying, planting, securing, and regulating, by removing use-
less shoots, those retained will soon push forth vigorous shoots. It
will be necessary then to look them over, in order to see if any
particular shoot is growing far more robust than the others, and
thus robbing them of support; such a shoot must have the end
pinched off, in order to throw the sap into the others, that they
may become of a similar size.

Nothing more will be required than observing the above-named
regulations till July, excepting a very droughty season occurs, in
which case a supply of water occasionally to the roots would assist
the plants to grow suitably.

My next observations will comprise the operation of budding,
which shall be sent in due time for the May or June Cabinet.

March 4th, 1836. Rosa.

ARTICLE VIL.—On Pruning the Garden Varieties of
Roses. By Rosa.

Having paid considerable attention to the culture of the Garden
Rose, as already stated in my observations at the commencement
of my Article on the Tree Rose, I send a few hints on pruning,
the result of my own observation, and the method I now pursue.

The period of pruning should be deferred till towards spring,
say the early part of March ; but as it may be desirable to have
some later than others, and thus prolong the season, I leave a
selection for the attainment of that object, to be pruned at the
end of March, or even in April; so that by allowing the end buds
to push shoots an inch long, the buds at the lower part of a shoot

‘

ON THE CULTURE OF THE RANUNCULUS. 81

of the previous year’s wood are not excited, when I cut away the
upper portion which have pushed ; the remainder do so afterwards,
and cause the bloom to be three weeks later than would have been
the case had they been pruned finally at the usual time of pruning.

In pruning in the shoots of last year’s wood, I cut away all that
portion of each, so as to leave only two of the lowest buds. *These
buds are always indicated by a small ring round the shoot. Two
such buds are quite enough to leave to every shoot retained of last
year's wood, being quite sufficient to occupy the sap, and keep the
tree in desirable bounds ; besides the shoots will be much stronger,
and the Roses in proportion larger. This mode of cutting in the
shoots generally causes the production of suckers ; and as a portion
of the old wood must each year be taken away, either wholly or in
part, such suckers of young wood make a suitable supply, and thus
the bush is kept young ; whereas by allowing the last year’s shoots
to be kept long, encouragement is given to cause the tree to push
rapidly upwards, and become naked and unsightly below, which is
never the case with mine.

In cutting away a portion of a shoot, I cut nearly to the upper-
most bud I leave ; so that not one-eighth of an inch of old wood is
above it, and thus the wound heals up closely with the new shoot.

The slovenly practice of omitting to cut a Rose-tree more than
once in several years, has come under my observation : the irregu-
larity and naked bushes were quite unsightly, and when cut down
low to obtain a new head, they refused to push forth shoots. A
plant omitted for only a single season, loses its proper form for
that year, and will not bloom near so well.

¢ Rosa.

ARTICLE VIII.—On the Culture of the Ranunculus.

By R. |
My mode of growing the Ranunculus has been invariably suc-

cessful. It being also very simple, I forward it for insertion in

the Cabinet.

Thave a suitable situation in my garden fixed upon. The old

soil is taken out to the depth of twelve inches ; when that is cleared

out, I lay four inches thick of well-rotted old hotbed dung and
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28 GLEANINGS FROM OLD AUTHORS.

well-rotted cow-dung, which had lain on a heap a year and a half.
Upon this I cast about a foot deep of yellow maiden soil, from a
pasture field. It was a good, rich, natural loam. I mixed no
manure with it. I have planted both in November and in Febru-
ary, March, April, and May, with equal success. I have the bed
prepared a month before I plant, to admit of settling. I renew
the soil and dung every season. I plant the roots about an inch
and a half deep,—that is, the crown so much covered. Previous
to planting, I have the bed made even, and gently beat with a
suitable flat spade. After planting, I beat the surface freely, to
close the soil well round the roots. When the soil between the
rows gets “baked,” as it is termed, I have it carefully loosened
with a pointed piece of wood. This operation is repeated as often
as the surface becomes too close. In a soil of this kind, and
planted as I have done, I never have failed of a fine bloom, and
the colours are exceedingly clear and distinct. There has never
been occasion to water the beds more than twice in a dry season.
When I have given them any, I have done it so as to reach the
bottom of each. My roots get very plump, and keep healthy with
such treatment. I take them up when the foliage begins to yellow,
and keep them in small bags, laid on ribbed shelves in a drawer.
Iam confident that if the same plan be practised with this most
lovely flowering plant, satisfactory results will attend it.
Manchester, March 7th, 1836. R.

ARTICLE IX.—Gleanings from Old Authors. No. III.
By Tuipa.

As the Tulip season is advancing, perhaps the following extraets
(from Rea’s Flora, 1676) may be amusing to some of your curious
readers who are not acquainted with the work.

“ The division of Tulips according to Gerrard, Parkinson, Clu-
sius, and Perrarius, is into three sorts—Pracoces, Medias, and
Serotinas ; early, middle, and late-flowering Tulips; whereas there
are but two primary distinct kinds, Prascoces and Serotinas.”

The following is the manner of his description of the named
Tulip flowers, and of which there are about 179, (viz.-Pracoces,
36; Medias, 134; Serotinas, 9,) besides those he does not de+
scribe. I haye selected two only, both of which I have,

GLEANINGS FROM OLD AUTHORS. 83

“ Semper Augustus, heretofore of much esteem, hath a flower
not very large, but well veined and striped with deep crimson and
pale yellow, the bottom and tamis dark violet purple.”

“Royal Vesta, or Nonpare, is a better and more constant, flower
than the last (viz, Vesta). ‘The colours are carnation, crimson,
and white. When the flower makes well, the bottom is white and

the tamis blew.”

& For various colours Tulips most excell,
And some Anemonies do please as well ;
Ranunculus in richest scarlets shine,
And Bear’s-ear* may with these in beauty joyn ;
But yet if ask and have were in my power,
Next to the Rose give me the July flower.”

The above few lines are written at the close of the article on
July flowers, and it appears that at that period the supply for the
growers were brought from Holland, Flanders, and other parts of
the Netherlands. He inserts a list of 360 by name, and says,—
“Multitudes of these (seedlings) are often brought over to London,
and there sold at mean rates to gardners, who sell them again to
others who delight in flowers, commonly for 12 pence a layer ;
but most of these mercenary fellows about London are very deceit-
ful, and whoever trusts is sure to be deceived, as I myself have
often been, even by such of them as I had by many benefits
obliged.”

“I have heard but of very few good flowers that have been raised,
of seeds by any in England.”

The following is from the Compleat Florist (1706) :

— * Of Sun-flowers or Turnsoles, atherwise called Heliotropes.

“ Sun-flower is the true name of this plant, of which I am now
treating, and ‘tis call’d in Latin Corona Solis. We call it Turn-
sole from an Italian word, which signifies turning it self towards
the sun: and Heliotrope, from Heliotropium, deriv’d from nAsos,
which signifies the sun, and from rpéxw, which is in English ‘I
turn’: the flower of this plant turning it self always towards the
sun, because it being heavy, and its stalk heated and soften’d on
the side next the sun, it must naturally incline that way:

* Auriéula;

84 GLEANINGS FROM OLD AUTHORS.

“We sow the Sun-flowers of the great sort, but those we call
hardy are multiplied by their rootsy»by slitting of the tufts that
produce these plants, and of which they always have a quantity
sufficieyt to store us.

“ This plant being of two sorts, take notice, that the first sort of
‘em is that which grows extreamly high, and that produces but
one stalk ; and that the second is that which is lower; that shoots
many more stalks, and that are much fuller of branches.

“ The first of them is almost laid aside at present; and if there
be any in our gardens, it is generally in a by-place, or at the ends
of some borders ; for they would look very ill planted in borders,
and would do harm to the flowers that grow near ‘em,

“In regard to the second, you must by no means plant it in
any part of your garden: for if the first grows too high, this spreads
too much on all sides, and consequently is apt to stifle many
flowers that grow round it. The places most proper for them, are
great walks, set all along with trees: between which, if we plant
these Sun-flowers according to art, and at the distance of at least
three foot from one another, they will then look very gracefully.

« We may likewise place ‘em in the middle of the little knots
of parterres, but in company with no other flower: supposing
always that in this, as well as in all the other works and contri-
vances relating to gardening, we observe a symmetry, that never
fails to give pleasure to the sight.

“ Sun-flowers are contented in all sorts of earths; good or bad,
they know no difference ; and when their roots are slit for increase,
they must be put three inches deep in the earth.

“ When the Sun-flowers of the second sort are grown to a mid-
dling height, before they have attain’d their full growth we clip
with gardning-shears all the branches that grow too much out-
ward, that shoot too far from the main stalk, or that mount too
high. The discretion of the workman must guide his hend in
taking more or less away, and in giving it the figure that agrees

» best with it; which is, in a manner, that of around bush. The
gardner need not give himself much trouble about the culture of
this plant ; for without his assistance, Nature alone cultivates it so
well, that it produces its flowers in perfection.

“ Sun-flowers, as I have said already, are of two sorts; one of
which shoots out a stalk of at least five or six foot high, very strait

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GLEANINGS FROM OLD AUTHORS. 85

and without branches ; whose leaves are almost as large as those
of the Vine, notch’d in their edges, a little pointed at their end,
and rough to the feeling.

« At the top of this stalk grows a heamy flower, whose disk is
compos’d of several ranks of yellow leaves plac’d in the shape of a
crown, in the midst of which are several other ranks of leaves sup-
ported on embryo’s, divided one from another by leaves folded up
like a gutter, and contain’d in a scaly cup. These embryo’s come
in time to be oblong seeds, shut up in seed-vessels apart from one
another.”

The following is the fabulous account given by the ancient
heathens as to the origin of this plant. We have most abundant
cause for gratitude that we are favoured with the Holy Scriptures,
which give us the correct account of the Being who created all
things, and the design therein.

“I must now relate the love of an unfortunate virgin, whose
heart was so wounded with that passion, that death was the only
remedy could cure her. Her name was Clytia, and she was fallen
so desperately in love with the Sun, that she could not be one
moment without seeing him. The Sun, who in those days went
by the name of Phebus, was a handsome young man, and of a
charming mien and behaviour; but he had little regard to the
passion of his damsel. She enquir’d every where, whither she
might go to see him oftnest ; and hearing at length that the Isle
of Rhodes was the place he most frequented, she resolv'd to go
thither. But alas! scarce was she arriv’d in Rhodes, when she
heard that Phcebus was in love with another. To-what unheard-of
grief did she then abandon herself, especially _when she was too
fully convine’d of that intrigue, by being an eye-witness of the
shower of gold that he caus’d it to rain down, and of the roses that
were seen to blow the day of the birth of Rhodia, who was the
fruit of that amour. She wept, and bemoan’d her condition, to try
if Phoebus would have any regard for her: but perceiving that all
was to little purpose, she could no longer resist the ill that oppress’d
her, but afflicted herself to that degree, that her grief brought her
to the grave. Then Phebus was touch’d with compassion, and in
token of his concern for her, chang’d her into a flower, which he
commanded should be call’d Sun-flower, in acknowledgment of
the love Clytia bore him.” TULIpa.

PART II.

Ere

REVIEWS AND EXTRACTS,

The Landscape Gardener ; comprising the History and Prineiples
of Tasteful Horticulture, By J. Dennis, B.C.L., Pre-
bendary of the Collegiate Church of Exeter Castle, and
Author of “The Key to the Regalia.” “ Architectura Sacra,”
&c. &c. 8vo0. London, 1835.

The work contains some descriptive remarks on a few Country Seats, and
interesting observations on Landscape Gardening. A Map of the newly laid
out Gardens at Buckingham Palace, and two Views, taken in the Grounds,
and a Map of St. James’s Park, with a piece of Water, Island, &c. are con-
tained in the work, all executed in a superior manner. The following
extract is taken from the Author's remarks on the distribution of Evergreen
Trees, Shrubs, &c, &c.

“Tf yews be planted in proximity to a mansion, for the sake of valuable
shelter from bleak winds, they should not assume a prominent position, but
should be interspersed with groups of Weymouth pine or bay, and be faced
with laurels of Inxuriant growth. By such contrast, the gloom of their
dingy leaf is relieved with vivid and glossy green; or, if the contrast appear
too strong, it may be mellowed by blending Portugal laurel in an inter-
mediate position. In short, the recommendation cannot be too frequently
reiterated, to substitute a studied assortment of tints for tasteless indiscri-
minate admixture. Let but the pictorial artist be permitted, or the amateur
condescend, to transfer his principles of taste, the one from his easel, the
other from his gallery, to occasional superintendence of English landscape-
gardening, and he would contribute to the production of a living vegetative
picture, constituting incalculable improvement in style, and commanding
inevitable commendation from the spectator of cultivated taste. Nay,

pleasure-grounds thus constructed would excite universal admiration, and’

impart universal gratification. Picturesque effect, copying and harmonising
with natural scenery, elicits pleasurable emotions, even in such as ‘ know
not why, and care not wherefore.’ But, for accomplishment of such an im-
portant desideratum, science must be suffered to acquire unlimited confidence,
in exercise of control; while prejudice must cease to plead for senseless
“custom, more honoured in the breach than in the observance.? An in-
dividual proprietor, or a public association, might rest assured of the antici-
pation of a result decidedly warranting the experiment.

“In resumption of the topic of evergreen trees, for formation of a fore-
ground, it may strongly be recommended, while collecting perennial foliage
of every species, to permit each variety of the beautiful ilex to predominate.
Single or combined, from elegance of shape, delicacy of leaf, and duration
of mantling, the ilex constitutes an embellishment almost unparalleled, yet
too frequently neglected. Of faster growth than the deciduous oak, it attains
expansion competent to the gratification of the planter’s eye, with not less
certainty, in the ordinary calculation of life's duration, than to please and
profit posterity. It should, then, on various accounts, abound in the
proximity of a decorated mansion, blended with masses of bay, backed by
cypress, yew, and pinaster, and faced with laurel, laurestinus, Portugal laurel,
privet, phillyrea, arbutus, with other flowering or variegated shrubs,

REVIEWS AND EXTRACTS. 87

“ Tn similar relative situation, but in prominent advance from trees and
unblossomed shrubs, flowering evergreens should invariably rank. Defying
‘the icy fang and churlish chiding of the winter's wind,’ the gay, cheering,
precocious laurestinus anticipates the lingering arrival of an English spring.
Tenacious of florage and permanently retentive of foliated decoration, it is
entitled to numerical predominance over every blossoming shrub. By
seasonable intervention and flowering profusion, it compensates for temporary
diminution of ornament, in other component ingredients of a shrubbery,
thus transferring to nipping winter’s gloom the exhilarating semblance of
summer's embellishment. Productive of such interesting impression in
pleasing the eye, it certainly merits conspicuousness by prominent position.

“The arbutus is a shrub peculiarly elegant and eligible, from perennial
decoration, rapid growth, and superior beauty in shape and tint of leaf, from
delicate blossom, and glowing berry. If suffered to remain unpruned, by
gaining height, it becames hollow and leafless beneath, retaining, like other
evergreens, only two years’ leaves, except about midsummer, when the third
year's are annexed, some weeks previous to the decay of the first. If not
surrounded by evergreens more stunted in growth, for concealment of its
lower leafless branches, it should biennially be deprived of a few long shoots,
by application of the pruning-knife, the shears being calculated to render a
Shrub hideously cabbage-poled. Any shrub judiciously pruned will retain
resemblance of its natural form. Artificial treatment should be studiously
disguised, and interposition of control be invariably concealed.

“ The phillyrea presents striking contrast to the gay or gaudy display of
flowering shrubs, being characterised by singular chasteness and unobtru-
sive simplicity. It is of intermediate tint, diminutive leaf, and moderate
growth ; consequently is precisely adapted to an advanced position, It will
there present a striking contrast to the imposing glare of variegated shrubs,
whether holly, aucuba, or others of similar class. Here, too, that lowly, yet

cheering, harbinger of spring, the mezereon, should rank, interspersed with
contemporaneous masses of hepatica, snowdrop, crocus, red daisy, and other
vernal flowers, protected by a wicker fence. ‘The cypress is adapted, by its
taper form and elevation, to relieve a structure. The pyracantha, pome-
granate, trumpet-pomegranate, white jessamine, but, paramount to all, the
elegant tamarisk, supply ornamental covering to a wall. In a sheltered
nook, even these may be surpassed by the beautiful single-blossomed myrtle.
From mildness of climate, it abounds in Devonshire, perhaps in no instance
so luxuriantly as in a garden of Mr. Neck’s, curate of King’s Kerswell, where
it acquires considerable size detached from a wall, as well as height when
attached. The front of a house at Bishop’s-Teington has long been covered
to the top by myrtles of forty years’ growth, protected from the easterly wind

by a wing, and from the westerly by an equal defence, with the advantage
of a southern aspect.”

The Florist Cultivator, or Plain Directions for the Management
of the Principal Florist Flowers, Shrubs, &c. §c. adapted to
the Flower-Garden, Shrubbery, and Greenhouse ; with Select
Lists of the finest Roses, Geraniums, Carnations, Pinks,
Auriculas, Polyanthuses, Tulips, Dahlias, Heartsease, &e. &e.
The whole arranged on a plan different from any work
hitherto published. By Tuomas Wituars, Esq., Amateur
Cultivator. London: James Ridgway and Sons, 1835.—
pp- 360.

We give the following extract to our readers as a specimen of the work,
which, though not perfection itself, contains some useful directions and
dgacriptions, which doubtless will be improved upon in future editions :—

88 REVIEWS AND EXTRACTS.

496. LUPINUS POLYPHYLLUs, var. ALBIFLORUS.— While large-leaved perennial
Lupine.
Class 17th.—Diadelphia Decandria.

This beautiful plant is a variety of that deep blue species now so common
an ornament of our gardens,

A native of North America, and perpetuates itself by seeds, without vary-
ing. It flowers in June.

498. LopHOSPERMUM ERUBESCENS.—Blushing Lophospermum.
Class 14th.—Didynamia Angiospermia.

This very handsome climber is a native of Mexico.

It grows most luxuriantly during the summer, trained to awall or treillage ;
but requires to be protected during winter, that the woody stems may be pre-
served from the frost, to push forth new flowering branches the succeeding
year. It increases so readily by cuttings, that it will soon be generally
known. It blows in August.

499. Rosa Ruca.—The Ruga Rose.
Class 12th.—Icosandria Polygyuia.

This beautiful variety, as a garden plant, is one of the most valuable that
we are acquainted with. It will sometimes grow 10 or 12 feet in the year,
and therefore well adapted to scrambling orer old pales, or to covering any
other place in which a wildness of appearance is desirable. It is full as
fragrant as the sweet-scented Chinese Rose, in colour deeper, especially before
being fully expanded. It is readily increased by cuttings.

500. Loasa aMBROSL#FOLIA.—Amobrosia-leaved Loasa.
Class 13th.—Polyandria Monogynia.

This is a very beautiful new Annual, it was placed on the south side of a
yew hedge in the garden of the Horticultural Society, where it grew vigo-
rously, attaining a height of about 2 feet and a half, flowering from July to
September, and producing seed freely.

It perished at the first approach of frost.

501. Sepum cep#a.—Panicled Sicnecrop.
Class 10th.— Decandria Pentagynia.

It is an Annual, and well adapted to ornamental rock-work. It also grows
well in the common border.

It is a native of the South of Europe, and may be seen in the garden of
the Horticultural Society. ;

502. CaLOcHORTUS VENUSTUS.—Spolted Calochortus.
Class 6th.— Hexandria MWonogynia.

A remarkable and beautiful bulbous plant, which flowers in June; at
which season it gives a new feature to the flower garden; it is cultivated with-
out difficulty. The bulb should be kept dry till Christmas, and then planted
in a pot and placed in the greenhouse, whence it may be placed in the border
till frosts appear. It succeeds well in either loam and sand, or common
garden mould. It should be planted in the border the latter end of May,
Ke. &e.

Last month we noticed the “New Botanisl’s Guide,” we now give a speci-
men of this interesting work. Another on the Geographical distribution of
British Plants, we are informed, is forthcoming. The present volume in-
cludes all the counties of England and Wales.

X. MIDDLESEX AND LONDON.

Finding several plants recorded by writers as growing “near London,” I
have added them to the Middlesex list, although not expressly mentioned to
grow within the county. Some few stations, particularly along the Thames-
side, are continued in this county from the Bolanist’s Guide, although ap-
pearing to be actually inSurrey. Whether any others have been referred to
a wrong county I am not aware; but having usually lived far remote from
London, I am not well acquainted with the vicinity. It may be supposed
that many of the plants formerly found near London, as inserted in the

NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 89

Botanis?’s Guide, have been eradicated from the assigned stations by build-
ing and alterations. A Flora Metropolitana, to exhibit the actual botany
of the country round London, would be a valuable addition to our local floras.
But the Collecting. Box, not the Library, must give the materials for drawing
up such,

*ANEMONE apennina. Near Harrow on the Hill. B. G. /

Myrosurvs minimus. Meadows behind the chapel, and in a Jane that goes
from Copenhagen Hontse to Kentish Town; Mary-le-Bone Park ;
Islington ; Paddington; Pancras; Edmonton. B. G.

RANUNCULUS parviflorus. Hackney, Kentish Town, andfseveral places about

London. B. G.
tAponts autumnalis, Among the corn at Acton; frequent abont London.
By. G.

}Hxrtreporvs viridis. Near Harefield. Eng. Fl. Down Barn Hill, near
Harrow ; in a small wood near Finchley. B. G.

*CAMELINA sativa. Road-side at Stoke Newington; Highgate; Isle of
Dogs. B. G.

CocuizariA anglica. Isle of Dogs. B. G,

Trzspaxta nudicaulus, Near Hampton Court, and other places about Lon-

don. B.G.
Denraria bulbifera. In the Old Park Wood, ‘near Harefield, abundantly.
Eng. Fi. :

*DRaBA muralis. About Chelsea, probably from gardens. Br. Fl.

CARDAMINE amara. River-side at Harefield, and about Uxbridge, plenti-
fally; banks of the Thames between Kew and Mortlake; at
Chelsea; Isle of Dogs. B. G.

impatiens. “Thames-side, near the Botanic Garden, Chelsea.
Martyn. There can be little doubt but the following species (C.
amara) was intended.” B.G,

Nasturtium sylvestre. Tothill Fields, and other low watery situations in
the vicinity of the Thames. Eng. Fl.

Stsyamprivm /rio. Waltham Green. (Mr. W. Pamplin.) W. Christy, sp.
I found this plant by the direction of the Rev. G. E. Smith, which
has almost totally disappeared of late about Chelsea, &c. It grows
by some new houses in a lane near Waltham Green Church, near
Fulham. W. Pamplin, mss. About Chelsea, and the whole neigh-
bourhood of London; walls at Brompton; abont Haggerstone ; on
@ bank opposite Shoreditch Workhouse, &c. B. G,

NEW OR RARE PLANTS

WHICH WE HAVE NOTICED SINCE OUR LAST,

a

1, Alstremeria aurantiaca, Orange-flowered. (Bot. Reg. 1834.) A very
handsome flowering species. The flower stems grow about three feet high,
producing heads of numerous flowers. The flowers are of an orange colour
spotted with dark. The plant deserves a place in every flower garden. It
may be procnred of most of the Nurserymen and Florists. It will require a
slight protection from the severities of winter, by mulching over the roots,
er covering with a hand-glass, &c. Class, Hexandria; order, Monogynia.
Natural order, Amaryllidacew, Alstremeria, from Baron ALSTREMER.

2. Anchusa versicolor, Changeable flowered Alkanet. (Bot. Mag. 3477.)
The plant is a hard annual, a native of the Caucasian Alps, producing nu-
merous flowers, which in their early stage are of a rosy-red colour, bat when
fully expanded change to a bright blue with a yellow eye, diverging into
humerous rays of a whitish yellow colour, Each flower is about two-thirds

VOL, TV. N

50 NEW OR RARE PLANTS.

of an inch acrogs, much resembling in appearance the common blue Coii-
volvulus, only smaller flowers. It is a very pretty flowering plant, and de-
serves a place in the flower garden, blooms from June to August, or even
Jater. Seeds of the plant may be obtained of most of the principal Seeds-
men. Pentandria Monogynia. Boraginew. Anchusa, from alchousa, paint ;
the roots of one species A. tinctoria, dyeing a red colour,

3. Calliopsis tinctoria, var. atropurpurea. (Maund’s Bot. Gard.) The genus
Coreopsis has been divided, and the deservedly admired plant formerly called
Coreopsis tinctoria, is now called Calliopsis bicolor. The present plant ap-
pears to be a variety of it. It isan annual plant, growing near a yard high,
and produces a profusion of flowers. ‘The rich purple crimson spreads entirely
over the face of the corolla in some flowers, while others have only a slight
golden-edged rim. The flower is upwards of an inch across. We had seeds
of it sent under the name of C. atrosanguinea. It far exceeds in beauty
the common kind. Syngenesia Frustranea. Composite. Calliopsis, from
Kallistos, most beautiful, aud opsis, sight.

4. Coreopsis diversifolia, Various leaved. (Bot. Mag. 3474.) Synonym,
C. auriculata, var. diversifolia. Another handsome and showy annual plant,
growing about half a yard high, and producing numerous flowers, of a bright
orange colour, having a very small dark eye. The flower is two inches or
upwards across. Seeds of this plant were sent from the Texas, to the Glas-
gow Botanic Garden, by the late Mr. DrumMonp»D, in the spring of 1835.
The fine coloured large flowers give a very showy appearance, and render
the plant desirable for the flower garden. Syngensia Frustanea. Com-
posite. Coreopsis, from Korris, a bug, and opsis, a resemblance, referring to
the appearance of the seeds.

5. Coryanthus macrantha, Large flowered. (Bot. Reg. 1841.) Synonym,
Gongora macrantha. The flowers of this Orchideous plant are most extra-
ordinary, both in shape and variety of colour. The plant resembles in ap-
pearance a Stanhopea. Each flower measures upwards six inches across.
The sepals are of a deep yellow, very much spotted with a dull purple. The
petals are of a similar colour. The lip is very solid and fleshy, situated
upon a dark purple stalk, the end is of a greenish purple colour, formed like
a cap, the front of which is of a blood colour, and the sides of a yellow
streaked and marked with rosy-crimson, The plant has bloomed in the
collection of Mr. Knreut, King’s-road, Chelsea.

6. Kennedya glabrata, Smooth leaved. A handsome, and yery neat flower-
ing greenhouse plant, a native of New Holland. The flowers are produced
numerously, of a very bright scarlet, each flower having a green eye edged
with brown. Each flower is about half an inch across. The plant deserves
a place in every greenhouse. Mr. Knicur, of King’s-road, Chelsea, pos-
sesses plants of this species, with whom it has flowered during the last sum-
mer. Diadelphia Decandria.e Leguminose. Kennedya, in compliment to
Mr. Kennepy, late of Hammersmith Nursery.

7. Linaria Canadensis, American Toad-flax. (Bot. Mag. 3473.) Synonym,
Antirrhinum Canadense. A hardy annual plant, seeds of which were sent
from Texas by Mr. Drummonp. The plant produces numerous stems,
about a foot high, having terminal racemes of large pale purple flowers,
which produce a showy appearance, rendering it worthy a place in every
flower garden, Seeds may be obtained of some of the principal seedsmen.
Linaria, from Linum, fax; the leaves of which it resembles.

8. Lobelia decurrens, winged stemmed. (Bot. Reg. 1842.) A perennial
species, a native of Chile. It grows and flowers profusely in the open bor-
der, but requires a slight protection in winter. The plant produces several
stems, rising two feet high, and terminating in spikes of pale blue flowers.
They are produced from June to September. It may be obtained of the
principal Nurserymen and Florists.

9. Mandragora autumnalis, Autumn flowering Mandrake. The plant is
a hardy perennial, a native of Italy, and introduced by the Hon. W. T. H.

NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 91

F. Straneways, into this country, in whose collection of plants at Abbots-
bury, in Dorsetshire, it has bloomed. The plant produces several flowers
singly upon one stem about four inches high: each flower is campanulate
when expanded about two inches across, of a deep violet colour. Both the
foliage and flowers render the plantinterestingly pretty. Pentandria Mono-
gynia. Solanee. Mandragora, from Mandra, an ox stall, and agorous, dan-
gerous; from the effects it produces on cattle, when accidentally gathered
with their food.

10. Gnothera serotina, Late flowering evening primrose. (Bot. Reg. 1840.)
The plant is a native of North America, a hardy perennial, growing Inxuri-
antly in a peat border. It very much resembles the long cultivated species
A. fruticosa, The flowers are each about an inch across of a brownish-
yellow colour, several being produced in,a corymbous head. ‘The plant
blooms from July to November.

11. Gnothera densiflora, Close flowered. (Maund’s Bot. Gard.) A hardy
annual plant growing three feet high; produces spikes of numerous small
rose coloured flowers.

12. Pentstemon Murrayanus, Mr. Murray’s scarlet Pentstemon. (Bot.
Mag. 3472.) A hardy perennial plant, a native of the Texas, from whence
it was sent in 1834, by Mr. DrumMonp. Seeds arrived at the Glasgow
Botanic Garden in 1835, but the plant bloomed late in autumn. The
plant grows about three feet high, producing spikes of numerous flowers of
a rich shining scarlet colour; each flower being an inch and a half long or
upwards. Itis a most splendid flowering plant, and we think it is most
deservedly named after the skilful Curator of the Glasgow Botanic Garden,
A single spike has been known to produce upwards of fifty blossoms. It
ought most certainly to be grown in every flower garden; we hope it will
speedily be possible. Didynamia Angiospermia. Scrophularine. Penste-
mon, from pente, five, and stemon, stamen.

13. Pereskia Bleo, Rose coloured flower. (Bot Mag. 3478.) A native of
South America, discovered by HumBoipr. It was sent to the Glasgow Bo-
tanic Garden by Mr. Tare, from Mexico. It is a handsome flowering stove
plant, producing rose coloured flowers about two inches across, producing a
pretty appearance. Icosandria Monogynia. Cactex. Pereskia, in com-
pliment to N. I’. PEIRESKIUs.

14, Tristania macrophylla, Large leaved. A native of New South Wales,
and cultivated in this country by R. Harrison, Esq., of Liverpool, who
received it under the name of T. Laurina. In its native country it appears
to grow to fifty or sixty feet high. Mr. THomson has bloomed it in the
greenhouse. ‘The flowers are white, resembling a single hawthorn blossom ;
they are produced singly upon the stem of the plant, which is terminated by
foliage. The leaves are of a fine green, large and handsome. Myrtacee.
Tristania, from treis, three, aud eslania, to stand; in allusion to the ternate
disposition of the blossoms.

15. Zephyranthus Drummondii, Mr. DRumMonp’s. (Brit. Flower Gard.)
A pretty neat flowery bulbous rooted plant, sent from the Texas by the late
Mr. Dremmonp, to whose memory the species is recorded. The scape is
single flowered, rising one foot high; the flower is of a whitish pink colour,
about an inch and half across, Hexandria Monogynia. Amaryllides.

PART III.

MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

—

QUERIES.

On aA Hunprep Kinds oF THE BEST SHOW Danwias.—I am very much,
pleased with the ample lists of Dahlias contained in the Cabinet, and to
notice that the form and colour of the flower is given so particularly. I
possess about twenty sorts, so am a juvenile grower. I have plenty cf gar-
den ground, and am desirous of purchasing about one hundred of the best
show kinds. Where so many good kinds are advertised, I am at a less
which to fix upon. [ shall, therefore, be obliged if the Conductor of the
Cabinet will give me a selection of about fifty or sixty of the best exhibited
last year, to which I might add the remainder out of new kinds coming out
this season for tie first time. CLERICUs,

—- Vicarage, Cumberland, March 4th, 1836.

We did not see flowers of all the new kinds now offered for sale, but those
we did see well deserve the prices asked. We, therefore, think it rea-
sonable to conclude, that the others are of proportionate merit. We
annex a list of about sixty, which we saw, and each of which deserves
a place in every select collection. Our Correspondent may rely on
them as the then first-rate kinds. The number may be increased to
one hundred by selecting the best-priced ones in the lists now adver-
tised, and which are not in the following sixty.—-ConpDucror.

Acme ( Harris’s) | Lord Bath (Wheeler’s )

Apollo ( Widnall’s ) | Marchioness (Wheeler's )

Alpha ceeds) | Metropolitan Perfection (Elphin-

Beauty of Teffont (Brown’s) | stone’s)

———— Tooting (Rollisson’s) | Metropolitan Lilac (Elphinstone’s)

———— Cambridge (Brewer’s) | Miss Pinfold (Potheeary’s)

Bride ( Harding’s) ) Wortley ( Harrison's)

of Abydos (Penny’s) | Mrs. Wilkinson (Girling’s)

Canopy ( Harris’s) Napoleon (Smith’s)

Cedo Nulli (Pothecary’s ) Narcissus ( Harris’s)

Conqueror ( Harris’s ) Newick Rival (Mantell’s)
Countess of Sheffield (Mantell’s) | Orb ( Harris’s)
Criterion (Douglas’s ) | Othello (Widnall’s) ‘

Drusilla ( Wells’s )
Duchess of Sutherland
Fisherton Rival ( Squibb’s )
Glory (Douglas’s )

Granta ( Widnall’s)

Perronia (Salter’s)

Picta Perfecta (Harrison's)
Polyphemus (Elphinstone’s)
Purple Perfection (Squibb’s)
Queen Elizabeth (Brown’s)
Hadleigh Champion (Girling’s) Rival King (Brewer's)

Hon. Mrs. Harris (Squibb’s ) Royal Adelaide (Brown's)
Inimitable (Harris’s) Sir Walter Scott (Harrison's)
Ipswich Beauty (Jeffries’s ) | Selwood King

King of the Fairies (Brown’s) Queen

King of the Purples (Roi de Springfield Rival (Lyne’s)

Pourpre) (Harrison’s) Sulphurea elegans (Jones s)
Lady Fordwich (Douglas’s ) Standard ( Wells’s)
—— Georgiana ( Harrison’s} / Sir Robert Peel (Lockhart’s)
—— Lascelles ( Harris’s) Triumphant (Levick’s) ;
—— of the Lake ( Wells’s) | Warminster Rival (Wheeler's)

Lord Lyndhurst (Forsyth’s ) _ Yellow Perfection ( Harris's)
tum Nelson (Pothecary’s) | mctemacnaiiina nnn ( Stoner’s)

MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 93

On 4 List or Carnations.—An original subscriber would be particularly
obliged if Innovator will take the trouble of forwarding a list of superior
kinds of Carnations, Pinks, &c., similar to the one inserted by him in the
last March Number of the Floricultural Cabinet.

Bayswater, 2st January, 1836.

On Srocxs For Buppine RosEs vurpon.—I am much interested in the
Article on Standard Roses. Can your correspondent, in his future papers,
devise any plan whereby persons—who, like myself, can procure, and find
room to plant, a very large number of stocks—can be supplied at a small
expense with buds of choice Roses? I have already worked all the sorts
that 1 can get nearme. This operation is a great pleasure to very many,
whose means, like my own, will not permit them to incur much expense.
Would any of the Rose-growers take back a certain number of standards,
after one year’s growth, in return for buds?

February 6th, 1836. G.I.

On Heatine by Sream.—I have taken your welcome little monthly
visitor, the Cabinet, from its commencement; and in reading over the Essay
on Flowers, communicated by GULIELMUS, and inserted in the Number for
June, 1834, I find it stated by the Essayist that he manages very well with-
out either greenhouse or conservatory, and yet he promotes the growth of
his flowers in the early part of the year by steam warmth. I shall feel ex.
tremely obliged by being informed, through the medium of your invaluable
miscellany, the method he adopts to do it, T, JONES,

Caerphilly, Feb, 15th, 1836.

oe

REMARKS,

Prize Dawswias or 1835.—The following list of Dahlias contains the
names of fifty sorts, with the number of prizes which they obtained at the
exhibitions in 1835. They were of course considered good flowers, having
been shown in most instances against immense varieties. There were, how-
ever, a few other very superior newer kinds, which had not got into the
hands of many growers, who did not, on that account, obtain an equal num-
ber of prizes with those inserted here. The advertised lists of this season
contain such, and their merits may be pretty accurately ascertained by the
respective prices at which they are offered.

The figures opposite each hind denote the number of prizes.

Springfield Rival (Lyne’s),. .....,... 23 ; Village Maid (Pothecary’s) ..... oS
Cedo Nulli (Pothecary’s) ............ 21 | Lady Fordwich........... sine diac axs calle 15
Perfection (Widnall’s) .........0000s 21} Lord Hiverpool.......cssc.sessassesccdeue 15
Hon. Mrs. Harris (Squibb’s),.,...... 20 | Metropolitan Blush........ Bother wld
Lilae Perfection (Harding’s) ...,.. 19 | Mrs. General Grosvenor... avs
Polyphemus ( Elphinstone’) ......... 19 | Enchantress (Priestley’s) .. ald
Ariel ....... abdete Se apnspecmare .-- 18 | Incomparable (Leyick’s) ............ 14
BEMEVVOTULCY... o.<00+0cescnnupes¥oes axis ise 18 | Jason (Widnall’s) .....c.sssecceccnseee 14
Granta ( Widnall’s)....,..sscsseseseseee 18 | Metropolitan Calypso ....,.....essess0 13
Metropolitan Perfection. ............ 18 | Othello (Widnall’s) ........c0secceees 13
Mrs. Wilkinson..,.........00 i¢vacaeeenay kee |’ Emperor ( Widuall’s)) si usegecs. deteees 12
Criterion (Douglas’s) .......0..c00sc00e 17, | Sir Robert Peel 0) v.c.cteseshesescrecane 12
King of the Whites....... Suenos rea 17 | Lady Grenville..........sccsccoss Resbeese 12
Duchess of Buecleugh (Cormack’s) 17 | Beauty of Camberwell ..... Soeceadect 12
iO ( PAULA) aay. sn<<veseeeroor-50s--5-2- 16 | Orpheus (Brown’s)...c0)<s:-<csesreaece 12
Queen of Dahlias ..,....-.se000+e.2e--» 16 | Polyphemus ( Wells’s)..........ccees00 12
Picta Formosissima...........+. Bevapeas LG, || VEnOSAg@W OPICNS )s.00- <0: cccseredeas 12
Desdemona (Brown’s)_ .........-+00e. 16 | Countess of Cork.........cccecccsseeeees 12
Beauty of Cambridge (Brewer’s)... 16 | Countess of Errol...........sseeeeseeees 12
Mapollo ( Widniall’s)) ta censawase+sesenss on 15 | Fisherton Rival... 12
Newick Rival (Mantell’s) ..... - 16 | Rival King (Brewer's) Pg |
Petronia (Salter’s), s:s:s.s.s004e20-26.- 15 || Glory (Douglas’s)! ........s000ssereer0s 12
Prince of Orange ( Widnall’s) ..... - 15| Metropolitan Blush...........::+ssee0 . 12
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MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

A List oF THE HIGHEST-PRICED DAHLIAS OFFERED FOR SALE IN 1836.
—The varieties of Dahlias being so very extensive, it requires a great deal
of trouble to notice all the newest kinds in the lists advertised. To render it
more easy for the readers of the Cubinet, I have arranged a list of those

kinds which are now offered at 7s. 6d. per plant, and upwards.

There are

many splendid kinds at lower prices, but those I give below are the newest
sorts, plants of which I shall have to dispose of in May.

Downham, March 14th, 1836.

At 21s. per Plant.
Acme (Harris’s) white, erimson laced
Beauty of Westbrook, chocolate, white

tipped

Lady Knox (Harris’s) white, maroon
tipped

Picta Perfecta, crimson red, nearly
black edge

At 15s. per Plant.
Conqueror of Sussex, carmine
Publicola (Penny’s) white, crimson

shaded
At 10s. Gd. per Plant.

Alpine Shepherdess, white, purple spots
Adelaide (Brown’s) white, pink laced
Archbishop of Dublin (Penny’s) rose
Beauty of York, crimson, white spot
of Tooting, rose, white stripes
of Hammersmith, purple, white

ti

4 of Canonbury, scarlet

of Battersea, rose, yellow shade

of Sussex, white, purple tip

of Bath, purple

Burgundy, dark maroon

Countess of Sheffield (Mantell’s) rosy
purple i ;

eee of Morley, rose, crimson stripes

_______ of Tankerville, white, purple

tip

of Pembroke, white, crimson
ti
Ganeaeritic King of Yellows (Page's)
Crimson Triumphant, velvet crimson
Clara (Seaman’s) white \
Champion (Wells’s) rose and white
Claudiana (Ditto) white, rose edge
Desdemona (Bartlet’s) white, purple
edge
Dr. Halley, dark ;
Excelsa (Elphinstone’s) fine yellow
Emperor (Dennis's yellow, purple edge
Fisherton, King, white, crimson edge
Gally Knight (Taylor's) crimson
General Picton, orange, spotted
Highlander, yellow, crimson edge
Harlequin, white, purple spots.
Hadleigh Champion, yellow —
Tpswich Beauty, white, rosy pink edge
Incomparable ( Whales’s ) rosy scarlet
King of Scarlets, fine ;
Lady Sugden, scarlet, orange tint _
Lady Sarah, white, mottled with pink
Lord Talbot (Taylor’s) dark plum
Lord Lyndhurst (Forsyth’s) scarlet
Lord Melbourne, plum

C, W. HaRRIson.

At 10s. 6d. per Plant.
Miss Mitford, white, pink tip
Maria Louisa (Brewer’s) pink, white

centre
Miss Wilson, white, lake edge
Miss Ward, white, pink edge
Miss H. Kemble, French white and pink.
Miss Pinfold, white, puce tipped
Miss Poole, blush, lilac tip
Madame Vestris, canary, purple tip
Miranda (Cormack’s) yeliow
Napoleon (Smith’s) puce
Orb (Harris’s) white, dark tip
Perfeetion (Squibb’s) rosy violet
Pontefract White (Mitton’s)
Purple Perfection (Squibb’s)
Princess Victoria, white
Pre-eminent ( Kington’s ) white, lilae tip
Queen of the Fairies, yellow, scarletedge
Rose Incomparable (Scott’s )
Standard ( Wells’s) primrose
Salter (Mitchell’s) blush *
Stanislaus of Poland, yellow
Surpass Polyphemus, primrose and
purple

Triumphant (Jeffrey’s) purple
Unicorn, rosy lilac
Water Witch, buff, crimson stripe
White Perfection ( Wilmer’s )
Warminster Rival, light purple
Yellow Perfection (Stones’s )

At 7s. 6d. per Plant.
Ada Byron, rose
Alba Perfecta (Mitchell’s) white
Agnes Searle, white, pink tip
Alfred, King, dark
Africanus, puce
Angelina, white, lilae edge
Battel Rival, yellow re
Benvragie, orange '
Blue Beard, purple and pink
Brigand (Cross’s) crimson
Brown’s Star, scarlet
Beauty of Dalston y
Bride of Abydos, white
Beauty of Lullingston, purple
——-——. Teffont, white, pink edge
——-—— Perry Hill, peach and white
Canopy (Harris’s) crimson
Camarine, yellow, crimson tip
Cassandra, fine red
Ceres, yellow
Colossus (Brown’s) crimson
Conqueror ( Harris’s) searlet
Cyclops (Harding’s) bronze and yellow
Canary, sulphur; purple edge

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At 7s. 6d. per Plant.
Chiswick, Fie!d’s Rival, dark and purple
Defiance (Heale’s) white, rose edge
Darius, purple crimson
Eaton’s William Cobbett, yellow
Enchantress (Evans’s ) klush and purple
Earl Tankerville, rosy red
Enchantress (Mitton’s) cream, roseedge
Flora ( Wells’s) blush, crimson spots
Forest Beauty, orange and red
Forester, bronze, lilac and yellow
Fanny Kemble
Flora, white and lilac
Foundling of St. Leonard’s, primrose

and brown
Fairy Queen (Harrison’s) white
Grandis (Marshall’s) crimson
Gloriosa (Standish’s) rosy lilae
Grandis, light purple
Hero of Wiltshire, white and scarlet
Hopping Girl, yellow, red stripes
Hero (Cormack’s) scarlet
Honourable Mrs. Harris, white, carmine
and purple
Hector ( Well’s) rosy crimson
Inimitable ( Harris’s ) white, purple rosy
edge —
Jackson’s Rival, yellow
King of Dahlias ( Forster’s) orange
King of Fairies (Brown’s) yellow, rose
edge
King Otho, rose
Lady Beresford, chocolate, white tip
Lady Georgiana (Harrison’s) blush white,
spotted with pink
Lady Braybrook, yellow tip
Lady Ann, white, rosy pink edge
Lady Jane, blush lilac
Lord Ossulton, rosy lilac
Lord Durham, dark rose
Lovely Ann, puce, white edge, lilac tip
Lyne’s Cream, tipped with lilac
Marquis of Abercorn, crimson
Matchless (Whales’s) crimson & searlet
Mary Queen of Scots, white and rosy
purple
Mexicanus, dark
Miss Moon, white lilac edged
Miss Bridle, white, pink laced
bilis Perfecta, purple, dark stripes
Miss Cust, rose
Miss Campbell, white, pink shades

INTELLIGENCE; 95
At 7s. 6d. per Plant.

Mary Penny, (Penny’s) pink

Maria Antoniette, do. pink

Mendizabel, do. yellow, red edge

Mr. Long, purple and crimson

Memnon, (Cormack’s) orange, brown
ti

New China aster-flora, purple, blue
shade

Ne plus ultra, white and lilae

Newick Rival, rose

Orange, (Dennis’s

Perfection, ( Willison’s) light crimson

Pheebe, crimson, white shade

Paris, ( Widnall’s) light purple

Purpurea superata, purple

Picto grandissima, crimson, scarlet
stripes

Phenomenon, rose, crimson stripes

Piltdown Rival, rosy purple

Queen of Beauties, primrose, white edge

Queen Elizabeth, ( Brown’s ) highly pur-
ple tip, &e.

Roi de Pourpre, (king of purples) fine

Rubra grandiflora, fine red

Royal Adelaide, ( Clark’s) rosy buff

Red rover, red

Sir H. Fletcher, crimson

Sutton’s Perfection, rose

Reading, purple

Sir Edward Sugden, puce

Sarah (Penny’s), white, with bright
crimson

Southborough Rival, crimson

Sulphurea perfecta, ( Scott’s

—————- elegans, ( Jones’s

Trojan, shaded purple

Triumphant ( Elphinstone’s), yellow

Titania, yellow and rose

Urania, white, pink edge

Venus ( Barnett’s), white, purple shaded

Virginia, white, pink shade

Volumnia, cream and pink

Venus (Bennett’s), slate colour

Vesta (Hopwood’s), white, white edge

Weeping Beauty ( Pince’s ), orange scar-
let, dark stripes

William Cobbett (Forster’s), scarlet

Yellow Perfection (Harris’s), crimson
edge

Yeatmanianum, amber, scarlet edge

REFERENCE TO THE EMBELLISHMENTS.
1. Calochortus splendens, The showy fowered. This is another handsome

flowering species of Calochortus.

Tt is a bulbous rooting plant, a native of

California; and was sent to the Garden of the London Horticultural Society,

by the late Mr. Doucras.

This, when grown in contrast with C. venustus,

(see plate in February number), produces a handsome and striking effect.—

The present species requires the same treatment as C. venustus.

2. Thunbergia alata alba.

(See p. 47.)

The variety here figured is an hybrid produc-
tion, and we are informed raised between T. alata and T. fragrans.
most pleasing and beantiful flowering plant.

Itis a
It is a hothouse climber, but

does equally wellin a greenhouse during summer; where, if it be allowed
plenty of pot room, it will grow luxuriantly and bloom profusely. It

96 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

deserves a place in every greenhouse. A sandy loam and peat soil mixed,
having the pots well drained, suits the plant. The red spider is a great
enemy to this plant; frequent syringings at the under side of the foliage is
necessary to prevent its injuries. Soap suds applied occasionally, kills
the insect. The plant is easily increased by seeds or cuttings.

3. Mimulus cardinalis, Scarlet-flowering. A new hardy, herbaceous
species. Seeds of it were sent from California, by the late Mr. Douetras, to
the Garden of the London Horticultural Society. Itis a most beantifal
flowering plant, and a very great acquisition to the flower garden, and merits a
place in every one, both on account of its fine scarlet blossoms, as well as
its continuing to blossom from early to late in the season. It delights ina
moist and rich soil. We saw it in bloom last summer, and were struck with
its appearance: it will be one of the greatest ormaments of the flower
garden.

4. Pentstemon Cobee, Cobex-flowered. This is a very showy species of
Pentstemon, producing panicled spikes of numerous large flowers, which
have a most showy appearance. The plant, we are informed, requires the
same treatment as the other kinds of Pentstemons, It is perennial. The
spikes of flowers rise about two feet high. It ought to be grown in every
flower garden. It is cultivated in Scotland, and we expect it will soon be in
this country. Plants of the other three, viz., Calochortus splendens, Thun-
bergia alata alba, and Mimulus cardinalis, may be obtained at the Down-
ham Nursery, Norfolk,

FLORICULTURAL CALENDAR FOR APRIL.

CurTtines.—If old plants of Salvias, Fuchsias, Petunias, &c., were saved
through winter, and young plants be required for turning out into open
beds in the flower garden, &c., young shoots should now be taken off close to
their origin upon the old wood, and be struck into moist heat.

ANnNuUALS.—Hardy kinds should be sown in the borders, &c. Tender
kinds should have plenty of air admitted to them, whether sown in pots or
upon a slight hot-bed. In order to have the plants of some particular
kinds stiff and healthy, they should be planted off into small pots, boxes, or
the open border, or slight hot-beds, &c., so as to be fine plants for final
planting in May. Many kinds of tender annuals, intended to ornament the
greenhouse or stove through summer, will require potting off, or if done
before this month, probably re-potting into larger pots.

CAMPANULA PYRAMIDALIS.—Olfisets or cuttings should now be taken off,

CarnaTions.—If not planted off last month, they should now be done.

Dauxtas.—Seedling plants should be potted off, one plant into a small or
sixty-sized pot. Shoots from old roots should be taken off, where it is desired
to increase the kind, and strike them in moist heat.

Curina Ross.—Plants of the tender kinds, as yellows, sweet-scented, &e.
should now be placed in heat, in order to cause a production of shoots for
striking, so as to increase the kinds when desired. is)

Cuina Rose (hardy kinds).—Itis now the proper time to bud the varieties
of China Roses; do it as soon as the bark will freely rise.

TRIVERANIA COCCINEA.—Roots of this plant should now be potted.

PELARGONIUMS.—Cuttings now struck will produce plants in bloom at the
end of summer. ae

PansIES.—Plants will now be pushing shoots that will be emitting roots.
Where itis wished to increase the kinds, it is a very suitable time for doing
it, by taking off shoots, and planting them in a good rich soil, shading them
for a few days at first.

TIGRIDIA PAYON1A.—The bulbs should now be planted in the open bed;
choose a warm and sheltered situation,

Ertcas (Heaths).—Cuttings of many of the greenhouse kinds should now
be put off. "

MicNnoneTTE.—To bloom from June should now be sown.

Rosg Trees.—When it is desired to have Roses late in the season, let
them be pruned this month,

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MAY Ist, 1836.

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ARTICLE I.
CULTURE OF THE BLETIA TANKERVILLIZ,

BY MR. PARKIN,
Gardener to J. S. Stanhope, Esg., Common Hall, near Barnsley, Yorkshire.

Tue Bletia Tankervilliz, one of the many beautiful productions of
China, is an old inhabitant of British stoves, we, nevertheless, fre-
quently witness unsuccessful attempts to cultivate this plant, so as
to insure a fine show of its singular and beautiful flowers. When
properly managed, few plants present a more gay appearance when
in flower; we have here one plant in a pot, twelve inches in diam-
eter, which, in November last threw up nine stems, each of which
continued for three months to unfold a succession of its lovely flow-
ers; we, therefore, flatter ourselves, that we have been tolerably suc-
cessful, and consequently, venture to offer for the consideration of
your readers and inquirers a few observations thereon; not, how-
ever, presuming to have it thought, that no other method would
be equally successful. The plant in question, is one with many
others (when growing in the limited space of a flower pot) that may
be greatly injured by being overabundantly watered ; any plants pro-
ducing abundance of roots, naturally suggests the idea of requiring
abundance of food: but here it becomes the duty of the cultivator
to enquire, what that food should be.—Water, is with undoubted
propriety considered to be the medium through which plants are sup-
_ plied with food, and is generally applied with a liberal hand, to such
as are provided with abundance of roots; with the Bletia Tank er-
villi, we may easily err; for although, as long as the soil is open
and the pots well drained, a liberal supply of this element may be
required, yet when the plants have attained about the maximum of
their growth, the pots will have become crowded with roots to such a
degree, as will very materially interrupt the passage of water through
them, such being the case, water more sparingly, so as not to keep
the roots in a constant state of saturation, and on the other hand,
VOL. Iv. 0

98 CULTURE OF THE DOUBLE POMEGRANATE.

not suffering them to become absolutely dry ; for though the plant is so
tenacious of life as to be able to live fora vonsiderable time, in either
of those extremes, to succeed creditably both must be avoided. The
compost we use, consists of equal parts of brown strong loam, peat,
and leaf mould, with a moderate portion of broken pot; potting is
regulated by the season of flowering, and may be performed imme-
diately after the flowers are gone, when they are potted with balls
entire ; but when the plants are to be divided, it is better deferred
until the young offsets have emitted their roots a few inches, they
may then be carefully separated from the parent, and potted in pots
of a smaller size. We have recovered unhealthy plants, by shaking
them out of the pot, and washing every particle of soil from the roots,
repotting them in the compost above named.

ARTICLE JI.—CULTURE OF THE DOUBLE POMEGRANATE,
BY A DEVONIAN.

OssERVING that the query of “C. 8.” in the March number of the
Cabinet, on the blooming of the Double Pomegranate, has not been
answered, I beg to forward this extract from Evelyn’s Silva, which may
probably be useful to the enquirer. “There are of this glorious shrub
three sorts, easily enough educated under any warm shelter, even to
the raising hedges of them ; nor indeed effects it so much heat, as
plentiful watering. They supported a very severe winter in my
garden, 1663, without any trouble or artifice ; and if they present us
their blushing double flowers for the pains of recission and well pru-
ning, (for they must be deligently pruned of superfluous wood) it is
recompence enough. It isa Perdifolia in winter, and growing abroad,
requires no extraordinary rich earth, but that the mould be loosened
and eased about the root, and hearty compost applied in spring and
autumn ; thus cultivated, it will rise to a pretty tree. "Tis best in-
creased by layers, approach and inarching (as they term it,) and is
said to marry with laurels, the damson, ash, almond, mulberry, citron,
too many I fear to hold. But after all they do best being eased, the
mould well mixed with rotten hogs-dung, its peculiar delight, and
kept toa single stem, and treated like other plants in the winter
shelter.” There seems, however, to be some contradiction in the
quaint writer’s statement, and most assuredly the plants do no¢ re-
quire *‘ the winter-shelter” (at least in the South of England) to in-
duce them to flower abundantly, but I know from experience, that
they are capricious bloomers, and very often the whole strength of
the plant is apparently engaged in the formation of countless bran-

THE DOUBLE-FLOWERED POMEGRANATE. 99

ches and foliage. I have a double red pomegranate many feet high,
trained against the front of my house, which for years never produced
a single blossom; to induce it to fldwer, [ removed all the soil around
it, and filled the pit with a rich compost, but this plan was not suc-
cessful, as for two seasons a solitary blossom only was produced. I

_was then recommended by a nurseryman to have some of the princi-
pal roots cut through, to check the Juxuriant growth of the plant,
which, early in the ensuing spring, was done; this plan succeeded
perfectly, and towards the end of the summer, numerous blushing
double flowers were produced—and the tree bas ever since bloomed
annually. I do not however, recommend this plan to “C.S.,” those
plants are probably too young to blossom, whereas mine is upwards of
thirty years old ; notwithstanding, comparatively small pomegranate
trees often flower abundantly, and I have seen one not above five or
six feet in height, which had fifty blossoms open at one time,—the
soil in which it was growing was a heavy loam,—almost clay, which
kind of earth suits the pomegranate better than any other. I agree
with Evelyn in considering this a “ glorious shrub,” and its brilliant
flowers are assuredly a sufficient recompence, for any trouble we may
take with it. Does “C.§S.” know the yellow variety? it is worth
having, as its blossoms are similar in size and shape to the red, but
of a delicate sulphur colour ; there is also a white variety, but I am
not acquainted with it. I hope my hints may be useful to “C. S.,”
though, being only an amateur, I cannot give that information, which
a scientific gardener is capable of imparting.

Articte III.—ON THE MANAGEMENT OF THE DOUBLE FLOWERED
POMEGRANATE, PUNICA GRANATUM MULTIPLEX.

By Mr. David Whale, Gardener, Winchester.

Tue Pomegranate is an old inhabitant of our gardens. but it seems to
have been known to the Africans for yany ages before it came into
our possession ; it is mentioned in holy writ, as being in the posses-
sion of the Egyptians more than 3000 years ago; it is a na-
tive of the South of Europe and North of Africa. Dr. Sibthorp, in-
forms us, that it is found plentiful in Greece, both in a wild and
cultivated state ; it was introduced into this country about the year
1548. The double flowering kind is much more esteemed than the
other in this country, for the sake of its large fine double flowers,
which are of a most beautiful scarlet colour ; and if the trees are well
managed, and supplied with due nourishment, they will continue to

100 REMARKS ON STOVE PLANTS

produce flowers from four or five months successively, which renders
it one of the most valuable flowering trees; this sort may be ren-
dered more productive of flowers, by grafting it upon stocks of the
single kind, which check the luxuriancy of the trees, and cause them
to produce flowers upon almost every shoot. There have been va-
rious ways recommended to manage the pomegranate, so as to make
it flower freely, and forty years experience has tanght me what I
conceive to be the most successful method. I do all my pruning in
the summer season, training the branches at a regular distance, of
about four inches apart, in the same way as I train a plum tree; to-
wards the latter end of JuneI look over the trees, and remove all the
shoots that are running to wood, at which time they are young and
tender, and are easily removed without the assistance of a knife. Care
must be taken to leave all blossom shoots and spurs, these are easily
distinguished from wood shoots; this I do about three times during
summer, and by this treatment the tree continues to flower four or
five months, making a very grand appearance, and repaying by its
beauty for every care a gardener can bestow.

P. S. The knife should never be used about these trees in winter,
except to remove decayed branches, &c. They are easily propa-
gated by layers or cuttings. To accomplish the first: in March, se-
lect some of the young branches for the purpose, give a little slit at
a bud underneath, they will easily strike root without slitting, and I
consider that method to be the safest ; lay them in the usual way, water
them occasionally during the summer, and by the following autumn
they will be well rooted so that they may be taken off and removed
to any warm situation, to gain strength, before they are planted
where they are to remain.

Cuttings.—If cuttings are required in June, take some young tops
of branches, select a warm place in the garden, place them under a
hand-glass, shade them in hot weather, and by autumn they will

have taken root.
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ARTICLE IV.—REMARKS ON STOVE PLANTS.
BY THE AUTHOR OF THE DOMESTIC GARDENERS’ MANUAL

THERE are some plants which, doubtless, require what may be termed
a lively heat during winter, (60 to 65 degrees) but there is a good
deal of error and misconception abroad upon this subject, and many
persons deny themselves the enjoyment of much exquisite beauty,
by admitting the belief that al/ stove plants are tender. I certainly
admit that tropical natives, if they are to be retained in verdure and

HEATING GREENHOUSES, ETC. 101

growth (ifsuch it can be called) at all seasons, must not be permitted
to inhabit an erection where the thermometer shall fall below 55
degs. But if the lovers of plants be content to let the verdure of a
good, airy, dry greenhouse, be supplied by Camellias, Heaths,
Myrtles, Orange-trees, and the like ; and to suffer a number of lovely
flowering stove plants to sink into repose during November, Decem-
ber, and the half of January ; they may try the aid of a vinery, or
even of a pit, with a flue in it, indulge their taste, and excite the
Chinese Hibiscus, (Hisbiscus Roza Sinensis) and all its single and
double varieties—the fragrant, West Indian Brunsfelsia, (B.
Americana) the elegant purple Guava (Psidiwm Catleyanum) the
coffee—(Coffea Arabica.) All the Gasnera and Gloxineas—cum
multis aliés—to renewed life and perfection.

I, this winter, from unavoidable alterations, had all my stove
plants exposed to direct frost; many to five or six degrees of it; and
now by the aid of a vinery at work, kept very moist, have brought
numbers into complete healthy verdure.

I do not recommend any dangerous experiment, nor would I ad-
vise any one to expose his plants to a depression below 40 degrees ;
sooner than do so, I would place them in a dark cellar: but T cer-
tainly have seen proof of what many plants can endure; and there-
fore, am quite satisfied that a very gratifying addition may be made
to collections of subjects possessing surpassing «beauty, without in-
curring any risk of a loss from causes which would prove entirely
destructive to a common Geranium.

March 8th, 1836.

ARTICLE V.—ON HEATING GREENHOUSES, &c.

BYc.

Tue defeat of the present different modes of heating structures for
horticultural purposes, is the daily occurrence of the trouble of man-
aging the fire required. To obviate this inconvenience, a cistern
containing several hogsheads of water might be substituted for the
jipes now in general use: and a reservoir of heat obtained which
ould last for several days.
_ The cistern might be adapted to form the under part of the pit cf
_astriking-house, facing the north: and so contrived as to communi-
tate warmth to a greenhouse adjoining the back of it, facing the
south.

A rough sketch of the plan is subjoined: and if you think the idea

worthy consideration, I should be glad to see a notice of it in your

102 COLLECTANEA

valuable Journal, and perhaps some reader may point out a good
mode of obtaining the greatest degree of warmth by such a method —
of heating.

Furnace.

North.

Greenhouse.

South.

Striking
House.

ARTICLE VI.—COLLECTANEA,
BY J, K.
FiLoricuLturaL ImposTers.—Our neighbours the French, ever
and anon, make experimental visits to this country, with a cargo of
nominal rarities for our flower amateurs. Last spring, an elderley
man with a youth, who spoke broken English, for an interpreter,
visited Nottingham, Leicester, Birmingham, and Bath, with yellow
moss roses, black moss roses, yellow camellias, yellow lilacs, and
other articles with names equally tempting. It is well known, that a
yellow cammelia or black moss rose would be invaluable, therefore,
these most alluring names, tempted many of the neighbouring gentry
to become purchasers, at large prices; but, however, last summer,
when the plants flowered , and showed their characters, the roses proved |
to be of the most common description, and the yellow camellia only —
the common red one. Some adventurers of this description sold, what }
proved to be common yellow laburnums, for scarlet and dark red labur-
nums by auction at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, and at the Mart
last spring, and realized such high prices, that the imposter must
have returned to his brother florists in France, with more money than

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the whole of their collections were worth. The Frenchmen sold last
spring, roses, and falsely called them scarlet lilacs, and red laburnums,
to the amount of £1000 in London alone.—From the Bath Journal.

Gigantic FLower.—In 1818, Doctor Arnold discovered in the
Island of Sumatra, a flower, which, he named the Rafflesia Arnoldi,
and which an author has called with much justice ‘“ the magnificent
Titan of the vegetable kingdom.” The human mind had never con-
ceived such a flower, the circumference of the full expanded flower is
nine feet, its nectarium calculated to hold nine pints, the pistels are
as large as cows horns, and the entire weight of the blossom com-
puted to be fifteen pounds.

Firesipe Trapirion has given to many an herb and bird, a
stamp and odour of Ould Langsyne, the Pansy is still sacred to
Oberon and Titania; the Miseltoe is not of our generation; the
mandrake is still a departed fearful ghost of other days; the toad is
the most ancient of reptiles; and the raven is “a secular bird of
ages’; but this imputation of antiquity belongs not to every flower
that has been sung in past ages; the rose and lily have been time
immemorial the poet's themes, yet they are not antiquities, their

loveliness has no more relation to one age than another.—Fragment
from Chamber's Journal.

The first evening meeting of the Bath Royal Horticultural and
Floral Society, for the purpose of Horticultural discussions, took
place on Tuesday evening, Jan. 12th., at Mr. Collings’s, Saville Row,
and was well attended, R. Godfrey Esq. in the chair, who delivered

an able introductory lecture, H. St. John Maule Esq., read a paper
contributed to the society by the Rev. R. Hoblyn, on the best means
fe of cultivating the Hautbois Strawberry. Mr. Slater read a short
paper on the means of growing the roots of Hyacinths in this coun-
try, in as great a perfection as those imported from Holland. S.
_ Barrow, Esq., will take the chair at the next meeting, when speci-
mens of Camellias, and forced Hyacinths, Tulips, &c., will be ex-
hibited.
Horticultural Society of London, Dec. Ist. The collection of
flowers exhibited, was interesting, considering the late period of the
year, especially the collection of chrysanthemums, from the society’s
garden, the different specimens of plants from the Hon. W.F.. Strang-
ways ; and some very fine specimens of the Bignonia venusta, from
_ Miss Trevor, of Tingrith, near Woburn. Independant of the
beauty of this plant, the season of its blossoming must always render
it one of the most desirable of hot-house climbers, being found to
continue in flower from the beginning of November until February,

104 NEW AND BARE PLANTS.

and in. the present instance to cover the whole stove, a surface of
500 feet.

According to a paper read at the Medico-Botanical, December 8th,
from M. Richard of Paris, the Aconitum ferox is described as the
most deadly poison known in the southern hemisphere; the Aconi-
tum Napellus, common monkshood, and A. Lycoctonum, is described
as having very poisonous qualities, but their effects have been much
exaggerated.

ARTICLE VIIL—NEW AND RARE PLANTS,
Noticed since our last.

1. Ancr&cum caupaTum, (Bot. Reg. 1844,) Long-tailed. A
very curious species of the Orchideous tribe of plants, cultivated with
great difficulty in the collection of Messrs. Loddiges’s at Hackney.
The plant is secured to a piece of wood, and is suspended in the
stove. The flowers are produced upon a long and pendulous spike.
The ovarium is of a dark brown, with numerous darker spots upon it.
Labellum, white. Calumn of a dark green. The flower is about
three inches across. Class, Gynandria. Order, Monandria. Na-
tural Order, Orchidacez.

2, AzALEA NuDIFLORA, Naked flowered. (Maund’s Bot. Garden.)
An old inhabitant of our gardens, having been introduced into this
country from North America in 1734. From this an immense num-
ber of varieties have proceeded, being impregnated with other kinds.
This genus is now reduced to a very few species. The original se-
paration of Azalea from Rhododendron, was in consequence of a dif-
ference in the number of stamens. The latter having ten, and the
former only five. This destruction, however, is not found constant,
and the greater part is now included in Rhododendron.

3. Campanuta Loreyl, Lorey’s Bell Flower. (Brit. Flow. Gard.)
Synonyms, C. baldensis, Cramosissima. A hardy annual of consi-
derable beauty, introduced in 1825, from Mount Baldo. The plant

is of easy culture, and produces seeds abundantly; it grows about

nine inches high, flowering freely. Some of the blossoms are of a
fine purple blue colour, and others of a pure white. Each flower is
two inches and upwards across. When the plant is cultivated in
masses, the flowers are very showy and ornamental, and continues in
blossom for many months. Pentandria Monogynia, Campanulacez.
Campanula from campana, a bell, the shape of the flower. The

specific name was given in compliment to Dr. Lorey, its discoverer.

Seeds may be obtained of the London Seedsmen. See Advertise-
ment in the Cabinet.

NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 105

4. CHELAGASTRA GRACILIS, Slender (Bot. Mag. 3481) Syno-
nyms, Rhexia gracilis. The plant is a native of Brazil, from whence
it was sent by Mr. Tweedie to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where
in the hot-house it has bloomed. The plant is of the natural order
Melastomacee, and is one of the handsomest of that tribe. The
flowers are of the colour, and nearly the size of the Calandrinia spe-
ciosa. Decandria Monogynia. Melastomacee. Cheetogastra from
chaite, a bristle; and gastes, from the numerous quantity which
cover the ovary.

5. COOPERIA CHLOROSOLEN, Green-tubed. (Bot. Mag. 3482.)
A native of the Texas, from wheuce it was sent by Mr. Drammond.
The present species bloomed in the fine collection of the Honoura-
ble and Reverend Wm. Herbert, Spofforth. The flower is of a pure
white, about an inch and a half across. (See page 63 of the Cabinet.)
Hexandria Monogynia, Amaryllideee. Cooperia in compliment to
our friend Mr. Cooper, of the Wentworth gardens.

6. Coreorsis SENIFOLIA, Six-leaved. A perennial plant a na-
tive of North America, and introduced into this country in 1812.
The leaves grow in whorls of six in each. The plant grows about
two feet high. Flowers produced in acorymb. Each is about an
inch and a half across, of a deep yellow colour. Syngenesia Frus-
tranea. Composite. Coreopsis from Korris, a bug; and opsis, a
resemblance, alluding to the seeds. ;

7. CraTeeus microcarpa, Small fruited Hawthorn. A very

‘considerable accession of beautiful kinds have been added to this
deservedly esteemed genus within a few years, and add much to the
ornament of our pleasure grounds, both in their blossoms and
slendid fruit. The present species is a native of Georgia and Ca-
ina, where it grows to a tree of twelve or fourteen feet high, but

does t near so high in this country. The blossoms are white,
appearing in May and June. The fruit is produced abundantly of
a fine red colour.

8. CRATEGUS HETEROPHYLLA, Various-leaved Hawthorn. This
is one of the handsomest of the whole tribe. The tree grows ina
conical form, flowering most profusely ; the blossoms are white, and
are succeeded by fine sized berries, which are of a rich crimson co-
lour, and render the plant very ornamental. Crataegus from kratos,
strength ; referring to the wood.

9. GoopeTia LePIpA, Smart Goodetia. The flowers of this new
annual very much resemble some of the Qinotheras, particularly
&. decumbens. The flowers of G. lepida, are of a pale purple with
a light centre, each petal is marked at the upper part with a large

p

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106 NEW AND RARE PLANTS.

patch of a crimson purple colour, and gives the flowers a pretty ap-
pearance. The plant grows about half a yard high, and is a most
profuse bloomer ; it certainly merits a place in the flower-garden.

10, Kennepya Sriruineut, Sir James Stirling’s Kennedya.—
Seeds of this very neat and pretty flowering plant, were sent by Sir
James Stirling from the Swan River to Robert Mangles, Esq. of
Whitmore Lodge. It is a trailing greenhouse plant, blooming in
April. The flowers are produced in pairs, they are of the pea tribe,
each about half an inch across, of a fine scarlet colour:

11. Linum Berenvtertt, Berendier’s yellow-flowered flax.—A
native of the Texas, introduced into this country last year. Itisa
very beautiful flowering species, a hardy annual, and a great acqui-
sition to the flower-gardens. A single plant produces a number of
stems, which are much branched, and become clothed with flowers,
of'a fine deep yellow colour, with an orange scarlet eye. Each flower
is about an inch and a half across. The plant deserves a place in
every flower-garden. Pentandria Pentagynia. Linee. Linum from
Llin, the celtic term for thread.

12. MaxXILLaRIA RUFESCENS, Brownish flowered. Mr. Lowe of
Clapton, introduced this species into this country from Trinidad.

_ The flower is small, the petals are of a brownish red colour, labellum

of a fine yellow, spotted with rich crimson. Maxillaria from the la-
bellum, resembling the maxille of some insects.

13. OXURA CHRYSANTHEMOIDES, Ox-eye, like Oxura. A new
hardy annual, introduced from California by the late Mr. Douglas.
It has bloomed in the garden of the London Horticultural Society,
during August and September. The flower much resembles the
common Chrysanthemum coronarium, of a deep yellow colour t
wards the centre, but lighter at the ends of the petals. SyngeneSia
Superflua. Composite Oxura from oxus, sharp; and ous: _a/tail.

14. PerisTERIA PENDULA, Pendulous Dove-flower. A fine and
singular flowering orchideous plant, from Demarara. It has recently
bloomed in the collection of John Allcard Esq., Stratford Green,
near London. The flowers are produced upon a pendant scape,
which is about eight inches long, and bears five or six flowers upon
each. Each flower is near two inches across, fragrant, of a grenish-
white colour on the outside, the inside of a slight blush colour, spot-
ted with purple. The lip is of a diugy white, also much spotted
with purple. Gynandria Monandria Orchidee. Peristeria from
Peristera, a Dove ; its column resembling a dove in form.

16. PoreNTILLA MOLLIssIMA. Soft-leaved. The plant is a
native of Scuth of Europe, and introduced into this country in 1832

NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 107

It is a hardy perennial, growing about half yard high, blooms from
June to September, each flower is about an inch and a half across,
of a fine sulphur yellow colour. Pentandria Monogynia Rhodoracee.
Potentilla from Potens, powerful ; supposed medicinal qualities.

17. RHODODENDRON FLAVUM; VAR. CORONARIUM; Garland

Flowered Rose Bay. Synonym, Azalea pontica, var. This is a very

profuse, and showy flowering variety, which has been introduced
from Holland. It is by far the handsomest of the yellow blossomed
kinds. The flowers are produced in large heads, each having fifty
or more upon it, and they are of a fine deep yellow. Mr. Knight of
Chelsea, possesses this splendid variety.

18. Veronica ExatTaTa, Lofty Speedwell. The plant isa peren-
nial, and a native of Siberia, from whence it was introduced in 1816.
It grows about four feet high, flowering from July to September. It
produces numerous spikes of fine blue flowers, which are very showy.
Diandra monogynia; Scrophularine ; Veronica. From the name
of a princess.

New Pansy, &c.—We have been very much pleased with a seed
ling Pansy, raised by Mr. Barratt, Nurseryman, Wakefield, named
Pearson Walton. It is of a most splendid puce, as its ground co-
lour. The fine colour and shape of the flower render it deser vedly
admirable. We are glad too to find that associated wih it, is the
name of a gentleman ar is not only an ardent lover of Floriculture,
&e. but equally an encourager of the same. Mr. Barratt, we saw,
possesses a superior kind of Ribes, named R. coccinea, which far
surpasses in colour the beautiful R. sanguineum.: ConpucrTor.

108 QUERY AND ANSWERS.

PART III.
MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

QUERY.

On Mimosa Sensitiva.—A debtor to the Floricultural Cabinet, would feel
himself greatly obliged, if any correspondant would inform him of the best me-
thod of raising the Sensitive Plant—/Mimosa sensitiva. Last spring, I sowed
some seeds in a pot of earth, composed of peat, mould, and fine sand, and
plunged them into a frame of moderate heat. They came up very sickly in ap-
pearance; I afterwards repotted them in 48’s with the same compost, and placed

them in the best situation in the greenhouse, when, upon growing a little, they ’
gradually died away. Loughborough, March 12th. 1836.
ANSWERS.

In Reference to Roses changing their colour, by change of situation &c., I
have to observe, that this does sometimes occur, but upon close observation, it
will generally be found to have proceeded from a predisposition in the plant to
disease, arising from some external injury it may have received when in full
vigour of growth, or from very indifferent soil. I have seen in several instances,
George the Fourth, bloom quite a pale red, as Mr. Rivers observes, scarcely to
be recognised; but proceeding from one of the above causes.

March 7th, 1836. A. Gopwin.

On THE History oF THE Daurra.—lIn reply to your correspondent, “A. Z.’
p. 45, I beg to observe, that the Dahlia is stated to have been introduced in
1789, by the Marchioness of Bute, as a native of Mexico, and that the Comte de
Vandes imported several varieties from France, where the plant had been culti-
vated for some years with great assiduity, by M. Lelieur, atSevre, near Paris. (Vide
Bot. Mag., Vol. XLIV, p. 1885.) M. Decandolle, observes, that “ it may be infer-
red with a degree of probability approaching to certainty, that no blue variety of
Dahlia will ever be found, because, blue and yellow being the two primitive
colours of flowers, and always exclusive of each other, no blue flowers can change
to yellow, nor yellow to blue. I must confess, that it would have been mor
desirable, to have adhered to Decandolle’s and Wildenow’s name, Georginia,
preference to the more common appellation Dahlia, particularly as we hag
the genus Dalea, a name by which it is too often improperly called)

Botanic Garden, Bury St. Edmunds, Feb. 4th.. 1836. e N.S. H.

On Destroyinec THE MEaty Buc.—In your January Number, a Regular
Subscriber desires to know the best mode of destroying the Mealy Bug; I there-
fore, feel much pleasure in answering his query, as the mode I have always
adopted, has, in every instance proved most satisfactory. The remedy is, simply
to dust the plant or plants with Tobacco Snuff, and the Mealy Bug will in a few

minutes cease to exist; as the snuff will not injure any plant, when it is ap-
plied in this way, it should not be washed off for some time, as the larve of the
mealy bug is so very minute, thousands might escape untouched. I have also 2
found it most efficacious in destroying the Aphis, and other noxious insects, on |
plants which will not bear fumigation. Any plant, however, dusted with snuff,
should not be watered overhead, until it be clean washed, as the snuff when wet-

ted on the leaves has an unsightly appearance. ‘Trusting you will excuse this
obtrusion on your useful pages, under the hope, that it will answer the purpose

which the querist desires. —I am Yours, J. C. Hy.

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MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 109

REMARKS.

On Superior Pinxs.—The article in the March Number of the Cabinet, under
the name of Jnnovator, being wrote in the full spirit of ridicule, it is not my inten
tion to trouble the reader with much in reply, more particularly as the writer is
a Sculker ; one part, | must confess, is really amusing, viz. he having introduced
in his ridiculous Article, Bows Cato. This Pink was not named by me to Mr:
Smith, and is, I believe, one of the smallest Lancashire Pinks, yet this Mr. Inno-
vator, has selected this against his one in the Ring (this is most beautiful.)
Let me recommend my brother florists to grow such Pinks as I have named,
that is, if they wish to possess what is called Florists’ Flowers ; if on the other
hand, they want Pinks withont form, bwrsting pods—the centre full of small
leaves, the laceing bad, the colour also bad, they may then apply to Mr. Innova-
tor with the needful, and I have no doubt he will find them. I shall be most
happy to correspond with any brother florist, on the good or bad properties of a
pink, and where they are to be had. But must request to have their name and
place of abode, none else shall be noticed by me, for such bush-jighling, as ap-
peared in Innovator’s remarks, is to say the least unmanly.

Lancaster, March 12th, 1836.

T. ConNELLY.

?
EXHIBITIONS AT THE GARDEN OF THE HORTICULTURAL $
SOCIETY OF LONDON, FOR 1836. :

“MeeETINGs will be held at the society’s|\Large Silver § Silver Knightian Medals,
garden, for the exhibition of choice spe-| « Hardy Azaleas
cimens of flowers or fruit, on the threel.o.. kinds, pie
following days :—SaTuRDAY, May 143) «Greenhouse Azaleas, single speci-
Saturpay, June 11; _and SATURDAY, mens, and in collections of 2 more
July 9, to which exhibitions all persons,|nay six kinds.
whether fellows of the society or not, are} « Amaryllidex, in collections of six
invited to contribute. specimens. 5

“To enable exhibiters fully to under-| " « Cacti, the tall kinds, in flower
stand the object of these meetings, and) « Hitty’ the melo-shaped kinds. whee
the description of horticultural produc-|,,,.. in dower or not. i
ions of which it is desirable that they! « pircotp Cape kinds, in collections
usist, the following regulations) , ¢ twenty varieties, ; ale
have been adopted : “ Ferns, tropical kinds.

TS OF EXSIBITION. 6 Grapes.

be given for subjects of] « Heaths, Cape kinds, in collections
escription : of twelve.

Gold Knightian & Large Silver Medals.| “Hardy Orchidew, if cultivated for
more than one year.

“ Alstromerias. : “Stove Orchidea, single specimens of
“Stove Orchidew, in collections ofjany ornamental American species.

four species. “Ditto, of any ornamental African
“Ditto, single specimens of any orna-|species.

mental Asiatic species. “Pineapples.
“Stove or Greenhouse Plants, in col-|_ “ Roses, Chinese and Noisette, in col-

lections of six different kinds, singlellections of twenty varieties.

specimens. “ Garden Roses, in collections of fifty
“ Ditto, in collections of ten differentjyaricties.

in coliections of six

the following

kinds, and not exceeding six specimens
of each kind.

“Succulent Plants, not before enu-
merated, in collections of six specimens.
“The best single specimen of an or-

110 : MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

namental New Holland Plant. serving—that the medals are offered not
“ Ditto Cape Plant. for objects which are merely curious,
“Ditto New Zealand Plant. but for the most remarkable and valua-

“ Ditto Chinese Plant. ble specimens of horticultural skill,— :

“ Ditto of any new, hardy, ornamentaljand that the design of the council in in- |
shrubby plant. stituting these meetings, is not to encou-

Silver Knightian Medal. rage the mere collector, but to reward

the success of the skilful gardener.
N. B. No Exhibitions can be placed
upon the Tables unless they belong to

“ Anemones.
“ Balsams, in collections of six speci-

mens. j
“Calceolarias, in collections of six\) 7° .0" °” otters Se CON ee
pots. by the judges in cases where the objects

“ Carnations, Pinks, or Piccotees, in
collectionr of twenty-four varieties.

“Cucumbers, in braces.

“ Cockscombs, in collections of three
specimens.

“ Figs, in dishes.

exhibited do not appear worthy of a me-
dal; otherwise a bad single exhibition
might obtain a first prize, merely be-
cause there was no better exhibition of
the same class to oppose it. |

F
described; and no award will be made

“ Heart’s ease, in stands of thirty va- _ ,FLOWER STANDS, ’
rieties. * Provision will be made by the soci-
“ Melons, single specimens. ety for placing on the tables such speci- q
“Pelargoniums, in collections of/Mens as may be furnished by exhibiters ;
twelve varieties. but as flowers travel most securely when

“ Peaches and Nectarines, in dishes of|fixed permanently in boxes, and as many i
six specimens. persons prefer their own stands, it has

“Stove or Greenhouse plants, not|been determined that any exhibiters ‘
numerated elsewhere, one single speci-/May use their own boxes or stands, un- |
en. der the following conditions :

“The best single specimen of any new,}, “No box or stand shall exceed eight
hardy, ornamental herbaceous plant. _[inches in height at the back, or eighteen

“In addition to which, the society of-|ipches in depth from front to back.
fers its large gold medal, valued at £25. The lids of all boxes must either be loose
to that exhibiter who shall obtain the|/or made to unhinge. No box with a
greatest value in prizes on any one day, fixed lid will, on any pretence be al-
provided he gives up his claim to what- lowed to stand upon the tables.
ever other medals he may have gained.| DELIVERY OF OBJECTS FOR EXHIBI-
The value to be ascertained by reckoning TION.

ny 1 care tec eat 10, “Exhibiters are earnestly requested
A alee Knightian eaalmrarthal: to notify in writing, previous to the day
Meer iN ‘xovor sone penta be Of meeting, what it is their intention to
on $ lsupply in order that due provision may

found equal in the award of the judges, he tiaite fanene Srplese Te
: proper distributio
then each will have the large gold medal.|,,_, plants, Ke. ou the oxtail a.

“In consequence of the dies of the : att :
large and banksian medals having be- ee part ealact this toe for those
come worn out, two new dies are inthe| «& ,. oa
course of preparation, one af which willl, **, 2°. Garden wall Macnee

i p.M. for the general admission of visi-
Pe Ps iit ihead ot ges ey pe tors, it is necessary that the judges should

ie : proceed to consider the respective merits
president of the society, will be named of the exhibitions by 11 a. M., and as it

the Knightian medal. is absolutely indispensable that the ta-
JUDGES. bles should be in order by that time, it
“The respective merits of competitors|has been determined that no subject for
will be decided by a conference betweenjerhibition should be admitted into the
judges, not exhibiters, especially ap-(garden afler half-past nine o’clock in the
pointed for the occasion, and a commit-\morning ; and if the owners of any
tee of the council of the society; andjlocked-up boxes, or other cases already
the award will be the expression of thejreceived, should not be in the exhibition
joint opinion of those two bodies, who,|tent at the said hour, such cases or boxes
jn forming their decision, will be directed/must be excluded from the exhibition.
10 follow these regulations strictly, ob.| “All specimens, whether of fruit or

MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. lil

flowers, will remain untouched until af-|wards defraying the necessary expences,
ter six o’clock, when they will be de-{will receive three tickets for every half-
livered into the hands of the exhibiters. |guinea so subscribed.

“Every exhibiter will be required to| “ After the Sth of April tickets will be
sign a written declaration that every ar-|delivered to fellows on their personal ap-
ticle exhibited has been in the possession|plication, or written order, at the price
of the exhibiter at least four months. _ [of five shillings each.

* ADMISSION OF VISITERS. “ All tickets subscribed for, and not

“The garden will be opened, on each|taken by the subscribers on or before
day, to fellows and visiters, from one|Tuesday, the 19th of April, will be
o’clock till sunset, under the following|charged five shillings each.
regulations, “ Fach ticket will be available for ad-

* All fellows of the society will be ad.|mission to either of the three exhibitions,
mitted without tickets, on signing their|at the option of the visiter.
names in a book at the entrance. Visi-| “All applications for tickets must be
ters will be only admitted by tickets, tomade at the society’s office, 21, Regent-
be obtained throngh fellows of the so-|Street.
ciety. “ Any ticks issued at the garden on

“All fellows who shall, on or before|the days of exhibition will be at the ad-
Tuesday, the 5th of April, subscribe to-'vanced price of ten shillings.”

On Srrixinc Youne SHoots oF Danrias.—l have, during February and
up to the 10th of April, been occupied in striking young shoots of Dahlias, and
Y I find a considerable difference is required in the age of taking off shoots so as
; to strike them certainly. Some kinds I find have robust and coarse shoots, if
these be taken off before they get about five inches long, I find them very liable
to rot off. Whereas, those of a less vigorous habit, and having smallish shoots,
will strike if taken off at two inches long. I find, however, that younger the
shoot is, more sand must be used in the soilto keep it open, to allow the water to
pass away freely. I break my shoots clean from the old root whenever I can;
it is easily done. I find such root much better than when a shoot is cut through
close under ajoint. If shoots be taken off when not more than two or three
inches long, they may be removed without injuring any remaining that may be
upon the old root. I have sometimes found where a quantity was pushing up
closely, that to cut a little carefully with a point of a penknife so as to assist in
separating it, has been of assistance, J, JONES.
Chester, March 10th, 1836.

Literary Norice.—A Prospectus of an intended work on tropical Orchide-
yus Plants, by Dr. Lindley, to be published by Messrs. Ridgway, has been sent
us. e work is named Sertum Orchideum ; the meaning is, The Orchideous
Garland. : contain figures of the most superb and interesting kinds. It
will be published in twenty-two monthly parts, in folio size. Each part will
contain five plates. Conpucror.

Tue TREE Danwia.—An arborescent species of Dahlia, was exhibited on
November 8rd, at the meeting of the Linnean Society, by Mr. Lambert. It is
from Oaxaca, in Mexico, in which country it is said to grow fifty feet high. A
plant of this species, we understand, is in the Liverpool Botanic Garden.

ConpucTor.

On Hot-Warer APPARATUS, as inserted in the Cabinet, page 49.—In the
account which I sent you last month of a small Hot-Water Apparatus, I believe
I omitted the name of the workman who constructed mine. It was made by G,
Jarman, brazier and coppersmith, 49, Gracechurch-Street, London; and as he
has had some experience in similar apparatus, and is in possession of all my

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drawings, &c. he would probably execute every order better than a workman
unacquainted with the principle, and to whom the plan was altogether new.—
Upon nine weeks’ experience, I can report most favourably of the apparatus. It
will place the cultivation of orchideous epiphytes within the reach of any one
who possesses a three-light melon pit; in fact, within the reach of every one who
loves a garden sufficiently to devote alittle personal attention to it. My ther-
mometer ranges from 28 to 32 degrees above external air, and seldom varies 10
degrees in the night, and if fine need no attendance from nine P.M. till seven
A.M. except a visit from myself about eleven p.M. to see that all is right. The
extreme simplicity and success of the plan, induces me to trouble you with this
remark, as I am anxious it should be generally known, being confident nothing
more is necessary to its universal adoption, in houses or pits on a small scale,
and it will probably be found not less efficient on a more extended one.—Your
Obedient Servant,— C. . 2 Cultivator of Cape Bulbs.

SOUTH LONDON FLORICULTURAL SOCIETY.

The first general meeting and flower show of this society for the year 1836,
took place at the Horns Tavern, Kensington, on Wednesday, April 14th. Not-
withstanding the severity of the weather, the show of flowers was magnificent.
Every table in the extensive ball-room was thickly studded with the most superb
specimens, which reflected by the large pier glasses, rendered the display exceed-
ing brilliant. That singularly beautiful plant, the Tropceoleum tricolorum, at-
racted peculiar notice. This plant, to the great regret of the floral world, was
ost many years ago at the Botanic Garden, Chelsea, and its restoration has
ereated much pleasure. Another plant hitherto unknown to English florists, and
which sprung accidentally among some mixed seeds, was presented by Mr. Red-
ding, gardener to Mrs. Marryatt, of Wimbledon. Though not coming within
the meaning of the phrase for which the prizes were awarded, namely, “ The
finest specimens,” it was still considered such an acquisition as to call for an ad-
ditional extra prize. They have named the stranger plant Brugmansia sanguinea,
the flower being tipped at the edge with a blood colour. Amongst the prizes
and specimens there was an abundance of azaleas, salvias, primulas, camellias,
oxalises, magnolias, cyclamens, ericas, &e. Mr. Catcleugh, of Chelsea, exhibited
a splendid row of geraniums, consisting of all the best-known varieties. The
cucumbers, from Mr. Conway, of Fulham, were much admired, being 17 inches
long. f

Prizes AWARDED.—To Mr. Harding, of Sydenham, for the bes pair of auri-
culas, being Page’s ‘‘ Champion,” and Warris’s “ Blucher.” To Mr. Ledgard,
of Hammersmith, for the second best pair of auricules, being the “ Lancashire
Hero,” and Hage’s “ Oldenburgh.” To Mr. Dickson, of Acre-lane, Clapham,
for the best seedling auricula. This seedling was so much admired that ten
guineas were offered for it on the spot. Barnard’s Formosa, a most superb
flower, gained the polyanthus prize for Mr. Harding, of Sydenham. Mr. Lane,
of Henlington, Fulham, gained the prize for the six best hyacinths. Mr. Chand-
ler, of Wandsworth-road, for the six second best; as also for the best collection
of miscellaneous plants. Messrs. Young, of Epsom, for the second best collec-
tion of miscellaneous. Mr. Fairburn, of Clapham Rise, for the third best.
Messrs. Young also obtained the prize for the best specimen plant. Mr. Chand-
ler for the second best.

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METROPOLITAN SOCIETY OF FLORISTS, &c.

SECOND SHOW, TULIPS, FOR MEMBERS ONLY, RED LION, HAMPTON, MAY 16th

1. Best twelve dissimilar blooms, four of each class, the Queen’s plate, value ten
guineas, and other prizes for the second and third pans atleast. Entrance, 20s.

2. Best nine dissimilar blooms, three of each class, silver cups or plate, value £5.
£4, £3, £2. and £1. Entrance 10s.

3. Best single blooms, feather and flamed in each class, Entrance, 2s. 6d.

4. Best Breeder of each class. Entrance, Is.

Every member to enter and pay for the flowers intended to be shown on Tues-
day, the 3d of May.

THIRD SHOW, ON TUESDAY, THE 24th OF MAY, VAUXHALL,

In honour of the Princess Victoria’s birth-day.

1. Best Collection of orchideous plants, not less than twelve, a silver cup, and
one or more other prizes.

2. Best collections of six dissimilar rhododendrons, two or more prizes.

3. Best collections of six hardy azaleas, two or more prizes.

4, Best collections of six greenhouse azaleas, ditto.

5. Best collections of six greenhouse plants, not azaleas, ditto.

6. Best collections of six calceolarias, ditto.

7. Best collections of six hardy plants of any kind, ditto.

8. Best collections of six geraniums, three or more prizes.

9. Best collections of six ericas, ditto.

10. Best collections of thirty heart’s-ease, amateurs, ditto.

11. Best collections of one hundred heart’s-ease, all classes, ditto.

12. Best collections of twelve tulips, one-third of each amateurs, six prizes.

12. Best collections of thirty-six tulips, all classes, three prizes.

14. Best collections of thirty-six varieties of cut flowers, not more than six in

any one tribe, two or more prizes.

15. Best specimen plants, to be judged by skill in cultivation and beauty, three
to five prizes. ;

16. Best specimen plants, to be judged by rarity and beauty, three to five

prizes.

17. Best orchideous specimen, one or more prizes.

18. Best twenty sorts of roses, not garden varieties, a truss of each.

The Silver Cup, given in honour of the Princess Victoria’s birth-day, will be
given to the person who shall obtain the greatest number of prizes; and if two
persons shall obtain equal number of prizes, then the greatest number of first
prizes. Entrance—members, 2s. 6d. each class; non-members, 5s.

No person to be permitted to show for prizes, unless notice be given in writing
to the secretary, or personally, at a meeting on or before Tuesday, the 17th May,
that exhibition tickets may be forwarded, without which none can be admitted.

FOURTH SHOW, JUNE 16th or 23d.

So far as any or all the foregoing flowers can be exhibited in good order, the
prizes and conditions to be the same. The following are additional.
l. Best twelve pinks, amateurs, six prizes.
2. Best collection of ditto, all classes, three prizes.
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3. Best twelve ranunculuses, amateurs, six prizes.

4, Best collection, ditto, all classes, three prizes.

5. Best twelve sorts of China, noisette, or other roses, not garden varieties, to
be shown either in pots or single trusses of bloom, on one stalk, amateurs only,
two prizes.

6. Best collection of ditto, all classes, two prizes.

7. Best twenty-four garden varieties, and not noisette, climbing, or China, to
be shown in asingle open bloom of each, as dahlias are exhibited, amateurs only,
two prizes.

Best collection of ditto, all classes, two prizes. Entrance for each class—mem-
bers, 2s. 6d. ; non-members, 5s.

No person to show, unless notice be given in writing, or personally, on or be-
fore the general meeting, 7th June.

FIFTH SHOW, JULY 20—CARNATIONS AND PICCOTEES—VAUXHALL.
Members only.

1. Best twelve dissimilar blooms, carnation, five or more prizes.

2. Best twelve dissimilar blooms, piccotees, white ground, five or more prizes.

3. Best twelve yellow or coloured grounds, one prize.

4. Best seedling that has not taken a prize before, and has been raised within
two years, and not out, one prize. Entrance—ds. each stand; 2s. 6d. each
seedling.

None to show, unless the flowers are entered and paid for, before or at the
meeting, Sth July. Flowers received till one o’clock on the day of show.

The members will dine together in the Royal Box, at three o’clock, and be at
liberty to wait the evening’s gala.

SIXTH SHOW, AUGUST 11, VAUXHALL,

In honour of the Queen’s Birth-day.

1. Best Collection of thirty-six plants of every kind, Silver Cup, and two or
more other prizes.

. Best collections of six cockscombs, two or more prizes.
3. Best collections of six balsams, ditto.

4. Best collections of six greenhouse plants, ditto:

5. Best specimens for skill and beauty, two to five prizes.
6. Best ditto for rarity and beauty, two to fiye prizes.

7. Best twelve dahlias, amateurs, growing under two hundred plants, and not
placing any seedling in the stand.

8. Best twenty-four, all classes.

9. Best one hundred, exhibited in boxes, stands, or otherwise, provided by the
grower, but not containing more than five rows in depth, and not more than two
feet six inches from back to front, to preserve uniformity.

10. Best seedlings of 1835, self.

11. Best ditto, mottled, shaded, or striped.

12. Best ditto, of 1836, self.

13: Best ditto, mottled, shaded, or striped.

14. Best thirty-six varieties, in pots, all classes:

The Dahlia prizes will be in number proportioned to the entries of each class.
—Entry for each class of plants, and also for seedling Dahlias—members,

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2s. 6d.; non-members, 5s. Entry for each class of dahlias—members, 5s. ; non-
members, 10s.

Every person must give notice of showing in writing, or personally, at or be-
fore the general meeting, 2nd of August, that exhibiters’ tickets may be forwarded.
SEVENTH SHOW, SEPTEMBER 8th, VAUXHALL.

Plants, as far as they can be shown in good order, the same as before.
Dahlias all as at the August show—prizes according to the number of entries.
Day of entry on or before the general meeting, 16th August.

EIGHTH AND LAST SHOW, SEPTEMBER 27th, SALTHILL, NEAR WINDSOR.

Prizes, plan, entry, &c. of dahlias as before, and entrance on or before the 6th
of September.

LIST OF FLORICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL MEETINGS,
TO BE HELD IN MAY.
SHEFFIELD, Wednesday, May 4th.

WAKEFIELD, Wednesday, 11th.
HupDDERSFIELD, Thursday, 12th.

Lonpon HortTicutTuraL Society, to be held in the Gardens at Chiswick,

Saturday, 14th.

METROPOLITAN SociETyY, to be held at Hampton, Monday 16th.
CHELTENHAM, Tuesday, 17th.
RoyaL BERKSHIRE, at Wallingford, Wednesday, 18th.
Sunspury, Wednesday, 18th.

MippiesEx, Thursday, 19th.

Bata, Thursday, 19th.

Dorxrne, (Surrey,) Saturday, 21st.
MErTrRopo.irTan Society, at Vauxhall, Tuesday, 24th.

A CATALOGUE OF FINE RANUNCULUSES, RAISED FROM SEED,

AND CULTIVATED BY J. WATERSTON, PAISLEY.

Red Spotted. Janthe, Sir H. Davy,
Addison, Lord Cochrane, Teniers,
Agandecca, Linneus, Toscar,

Alerope, Maculata Suprema, Ullin,
Alexander, Maddock, Ultha,
Belina, Minerva, Virgil,
Bragella, ; Madam Pasta, Virginia,
Canning, Marshall Ney, Warren,
Cupid, as on ae Zephyrus.

i rs. Stephens,
al Mrs. Salmons, Purple Spotted.
Duke of Hamilton, Pindar, Acantha,
Flaximan, Pope, Calypso,
Flora, Poussin, Captain Cook,
Ganymede, Ramsay, Dr. Chalmers,
Girard Dom, Rembrandt, Duke of Buccleugh,
George 4th, Rascranna, Duchess of Hamilton,
Guercino, Salus, Florida,
Gnido, Salvator Rosa, Lord Althorpe,
Hogarth, Shakespeare, Holland,
Hooker, Sinclair, |Locke,

116

Sir Sidney Smith,

— William Wallace,
Sarah,

Smollet,

Skiroan,

Tannahill,

Vandyke,

‘William 4th,

Purple.

Augustus,
Barry,
Brougham,
Chaucer,
Dey of Algiers,
Dunbar,
Gray,
Hiram,
Rob Roy,
Spenser,
Swarran,

Yellow, edged, Spotted, Se.

Akenside,

Domenichino,

Epeus,

Fresnoy,

Havilah,

Holbein,

Midas,

Plato,

Sir W. Beechey,
White.

Artemis,

Fairy Queen,

Februa,

Hesperus,

Mary,

Sir P. Lely,

Rose edged and Mottled,

Adelaide,
Amaranthe,
Campbell,
Catalani,
Cicero,
Comala,
Cornegio,
Crimora,
De Heem,
Dryden,
Earl Grey,

Mr. Waterston, of Paisley, Scotland, has been the most successful raiser of
Seedling Ranunculuses that I have known, I, therefore, with pleasure send you
this list of his seedlings for insertion in the Cubinet, that the readers may have
some knowledge of what we possess of this esteemed flower, in this part of the

country.

MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

Europa, .
Earl Grosvenor,
Fingal,

Leda,

Lord Cathcart,
Eldon,

J. Russel,
Marquis of Douglas,
of Stafford,
Maria Louisa,
Marshall Macdonald,
Melona,

Michael Angelo,
Moina,

Prince Poniatowsky,
Princess Charlotte,

— Jos. Reynolds,

Edinburgh, Feb. 12th, 1836.

Holloway, {
Moore, |
Naverino, |
Rose Magnificent,

De Perse,
—— Stamboul,

Superb,

Unique,

Victoria,

Purple edged and Mottled.

Apelles.

Armata,
Blucher,

Bruce,

Burns,

Byron,

Claude Lorraine,
Cowper,

Davey,

Deiopea,

Dr. Young,

Duc de Reichstadt,
Esther,

Fillan,

Fuseli,

Gawin Douglas,
Garrick,
Gainsborough,
Gloria Florum,
Goldsmith,
Henry Kirke White,
Henning,
Hooker,

Home,

Juno,

La Perouse,
Lady Susan Hamilton,
Madam Mere,
Raimback,
Ryno,

Sir J. Lawrence,
— H, Raeburn,
— R. Wilson,
Sterne,

Tam O’Shanter,
Virginius,
Wilson,

Weber,

Westall,

ST. PATRICK.

DESIGN: FOR FLOWER-GARDENS. 117

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATION.

ARTICLE VII.—DESIGN FOR FLOWER.GARDENS, No. IV, Design 5th.
Communicated by Amicus.

Tue Plan represents a Flower-Garden, with gravel walks, box, or
other edging, and some grass introduced upon which dwarf orna-
mental flowering shrubs may be planted. The centre is occupied by
a small bason, for gold and silver fish.

5 10 20 40 60 80 100 feet.

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REMARKS.

On THE Pinx.—The stem should be strong, elastic, and erect, and
not less than twelves inches high. The flower should not be less than
two inches and a half in diameter, the petals should be large, broad,
and substantial, and free from large, coarse, deep notches, or inden-
tures; in short, they approach nearest to perfection when they are
rose-leaved, or without any fringe at all. The broad end of the petals
should be perfectly white and distinct from the eye, unless it be a
laced pink, which should be bold, clear, and distinct, leaving a consi-
derable portion of white in the centre, perfectly free from any tinge
or spot. The eye should consist of a bright, rich, dark crimson, or
purple, resembling velvet; but the nearer it approaches to black, the
more it is esteemed ; its proportion should be about equal to that of
the white, that it may neither appear too large nor too small.—A. B.

On NeapoLitan VIOLETs.—Neapolitan Violets may be removed
from the frames to the open borders. This fragrant flower is often in
great request; and as many feel desirous to have the duration of its
flowering prolonged throughout the winter, we feel much pleasure in
giving insertion to the following excellent directions, kindly commu-
nicated to us by Mr. J. W. Thomson, gardener to Alexander Baring,
Esq., Grange Park. Early in May the plants are taken from the
frames, the whole of the earth being shaken from the roots. The
largest are divided into three plants, the smaller into two; they are
then planted in beds, four feet wide, 1 rows, one foot apart, and
twelve inches in the rows. An east or west border should be chosen,
and previously to planting be well dug, and highly manured with well
decomposed animal manure. If the summer prove dry, they will re-
quire to be frequently watered ; they should remain in the beds till
the middle or latter end of September ; they should then be taken up
with a portion of soil adhering to the roots, and potted singly into pots
(32’s) filled with a compost consisting of equal parts of sandy loam,
well-decomposed leaves, and rich animal manure, or bone dust, but
the latter is preferable. When potted, the plants should be well wa-
tered, and placed in a shady situation for a fortnight. About the mid-
dle of October the plants are plunged into a pit filled with old tan or
leaves, and when so placed the plants should not be more than three
inches from the glass; this is of great importance, for if the pots be
plunged deeper into the beds, the plants are very liable to damp off in
the winter months, and during this period they require but little or no
water. Air should be freely admitted at all times, except in frosty or
wet weather; for if wetted by rain, they would probably damp off.
Mats should be used to protect them from frosts, and where flues are
employed, the temperature should not exceed 40° or 45° of Fahren-
heit’s thermometer. The plants require to be frequently looked over,
and decayed leaves removed ; and during summer the runners should
be taken off, as they tend to weaken the plant.—Mautel’s Flor.

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Bath Royat HorricvLturaL and Fiorat Soctety.—The third
evening meeting of this society, for Horticultural and Floral discus-
sion, took place on Tuesday, March lst, at Collings library, Captain
Marsh in the chair; the proceedings were in the highest degree inv
teresting. The chairman read a valuable paper upon an improved
method of cultivating celery R. Godfrey Esq., also read an elaborate,
comprehensive, and very entertaining paper on the auricula, embrac-
ing its varieties, mode of culture, &c. &c., which, though it extended
to nearly half an hour, commanded the most strict attention, and
elicited the applause of all present at its close. Mr. J. Salter, with
his usual liberality, sent a numerous and splendid collection of hya-
cinths, early tulips, camellias, and other plants, which were greatly
admired. R. Godfrey Esq., sent a beautiful erica; anda very fine
seedling geranium was sent by B. Batsford Esq., of Weston Lane.

REFERENCE TO THE EMBELLISHMENT.

Harris's Acme of Perfection Dahlia.—A Seedling of 1835, raised
by Mr. John Harris, Florist, Upway, Dorsetshire, who has been very
successful in raising many other superior flowers.

FLORICULTURAL CALENDAR FOR MAY.

Plant Stove.—Very little fire-heat will now be required, only ap-
plying it in cold weather. The plants will progressively require an
increase of air and water. If any want an increase of pot-room, it
should be attended to as early as possible ; otherwise, if not watered
frequently, the foliage or flowers will be liable to suffer, turn brown,
or fall off the plant. Keep the plants free from decayed leaves,
moss, &c. Frequently stir the surface of the soil. When any casual
irregularities in form occur, prune or tie the shoots as required. It is

__a good time for propagating by cuttings, suckers, seeds, &c. placing

them in moist heat.

Tender or Stove Annuals.—When it is desired to have some plants
to bloom late in autumn, as Balsams, Cockscombs, Brouallias, &c.
seeds should now be sown, and the plants be potted off into small
sized pots as soon as they are large enough, using a rich soil.

Greenhouse.—During the early part of May, a few frosty nights ge-
nerally occur, in consequence of which, it is advisable not to take out
the general stock of plants before the middle of the month, or even in
cold situations, before the 25th. Whilst the plants, however, remain
in the greenhouse, let them have all the air that can be given during
the day, and at nights, if no appearance of frost. Particular attention
will now be required to afford an ample supply of water to free-grow-
ing kinds of plants. Frequently syringe them over the tops at even-
ing, just before sun-set. If any of the plants be attacked with the

120 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

green fly, or any other similar insects, apply a sprinkling of tobacco-
water, diluted with water, by adding to one quart of the liquid five of
water; in applying which to the plants, syringe them under, as well
as on the upper surface of the leaves: a repetition will rarely be
required. This mode of destroying the insects is far preferable to fu-
migation, no injury being sustained by it, even if applied in a pure
state. The liquid can be obtained of tobacconists at 10d: or 1s. per
gallon. Inarching Orange or Lemon trees may still be performed.
It is a good time for increasing plants by cuttings, striking in moist
heat. Greenhouse annuals—as Salpiglossises, Globe Amaranthuses,
Balsams, &c.—should be encouraged by a little warmth, and shifted
into larger pots, early in the month; so that the plants may make a
show, to succeed the removal of the general collection of greenhouse
plants. Cuttings or suckers of Chrysanthemums should now be taken
off, if not done before.—See Vol. I. pages 73 and 121; and Vol. II.
pages 83.

Flower-Garden.—Continue to protect beds of Hyacinths, Tulips, &c.
Carnations in pots should be encouraged by manure water, &c. in or-
der to grow them vigorously: care in striking will be required. By
the middle of the month, half hardy annuals, as China Asters, Mari-
golds, &c.—may be planted out in the open borders. Some of the
best kinds may be potted, as done to the more tender sorts. Many
kinds of greenhouse plants—as Petunia, Salpiglossises, Salvias,
Fuchsias, Heliotropes, &c.—should now be planted out in the open
border. Dahlias, that have been forwarded in pots, frames, &c. may
be planted out towards the end of the month. Seedlings may be
pricked out in a warm situation, having a deep, fresh, rich soil. When
Stocks, Mignionette, China Asters, &c. are wished to bloom late in
the year, seeds may now be sown, either under frame, or on a warm
border. Slips of Double Wallflowers should now be put in under a
hand-glass. Seeds of biennials—as Sweet Williams, Scabious, Cam-
pions, &c.—should now be sown. Tube-roses, for late flowering,
should now be planted, either in pots or warm borders.

Auriculas.—(See page 47, Vol. I.)

Carnations.—(See page 23, Vol. I.)

China Rose Cuttings.—(See page 48, Vol. I.)

Ranunculuses.—(See page 25, Vol. I.)

Rose Trees.—(See page 23, Vol. I.)

Tulips.—(See page 24, Vol. I.)

Violets.—(See page 48 and 72, Vol. I.)

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THE

FLORICULTURAL CABINET,

JUNE Ist, 1836. ;

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PART I.
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

ARTICLE I.—ON SNAILS, &c.—By Marta.

«JuDENIs,” of Canonbury, proposes that oil should be put into the pans
to prevent saails from reaching the flower-pots ; assuredly oil applied
to the bodies of those insects that breathe through their bodies, such
as wasps, hornets, &c. are immediately killed by it, but then it must
be in a liquid state, whereas oil when exposed to cold becomes con-
gealed, and then, I should think, the snails might crawl over it un-
injured, besides which, it would be expensive in a large collection.
I have tried with good effect the trimmings of horses’ heels and
manes cut small, strewed round the root, and if dug in with the
mould all the better, for then the slugs will be prevented from at-
tacking the bulb or stem under the earth; the privkliness of the
horse-hair, and its inclination to adhere to the moist coat of the in-
sects is so hurtful that I here found it quite effectual. Any groom
or coachman will save a large quantity of these trimmings in a short
time, and it costs nothing, makes no moss, and takes little time in
the application. I have found a ring of tar effectual in cleaning a
Daphne of Ants, they had congregated in such numbers on a hand-
some shrub as to threaten serious injury, and I had a ring of tar pla-
ced around it two inches from the stem; in a day or two all the ants
died, not being able to pass the barrier to return to their nests. But,
as this will only do for an occasional plant, I would recommend a
simple plan, adopted by my gardener, and which has nearly cleared the
beds and lawns of a profusion of these troubiesome insects. He makes
a hole several inches deep with a pointed stake exactly in their track
wheresoever he observes one; into this pit they fall headlong, and
the sides being of soft earth, and perpendicular, they fall back and
die by hundreds, or he kills them by again putting in the stake.
The gardener assures me he shall eradicate the whole colony in ano-
ther season. Clifton, 1836.
VOL, IY. R

122 CULTURE OF THE NEAPOLITAN VIOLET.

ARTICLE H,

ON THE CULTURE OF GINGER, ZINZIBER OFFICINALLIS.
BY MR. HENRY MARKHAM, LINN XUS-STREET, HULL.
Tuis plant is a native of the East Indies, requiring the heat of the
stove. It grows very freely in a mixture of light rich loam, peat,
and river sand, care must be taken to give a good drainage at the time
of potting.

During the time the roots are torpid, very little or no water
should be given. When they are in full growth, a good supply
is requisite to keep them in.a healthful growing state.

They are easily increased by division of the roots during the
time they are torpid, nothing further is required than to pot the di-
vided parts into such pots as are suitable to their size, and treat them
precisely as recommended for the old plants. In January or February,
when the roots are dormant, is the most proper time for taking up.
After having been clean picked and well washed, and exposed to the
sun till sufficiently dry, it is fit for use.

February, 1836.

ARTICLE III.

ON THE CULTURE OF THE NEAPOLITAN VIOLET.
BY A PRACTICAL LADY AMATEUR.
Ln the Cabinet for March last, “ C. S.” inquires “ what soil and man-
agement best suits the Russian and, Neapolitan Violets, to secure
profuse bloom?” I have both these Violets. They are planted in a
loamy soil, and blow abundantly, with but few leaves. The Rus-
sian Violet this last season in a sunny spot bloomed from the first
week in October to the middle of March. ‘The Neapolitan Violet in
the shade (that is with only thé morning sun) in a border sheltered
by lime-trees came into bloom the middle of February, and continues
blooming. I had the Neapolitan Violet planted in a border to the
south, but it did not thrive, and therefore removed it to its present
situation, where it flourishes. When the frosts begin, I give the
Neapolitan Violet the protection of a hand-glass ; or of a frame made
in the shape of a hand-glass, covered with oiled paper, and continue
it till they are over; taking it off, a short time, every mild day.
I have tried the Neapolitan Violet in a pot, wishing to have it in
the drawing-room during winter, but I could not succeed with it,
and was obliged when May approached to plant it in the border
again, without its having bloomed:
Beds, April 19th, 1836.

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ARTICLE IV.—ON THE TREATMENT OF LONICERA FLEXUOSA,
So as to cause it to bloom profusely, and of the Russian Violet,
BY MARIA,
Bene highly gratified with the Floriculiural Cabinet, and having de-
rived so much benefit from that publication, I consider it incumbent
on me to impart all the information in my power through the me-
dium of that excellent work. I therefore beg to inform “C. S.” of
Candover, that I have seen a Lonicera flexuosa that had been cut
back to keep it about six feet high, which was beautiful from the
profusion of blossom mixed with the dark green leaf, and of such close
growth, that not a particle of wall was visible; it is naturally wild
and straggling, and will not flower so well as any other honey-suckle,
unless kept in order with the pruning-knife. I do not think the Rus-
sian Violet likes the confinement of a pot, it takes some time also to
get reconciled to the ground before it will blow well. I have this
year discovered that the birds nip off the early buds, and I have been
preparing some small nets for their preservation, with which my gar-
dener is much delighted; I happened to have some coarse scarlet
yarn, and being in haste to guard my violets, I recommenced my
work, and find that it happens to be particularly effectual as the birds
will not approach any thing that is red. Perhaps your correspondent
may like to learn the size of my nets. I begin with one stich and on that
I net two stiches, and I continue to widen at the end of each row till
I come to 30 stitches, and then at the end of every row I narrow,
that is, take two stitches together, till I come to one stitch, when a
square is produced which can casily be fastened to the ground with
sticks, and to the wall with nails.
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ARTICLE V.—METHOD OF OBTAINING DWARF PLANTS OF THE
CHINESE CHRYSANTHEMUM.—By J.K,
Tue following easy method of obtaining dwarf Plants of the above
beautiful autumn flower I have practised with success this season, and I
believe it is not generally known. In the month of September, when
the plants have begun to show the flower-bud, take the plants from
which you want to have dwarf ones, and tie some moss and mould
round the stalk, about a foot or half a foot (according to the height
of the plant you desire) from the head of the plant, tie it
round tight, and ina fortnight roots will strike to the moss, when
it may be taken off and potted, by this means you will have a pretty
dwarf Plant at once, without much trouble; I have this season se-
veral of the tall growing kinds in pots about a foot high, looking ex-
tremely beautiful.
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124 ON FLOWER-BEDS, BASKETS, ETC. .

ARTICLE VI.—ON FLOWER-BEDS, BASKETS, &e.
BY GOOSEBERRY:
HerewitH I send some sketches of flower beds, &c. the patterns of
some I have in my own garden.
I have some beds of Fig. 11, ina anes garden, which they
suit extremely well, and produce a very pleasing effect.

Many of the correspondents of the Cabinet, having asked how
can they have a succession of flowers in a small space, I recommend
for their adoption the Chinese method of growing plants, (that
bloom at the same time), in boxes which are made the shape fixed
upon, and sunk in the earth with fresh ones as the flowers die away.
The Rustic basket, Fig. 12, when filled with plants has a remarkably

pretty effect, and is well suited to a confined space. The sides are
made of fir trees split, and either left with the bark on, or painted,
filled with earth, and planted with flowers.

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ARTICLE VII.

DESCRIPTION OF A BOX FOR CONVEYING FLOWERS IN.
BY E. T. E.
1N compliance with the wishes of «J. K.”I have attempted to demon-
strate a box (Fig. 13) for the purpose to which none I have seen are
superior, the flowers at the end of a long journey having the ap-
pearance of only been just gathered.

13

ALLMAN
EB

The box is of deal and can be made by any village carpenter. (4)
is one of the sides with hinges, in order to facilitate the arrangement
of the flowers. (BB) are small boxes of tin filled with moist sand to
receive the stalks. (cc) are slides which are let down level with the
tins when arranging the flowers, and are supported by the side (a)
when closed; one side should have a few sinall holes in it, to let ina
little air, but not a draught. This mode of conveyance has given
general satisfaction to those acquainted with it.

ARTICLE VII.—GLEANINGS FROM OLD AUTHORS.

BY TULIP, No. 3.—From Reas Flora, 1676.

As the Tulip season is advancing, perhaps, the following extracts
may be amusing to some of your curious readers who are not ac-
quainted with the work.

“The division of Tulips, according to Gerrard Parkinson, Clusius,
and Perrarius, is into three sorts, Proecoces, Medias, and Serotinas ;

126 CULTURE OF BLETIA TANKERVILLIE.

early, middle, and late flowering Tulips, whereas, there are but two
primary distinct kinds, Preecoces and Serotinas.”

The following is the manner of his description of the named Tulip
flowers, and of which there are about 179, besides those he does not
describe.

viz. Proecoces 36
Medias 136> 179 I have selected two only, both of
Serotinas 9 which I have.

“Semper Angustus, heretofore of much esteem, hath a flower not
very large, but well veined and striped with deep crimson and pale
yellow, the bottom and Tamis dark violet purple.”

«Royal Vesta, or Nonpare, is a better and more constant flower
than the last (viz, Vesta) ; the colours are carnation, crimson, and
white, when the flower makes well, the bottom is white and the tamis
blue.”

“‘ For various colours Tulips most excel,

And some Anemonies do please as well;

Ranunculus in richest scarlets shine,

Auricula and Bears-ears may with these in beauty join :
But yet if ask and have were in my power,

Next to the Rose give me the July-flower.”

The above above few lines are written at the close of the article on
July-flowers, and it appears at that period the supply for the growers
were brought from Holland, Flanders and other parts of the Nether-
lands, he inserts a list of three hundred and sixty by name ; he says,
« multitudes of these (seedlings) are often brought over to London,
and there sold at mean rates to gardeners who sell them again to
others, who delight in flowers commonly for 12 pence a layer; but
most of these mercenary fellows about London are very deceitful, and
whoever trusts is sure to be deceived, as I myself have often been,
even by such of them as I had by many benefits obliged.”

«| have heard but of very few good flowers that have been raised
of seeds by any in England.”

ARTICLE VIII.—ON THE CULTURE OF BLETIA TANKERVILLIZE.
BY MR. HENRY MARKHAM, LINN ZUS-STREET, HULL.

In reading over your Floricultural Cabinet, I find J.R. W., wishful,
that some correspondent of your's would give him some information,
how to treat the Bletia Tankervilliz, so as to cause it to produce its
singular and splendid flowers. I therefore send you a few remarks on
the culture of that plant.

It is very easy of culture, and will flower freely if potted in, a
soil composed of equal parts of light sandy loam, peat, and river

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sand. Let the pots be plunged up to the rim ina bark bed, or other
brisk heat, during the time the roots are in a growing state, and give
a good supply of water.

When out of flower, and the roots become dormant, take up the
pots and place them in a sliady and dry situation; allow the soil to
become dry, or nearly so, until they begin to grow again; as soon as
this is observed, repot them, and plunge as before directed, and they
will flower fine.

ARTICLE I1X.—ON INARCHING AND LAYING STOVE, GREEN-
HOUSE, AND OTHER CURIOUS OR RARE PLANTS.

BY A FOREMAN OF A LONDON NURSERY.

THERE are many of the most curious aud splendid flowering stove,
greenhouse, and hardy shrubs, which are only to be propagated but
by the methods of either Inarching or Laying them, or if they can
be struck from cuttings they seldom grow in a healthy condition af-
terwards. But a weakly growing species inserted upon the stock of
a free growing kind, will cause it to bloom far more profusely and
vigorously. An additional advantage too is afforded, by being enabled
to obtain a plant of considerable size in a short time. I have there-
fore, drawn up some practical observations upon the method which I
have pursued most successfully for twelve years.

Inarching is a species of grafting differing from it in these par-
ticulars, that whereas in grafting, the scion is at once totally sepa-
rated from its parent plant, and the head of the stock is cut clear off
before the splicing takes place; here, on the contrary, neither the
scion is separated from its parent, nor the head of the stock cut away,
until the union becomes so far complete that the first is unnecessary,
and the latter injurious. It is in consequence much preferable to
the common grafting, for evergreens in particular; it is principally
practised as the best means of multiplying all the double varieties of
Camellia and plants of similar habits ; because their strong leaves, if
only for a few days deprived of their regular support, by being cut
clear from the mother stock, if not covered closely with a glass will be
certain to wither and fall off; after which, there will be but very slen-
der chance of the scion’s completing an union: it is performed as
follows :—

Having provided a stock, which should always be some of the
coarser, free kinds, of the same genus of plants, and nearly of the
same diameter as the shoot which is intended for inarching; cuta
thin slip, from two to three inches long, and about one third or some-
thing better of the whole thickness, smoothly off from each of them,

128 STOVE, GREENHOUSE, AND OTHER RARE PLANTS.

in the clearest part of the stem with a small sharp knife; (a most
necessary instrument for this business,) the bark of each must then
be fitted together in the most exact manner, at least on one side, and
tied perfectly tight with good matting; they must be clayed in the
same manner as grafts; and, as being within doors ina warm
house will occasion the clay to become over dry, and liable
to crack, they should, at least in dry weather, receive two or three
times a week, some water from the rose of a water pot, or by means
of a syringe, to preserve it in a proper moist state, observing to do it
in the evening lest the leaves should get scorched by the rays of the
sun: a little moss tied neatly round each ball of clay will prevent the
water being so frequently necessary: which is in my opinion very
desirable. Eight or ten weeks will in general be found sufficient
time for them to unite; at all events, by that time, I think, they
may be partially separated from the parent plant by cutting the in-
arched shoots better than half way through; and if, on trial, they are
found to be united, and bear that operation well, they may in a few
days afterwards be entirely cut off and placed in a shady part of the
house, where they must be kept moderately syringed as before, and
some additional shade given according to the state of the weather for
two or three weeks ; during which time, they may be untied, and the
top of the stock cut off in a neat manner; and also any unnecessary
part of the bottom of the scion that may remain: let a little clay be
again applied, that these fresh wounds may have sufficient time to
become properly healed, which will take place in a few weeks. In this
manner have I succeeded with Myrtus Pimento, and other plants al-
lied to it, which are particularly difficult to strike or propagate, by
any other means, on the common myrtle with tolerable success; and
also many other plants of the same description upon their kind.

In laying, choice should be made of the young tender shoots of the
present year, the soft bark of which will sooner form a callosity, and
produce roots, than that of any of the preceding years growth. It is
particularly necessary to observe, whether the plant intended to be
layed is of a brittle nature or not; for if it is, it will be necessary
that the shoots be pegged gently down to the surface previous to lay~
ing, and thus left, until their tops naturally acquire a perpendicular
direction, which they will do in a few days; without this precaution
it will be extremely difficult to tongue them without cracking, or
breaking them off; but if treated in this manner, the most brittle
may be layed without danger.

By tongueing is meant, the operation of cutting a small longitu-
dinal scalp about half an inch in length, on the inner side of the heel

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or bend which is to inserted into the earth; about one-third of it
should be cut off in a transverse direction ; it being so placed, that the
transverse cut may be immediately on or below the joint; but by no
means is the whole of it to be cut away, as practised by some, it be-
ing the part which in most instances produces the first fibres. Hav-
ing the layer thus prepared, the earth must be opened with the hand
about three or four inches deep, and in the direction of the shoot,
into which opening, it would be advisable to put a little fresh loam
or sand for the immediate reception of the layer; which should be
fixed therein at least three inches under the surface, the tongue
should be gently twisted sideways so as to prevent its resting within
the heel or bend, and the mould immediately closed tight over it ;
as many layers as are wanted being thus made, let the whole have a
moderate watering to settle the mould, and be set or plunged in a
good growing heat; as it is of considerable importance to keep the
parent plant in a free thriving state.

There are many plants which produce roots so freely, that should
a branch even touch the surface of the ground, they strike almost im-
mediately; these every gardener will soon become acquainted with
by their natural efforts, and therefore, will find it sufficient for their
increase merely to insert them in the mould: noting however, that a
slight twist on the part inserted will considerably promote their root-
ing.

It is a conclusion drawn from several experiments, that the layer,
which is inserted to a proper depth, roots sooner and better than that
which is layed nearer the surface ; the self-evident reason of which is,
that the deeper they are the air is better excluded, and there isa
more regular degree of moisture for the nourishment of the young
fibres, when they make their appearance. I must also observe, that
no part of the shoot should on any pretence be covered with the
mould, except that which is meant to produce roots, as the covering
of the whole renders it extremely liable to rot: therefore, if any
particularly tender plant should happen to be thus treated, it would
evidently endanger the whole stool. This may seem an unnecssary
observation to some, but I can assure such, that I have seen layers
made by people, who thought themselves extremely clever, where
none of the parent stool were left in sight, except the tops of each
individual layer : what was the consequence? in a few months, one
half at least of the stools were without the least spark of life remain-
ing; and of the rest which were so fortunate as to survive, perhaps
not one-tenth of the shoots layed, produced plants.

130 REMARKS ON THE DAHLIA.

ARTICLE X.—A FEW REMARKS ON THE DAHLIA.
BY A STAR IN THE EAST.

Tue Dahlia, although one-of the most magnificent flowers cultivated,
is as much, or more, subject to variableness and uncertainty than any
other flower we have; and amongst the best varieties grown, there is
not one upon which reliance can be placed.

In one garden, we observe some particular sort blooming in the
greatest perfection, whilst in another we see the very same kind having
nothing but imperfect, even single blossoms; and thus it is we find
the flower spoken of in the highest terms by some persons, whilst
others discard it as being worthless. This has frequently ocecur-
red, and I would mention the names of some individuals who have
done so, and who are experienced growers to a great extent, and
well know the properties constituting a good flower; such as Messrs.
Brown, Widnall, Squibb, Brewer, Harrison, Levick, &c. &c. They
have, even when grown the first season, discarded such flowers as
Widnall’s Granta, Douglas's Criterion, Aldam’s Superb Yellow,
Lady Fordwich, Harrison's Unique, Metropolitan Perfection, and
many others of equal merit ; but when subsequently seen by thenrin
the collections of other growers, their properties have been acknow-
ledged to be of the very first rate quality.

With regard to the opinions advanced on the qualifications required
to form a good flower, they are almost as endless in variety as the
Dahlia itself, for every grower has his own opinion. However,
it must be generally admitted that form must stand first, colour
next, and size last. In my opinion, the rules laid down in a former
number of the Cabinet is a correct criterion, by which judges of
the flowers ought to be governed. I have many times seen in-
stances at the different Dahlia exhibitions I have attended, where
the first prize was awarded to a stand of flowers, merely because it
contained the sole merit of having larger Mowers than its rivals, and
far superior formed flowers, but less in size, come in fora second ora
third prize. I have seen also, that, in the prizes of the different classes,
the same sort of arrangement has been made, and Wilmot's Superb
has been placed first, whilst Springfield Rival comes in as a fourth,
although the bloom was perfection itself in form and colour. In fact,
I have sometimes concluded, that in the opinion of some, it mattered
not how ugly the flower might be, even if disfigured with an eye, it
was sure to gain a prize if it were but sufficiently large. I venture to
mention for the guide of those growing large flowers, the societies at
Lynn, Maidstone, Hertford, and Wakefield. If one of the commit-

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tee, or the secretary of a society would take the trouble to attend
the next Dahlia exhibition of the Metropolitan Society of Florists
and Amateurs on August 11, or September 8th, he might then have
a good idea of deservedly awarding prizes. Or even take the rules
I have before alluded to as a criterion. We should not then see such
monstrous ‘ broomhead’ flowers, utterly void of good form, taking the
first, or even any prize at all, in an exhibition! The stands would
no longer be disgraced with the broomhead size, and more unique in
form would be substituted in lieu thereof.

It is surprising to observe the different constitutions of the Dahlia,
some kinds produce the most perfect blooms when almost im-
poverished, when on the other hand, if they are grown luxuriantly,
all the blooms come with an eye, or otherwise imperfect. Whereas
some kinds if not grown in fresh good soil, produce small half double
blooms, and during the whole season, not a good bloom, from the
plant so grown, can be produced. The season and situation, likewise,
have a great effect upon some of the kinds, as well as extensive
propagation. This was the case with the Newick Rival last sea-
son, to the disappointment and vexation of many; which Messrs.
Young and Penny so extensively propagated, and_ scarcely a
single plant produced a bloom that might be called good, only with
the exception of the first few cuttings taken off before the parent root
was too much exhausted ; and it is to be feared some of our highly
described flowers will disappoint several, merely because they
have been so much propagated. Persons raising seedling Dahlias,
should not dispose of them until they possess a sufficient quantity of
roots of each, so that only a few will be required from each indi-
vidual root. Iam persuaded if this method was adopted, our new
flowers would answer more to the description given of them in the
catalogues.

The greatest alteration generally takes place with seedlings. Some
kinds when grown in the seed-beds in poor soils appear very beauti-
ful, but, when propagated the following season and bloomed, they
prove to be every thing but perfect and good, and disappoint the ex-
pectation previously formed of them. I have seen instances where
the raiser of seedlings, plants them out with all the care he takes with
his general collection, in fresh rich soil, &., thinking, probably, that
if they proved good with that treatment, he might rely upon their
appearing so ever afterwards—but in this, disappointment generally
occurs, for when the situation is changed, and numbers of plants are
dispersed amongst “ The Fancy,’ some may produce fine good
flowers, whilst others are utterly worthless. The most sure way of

132 COLLECTANEA.

judging of the merits of a seedling is, to grow it two years in situa-
tions as opposite to each other as possible. If this were practised
more generally, disappointment, which leads people to think that
they are imposed upon, would not be so prevalent, as is the case at
present.

Should the Editor think well to give the above rambling observa-
vations insertion in the Cabinet, I shall feel obliged. My next paper
shall contain a few observations upon the Classing of Dahlias, and re-
marks upon those now circulated throughout the country, under so
many different names, &c.

ARTICLE XI.—COLLECTANEA.
BY J. K.

Pant From Mapacascar.—M. B. Delessert, has presented to the
French Academy of Sciences, a curious plant from Madagascar, sent
to him by M Gondot, now travelling for the French Museum, It
belongs to the Naides, and was first discovered by Du Petit Trours,
who gave it the name of Auvivender Australis. Its leaves are sup-
ported by long stalks, and are destitute of parenchyma which gives
them the appearance of lace; they are half a foot long, and a quarter
of a foot wide; on each side of the principal nerve are five parallel
nerves, crossed at right angles by a multitude of smaller nerves. This
plant grows in the Bay of Diego Soorey, in the water, and its roots
are nourishing and agreeable to the palate.— Atheneum.

Batu Royat Horticutturat Socirety.—The second evening
meeting of this Society for the purposes of Horticultural and Floral
discussion, took place on Tuesday, February 2nd., at Collings Li-
brary, and was well attended—S. Barrow Esq., in the chair. H.St.
John Maule, Esq., read a paper by Mr. Salter, who was absent ‘rom
illness, on the best means of growing the Camellia; papers on the
Melon and Potatoe were also read by other members. Beautiful
specimens of Orange trees in fruit, and Persian Cyclamens, Hya-
cinths, and Camellia, were sent to this meeting by Mr. J. Salter,
Kensington Nursery, and were much admired.

The exhibitions of the Bath Royal Horticultural and Floral So-
ciety for 1836, are fixed for the 23rd of June, the 21st. of July, and
the 15th of September.

The following article on Striking Cuttings without the aid of glass,
was read at a meeting of the Horticultural Society of London, onthe
19th of August 1834, transmitted to them by Mr. W. Phelps, of
Corsham, Wilts :—‘‘ Necessity is said to be the mother of invention,
which I think will be exemplified by the following statement. Tuast

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summer I had a great desire to strike cuttings of pink, carnation,
Male Pink, Viola tricolor, Ginotherea Mediterranean Heath, Gum
Cistus, Alaternus, Pyracantha, and other flowers and shrubs, but
having no glass, and it not being convenient to purchase one, I pre-
pared a bed 15 feet long and three feet wide, with soil which I con-
sidered best for each peculiar sort, I prepared the cuttings in the usual
way, just the same as I should for hand-glasses, and covered them with
wooden shutters which I had by me, 3 feet square and three quar-
ters of an inch thick, placed on a brick at each corner, which raised
the shutters between 2 and 3 inches above the cuttings, I watered the
cuttings as soon as they were planted, kept them constantly shaded
by the shutters when the sun shone, kept them off on rainy days,
and always at night, watered them every evening in dry weather,
the consequence was that I never before had such good luck with hand-
glasses or any other method. I am pursuing the same plan now,
and any person is welcome to see how successful I coutinue to be in
the adoption of this plan. It is probable that it may not be new to
some persons, but to those circumstaneed as I am, it may be accep-
tible, as, | believe this simple manner of striking cuttings of shrubs
and flowers is not generally known. Wii:

At the Medico-Botanical Society on Tuesday, Dr. Morries, made
some observations on opium, digitales, conium, and hyoscyamus, and
exhibited specimens of oils obtained from the latter plants. The
empyreumatic oil of hyoscyamus is of a light yellow, highly volatile,
and possesses a most powerful penetrating virose odour, which is
readily perceptible at some distance, even when the bottle is closed.
It is nearly as rapidly fatal as prussic acid, eight or nine drops will
destroy life in one hour and a half.

PART II.
LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS,

Noticed since our last.

1. CamMeEtiia Japonica, vAR. DONCKELAERI, Donckelaer’s.—
This new and singular flowery variety has bloomed in the collection
of Mr. Lowe, nurseryman, Clapton, near London. The flower is
semidouble, the petals expanding prettily. The colour is a fine deep
rosy-red, blotched, in a very striking manner, with white. It isa
very desirable variety. Class, Monadelphia; Order, Monogynia.
Natural Order, Ternstromiaceze. Camellia in compliment to G, J.
Camel, a Jesuit.

134 NEW AND RARE PLANTS.

2, CRATHGUS ORIENTALIS, Oriental Hawthorn. Synonym,
Mespilus orientalis. This species is from Crimea, and is now grow-
ing in the grounds of the London Horticultural Society. The tree
grows in a very compact manner. The flowers are white, very sweet,
and appear in spring. The fruit produces a very pretty appearance,
being of a large size, and of a fine deep purplish-red colour. It is a
‘desirable tree for the pleasure ground. Icosandria, Pentagynia.
Rosaceze, Pomacee. Crategus, from Kratos, strength.

3. Cratacus maroccana, Morocca Hawthorn. Another pleas-
ing species growing in the garden of the London Horticultural So-
ciety. It isa native of Barbary and Palestine. The flowers are
white, succeeded by largish berries of a fine light scarlet colour.

4. DENDROBIUM MONILIFORME, Necklace formed, (Mag. of Bo-
tany.) Synonym Epidendrum moniliforme. A very splendid flow-
ering orchideous plant. It is a native of Japan, and China. It is
now grown in many collections in this country. The flowering stem
rises to near two feet high, and produces the flowers in pairs, gene-
rally at the top of the stem. They are of a fine rose colour, incli-
ning to white towards the centre, which is greenish. The Labellum
is white, largely tipped with deep crimson. It is a very showy spe-
cies, and deserves a place in every collection of this tribe of plants.

Gynandria Monandria, orchideee. Dendrobium, from Dendron a
tree; and bis, to live, referring to the Genus growing upon trees in
the native habits, where they entwine about the branches of trees,
and bloom in profusion.

5. GoopETIA RUBICUNDA, Ruddy flowered (Bot. Reg. 1856.)
A very pretty flowering hardy annual, grown last season in the gar-
den of the London Horticultural Society. The plant grows near
two feet high, and produces abundance of flowers, very much resem-
bling the GEnothera rosealba, in form and size, of a rosy-lilac colour
with an orange-coloured eye at the centre, the base of each petal
ending with that colour. The plant was introduced from California
by Mr. Douglas. It blooms from July to September. Octandria
Monogynia, Onagracez.

6. JABOROSA INTEGRIFOLIA. Entire leaved. (Bot. Mag.) Seeds
of this plant were sent to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, from Buenos
Ayres, by Mr. Tweedie. It has bloomed in the open border, in the
Glasgow garden, in July and August 1835. It is a creeping plant,
having large dark green leaves, and a single flower is produced at the
axil of each pair. ‘The flower very much resembles that of the
square stalked Tobacco, only they are of a pure white inside, and of
cream colour outside. The wobular part of the flower is about three

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inches long, and the narrow petalled limb, of five narrow divisions, is
about the same across. Pentandria Monogynia, Solanee. Jaborosa,
the Arabic name for the Mandragora, to which plant it is closely allied.

7. LATHYRUS ROTUNDIFOLIUS, var., ELLIPTICUS. Round leaved
everlasting Pea.—A hardy perennial species, growing in the Bir-
mingham Botanic Garden; the plant is not so robust in its growth
as Lathyrus latifolius. It is a climbing kind, rising to the height of
about four feet. The flowers are produced in profusion, each a little
more than half an inch across, of a fine crimson colour. This variety,
it is conjectured, is a native of Georgia. It is a very showy flower-
ing plant. Diadelphia Decandria. Leguminose. Lathyrus, from
La, augment; and thouros, any thing exciting, referring to the quali-
ties of the Genus.

8. LeprosipHon ANDRosaceEvs. Androsace-like.—(Bot. Mag.)
A free and pretty flowering annual plant. The stem rises about 9 inches
high, and each is crowned by a corymbous head of whitish, or lilac
coloured flowers, each flower about half an inch across, and about
twelve in acorymb. The plant appears to like an airy and coolish
situation. If seeds be sown early, and again late in Spring, such a
succession will produce flowers for the most part of Summer. Pentan-
dria Monogynia. Polemoniacz. Leptosiphon from Leptos, slender ;
and siphou, a tube, in allusion to the slender tube of the corolla.

9. Lupinus Texensis, Texas Lupine. (Bot Mag.) This species
very much resembles LL. subcarnosus, but it is of a more robust
growth ; the flowers too are of a much deeper blue colour. The pre-
sent species is annual, smooth foliage, not fleshy. The five blue
blossoms with a yellow ceutre make a pretty appearance. Diadelphia
Decandria. Leguminose. Lupinus from Lupus, a wolf, referring
to the effect of the plant in destroying the fertility of the soil.

10. Neriom TuyrsiFLorum, Dense flowered Oleander. (Mag.
of Botany.) A very showy flowering plant, introduced from Nepal
Sylhet in 1830. It has bloomed in the collection of Mr. Tate, Nur-
seryman, Sloane-street, Chelsea. The flowers single, produced in a
spreading terminal cyme, which contains upwards of a dozen flowers;
they are of a bright rosy pink colour, a little streaked with a lighter
colour at the centre of each flower. It deserves a place in every
greenhouse; if planted in a good rich soil, and forced a little in a
hothouse to bring it into bloom, it will amply repay for the attention.
The genus being vigorous growing plants, require a good share of
pot room, and to be repotted each time a plant has done blooming.
Pentandria Monogynia. Apocynee. NVerium from neros, humid,
referring to the habit of the plant in its native country, where it is
found growing on the banks of rivulets, &e.

136 NEW AND RARE PLANTS.

11. Oncrpium attissimuM, Tallest Oncidium. (Bot. Reg.)
This plant has bloomed in the collection of Messrs. Loddiges's.' The
flowers are produced upon a long decumbent raceme, nearly simple,
they are of a bright yellow colour, numerously spotted with brown.
The Nectarium is of a greenish yellow. Gynandria, Monandria.
Orchidaceee. Oncidium from Ogkidion, a tubercle ; referring to the
two prominences on the lip of the flower

12. ONcIpIUM coRNIGERUM, Horned Oncidium. (Bot. Mag.)
This very handsome flowering species has bloomed in 1835, under
the able management of our friend Mr. Cooper. The flowers are
produced very numerously upon a pendant scape of near a half a yard
long, having a panicle of compound racemes of flowers. ‘The flowers
are of a fine yellow, spotted with red. Each flower is rather more
than half an inch across. The plant was originally imported from
Brazil, by the Hon. and Rev. William Herbert, of Spofforth, near
Wetherby. Gynandria Monandria, Orchidacere.

13. OrITHYIA UNIFLORA, Single flowered, (Brit. Flow. Garden,
336.) Synonym’s Gagea uniflora, Ornithogalum uniflorum, Tulipa
altaica. A native of the country around the Altaic Mountains.
The flower has much the appearance of a yellow crocus. The stem
rises about three inches high. The flowers appear from April to
June. It is cultivated in the Chelsea Botanic Garden. Hexandria
Monogynia, Liliacee, Orithyia so named after Orithyia the fabled
wife of Boreas.

14. Rosa MICROPHYLLA, Small-leaved Chinese Rose. (Bot.
Mag. 3490.) This very pretty flowering rose is quite hardy, if grown
in a dry and sheltered situation. It has bloomed most abufdantly,
is grown in a raised basket, but we had it worked upon a stock
of the wild rose. If trained against a good aspected wall, it would
bloom profusely. The flowers are very double, of a fine rose colour
in the interior of the flower, but the outer row of petals is nearly
white. The plant is readily propagated by cuttings, or buds. It
may be procured at a cheap rate at most of the public nurseries.

15. SENECIO AMPULLACEUS, Flask-flowered American Ground-
sel. (Bot. Mag. 3487.) An annual plant, having a flower stem rising
about two feet high. The flowers are produced upon a cylindrical
Tnvolucre, they are of a fine deep yellow, each about an inch acvoss.
They make’a showy appearance. The plant was found by Mr.
Drummond in the Texas. Syngenecio, Superflua, Composite.
Senecio {rom senex, old man; the naked receptacle having the ap-
pearance of a bald head.

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATION.

ARTICLE XII,_DESIGN FOR FLOWER-GARDENS, No. V, Design 6th.
Communicated by Amicus,
Tue Plan (Fig. 14) represents a Flower-Garden, which contains a

little more than half an acre, having two alcoves at each end. The
plan may be easily reduced, by proportionably altering the scale.

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PART III.

MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

QUERIES,

On CaLycanTHUS PRHCOX.—I am just in the same situation as “C.S.” with
regard to a double Pomegranate; there is this difference, mine has been four
years in the ground, and has not yet had a single blossom; I also followed the
directions given in a former number. My plant looks healthy and is quite a
shrub, but without a symptom of blossom. I shall, therefore, be glad to hear the
answer to C. S.’s query on that point, also on the subject of the Calycanthus
precox, as I was lead to believe, when I purchased mine in the Autumn, that
it would blow the following Christmas. I attributed its failure to the severity of
the frost after removal.

On Moss.—I shall feel obliged if any one will instruct me how to get rid of
Moss in a long gravel walk. I have had the gravel picked up repeatedly, but
as soon as it is rolled and becomes hard, the moss appears again.—I once tried
salt, but that nourished the soil so much, that though the moss was killed, such
a quantity of weeds sprang up, that the remedy was worse than the original
disease, for the gravel was obliged to be turned up to be frosted.

Clifton, 1836. ~ Marra.

On GERANIUM SEEDS, &e.—I perceive that a question similar to the one [
am about to propose, has been put by a correspondent, page 165, Vol. 2nd, I
wish to know, whether the Seed of Geraniums should be sown immediately on
taking it from the plant, or whether it should be kept during winter, and then
sown early in spring. I raised some Plants the latter end of last summer, but
they fagged off in the winter. I shall feel particularly obliged on my question,
together with that of the Correspondent alluded to, being answered as early as

ossible.
P P. S. Surely your Correspondent, page 49, of the March Number of this year,
rather exaggerates the duration of time which he states his fuel lasts.

Canterbury, 1836. AN AMATEUR DES FLoWERs,

On Grartine or Buppinc RHODODENDRONS.—You would oblige me by
requesting one of your correspondents in the Floricultwral Cabinet, to inform
me, if he has successfully grafted or budded Rhododendrons, and if so at what
season, and in what manner they succeed best.—Your Obedient,

A Cupar Frorisrt,

On Care Buxps, &c.—A Subscriber would be greatly obliged by a little fur-
ther information relative to the culture of bulbous roots in general. When
lanted in the open border, what depth ought they to bein the soil? Do the
different bulbs vary much in that respect ?—Again, as regards those which re-
quire heat, I have frequently observed the crown of the bulb raised above the
surface of the soil, is that desirable? Should all the outer skins be removed which
_have the appearance of being decayed? Would you also have the goodness to
name what proportion of loam there ought to be in a peat border intended for
American Plants? what depth the compost ought to go? and if any sand or ma-
nure must be added. Acemi

On OrcuipEous PLants.—I have been much pleased with the papers on the
Cultivation of Orchideous epiphytes, by a ‘ Country Florist,” and regret then
have not been continued in each successive number as promised, and the
more so, because their place seems not so profitably occupied by the Gleanings
from Old Authors. I trust your Correspondent will resume his labours in May,

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and I would suggest, that instead of stating that these plants may be had for a
““ reasonable price,” he would give the actual prices charged by nurserymen as
far as practicable. No one will then be disappointed as I was the other day,
when asking for a species of Stanhopea, I was told the price of a small plant
was £5. 5s. If this be a reasonable price for a Country Florist, | faney he has
a longer purse than many of his brother florists. EPIPHYTE.

We have received another communication from a Country Florist, which will
appear in the July number.—Conpbucror.

ANSWERS.

On a YELLOow FLOWERING PLant.—In March Number, “ R.” in reply to
“ Amicus” advises Moneywort, as a dwarf trailing plant—in addition, I beg to
recommend white, pink, red, and yellow Heliantpemum—the leaf is pretty, and
they blossom abundantly from May till November—they look particularly well
in rock work or in roots of trees; if put in the borders, a little pile of stones
should be placed to plant them in, which they will soon conceal: a small root
in a farthing pot, may be had of any nurseryman for 6d. or 9d. each root—they
are very hardy and increase rapidly. ; Maria.

On a Box For CARRYING Danuta BLOOMS.—In answer to your constant rea-
der, at Ackworth, a Box made of whatever size he might require, would carry the
Dahlia flowers safe by having a false bottom with holes just of sufficient size for
the stem, the bottom part filled with damp moss and a pin run through the stem
close under the wood, the flowers then could not move, but the false bottom mnst
be tacked inside carefully; I should say with long tacks, so as to be able to loose
it easily at its destination. I think on this plan they would carry 200 miles,
and merely require the usual direction, “ with care, keep this side up.” Tuxip.

Tur History oF THE Danura, &c.—In answer to the enquiry in the Flori-
cultural Cabinet of February last, respecting the earliest introduction of the
Dahlia, ‘‘A. Z.” is informed that our gardens are indebted to Mr. John Frazer,
son of the late indefatigable collector of North American plants, for bringing to
England in 1802, the Dahlia coccinea, the first known species, which plant flow-
ered in a hothouse in June 1803, at the Nursery, Chelsea, figured and
described in Number 210 of Curtis’s Botanical Magazine. As a tribute of grate-
ful respect to the introducer, it is proposed that the Horticultural Societies, and
the eminent growers and cultivators of this splendid genus, (which is now pro-
ducing such endless beautiful hybrid varieties) shall raise a subscription prize for
the best new Dahlia of the season 1°36, to be called “the Fraser Dahlia.”

London, April 27th, 1836. A SUBSCRIBER.
(We shall be glad to assist in the furtherance of this object.)—Conpucror.

REMARKS,

On East anp West Inptan SEEDS, &ce.—Cushing, in his Exotic Gardener,
in which the management of the Hothouse, Greenhouse, and Conservatory is
fully delineated according to present practice. Loudon, 1814, in the Hothouse
department says, “‘ much depends on the state of the seeds when received. East
and West Indian’ Seeds generally arrive with the regular fleet, as indeed do
those from the Cape of Good Hope; and all the South Sea Islands for the most
parts by the Eastern and China ships, so that one may in general be prepared
against their arrival. As early in the spring as possible is undoubtedly the best
time for sowing, yet a few weeks’ delay, in some instances, may be advisable.
If received late in October or November, I should certainly wait until January
or perhaps February, unless it evidently appeared they would not keep long out
of the earth, so long a time in a vegetative state.”

“The different sorts of mould necessary to be used in this business, such as
loam, peat, well-rotted dung, vegetable mould, sand, &c. all of which intended
for this purpose should be finely sifted, and kept separate till wanted for use.”

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His different composts are for
Light Loam,........-... Half Loam, Half Peat.

Do. Rich do. ...... -«++ Half do. Half Vegetable Mould.
or3 do. 3 peat, and 3 old hotbed dung.
Sandy Peat ......... .-. Peat and fine sand.

Rich Sandy Loam. ...... 3 Dung to Sandy Loam.
Strong Rich do. ...... 3 do. toastrong clayey Loam.
Very Light do. ...... 3 Peat, and 3 Loam. TULIP.

New Prants.—Mr. Young exhibited, at the London Horticultural Society
Meeting, a new plant similar in flower to a Fox-Glove, introduced from China.
From the Garden of the Society, Douglasi nivalis, an alpine plant from Canada.
Aristolochia trilobata, remarkable for the long tails of the flower. Nemophila
insignis, pots of it in bloom, it is of a most beautiful blue. Berberis aquifolium,
the only hardy evergreen plant sent by the late Mr. Douglas.

METROPOLITAN SOCIETY OF FLORISTS AND AMATEURS.

Ata Meeting of the Committee of the above Society, held April 14th., it was
unanimously Resolved,

“ That a die be prepared for a Silver Medal, to be presented to Provincial So-
cieties, for the purpose of being awarded to the cottager, who shall take most
prizes in the year for flowers ; and that the following Societies be apprized that
they will receive one each as soon as completed, for such purpose, viz., Bristol,
Bath, Cheltenham, Cambridgeshire, Wallingford, Sheffield, Yor kshire East
Riding, Swansea, with such others as may be determined on hereafter by the
Committee. IJ understand that any other Provincial Society applying to the
above committee for a Medal, for the purpose specified, will meet with immediate
attention.

London, April 29th. Arak Coa Ce

LIST OF FLORICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL MEETINGS,
TO BE HELD IN JUNE.

BatH Roya Horticutturat Soctety.—Pinks, Ranunculuses, and other
Flowers, Fruits, &e. on Thursday 23rd.

BEVERLEY AND East-RipInG OF YORKSHIRE, Wednesday, June 8th.

BROMLEY, KEnT, June 18th.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, to be held at Cambridge, on
Wednesday 8th, 15th, and 22nd.

Caetrennam Horticunturat Society, for Ranunculuses, Pinks, Fruits,
&e. on Tuesday 14th.

DorkING (SURREY) HorTICULTURAL Society, for Geraniums, Ranunculuses,
Pinks, Calceolarias, Roses, and Fruits, on Saturday 25th.

East Lonpon HorTICULTURAL Society, for Ranunculuses, &e. held at the
Salmon and Ball Inn, Bethnal Green, on Monday 13th.

HERTFORDSHIRE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, to be held at Hertford, on Wed-
nesday 29th.

Lonpon HorticvtturaL MEETINGS, at the Offices in Regent-Street, on
7 Tuesday, June 7th and 21st ; and a grand Exhibition at the Gardens, on Satur.

day the \\th.

= Mertroporiran Socrety, for Roses, Ranunculuses, Pinks, and other Flowers,
to be held at Vauxhall, on Thursday 23rd.

READING HORTICULTURAL Society, on Tuesday 21st.

SHEFFIELD HorTICULTURAL Socrety.—Ranunculuses, Pinks, and other
Flowers, Fruits, &c. on Wednesday 22nd. :
StamrorpD Hiri (near London) Horticutturat Socrety, for Geraniums,
Roses, Ranunculuses, Pinks, Pansies, and other Flowers and Fruits, on Wednes-

day 8th, V5th, or 22nd.

Sonpory Pink Snow, held at the Flower-Pot Inn, on Wednesdag 29th.

TamworrTa (Staffordshire) HorticutturAL Socrety.—Roses. Pinks, Ranun-
culuses, &ce. Wednesday 29th.

Wootwicu Horriowtterar Society.—Pinks, &c. held at the Barrack Ta-
vern, on Friday 17th,

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A SHOW OF DAHLIAS, OPEN FOR ALL ENGLAND,

is to be held at Horsham in Sussex, on Tuesday, August 23rd. Prizes of consi-
derable value will be awarded to successful competitors.

LONDON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.
April 5th. The Camellia Show was held in the Rooms, Regent Street.
EXHIBITED FOR PRIZES.

By Mr. Chandler. —Camellia japonica var. striped flowered. C, j, var imbri-
cata. C,j, var. Fimbriata.

By Mr. Glenny.—C, j, var double striped. C,j, var fimbriata. C,j, var al-
theeflora.

By Mr. Chandler.—English Seedling Camellias in pots.

Baskets of cut Specimens of Camellias from Mr. Chandler, Mr. W. Wells, and
Mr. Donald. Specimens grown in the open air.

English Seedling Camellias. Specimens from Mr. Chandler, Mr. Allnutt, and
Mr. Glenny.

EXTRAS NOT FOR PRIZES:

By Mr. Chandler.—Camellias Double White, Chandleri, concinna, althzz-
flora. Mr. Allnutt, seven seedling Camellias. J.C. Palmer, Esq. Basket of
Camellia Specimens. W. Wells, Esq. Basket of Camellia Specimens. Mr.
Glenny,—Euphorbia splendens, Panzies, and a seedling Rhododendron. Mr.
Pressly,—Euphorbia splendens, Tropzolum tricolorum. Messrs. Young, of
Epsom,—A hybrid Rhododendron, Phaius Woodfordi immaculata, Acacia verti-
cillata, Ardisia hymenandra. Mr. Lane, gardener to J. C. Palmer, Esq.,—Tro-
pzolum tricolorum. Mrs. Marryatt,—Solandra grandiflora. Mr. Buck, Drimia
species; Plumbago rosea.

Mr, Chandler received a large silver Medal for the best three Chinese Camel-
lias in pots; and a large silver Medal for the best three English seedling Ca-
mellias in pots. Also, a Silver Banksian Medal for the best basket of English
Seedling Camellia Flowers.

Mr. Wells, a Silver Banksian Medal for the best basket of cut specimens of
Camellias,

Banksian Medals were awarded to Messrs. Young, of Epsom, for a plant of
Ardisia hymenandra. To Mr. Lane, for a plant of Tropeolum tricolorum.

MEETING ON APRIL 19th.

Exhibited from Lady Farnham, a splendid Specimen of Rhododendron arbo-
ream. Mr. Duncan, a new pale flowered variety of Rhododendron Nobleanum,
Mr. Alnutt, an Apple-blossomed Camellia. Sir A. Hume, Bart. a fine specimen
of Magnolia conspicua, which had been gathered from a tree growing against a
house. Mrs. Marryatt, nine species of Acacia, and Magnolia conspicua; and
Acacia pubescens, do. longissima, from plants grown in the open air.

BATH ROYAL HORTICULTURAL AND FLORAL SOCIETY.

The present season commenced on April 2Ist., with as splendid an exhibition
as the most sanguine could have expected at so early a period. Nothing that
science, taste, or wealth could produce was wanting, the variety appeared endless,
the whole superlative attractive. The company appeared to comprise all the
fashion and elegance of the city, augmented by a considerable influx of the
neighbouring gentry. The chief display in the great tent was indebted for many
of its choicest attractions to Mr. Salter, of Kensington Nursery, and to Messrs.
Lucombe, Pince, and Co., nurserymen of Exeter. The former, it will be seen be-
low, sent no less a number than 450 plants and flowers, and his contributions in
this form are the more acceptable and valuable, because he does not compete for
the prizes, but supports the Society upon disinterested public ground. Among
the contributions of the latter, (brought, it will be observed, from so great a dis..
tance as Exeter,) were some beautiful new Seedling Chinese Azaleas, of perfectly
novel colours—from rich purple to the delicate tint of the rose, geranium-colour,
pink, ke. These are really great acquisitions to our greenhouse colleetions.

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They exhibited also some very fine specimens of crimson Hybrid Rhododendrons;
but their show of Camellia Flowers, was perhaps, the most magnificent rarity in
the exhibition.—They consisted of 20 distinct named sorts of choice Camellias,
viz.: the Reticulata, the Imbricata, the Parmenterii, the Palmerii,. (dazzling
white,) the Florida, the Altheaflora, the Chandlerii, the Coralina Variegata, the
Rosea Sinensis, the Sesanqua Rosea, the new Ghent Seedling, the Alba Simplex,
the Rosa Mundi, the Grey’s Invincible, the Welbankiana, the Speciosa, the
Peeoniflora, and the Pompone. This stand also displayed some very noble-look-
ing plants, such as the Amaryllis reticulata, the Erica Monsoniana, the Gingora
. atropurpurea, the Oncidium luridium, (with 150 flowers), &c. A great variety of
elegant baskets of plants and cut flowers were ranged down the south side of the
tent, and on a table on the north side a co!lection of cut Pansies of every con-
ceivable hue.

HULL FLORAL AND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

The first exhibition for the present season, of the above society, was held on
_ May 2nd, at the Public Rooms. Notwithstanding the ungenial state of the wea-
ther for some weeks past, the show of flowers was very splendid, and formed a
most auspicious commencement of the society’s operations. Indeed, it was con-
sidered by many, as superior to most of the exhibitions for several years past.
The flowers exhibited, were Auriculas and Hyacinths, of both of which there
were some remarkably fine specimens on view; as also of greenhouse plants, fruits,
&e. The judges for the Auriculas were Messrs. Ely, (of Leeds) Wharton, Bell,
Lumb, and Kells; for the fruit, cucumbers, &c , Messrs. Morehouse, Kells, Lumb,
and Priest, (of Beverley.) The following is a list of the flowers, &c. considered
as entitled to the premiums :—

Premium by R. Betheli, Esq. M. P.—Mr. Dobson’s Leigh’s Colonel Taylor.

Premium by P. B. Thompson, Esq. M. P.—Mr. R. Deighton’s Hey’s Apollo.

Premium by Major Sykes—Dr. Horner’s Kenyon’s Ringleader.

Green edged—1. Mr. Dobson, Leigh’s Colonel Taylor. 2. Dr. Horner, Pollet’s
Standard of England. 3. Mr. Deighton, Pollett’s Highland Boy. 4. Mr. Dob-
son, Booth’s Freedom. 5. Dr. Horner, Stretch and Barlow’s King. 6. Mr.
Beecroft, unknown. Grey Edged—l. Dr. Horner, Kenyon’s Ringleader. 2.
Mr. Deighton, Grimes’s Privateer. 3. Ditto, Kenyon’s Ringleader. 4 Dr.
Horner, Ryder’s Waterloo. 5. Mr. Deighton, Grime’s Privateer. 6. Mr. Og-
lesby, Warris’s Union. White Edged—1. Dr. Horner, Hugh’s Pillar of Beauty.
2. Mr. Deighton’s, Taylor’s Glory. 3. Mr. Dobson, Taylor’s Incomparable.
4. Dr. Horner, Leigh’s Bright Venus. 5. Ditto, Ashforth’s Rule-all. 6. Mr.
Beecroft, Taylor’s Glory. Sel/s.—I. Mr. Deighton, Hey’s Apollo. 2. Dr. Hor-
nor, Berry’s Lord Lee. 3. Mr. Dobson, Hey’s Apollo. 4. Dr. Horner, Flora’s
Flag. 5. Mr. George Hodgson, ditto. 6. Dr. Horner, Whittaker’s True Blue.

AtpPInes —1. Mr. Oglesby, Emmerson’s Favourite. 2. Mr. G Hobson, un-
known. 3. Dr. Horner, ditto. 4. Mr Dobson, King of the Alps. 5. Dr. Hor-
nor, Rising Sun. 6. Mr. Beecroft, Emmerson’s Favourite.

PotyanTavus.—Premium by the society.—Dr. Horner, Pearson’s Alexander.
Scarlet._l. Dr. Horner, Stead’s Telegraph. 2. Mr. Smithson, Crownshaw’s In-
vincible. 3 Mr. Dobson, Cox’s Regent. 4 Ditto, ditto. 5 Ditto, unknown.
6 Ditto, Cox’s Regent. Dark—l Dr. Horner, Pearson’s Alexander. 2 Mr.
Deighton, ditto 3. Dr. Horner, Hufton’s Lord Rancliff. 4 Mr. Dobson, Pear-
sou’s Alexander. 5 Ditto, Cox’s Regent. 6. Ditto, Pearson’s Alexander.

Hyacinrus.—Premium by J. C. Parker, Esq. Mayor—Mr. Burman’s Temple
Van Apollo. Premium by W. Hutt, Esq. M. P.—Mr. Burman’s Groot Voorst.
White and Yellow Double—1 Mr. G. Parker, La Cherie. 2 Mr. Burman, un-
known. 3 Mr. Bell, Anna Maria. 4 Mr. Atkin, unknown. Red and Pink,
Double—1 Mr. Burman, Groot Voorst. 2 Mr. Bell, Ditto. 38 Mr. Dobson,
Compte de la Ceste. 4 Ditto, Groot Voorst. 5 Mr. Burman, ditto. 6 Ditto,
Waterloo. Blue and Purple, Double—1 Mr. Bell, Bouquet Pourpre. 2 Mr.
Burman, Lord Wellington. 3 Mr. Dobson, L’Illustre. 4 Ditto, ditto. 5 Mr.
G. Parker, unknown. 6 Mr. Burman, Azure. White and Yellow, Single—\ Mr.
Dobson, Voltaire. 2 Mr. Bell, Bouquet Triumphante. 3 Ditto, Voltaire. 4
Citto, Grand Vainqueur. 5 Mr. Dobson,ditto 6 Mr. Burman, ditto, Red and

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Pink, Single—-1 Mr. Burman, Temple Van Apollo. 2 Ditto, Diana. $3 Mr.
Bell, Rounge Brillante. 4 Mr. Dobson, Erstelde de Vredo. 5 Mr. Burman,
Princess Elizabeth. 6 Mr. Dobson, Temple Van Apollo. Blue and Purple,
Single—| Mr. Dobson, Bounaparte. 2 Mr. Burman, Azure. 3 Ditto, Emicus.
4 Ditto, Grand Vidette. 5 Ditto, ’AmiDecour. 6 Mr. Bell, Lord Wellington.

Narcissus (Potyantuus)—l Mr. G. Parker, Grand Monarque. 2 Ditto,
unknown. 3 Mr. Atkin, ditto. 4,5, 6. Mr. Smithson, ditto.

Potyantuus Narcissus, SoLrirary FLoOwERED—1 Mr, Smithson, Sulphur
Croon. 2 Ditto, ditto. 3 Ditto, Van Sion. 4 Mr. Bell, Sulphur Croon. 5
Mr. Oglesby, Van Sion. 6 Ditto.

STATEMENT OF THE PRIZES,
Awarded at the Auricula and Polyanthus Show of the Leeds Florist Society,
HeEtp Aprit 25th, 1836.

AURICULAS.
1. Leigh’s Colonel Taylor, ...... Mr. Wm. Chadwick.
2. Tomlinson’s Commander, .... .. Do.
Ist Class, 3. Barlow’s King ..... Stele falnpelade lee Do.
. Green Edges. ) 4. Taylor’s Plough Boy ........ «. Do.
&. Rider’s Waterlod0. 02. scceesiee «0 Beeston.
6. Buckley’s Jolly Tar...... welele) > Do:
LeGrime’s Privates, Wetec see) nes Chadwick.
2. Syke’s Complete .....-esse00 0 Do.
2nd Class, 3. Hey’s Lovely Ann ..... sine sues Do.
Grey Edges. ) 4. Kenyon’s Ringleader..... veces “oe Do.
5. IREVEN BE mers alesse) take Beeston.
6. Walter Fawkes .... «. Chadwick.
1. Lee’s Bright Venus. ..eeseeee oe Beeston.
DePottes: RECUIALOL <.s.0,0.0,010:010,0 © a Chadwick.
3rd Class, SD. LAVIOMS GLOLYic pp « sine S.aicly sto 1-8, Beeston.
China Edges. } 4. Hughes’ Pillar of Beauty .... .. Chadwick.
5. Ashworth’s Rule-all ......-. °. ape Do
6. ———— Beauty of Barlow., .. Do.
1. Hey’s Apollo ceceseeceseeee oe Do.
2. Berry’s Lord Lee... ses vceee os Do.
4th Class, 3. Nedglinid dia2ir .aiteciapere nets Do.
Selfs. 4, Grime’s Floras Flag ..... aieeiels Do.
5. Seedlings. '. .'cfe cs bem lite Beeston.
6. Berry’s Lord Primate........ +. Chadwick.
1. Berry’s Fair Rosamond ...... .. Do.
2. Edmondson’s Favourite...... .. Do. :
5th Class, 3. Cookson’s Mary (Seedling) .. Rev. F. Cookson.
Alpines. 4, ————_ Alicia do. aye Do.
5. King of the Alps .. Mr. Chadwick.
6. Seedling ......-.. «ee Beeston.
POLYANTHAUSES. ;
1. Pearson’s Alexander ........ Mr. Foster.
2. - Black. Prince. 2 0< o/s) Do,
Ist Class, 3. CoxrsiRegent “ec. san Do.
Dark. 4. Foster’s Mrs. Emmett (Seedling) .. Do.
5. Seedling ...seeeceees «- Kearsley.
6. Lord Jno. Russell .... .. Do.
l. Foster’s Cox’s Regent, .....5 ee Chadwick.
2. Crownshaw’s Invincible ...... .. Do.
2nd Class, 3, Seedling........ .o. Kearsley.
Red. 4, —___-_—_ Do. ..... geass Foster.
5. Unknown ...... «. Do.
6. —————_ Do. ......+. +. — Chadwick.

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CAMBRIDGE FLORISTS’ SOCIETY.

The Auricula show of this society took place on Friday, April 29th, in the
large Assembly Room, Hoop Hotel. ‘The flowers on the whole were not so fine
as we have been accustomed to see on former occasions, owing to the late un-
favourable state of the weather. Rev. J. S. Henslow, Professor of Botany, fa-
voured the meeting with a brief lecture on the cultivation of florists’ flowers, tra-
cing their gradual alteration and improvement from “ weeds” to their beautiful
appearance and splendid colours as exhibited that day. How thankful all ought
to be to the all-bountiful Giverof life, that so innocent and delightful an oceu-
pation was afforded them to exercise their industry and moments of relaxation
from business. This address gave great pleasure to every person present, and was
received with much applause. The prizes gained during the last season were
then distributed ; after which the chairman addressed the society’s late Honorary
Secretary, Mr. J. R. Stubbings, in an appropriate speech, and in the name of the
society, presented him with a neat silver cup, in testimony of their respect and
approbaticn of the manner in which he had discharged the duties of his office.

The following inscription is engraved on the cup.

Presented to John R. Stubbings, April 29, 1836, by the Members of the Cambridge Florists?
Society, in testimony of their approbation for his unwearied exertions as their Honorary
Secretary.

Mr. Stubbings returned thanks for the mark of approbation presented by his
brother members, and of which he should ever be proud: he kindly thanked the
Rey. Chairman for the handsome manner in which he had conveyed the wishes
of the society. The following is the award of the Judges :—

AURICULAS.
Premium Prize—Mr. R. Headly. ..-Oliver’s Lovely Aun.
GREEN EDGED. WHITE EDGES.
Rey. R. Lascelles . -Hontis Conquering Wie Wintlsascqner Taylor’s Glory.

, Hero. |— Giddins ..Popplewell’s Conqueror.
>= LU ae aeRO eases Ditto. ~ Rev. R. Lascelles. Leigh’s Bright Venus
Mr. Hyland... Beerlis’s Superb Mr, Giddins ..Popplewell’s Conqueror.

_— R. Headly.. Colonel Taylor. '— Wood....Taylor’s Favourite.
— Ditto...... Booth’s Freedom ‘Rev. R. Lascelles. Ditto.
— Ditto...... IDittd-= 5" SELFS.

GREY EDGES. Mr. Wood ....Redman’s Metropolitan.
Mr. R. Headly ..Oliver’s Lovely Ann — R. Headly..Whittaker’s True Blue.
— E. Foster ..Kenyon’s Ringleader. Rey. R. Lascelles ..Blue Admiral.

——" Ditto: 2.5.3 Ryder’s Waterloo. Mr. Giddins ...... True Blue.
— R. Headly...Ringleader. — Hyland....Grimes’s Flora’s Flag.
W. Bond, Esq ..Syke’s Complete. i Wood.....Redman’s Metropolitan.

Mr. Giddins ....Lancashire Hero. SEEDLING AURICULAS.

1 and 2 Mr. R. Haylock.

POLYANTHUSES.
Premium Prize—Mr. Hyland....Wood’s Gold Lace.

DARK GROUND. e RED GROUND.
Mr. Hyland....Wood’s Gold Lace. Mr. Wood....Wood’s Ajax.
— Wood...:...Ditto. — Ditto.....Buck’s George IV.
— Ditto..... "Ditto. SEEDLING POLYANTHUSES.
— Ditto...... Collier’s Princess Royal|Mr. Wood....Wood’s Honourable Mrs.
— Ditto......Ditto. Howlden.
Rey. R. Lascelles ..Burnard’s Formosa.|— Ditto....Wood’s Oliver Cromwell.

HYACINTHS,
DOUBLE RED.—Mr, Widnall...... Waterloo.

DOUBLE WHITE. DOUBLE BLUE.
Mr. Ready...... Groot Voorst. Mr. Ready......Platoff.
— Ditto.......Eugene Beauharnois. |— Ditto....... Roi de Pourpre.
— Ditto....... Bouquet Tendre. — Widnall....Porcelaine Sceptre.

— Widnall....Comte de la Coste.
BEST PLANT IN BLOOM,—Mr. Widnall......Cactusspeciosissima.

144 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

Tue EXHIBITION or tak HAMPSHIRE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY,
WAS HELD AT THE WHITE HART HOTEL, IN WINCHESTER,
On Thurday, the 10th of March.

The show was most splendid in forced flowers, vegetables, and greenhouse
plants—fruits were confined to pears and apples, the latter were numerous and
exhibited good management in the gardeners method of preserving them. The
Rev. F. Beaden, the President, exhibited a collection of stove plants, a fine spe-
cimen of Bletia Tankervilliz, Euphorbia elegans, &c. ; a very fine box of forced
Lilies of the valley, a large basket of finely flowered Neapolitan Violets, a tray
of handsome Hyacinths, and a collection of other fowering plants were sent by
Sir. T. Baring, Bart; a good collection of Hyacinths by the Rev. Mr. Cheere; a
fine Daphne odoratissima, and other greenhouse plants, by Col. Wall; a re-
markably fine specimen of Tropzolum tricolorum, with other greenhouse plants,
John Fleming, Esq.; a collection of greenhouse plants, by tle Rev. Mr.
Rashleigh ; a beautiful specimen of a new Stapelia, by the Rev. T. Garnier; a
fine collection of greenhouse plants, by the Hon. Mrs. Craven; an excellent
specimen of Mimulus Swithin, by the Rev. F. Wickham. On the middle table
were some good specimens of forced Rhododendron Catawbiense, Azaleas,
Lachenalias, &e. There was a distribution of grafts and seeds amongst the
members, which were sent by the London Horticultural Society, together with a
liberal supply from Messrs. Reynolds, of Brentford, and Messrs. Page and Rogers,
of Southampton, in the whole between 3000 and 4000 packets.

LITERARY NOTICES.

Just Published—Ftora Merropouitana, or BoTanicaL RAMBLES within
thirty miles of London, made in 1833, 34, and 35, by Dantex Cooprr.

Preparing for Publication, the Magazine of Zoology and Botany, under the
superintendence of Sir W. Jardine, Bart., P. J. Selby, Esq., and Dr. Johnston,
of Berwick. To be published every second month. Price 3s. 6d.

REFERENCE TO PLATE.

No. 1. Mrautus ELpainsTonEA.—This new and splendid variety was recently
raised by Mr. Elphinstone, of Holmbush. The plant isa most profuse bloomer,
and quite hardy; it is one of the most ornamental plants for a flower garden;
the blossoms far exceed in size and splendour of colours, any that we have seen.
Mimulus, from mimo, an ape, the seeds being like a face.

2. ToURNEFORTIA HELIOTROPIOIDES.—This very pretty flower very much re-
sembles the Heliotropium corymbosum, but is of a deeper blue colour, and like
that plant is admirably adapted for a shewy bed—producing a pleasing effect
when in such masses. The flowers are not fragrant, like the Heliotrope; the
plant is an herbaceous perennial, growing very freely, and blooming most pro-
fusely from May to October; the flower stems rise to about two feet high; it re-
quires a slight protection in winter, either under a frame, or cool greenhouse; it
is a native of Buenos Ayres, introduced about five years ago, into this country.
The plant may be obtained at many of the principal nurseries; it deserves
a place in every flower garden; it delights in a rich soil. Pentandria, Mono-
gynia, Boraginea. Tournefortia, in compliment to J. P. Tournefort, the cele-
brated French Botanist.

3. Evroca MEnziestI, Mr. Menzies’s.—This new and beautiful flowering
hardy annual, was sent from Columbia, in North West America, by the late Mr.
Douglas, where it grows and blooms profusely, in a sandy soil. The plant grows
erect, about a foot high. Plants raised from seeds sown in March, bloom from
May to July, and if sown in May, bloom from July to the end of September ; it
merits a place in every flower garden. Pentandria Monogynia. Hydrophyllex.
Eutoca, from eutokos, fruitful, referring to the abundance of seeds produced.

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FLORICULTURAL CABINET,
JULY Isr, 1836.

PART I.
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

“area tee

ARTICLE 1.—ON SOILS, &c.—By a ForEMAN oF A LoNDON NuRSERY.

Loam, peat and sand, seem to be the three simples of nature, if I

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mee. may so call them, most requisite for our purpose ; to which, we occa-
! sionally add as mollifiers, vegetable mould and well rotted dung;
: from the judicious mixture and preparation of which, composts may
; be made to suit plants introduced from any quarter of the globe :

first of Loam, which is a loose friable kind of earth, the constituent
particles of which crumble and separate easily in the hand; it is of
various textures, the strongest approaching to clay, and so down in
several shades, until the lightest becomes nearly similar to strong
sandy peat. It is found of different colours, viz. black, yellow, red,
&e. &c.; sometimes also, it partakes of a saponaceous quality
approaching to a marle; this when predominant is not recommend-
able for general use; yet there are some articles for which it may be

used with considerable success.

Yellow or red seems to be the natural colour of maiden loam, as
either will change to black as they become more or less mixed with
other extraneous substances, such as dung, &c. Therefore, to have
it pure, which is very material, one should prefer either of these,
if they can be conveniently procured. The places to look, for this
kind of earth, is generally in fields, that have uot been broken for a
long series of years ; also sheep downs, or commons most frequently
running in dry banks perhaps throughout the whole; its strata is of
various thicknesses, sometimes being little more than that which
forms the turf or upper sward, and at other times lying from one or
two, to three or four feet under the surface. That is generally the
best which is of a moderate depth, being more within the ameliora-

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146 ON SOILS, ETC.

ting powers of the sun and atmosphere ; the other lying deeper, being
known to abound with crude unqualified matter very unfavourable
to the growth of tender plants, unless exposed in the compost yard
for a year or two tothe weather, whereby, it will become fit for all
strong growing woody kinds, or fruit trees in general.

Loam, being found answerable to the purpose for which itis designed,
it should be immediately carted home and heaped in a clean part of
the compost yard for a few months, so that the turf, and fibres of
the grass, may have sufficient time to decay, and the whole become
more qualified for use through the action of the season: when it has
lain thus for some time together, it will be found to be in a very
good state for working.

This sort of soil is particularly adapted for ‘striking cuttings in
general, on account of its firm close texture, and the twofold quality
of retaining moisture longer than either peat or sand, and at the
same time, its own natural dissolubility, which admits the young fibres
of the cuttings to push through it freely, as soon as formed, to that
which they more immediately like to grow and flourish in, a stratum
of which is generally put in the bottom of the pot.

From its strength it seems more adapted to arborescent plants in
general, which have powerful roots, that are seldom able to support
themselves in lighter soils, more especially in dry seasons; while
from its purity and sweetness, it may be said to give additional
flavour to the most delicate fruits.

The word Peat, is generally understood to mean common bog
earth; however, that which may literally be termed bog, is by no
means proper for our purpose, on account of its wet coagulating
nature, and tendency thereby to rot the roots of the plants; at least
if peat is to be taken from those situations, the very surface only
should be chosen, as that is found to contain a greater portion of the

“fine, drying, opening kind of sand, so necessary to this species of soil.

The places where I would recommend to look for the proper peat,
are those dry healthy commons, where it sems to form a medium
between bog earth and sand, it is not unfrequently found forming a

mere skin, over a bed of pure sand, or gravel. The turf or sod, cut
-about four or six inches deep, is always the best for use, as it is in
general the lightest, and abounds with sand, as already mentioned,
which is I think invariably found to be the finest near the surface in
such cases. Spots where the wild heath grows luxuriantly should be
diligently selected, as producing the best peat for general use; but
when it is considered that of the plants mostly cultivated in this kind
of soil, some grow in swamps near rivers, others in barren sandy

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wastes, and more in all their various intermediate statious, as
mountains, low lands, &c. &c. especially heaths from the varied sur-

‘face of Southern Africa ; it will surely be obvious, that a supply of

every variety of soil should be always at hand, and that the peat
answering for one species will not be so congenial as another brought
from a very different situation and soil.

It should be cast into a heap in the compost yard for twelve or
fourteen months before used, a practice which ought to be observed
with composts in general.

It is to be used only for such plants as are known to grow natu-
xally in peat, or those which are known to thrive best in a very light
sandy soil: also to be mixed occasionally with Loam, for such as de-
light in an intermediate compost.

Most plants grow remarkably free in peat during the summer season,
if kept carefully watered, particularly those which come under the
denomination of half herbaceous or biennial like plants; yet, even
these, are often liable to perish in winter, on account of the extreme
lightness of the soil, and the cold necessarily produced by frequent
watering.

Shrubby, hard wooded, and fine fibrous rooted plants in general,
thrive very well in this and loam, mixed in about equal proportions;
but I think it by no means suitable to fruits. It is seldom used by
itself except for heaths, Botany Bay plants, and the general pro-
ductions of Northern America, to all of which it seems particularly
adapted.

Sand is rarely used simply, except for striking cuttings of the
two first of the above mentioned plants; viz. heaths, and Botany
Bays ; for which it is peculiarly suitable ; their fine hair-like fibres
not having strength to vegetate in stronger soils. An inch or two in
depth on the surface is quite sufficient, as it is intended merely
to strike the cutting in, the lower part of the pot being filled with
peat, into which the young fibres will soon penetrate, and draw
therefrom the principal part of their nourishment as from their parent
soil: it should be kept moderately moist when used in this manner,
otherwise, from its natural drying quality, it would soon parch up
and destroy whatever cuttings may have been put therein.

The soil of the interior parts of Southern Africa being for the
greater part excessively sandy, a considerable portion of it should be
used in the composts intended for the productions of that country,
both of woody, herbaceous, and bulbous species.

Pit sand should be invariably preferred for this purpose, it being,
of a more lively vegetating nature than river or sea sand, and if we

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148 ON SOILS, ETC.

may judge by colour, the whitest that can be procured; as I have
always observed it to be the finest, and have from repeated trials
proved that the finer the sand, the surer a good crop of cuttings.

It requires no kind of preparatory process, more than shifting,
to divest it of those small pebbles, &c., which are usually found
amongst it, and to be kept pure and unmixed with extraneous sub-
stances, until wanted for use.

By vegetable mould, at least the kind best suited to our purpose,
is meant that which accumulates, or in a manner grows, if I may use
the expression, in woods, particularly those of a long standing, by
the annual fall of leaves, &c., and their consequent decay; the
vicissitudes of a few revolving seasons reduces them to a perfect mould,
which is afterwards known by the above appellation. It is of a very
loose, light nature, and comparatively rich, but far behind that pro-
duced by the mixture of animal excrement. Yet it is doubtless of
an ameliorating nature, and highly recommendable for such plants
as delight in a moderate and well digested manure.

In its simple state it is hardly fit for any thing except annuals, as
its extreme lightness, like the peat, renders it unable to support
arborescent plants with any degree of credit: however, when mixed
with loam, or any other soil of a more firm texture than itself, it is
particularly useful for West India plants, geraniums, and annuals in
general. ’

The best manner of procuring it is to have several large pits dug
in the most convenient part of the woods, into which may be
annually raked all the leaves in the vicinity, together with the gen-
eral surface of the ground produced by them in preceding years,
which will materially accelerate their decomposition ; so that in a
few months, they become a perfect mould, and fit fur use,

Of animal manure, that procured from old hot-beds is, I think,
most suitable for composts in this department. It likewise should
not be used for plants until rotted to a perfect mould; to promote
which, it should be well mixed with a small portion of loam in the
compost yard, whereby they will become better incorporated, and
more fit for use; it is necessary however, not to add too much loam
to it in this process, as it is so much easier to add afterwards than
to take away, according as circumstances may require.

This mixed with a proper quantity of loam, is in general the best
compost for such plants as have soft fleshy roots, also for soft wooded,
half shrubby, and herbaceous kinds of plants, annuals, biennials, &e.
&e. but is never used simply by itself, and .very rarely, if at all,
mixed with peat or sand.

oa. CONSERVATORY PLANTS. 149

The very great variety in the nature of plants, taken en masse,
renders it utterly impossible to specify within the limits of this
article, the soil proper for each particular species; however I think it
may be advanced as arule not subject to many objections that the
whole of each genus are generally fond of the same compost. I
shall draw up a table of Genera, of which any of the species are
known to require the aid of the greenhouse or stove ; shewing that
peculiar soil, most suitable to each particular genus; deduced from
observations on the extensive collections [ have had under my own
particular care, combined with those which I have had an opportu-
nity of making on others, as well in the vicinity of London, as
around Dublin.

The necessity of this combination is evident from the difficulty of
finuing the whole of the genera here enumerated, in any single col-
lection in the united kingdom.

ARTICLE IJ.—A LIST OF PLANTS, SUITABLE FOR PLANTING OUT
IN A CONSERVATORY,

BY MR. FRANCIS GOODALL, GARDENER, RHODE HALL, NANTWICH, CHESHIRE.
As your Correspondent, “a Devonian,” solicits the favour of a list
of Couservatory Plants, I have sent you the following which are suit-
able for the pit of a large conservatory —also a list of climbers, suitable
for the Columns, Pilastres, and Trellis. The whole-may be purchased
from Mr. Knight, of the Exotic Gardens, Kings Road, Chelsea,
London. Indeed, Mr. Knight grows very fine plants for furnishing
conservatories.

The Telopea speciosissima, on the culture of, which a “ Devonian”
requests the favour of a few hints, is one of the most beautiful
greenhouse plants; it will do very well in the pit of a conservatory,
if well managed ; the most suitable soil is one-third light loam, one-
third peat, and one-third fine sand. If placed in a conservatory,
choose a situation where the plant may get plenty of light and air,
and be very sparing of the water during the autumn and winter, al-
though the plant should never be allowed to flag. The Azalea indica,
of which there are several fine varieties, thrive best in sandy peat—
I have never tried it in the pit of a conservatory ; the pots should be
well drained through broken potsherds, and treated during the sum-
mer months, the same way as other greenhouse plants.

At the usual time for houseing, place them in the greenhouse,
afterwards they may be taken a few at a time into the forcing
house, when they will soon show their beautiful blossoms, and
make a most splendid show when placed in the vases in

150 CONSERVATORY PLANTS.

the conservatory. { have never tried the Proteas in the pit of a con-
servatory, being of opinion that they would not do well; the best
soil for them is a light turfy loam, mixed with one-third of fine sand;
the pots should be well drained, and care should be taken not to let
them droop for want of water, as the young roots are of a fleshy sub-
stance, and soon suffer by being too dry, as well as by being too wet,
they seldom recover if permitted to droop long; they also should be
placed where they will have a free circulation of air.

A LIST OF CONSERVATORY PLANTS.

Acacia alata.
decipiens.
armata.
——— taxifolia.
falcata.
augustifolia.
linarifolia.
—_—— verticillalata.
— elongata.
floribunda.
latifolia.
sophora.
pulchella.
lophantha.
discolor.
pubescens.
decurrens,
longifolia.
myrtifolia.
ulicina,

Aster argophyllus.
dentatus.
Anthyllis hermanunia.
erinacea.

Arbutus canariensis.
Banksia ericifolia.
Bauera rubioides.
humilis.

Beaufortia decussata.
sparsa.
Bursaria spinosa.
Brunia superba.

Blandfordia grandiflora.

nobilis.
Beckia virgata.
Callistemon lanceolata.
speciosa.
saligna.

Calistemon linearis,
Cistus roseus.

formosus.
Calothamnus quadrifida.
vilosa.
Crategus glabra.
Cassuarina stricta.
equisitifolia.
suberosa.

Calceolaria integrifolia.
Cluatia glauca.
Calistachys lanceolata.
Cassia multiglandulosa.
Cassine maurocenia.
Correa alba.

pulchella.
virens.
Celastrus buxifolias.
Cyclopia genistoides,
Cussonia pinnata.
Crotolaria elegans.

Ceanothus africanus.
Clethra arborea.
Ceratonia siliqua.
Doryanthus excelsa.
Dodonea triquetra.
Eucalyptus pulvyerulenta.
piperita.
oppositifolia.
—_————obliqua.

globosa.
Eutaxia myrtifolia.
pungens.
Enkianthus quinquiflora.
Epacris grandiflora.
juniperina.

pulchella.
Ficus aspera.

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CONSERVATORY PLANTS.

Gastrolobium bilobium.
Globularia longifolia:
Goodia pubescens.

Magnolia pumila.
Myrcine africana.
retusa.

latifolia. Mimulus glutinosus.
Grevillea linearis. Myoporum elipticum.
sericea. Nerium oleander.
punicea. splendens.
Hakea dactyloides. Nandina domestica.
saligna. Olea apetala.
——obeifolia. excelsa,
florida. fragrans.
pugioniformis. Persoonia lanceolata.
suaveoleus, latifolia,
ceratophylla. fusca.
gibbosa. linearis.
Halleria lucida. Podalyria latifolia.
Ilex perado, myrtifolia.
canariensis. sericea.
Lebeckia cytissoides. styracifolia.
Lamarkia dentata. Pittosporum coriaceum.
Lasiopetalum ferugineum. undulatum.
Leptospermum ambiguum. pumila.

flavescens. Pomaderris apetala.

—___-___—. floribundum. —————Elliptica.

—_———— _ juniperinum. Passerina filiformis.
—— mpyrtifolium. Pultenea daphnoides.

thea.
Laurus camphora.
Lancophyllus capensis.
Lomatia salicifolia.
Lagerstremia indica.
Lenonotus leonurus.
Metrosideros floribunda.
canaliculata.
Melaleuca incana.
—— virgata.
armillaris.
densa.
decussata,
coronata.
squarrosa.
styppiloides.
hypericifolia.
———. diosmifolia.
splendens.
——— thy mifolia.
Melia azedarach.
Myrica quercifolia.
Magnolia fuscata.

stricta.
Pinknea pubens,
Prostanthera lasianthus.
Podolobium trilobatum.
Psoralea pinnata.
Polygala grandiflora.

speciosa. *

myrtifolia.
Pogonia glabra.
Rhus trifoliata.
Rubus rosafolius.
Rhododendron arboreum.
Reaumaria hypericoides.
Schaerola crassifolia.
Sideroxylon inerme.
Sophora, capensis.
Serissa fetida.
Sparmania africana.
Salvia chamedrifolia.
Swainsonia coronillifolia.
albiflora.
Thomasia solanacea.
quercifolium:

162 MODE OF TRAINING PLANTS. -

Telopea speciocissima.
Tristania laurifolia.
nerifolia.
conferta.

Simpletonia retusa.
Virgilia capensis.

CLIMBERS FOR THE CONSERVATORY.

Aristolochia sempervirens,
glauca.
Bignonia capreolata.
Billardiera mutabilis.
scandens.
Begonia grandis.
Clematis capensis.
florida.
florida simplex.

Cobea scandens.
Convolvyulus eanariensis.

punifolias.
Oxatilis.
Decumaria sarmentosa.
Dolichos lignosus.
Ececremocarpus scaber.

longiflorus.

Brachysema latifolium.
undulatum.

Glycine sinensis.
Hibbertia volubilis.
lanceolata.
grossularifolia.
Jasminum gracile.
azoricum.
grandiflorum:
heterophyllum.
revolutum.

All the varieties of the Camellia japonica may be kept in pots,
and may be forced to introduce occasionally.

also in all its varieties.

ARTICLE IJ].—ON AN INTERESTING MODE OF TRAINING PLANTS,
With a List of Kinds to which it is peculiarly applicable.
BY LOUISA.

. Viminaria denudata.

Vestia licyoides.

Westringia rosmarinifolia.
Yucca superba.
Zieria Smithii.

Kennedia angustifolia.
bimaculata.
Comptoniana.
inconspicua.
monophylla.
rubicunda.

2 var. major.
Caprifolium japonica.
sempervireus.

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flavum.

nepalense.

flexuosum.

Maurandya semperfiorens.
antirrhineflora.

Barclayana.
Passiflora racemosa ccerulea.
angustifolia var.

chinensis.

Periploca africana. —
levigata.
Smilax Ripogonum.
Scisandra coccinea.
Tecoma grandiflora.

capensis.
australis.
Usteria personata.
scandens.

The Azalea indica

Tne usual mode of training climbers in the Stove, Greenhouse, or
Conservatory, has, in my judgment, many objectionable things in its
practice. The plan is to have them run up lofty pillars, walls, trel-
lisses, or rafters, by which the flowers are generally removed too far
from minute observation, so as to distinctly notice the beautiful form

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MUDE OF TRAINING PLANTS. 153

or colours of the blossoms. It occurred to me in the spring of 1835,
that some other method might be devised to answer every purpose of
the plants, and bring the blossoms close to view. [ therefore had
some wire frames constructed at various heights and diameters, some
six feet high, others five and four, and of such a diameter as that
the bottom of the frame fitted to the size of the pot in which the
plant was growing. I had a few made with four upright strong wires,
but they did not look at all so neat as those I bad with six. The top
of the wire frame is made to splay, so that it is rather funnel shaped:
The coating wire is commenced at the bottom and is continued, at
two inches apart, to the top. I had a few girths of wire quite round
the whole in order to bind them firmly and steadily, whilst the coiled
wire was to train to.

This plan brings the plants within desirable bounds for training
and regulating, which attention, on the old system, is often found
difficult to perform, and then neglect ensuing, disorder is the un-
sighuly result. But in my mode of treatment, it is easily and neatly
performed, and affords a very pleasing duty to secure the leading
shoots to the desired positions. The result is, the collecting into the
small compass of a bush, and thus quite near to view, in many in-
stances of hundreds of blossoms. I beg to assure the readers of the
Cabinet, that those persons who may adopt the sane plan will not
fail of being highly pleased with it.

The kinds of plants I have used this mode of training to,jare the
following, but it is properly applicable to all climbers, either exotic
or hardy.

Tropeeolum tricolorum.

pentaphyllum.
Hibbertia crenata.

azoricui.
Passiflora caerulea.

racemosa.

Kennedia coccinea. ——— floribunda.
Comptoniana. laurifolia.
monophylia. Rhodochiton volubile.
ovata. Lophospermum scandens,
sericea. Eccremocarpus seaber.
dilitata. Maurandia Barclayana.

Cobza scandens.

sempertlorens.

Dolichos lignosus.

Convolvulus pannifolius.
canariensis.

Lonicera japonica.

— flexuosa.

Jasminium grandiflorum.

revolutuin.

Convolvulus major.
Ipomea striata.

coccinea.
punctata,
New Crimson.
Nasturtium,

All of the above did remarkably well, and I think it would answer
equally as well for many of the finest hothouse climbers.

June 3rd, 1836.

154 LIST OF CAMELLIAS.

ARTICLE 1V.—A CONTINUED LIST OF CAMELLIAS.
BY MR. G. J. KAMEL.

My former communication on a list of Camellias being favourably
received by the conductor of the Cabinet, (See Vol. 3. page 186) I
forward you an additional list of some newer kinds, judging it will be
of some interest to the numerous readers of the Cabinet: affording
them information as to what new and additional kinds are now in
cultivation. :
CHINESE SPECIES.

Camellia reticulata.

sereoveeeees Japonica, candidissima.

BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL HYBRID VARIETIES.
Camellia Japonica alba semiduplex.
stcesseescsssececseee eteropetala alba.

Vanpassestsurescdoses LOMIGTIS QlDR.

Meas Fhe doa aa tao ee ALIS
setetatveieisvecvees MNVEay

Pudi suubnitocsitess sg OCUTOleuCRS

BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL RED FLAVOURED HYBRIDS,

Camellia Japonica, var. acutipetala.
Chaitin» fasthicrieeetersest ATGCHS.

stab casueacactevde dees tAtelaidin.
saibececéevacssaeslocees. (DIaCKbUIMIAna.

bua bids setts dsvscheessex COMpACkA MUDER.
ode aVpababett valesensOesTCONCININ

Ro eras coosas one eu Ondiae
eveabiudiswarensstannere A dOVals

Bilson aaah ebnbees> besites MELEDCerSOnIa,

Bec tacus sates avesssieos MULOSAC Kas
suhinepSnpeansisssascuere IP RESCOME
seeueseattone series vets kibbICNda.

sh cReeeente say Pies ansnecl ERIN as.

svoues ecesevecsgeteesee), VONGesIa SUpErba.

BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL VARIETIES WITH VARIEGATED
FLOWERS.

Camellia Japonica, alba variegata.
MOMS. ccsfespsetecns COMmpbelil
REMY cscs sveteeses Carswelliana:
Renee vies scot cotes @clicatissima,
Beaty cs ck visio seo onkelarii.
Wieder: pascasvecesss, Abricata alba.

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Camellia Japonica, Julianai.
cocccccoceeccoscecnce vee Picturata.
steeeecevessccveseeeeees PUNCtAtA Major.
cocccecceccecceccseesees TANUNCUIIfOra striata.
Seeebeetdivtcicseseecess tricolor
sha OC EARS E REL EAE . Venusta.

Decide asdoedee seloddeec sae VErSIOGlor:
Sdecodecte couse ss ee NMelMArII

ARTICLE V.—ON THE CULTURE OF ORCHIDEOUS PLANTS.

BY A COUNTRY FLORIST.

(Continued from page 36.)

EpipeNDRuMs.—The whole of this genus are singular in form and
pretty, and are easy of cultivation. The flowers are, generally, nu-
merously produced upon lengthy spikes, and some of them very
highly fragrant.

1. EPIDENDRUM ARMENIACUM. This species I saw in bloom ex-
hibited at the show in the London Horticultural Society’s Garden,
and since then have procured a plant which has blossomed. The
flowers are very diminutive, and are produced npon a bending ra-
ceme, about four inches long. They are of a brown yellow colour,
and are very neat, particularly when placed in contrast with other
colours. It blooms in June and July. I find the plant grows
freely in pots filled with turfy peat and potsherds.

2. EK. srcornutum, Two horned. TI have bloomed this species
several times. The flowers are of a beautiful white, and delightfully
fragrant ; produced upon a stem about a foot long, from four to six
upon each. It requires the same kind of soil &c. as the former sort.
It blooms in July and August.

3. E. citiare, Fringed flowered. The petals of this kind are of
a greenish yellow colour, and the labellum of a pure white —the la-
bellum is much fringed ; it is a very ornamental species; the flower
stem rises about a foot high; it blooms from March to August. I
have found this kind to thrive very luxuriantly.

4 E.conopseum, The gnat shaped flower. This species is of
a humble growth, the stem rising about three inches high, and pro-
ducing a few small yellow flowers, which are very neat and pretty.
{t blooms in August and September. The same treatment as with
the other sorts answers for this, only being of delicate growth it does
not require so much pot room,

156 ON A HEDGE FORMED OF FUCHSIAS.

5 E. cuspipatom, The pointed. The fower stem rises about a
foot and a half, having several flowers, the petals of which are of a
yellowish green colour, and the rest of the flower a pure white. It
is a ornamental species. It blooms with me in July and August.

6. E. cocaLeatum, The spiral. The flowers are produced upon
a stalk about fifteen inches long. They are very curious, being of a
brown and purple colour; this kind flowers nearly all the year.

7. E. pirFusum, The diffuse flowered. The flower stem does
not extend more than a foot long, the flowers are green, but pretty.
It blooms in September and October.

8. E. etoneatom, Long stalked. The flower stem extends near
a yard long, producing numerous flowers, of a reddish colour. It
blooms from May to September. This species is easy of culture,
and-of propagation ; in turfy peat, rotten wood and potsherds, grown
in a strong moist heat, this kind flourishes amazingly.

9. E. FRAGRANS, Sweet scented. The flower stem extends about
nine inches, producing numerous, highly fragrant flowers, which give
a delightful odour in the stove. The petals are of a greenish white
colour, and the labellum is streaked with deep rose. It is a very de-
servedly cultivated species. This kind grows best with me, in equal
parts of rotten wood, turfy peat, and potsherds; 1 also use a little
moss for bottom drainage, which is of advantage.

(To be continued.)

ARTICLE VI.—ON A HEDGE FORMED OF FUCHSIAS.

BY LUCY,

Durine the summer of 1835, I visited a considerable number of
Noblemen and Gentlemen’s gardens in the midland counties, as
Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire, &c., and among
the most showy and ornamental plants which came under my notice
and attracted my attention, was a hedge formed of Fuchsia virgata.
It was fifty yards long, and six feet high, clothed with a vast pro-
fusion of the beautiful pendant blossoms. No adequate conception
can be formed of its beauty by those persous who have not seen it.

The very intelligent, and communicative gardener, gave me the
following particulars of the mode of management he had so success-
fully practised with the plants, which in two years had been brought
to a state of perfection and beauty.

In the’ spring of 1833 two old plants of Fuchsia virgata, growing
in the open border, were taken up, and having many rooted suckers
they were divided from the old plants. Each sucker was potted into

ON A HEDGE FORMED OF FUCHSIAS. 157

a 24 sized pot, in a compost of one half well rotted leaf mould, and
the other rich sandy loam. The newly potted plants were then
placed in a hotbed frame for a fortnight in order to cause the roots
to be excited, after which they were removed into a greenhouse.
Each plant was tied up toa straight stick, to which the leading
shoot was regularly secured. All lateral shoots were cut back, “‘ when
they got about six inches long,”so as only to leave one joint upon
each. This shortening was repeated through the season, the induce-
ment to which was to cause the leading stem to grow vigorously and
at the same time to retain short laterals to push fromm, when the lead
had reached the desired height.

About the middle of June the plants were shifted, with balls entire,
into pots a foot in diameter at the top, using the same kind of com-
post. The plants still kept in the greenhouse. During the whole
of summer they were liberally supplied with water at the roots, and
occasionally, with the other plants in the greenhouse, syringed over
the tops.

At the end of the season of 1833, the leading stem of each was
near five feet high, and abundantly furnished with short lateral
shoots.

The plants were kept in a cool greenhouse throughout winter, and
in April 1834, were planted out with balls entire, but gently shook
and patted so as to loosen the fibrous roots outside the ball. The
ground was previously prepared for their reception, by taking away
the poor soil to the depth of half a yard, and filling it up with a
well enriched compost. The plants were well watered at the time of
planting, and this was frequently repeated during the season.

Each plant had a strong straight stake to which it was secured ;

during the summer, the plants formed a very handsome hedge, and
bloomed profusely. The design of forming the hedge was to conceal
an object from view, at the front of a range of plant stoves.
' At the end of November the entire hedge was covered with wool-
len netting, the mash of which was half an inch square, this was
secured over the same by a tempory railing along the sides. The
netting admits a suitable portion of light and air, but isa perfect
security to the plants from injury by frost.

In April 1835 the netting was taken away and the lateral shoots
were pruned back, so as to leave about six inches of each This for-
med the plants into the shape of a close set hedge of thorns. During
summer they spread and bloom profusely, they are protected in
winter, and pruned again in April.”

158 GLEANINGS FROM OLD AUTHORS.

I have just received a letter from the person who furnished the
above practical particulars, and who says the hedge has not suffered
the least during the last winter, but is now full of young shoots.

Near Bedford, May 20th 1836.

P. S. I think the plan of forming a plant after the above man-
ner, would be very proper to stand singly on a lawn ; the plant would
be feathered with branches from the ground to the top; I have two
in course of training and pruning.

ARTICLE VII.—REMARKS ON THE TREATMENT OF THE DAHLIA.
BY MR. WILLIAM CHARLES.

EVERYTHING tending to the improvement of Floriculture, I am

sure will meet with encouragement from the conductor of the Cabinet.

I therefore forward a few remarks on the treatment of the Dablia,

for insertion in that Publication.

For several years I have had opportunities, both from extensive
practice and observations in some of the principal Nurseries in the
Kingdom, of ascertaining what method of culture with the Dahlia,
throughout the year, would be successful, so as to secure a profuse
bloom of fine flowers, and preserve the roots most sound through
winter. These desirable results are most effectually produced by
earthing the stems up similar to what is done with potatoes ; the ad-
vantages derived from it are numerous—the plants grow more freely,
the flowers larger, the colours finer, the crowns of the roots more
plumper, the roots more sound, in Autumn the crowns are preserved
from effects of cold, rain, and frost, and the roots keep far better in
winter than if otherwise treated. '

I find too, that if the stems of seedlings be earthed up, that it will
cause them to bloom earlier by three weeks.

June 4th, 1836.

ARTICLE VIII.—GLEANINGS FROM OLD AUTHORS.
BY FLORA.

Ir is certain, that all plants are naturally possessed of a humour that
we call Radical, without which, they could never grow; andin regard
this humour is fed and maintained by another foreign humour, which
arises commonly from rain, or from the watering of the plants, we
may from thence-gather the necessary use of watering. It is by
this succour, that these productions extend all their parts, and act
with such life and efficacy as to answer our desires.

So it remains only to know how this watering is to be performed,
so as to benefit the flowers, and make them look gay in the garden.

GLEANINGS FROM OLD AUTHORS. 159

With respect to this, we must distinguish between the different
seasons. In summer, plants require much watering, especially in
the evening, after the sun is down, that the water, which has a pro-
pitious influence, may foment itself in the bosom of the earth, and so
its subtilest parts may be conveyed into the roots for their benefit.

Plants require some watering in winter, but it must not be done
in that season till some time after the sun-rise; nor must it ever be
done at night, lest they should freeze in the night-time, when the
cold is keenest. Besides this watering must be moderate, and care
must be taken not to wet the leaves, but the stalk and root ; which is
dexterously done by pouring the water from the neck of a small wa-
tering-pot without a head.

Besides the proper season for watering, we must likewise have
regard to the proper quantity. Too much or too little makes plants
droop ; whereas, when they imbibe just what their nature will bear,
they thrive and grow wonderfully.

In watering plants, we generally make use of a watering-pot, which,
spouting out the water contained in it, in the form of rain, moistens
them equally all over, and sensibly refreshes them.

Some plants set in pots, are sometimes so dry, that they fade and
droop ; in which case, we set the pots in water till it comes within a
finger’s breadth of the brim; there let them stand, till the water,
entring at the holes in the lower part of the pot, appears upon the
surface of the earth contained in the pot. Then take them out, and
set them in some other place to drain.

Sometimes, the earth, whether in pots, boxes, or open beds, by
being over-heaten with moisture, forms upon its surface a crust,
which is so hard, that the water falling upon it, runs off from the
root of the plant, where its service is required: in this case, you
must stir up the earth, that the moisture passing directly, may pen-
etrate and revive the plant.

It is given out, that well-water being insufficiently rarified, by
reason of its degrees of cold, is not salutary to plants: but experience

‘shews, that when it is taken up at some distance of time, and heated
in vessels by the sun beams, it operates very well.

Running-water is most esteemed, on account of its agitation and
incessant flux, it subtilizes, and warms itself, and so gains beneficial
qualities.

Water taken from cisterns, is yet better, by reason, that falling
from on high, it is richly stocked with the subtile parts of the air,
and the fire, to which we owe our life; so that it cannot but render a
garden very fertile. For the same reasons, we find that rains make
the fields very fertile.

160 GLEANINGS FROM OLD AUTHORS.

As for pool, and stagnating waters, some say they are not at all
friendly to plants ; because, say they, they contain some gross parts,
which cannot without difficulty penetrate the plants, and so are apt to
do more harm than good; besides, continue they, they are apt to
breed worms, which cling to, and destroy their roots, to the fatal
prejudice of the plant. But, after all, we find that even these waters
rarified by heat, are admirably serviceable to the root of a flower;
which gives us to know, that by virtue of that rarifaction, the stag-
nating waters get rid of their impurities. So that upon the whole
we are not in the wrong, if we say that this opinion is scrupulous
without ground.

Sometimes it so falls out, that the frequent rains would over-soak
the earth contained in Flower-pots, if due care were not taken to pre-
vent the inconveniency. And, upon this consideration, if the time
permits, these pots ought, upon the apprehension of such occasions,
be laid down on their side, with the bottom to the wind-ward; for,
without this precaution, the Mother-Roots, and their off-spring
would be in danger of dying

Tt is sometimes observed, that a plant decays, when a certain yel-
lowish colour appears upon its leaves ; in which case, the disorder is
taken to proceed from its roots. To redress this disorder, we take
the flower-pot, and place it on one side, and gently pouring in water
out of a little pot with a small pipe, till it gradually makes a hollow
down to the root; we then perceive where the disorder in the root
lies: then we take a hooked knife, and cut the disordered part to the
quick. This done we leave the wound or incision, to dry for half an
hour, and then cover with a little turpentine, and at last, fill the pot
with dry and very light earth.

If it be a bulbous root that falls under this disorder, it behoves
you, dexterously to shed the earth round it, in order to lay open the
place affected; which done, we cut it with a knife to the quick, and
take off the spoiled tunicles, or coats; after which, we cover up the
whole with such earth as we last prescribed.

We oftentimes observe, upon the surface of the earth in a flower-
pot, a certain whitish mouldiness, which is like a cobweb covered
with a little dew, and smells like mushrooms. Such earth is per-
nicions both to the roots, and to the shoots of the plant; and, for
that reason, whenever we perceive any such mouldiness, and the
subsequent decay of the plant, the best thing we can do is to change
the earth, by putting in its room fresh earth, sufficiently enriched
with salts, and of a light temperament. This will revive the plant.

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NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 16]

PART II.
LIST OF NEW. AND RARE PLANTS,

Noticed since our last.

1. CAMELLIA RETICULTA, Captain Rawes’ Camellia. (Paxton’s Mag. of Bot.)
Natural Order, Ternstramiacece; Class, Monadelphia; Order, Polyandria. The
flowers of this species are very large, being six inches across, of a fine deep rose
colour. When fully expanded, they have much the appearance in form of the
flowers of Pzeonia Montan rosea. The petals are arrranged in a loose and irre-
gular manner, and have a wavy appearance. The plant is of a very robust
habit, but has been found difficult to propagate. It was introduced into this
country in 1820, by Captain Richard Rawes, and presented to T. C. Palmer, Esq.
Bromley, Kent, along with another great ornament, the Primula sinensis. The
Camellia flowered for the first time in this country at Mr. Palmers, it is now eul-
tivated in most nursery plant establishments. The plant seems impatient of
heat, and begins to grow earlier than any other kind. Camellia, in compliment
to G. J. Kamel, a Jesuit, and Asiatic Traveller, whose name has been latinized
into Camellus.

2. CaTTLEYA LABrATa, Crimson lipped. (Bot. Reg. 1859.) Orchidacee,
Epidendrex, Gynandria Monandria, This very handsome flowering orchideous
plant, is cultivated by our friend Mr. Cooper, at Wentworth, where it blooms
magnificently ; and as it does not require so strong a temperature as most others
of this tribe, consequently deserves a place in every collection; the very great
beauty of the flowers too, still more strongly recommend it. Each flowering
stem will produce from four to six flowers ; the flower is about four inches across;
labellum of a fine deep rich crimson, the petals of a beantifiil lilac; the fine con-

; trast of the two colours give it a most striking and pleasing appearance, produ-

y cing a radiance of beauty and splendour rarely to be equalled. The plant may

____ be obtained at Messrs. Loddiges, Rollinsons, and others; it was introduced some

a year since from Brazil, by Mr. William Swainson. Cattleya, in compliment to

j William Catley, Esq., Barnet, near T.ondon.

3. Crara#cus Crus GALLI, VAR. OVALIFOLIA, Oval-leaved Cockspur Thorn,
(Bot. Reg. 1860.) Synonym. Mespilus lucida, M linearis, Crateegus ovalifolia,
C erus galli, ovalifolia. It has been called C. pennsylvanica by some persons.
This variety of the Cockspur Thorn, has more oval and less shining leaves, with
a more open growth than the two commoner kinds, viz., the Pyracantha leaved,
and the broad leaved, which grow in a dense form, and have smooth shining
leaves. The present variety forms a very handsome tree, producing white
- flowers, succeeded by large pale red berries. It is grown in the garden of the
{ London Horticultural Society. The original species of Cockspur Thorn is a
_ native of North America. Crataegus from Kratos, strength, alluding to the wood.
Crus Galli, refers to the long and powerful spines resembling the spurs of a cock.

4. CRaT#GUs PRUNIFOLIA, Plum-leaved. (Bot. Reg. 1868) Synonym.
Mespilus prunifolia. Roseacew. Icosandria Di Pentagynia. <A very pretty
“species, the leaves of which have a deep crimson hue in autumn, and five, nearly
globular shaped, red fruit, each containing two stones. The plant is stated to

be from North America. It is cultivated in the garden of the London Horticul-
tural Society.

a 5. CRYBE ROSEA, Pink-flowered. (Bot. Reg. 1572.) Orchidacew. Gynan-
dria Monandria. The plant and flower has much the resemblance of some of the
delicate kinds of Bletia before their blossoms expand—those of the Crybe rosea
never opening. The plant is a native of Mexico, and has bloomed in the collee-
tion of Messrs. Loddiges. The unexpanded flower is of a club-shaped form,
and of a deep purple colour, slightly tinged with white; the plant requires a
stove heat. Crybe, from Kvupto, to conceal, alluding to the manner in which
the parts of fructification are concealed by the corolla not expanding.

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162 NEW AND RARE PLANTS.

6. DENDROBIUM INACROSTACHYUM, Long-spiked. (Bot Reg. 1865.) Or-
chidacee. Gynandria Monandria. This species has bloomed in the collection of
Mr. Bateman at Knypersley Hall, it is a native of Ceylon where it was found by
Mr. Macrae. The flowers are numerous upon a long spike, each flower is rather
more than half an inch across. Ofa pale yellow colour. The lip being tinged
with a pale purple. Dendrobium from Dendrom, a tree, and bio to live upon.

7. EPIDENDRUM ARMENIACUM. Apricot-coloured (flower) Epidendrum.
(Bot Reg. 1867.) Messrs Rollissons of Tooting imported this species from
Brazil. The flowers are produced on a drooping spike, they are very small about
one eight of an inch across, of a brownish-yellow colour. Epidendrum from Epi-
upon and dendron, a tree, the species growing upon trees.

8. EpIDENDRUM SKINNERI. Mr. Skinner’s Epidendrum. (Bot Reg. 1870.)
Orchidacee. Gynandria Monandria. Mr. Skinner discovered this species near
Cumana two years since. The flowers are small, white, not of much interest.

9. HABENARIA PROCERA. Tall Habenaria. (Bot Reg. 1858.) Synonym.
Orchis procera. This species has bloomed in the collection of Messrs Loddiges.
It isa native of Sierre Leone. In this country it requires the temperature of
a damp hot house. When done flowering the root requires a considerable rest,
and that time to be kept dry and cool. The flower spike rises about two feet
high producing a head of numerous blossoms, of a greenish-white each flower
near an inch across. Habenaria from, haberna, a rein or thong, in allusion to
the strap shaped spur of the flower

10. Hyacrntats spicaTus. Spike-flowered. (Bot Reg. 1869.) Liliacez.
Hexandria Monogynia. A native of Zante, where it was discovered by H. T.
Talbot Esq. and has bloomed at the residence of that Gentleman, Lacock Abbey,
Wilts; the flowers are produced upon a spike rising near four inches high, they
are small, each about half an inch across, blue slightly suffused with white.

11. IPoMEA RUBRO-CHRULEA, Reddish-blue flowered. (Pax. Mag. of Bot.)
This splendid flowering plant ought to have a place in every collection. We
have latterly bloomed it in profusion. (see it figured soms time ago in the
Cabinet) I pomea from Ips, bindweed, and homois, similar.

12 KENNEDYA MACROPHYLLA, Large-leaved (Bot Reg. 1862.) This kind
very much resembles the K. Comptoniana, and renders it doubtful whether it be
a mere variety of that species, but the present is of a more robust growth.
The plant is a native of the Swan River, New Holland, and introduced into this
country by Sir James Stirling. It bloomed in the select collection of Robert
Mangles, Esq., Sunning Hill, Berkshire. It is a very pretty kind and well merits
a place in every greenhouse. Kennedya, in compliment to L. Kennedy, Esq:
late of Hammersmith Nursery.

13. Lycunis BunceanaA Bunge’s Lychnis, (Bot. Reg. 1864.) Synonym.,
Agrostemma Bungeana. Sileneacee. Decandria Pentagynia. This fine flower-
ing species flourishes and blooms well if keptin a light part of a greenhouse,
or acool frame. It was sent from St. Petersburgh in 1835 by Dr. Fischer. It
is cultivated in the garden of the London Horticultural Society, and as it is
readily increased will soon be easily to obtain. Lychnis, from Luchnos a lamp,
in consequence of the cottony leaves of some kinds being employed as wicks for
lamps.

1. MANETIIA CORDIFOLIA, Heart-leaved. (Bot. Reg. 1866.) Cinchonacee.
Tetrandria Monogynia. A beautiful stove climbing plant a native of Brazil,
where it beautifies the hedges and copses, to the height of four or five feet. It
flowers profusely in the hothouse. The flowers are trumpet-shaped, above an
inch long. of a beautiful orange scarlet colour; the plant deserves a place in
every collection. The bark of the plant is a powerful medicine in cases of dropsy.
Manettia, in compliment to Xavier Manetti, a Professor of Botany at Florence,
in the last century.

15. MAXILLARIA AROMATICA, Aromatic. (Bot. Reg. 1871.) Orchidacez.
Gynandria Monandria. Synonym, Colax aromaticus. A native of Mexico, now
cultivated in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, as well as many other collections.
The flowers are produced singly, about an inch and a half across, of a fine yellow
colour. Mavillaria, from the labellum resembling the maxillz of some insects.

16. MoRMODES ATROPURPUEA, Dark-purple flowered. (Bot. Reg. 1861.)
Orchidacee. Gynandria Monandria. A beautiful flowering stove plant, re-

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quiring the same treatment as the Catasetums, viz., to be kept cool and dry when
they are not in a growing condition, as they begin to be excited, to be gently
forced, but when in full vigour of growth, to have a very free supply of moisture.
The present species has bloomed in the fine collection of J. Wilmore, Esq., Old-
field, near Birmingham. It had been introduced in 1834, from the Spanish
Main. The flowers are produced very densely upon a shortish spike, from ten
to twelve flowers upon each. Each blossom is about an inch across, of a dark
purple and red colour. Mormodes from Mormo a frightful object, alluding to
the singular appearance of the flowers.

17. NEMopuHiza aurita, Ear-leaved. (Brit. Flow. Gard. 338.) Hydrophyllez.
Pentandria Monogynia. A native of California, from whence it was sent by the
late Mr. Douglas. It is a very pretty flowering, hardy annual. The flowers are
near an inch across, of a purple blue colour; it produces seeds freely in the open
air. They may be obtained of the principal seedsmen. Nemophila, from Nemos,
a grove; and phileo, to love.

18: RHODODENDRON ARBOREUM, var. roseum. (Brit. Flow. Gard. 339.)
Pink-flowered Tree Rosebay. This very beautiful flowering variety was raised
from seeds sent from Nepal, in 1819, by Mr. William Smith, at the Earl of
Liverpool’s Coombe Wood, near Kingston, in Surry, and was bloomed at Mr.
Smiths, Norbiton Common. The flowers are of a deep rich pink colour, with
dark spots, large, and are produced in acompact globular cluster. It deserves a
place in every American border. Rhododendron from Rhodo, rose; and dendron
a tree.

19. RiBpEs MALVACEOM, Mallow-leaved Currant. (Brit. Flow. Gard. 340.)
The species is a native of California, found by the late Mr. Douglas. The flowers
are somewhat like the beautiful R.sanguineum, but not near so pretty. The
shrub grows to about three feet high; the leaves have a peculiar balsam scent ;
it is cultivated in the nursery of Meesrs. Osborn, Fulham, near London.

20. TRICHOPILIA ToRTILIs, Twisted-petalled. (Bot. Reg. 1863.) Orchi-
daceex. Gynandria Monandria. This plant very much resembles the Maxil-
laria. It is a native of Mexico, and was introduced in 1835, and is cultivated in
the collection of George Barker, Esq., Springfield, near Birmingham. The pe-
tals are of a brownish yellow colour; the labellum white, with numerous large
red spots, very pretty and interesting. Trichopilia, from Oris trichos, hair; and
pilion, a cap; the parts of fructification being concealed below a cap which is
erowned with three tufts of hair.

PART ILI.
MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

QUERIES.

ON DESTROYING THE SCALE INFESTING CAMELLIAS.—I havea fine collection
of Camellias under my care which are infested with a whitish Scale, and I find
ita very tedious job to pick them olf, can you or any of your numerous corres-
pondents, inform me of a ready method of destroying them without injury to
the plants, by so doing you will very much oblige A SUBSCRIBER.

: An early answer will be esteemed a favour.

On CoRONILLA GLAUCA PLANTED IN THE OPEN BORDER.—Having a bed
which I was desirous of filling with a yellow flowering plant, I purchased twenty
four for the purpose. I planted them out early in May, and hoped to have a
profuse bloom through the season, but to my great disappointment I had not a
single flower—the plants grew freely. If any particular mode of treatment be
required to cause the plants to bloom, I should be glad if some correspondent
would favour with its Maria.

ON THE FOLSAGE OF OrncHIDEOUS PLANTS BEING DAMAGED, &c.—I have cul-
tivated about one hundred kinds of the Orchideous tribe of plants for about two
years; the first year they flourished very well, but the second season, though the

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same culture is pursued, 1 observe the leaves of many of the Cyrtopodiums, &e.
to be blotched as if scalded—some of the leaves being spotted and blotehed like
the Acuba Japonica. | grow the plants under the shade of some creepers, so

that they would not be scorched by the sun. I do not discover any insect what-
ever upon the plants, and am quite at a loss to account for the unsightly ap-
pearance which is produced. | had been instructed from several sources, not to
sprinkle water overhead of the plants, which has been attended, but a liberal sup-
ply has been poured upon the flues. If some reader of the Cabinet, who may be
acquainted with a means of preventing the injury, would inform me, I should be
greatly obliged by an early information. The water I sprinkle the house with,
and apply to the roots, is very hard, but is generally brought into a cistern in the .
house for a day before using. I grow the plants generally in turfy peat and
broken pots. [ mention these particulars in ease the fault should be in such
treatment. AN AMATEUR.
Lincolnsihre, June 7th, 1836.

ANSWER.

DESIGN FOR FLOWER-GARDENS, No. VI, Design 7th.
Communicated by Amicus.

A CORRESPCNDENT in the Floricultural Cabinet for March, having requested a
plan for a Flower-Garden, which would suit a piece of ground twenty-five yards
square, | forward the accompanying design, in hopes it will be acceptable for the j
purpose. AMICUS, .

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REMARKS.

Ow THE NAME HyacintH, &e.—Yakinthos, is a name adopted from the ancient
Greeks, who applied it to the flower supposed to have sprung from the blood of
Hyacinthus, the favourite of Appola, when accidentally slain. Great differences
have arisen amongst commentators concerning the plant of the ancients, which
we cannot presume to settle, but there seems no paramount authority for the pre-
sent application of the name in question.—Smitu. LInNus supposes it to
have been the wild Larkspur, SPRENGEL, the common Gladiolus or Cornflag,
Martyn and FEE, the Martagon Lily, while others have endeavoured to shew
that the Hyacinths of the Greeks were same as the Vaccinia nigra of Virgil, or
the Bilberries of the English. Bot. Reg.

On THE DouBLE YELLOW RosE.—“The double yellow Rose does not flower
with me as a standard bush, in fact it does not blossom well except in ‘certain
situations and soils. Three years ago I had buds of this rose as well as some of
the dark and of the sweet-scented Chinese Roses, inserted on strong shoots of a
musk cluster Rose, which is trained on the east front of my house. Last year,
both of the chinese varieties flowered in great beauty during the whole of the
season; a few blossoms of the Yellow Rose also opened finely. his year the
latter produced many buds, several became ‘perfect flowers, and I think al! would
have opened, had it not been for the unusual coolness of the spring, and the at-
tacks of the green fly. The dark Chinese Rose succeeds particularly well, the
flowers are much larger than when grown on its own roots; in fact my roses
have been the admiration of every person who has seen them. As the budding
season is now approaching, I mention this to you, that you may try how far the
Yellow Rose, so treated, will thrive in the garden of the Horticultural Society at
Chiswick. 1 expect it will succeed particularly well, as it grows best in deep al-
luvial loams, on the banks of rivers. My buds were inserted ten feet from the
ground, and Mr. Knight thinks the large size of the blossoms of the dark Chi-
nese Rose, is owing to the distance the sap has to pass from the root before it
reaches the flower buds.

June 9th. Hort. TRANSACTIONS.

BrueMmansta-—(or Datura of former years.)—The B. suaveolens is certainly
one of the most splendid flowering plants—whether it be a plant cultivated in a
pot with its thirty flowers, or growing im a conservatory without controul and
there producing its several hundreds, it 1s in each an object of admiration. There
is a delicacy and purity of splendour unequalled in any other flower—and at
night a fragrance most powerful and agreeable. The following mode of culture
was practised at Syston Park a year or two ago, with dwarf plants, in a most
suecessful manner; plants three feet high, having twenty (or upwards) blossoms,
Early in February, cuttings of the young wood, about three inches long, having
an eye in each, are taken and potted in sixty-sized pots, placed in a hotbed
frame of good temperature; they soon take root, which is easily ascertained by
the roots protruding through the holes at the bottom of the pot When this is
discovered they are repotted into twenty fours—using a compost of well enriched
loamy soil, one half being leaf mould and rotten dung. The plants are kept in
the frame for a few weeks, during which period they are supplied freely with
liquid manure water. When the pot is pretty well filled with roots, the plants
are repotted into those three sizes larger. At whatever height it is desired to
have the plants the top is pinched off, and laterals are produced. When in the
frame a good moist heat is kept up, by sprinkling and watering, this is necessary
to prevent an attack of the red spider. When the plants cannot be kept longer,
for height, in the frame, they are removed into the greenhouse and repotted
when requisite, frecly supplied with liquid manure, and syringed every evening
with water, particularly at the under side of the foliage. The lateral shoots will
produce a profusion of flowers at the height the lead was stopped, and continue
in bloom for a long time.

Many of the readers of the Cabinet, will have heard of, or seen, the new species,
now called B, sanguinea, raised from seed gathered by Mr. Crawley, at Guayquil,
in the state of Equador, and flowered for the first time in this country, in the
collection of Miss Trail, Hase Place, Kent, in 1834, I had a plant of this species

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last season, and cultivated some plants of it exactly as for dwarf plants of
B. suaveolens, and it answered most admirably—blooming profusely and appear-
ing most beautiful, with its long, deep red and orange blossoms. The plant I
cultivated was three feet high, and had twenty-seven blossoms, Having procured
the plant of B. sanguinea early in February 1835, I cut off the top. I inarched
the top into a plant of B suaveolens, it soon united, and the new plant bloomed,
the flowers were much larger than those on the plant I took the lead from. The
shoots I find will easily unite either by inarching or grafting. This year I have
planted one B. sanguinea out of doors. The white B suaveolens 1 have bloomed
some years in the open border.

RHODODENDRON ARBOREUM.—Both the white and the rose flowered varieties
are found in the native habits, to be confined to the single mountain of Sheo-
pore, among those which I had an opportunity of visiting during my sojourn in
Nepal, occupying the very summit of it, at an elevation of not less than ten
thousand feet above the sea. I observed a considerable number of plants, but
it appeared to me that those with rose coloured flowers were by far the most
common, they attain the size of very large forest trees, and are noble objects at
all times. They blossom in April and the beauty of them surpasses description,
the ample crown of the trees being entirely covered with bunches of large and
elegant blossms. ‘The common red-flowered or parent species is likewise found
on the above mentioned mountain, but it is less frequent there than in lower and
warmer situations, The two varieties above named are much more hardy than
the crimson-flowered kind.

Dr. WALtICcH ON INDIA PLANTS.

Dania SHow at HorsHam.—On Tuesday, August 23rd. a splendid Exhibi-
tion of Dahlias is to take place at Horsham, Sussex, which will be open to all
England—each grower is to show his flowers in stands, provided by himself;
containing thirty six blooms, and not deeper than two feet six inches, nor contain
more than five rows. The first prize is to be a beautiful case of Ivory-handled
Knives and Forks, similar to the one given at Vauxhall in September last. The
entrance is, up to the llth. of August ten shillings, and from that time to the
20th. one pound. Ww.

HYDRANGEA HORTENSIS.—In the garden adjoining to the Workhouse at
Holt, in Norfolk, there is growing a magnificent Hydrangea, which is upwards
of five feet in height and near thirty in circumference it generally produces every
season from 400 to 500 large heads of flowers which create a most beautiful
effect, some being of a fine blue, others rose, and others white.

A STAR IN THE East.

On SEEDS AND BULBS OF VALUABLE PLANTS TO BE DISPOSED OF,—Having
been a subscriber to your work from its first projection, I avail myself of that
channel to state: Dr. John Lhotsky, a member of the Botanical Society of
Bavaria, has consigned home, through my agent at Sydney, New South Wales,
a collection of rare seeds, made by him from the Australian Alps, a country never
before visited by any traveller, as well, from other remote parts of this interesting

* country—together with a number of bulbs of the gigantic Lily, (Doryanthes ex-
celsa), the Cabbage Tree, (Corypho australis), considered by him of great value
to the practical gardener or amateur collector. They are now to be disposed of,
and I should be glad to know from you the best mode to be adopted for the sale
of this collection, the notice of which in next number, may draw the attention
of any one disposed to treat for them. ‘They are preserved with great care, and
will be found to possess entire their germinating power.

Post paid applications may be made to the Conductor of the Floricultural
Cabinet, who will give the address of the Gentleman, resident in London, who
possesses the seeds aud bulbs.—Conpuctor.

The Bath Horticultural Society will give upwards of £60 in plate at their last —

show in September, as extra prizes for Dahlias, open to all England—this is
doing things with a spirit.

The spirited proprietor of the Bristol and Clifton Nursery, Mr. Miller is going
to give two or three Horticultural fetes, at which a considerable number of prizes
will be given by him for flowers, fruit, &e.

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SOUTH LONDON FLORICULTURAL SOCIETY.

TuHE second Flower Show for the year 1836, of the South London Floricultura!
Society, was held at the Surrey Zoological Gardens, on Tuesday, June 14th, when
from the fineness-of the weather, the gardens were crowded by a large assemblage
of rank and fashion ; the Flowers and Fruit were arranged in five large tents, and
were of the finest description; the splendid band of the Coldstream Guards occu-
pied for the first time a new orchestra built for the occasion; the Hungarian
singers, sung National, Russian, and Tyrolese airs; a peal of harmonic bells were
placed upon the island which played alternately with the band. Amongst the dis-
tinguished visitors were the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, the Duke and
Duchess of Leinster, the Duchess of Marlborough, the Earl and Countess Stan-
hope, Lord and Lady Farnborough, Viscountess Mahon Lord Adolphus Fitzcla-
rence, Lord Prudhoe, Col. Lincoln Stanhope, Mrs. Marryatt, Lady Kerrison, and
the Persian Princes. There was nearly 15,000 visitors. Prizes were awarded to
the following growers:

CLASS TI.

1. For the best collection of Miscellaneous Plants, not exceeding 50 pots. .The
Large Silver Medal—Messrs. Chandler, Wandsworth Road. 2. For the second
best ditto..The Middle Silver Medal—Messrs. Young, Epsom. 3. For the third
best ditto... The Small Silver Medal—Mr. Fairnbairn, Clapham. 4. For the best
collection of Geraniums in 18 varieties..The Large Silver Medal—Mr. Gaines,
Battersea. 5. For the second best ditto..The Small Silver Medal—Mr. Hill, ,
Hammersmith. 6. For Calceolarias, in collections of 12 pots..The Middle Sil-
ver Medal—Messrs. Young, Epsom. 7. For Roses, in collections of 50 varieties,
in trusses of one stem..The Middle Silver Medal—Mr. Rivers, Sawbridgeworth.
8. For the second best ditto..The Small Silver Medal—Messrs. Young, Epsom.
9. For Heartsease, in stands of 100 varieties..The Middle Silver Medal—Mr.
Gaines, Battersea. 10. For the best collection of Cut Flowers..The Middle Sil-
ver Medal—Mr. Rivers, Sawbridgeworth.

CLASS II.

1. For the best collection of Miscellaneous Plants, not exceeding 36 pots..The
Large Silver Medal—Mr. Redding, Gardener to Mrs. Marryatt, Wimbledon. 2.
For the second best ditto..TThe Middle Silver Medal—Mr. Curtis, gardener to J.
Allnutt, Esq., Clapham. 3. For the third best ditto..The Small Silver Medal—
Mr. Sadler, Gardener to Mrs. Fisher, Denmark hill. 4. For Geraniums, in col-
lections of 12 varieties. .The Middle Silver Medal—Mr. Atlee, Stockwell. 5. For
Calceolarias, in collections of 8 pots. . The Middle Silver Medal—Mr. Atlee, Stock-
well. 6. For Roses, in collections of 25 varieties, in trusses of one stem..The
Middle Silver Medal—Mr. Redding, gardener to Mrs. Marryatt, Wimbledon. 7.
For Ranunculus, in collections of 12 varieties..The Middle Silver Medal—Mr.
Stockwell, Walworth Common. 8. For Heartsease, in stands of 36 varieties. .
The Middle Silver Medal—Mr. Early. 9. For the best collection of Cut Flowers
.-The Middle Silver Medal—Mr. Redding, gardener to Mrs. Marryatt, Wimbledon.
10. For the second best ditto..The Small Silver Medal—Mr. Sadler, gardener to
Mrs. Fisher, Denmark hill.

CLASS IIt.

1. For the best collection of Miscellaneous Plants, not exceeding 20 pots. . The
Large Silver Medal—J. F. Young, Esq. 2. For Roses, in collections of 18 varie-
lies, in trusses of one stem..The Middle Silver Medal—Mr. Salter, Shepherds
Bush. 3. For Ranunculus, in collections of 12 varieties..The Middle Silver
Medal—Mr Crowder, Broad Street. 4. For the second best ditto. .The Small Sil-
ver Medal—Mr Thornhill, Hackney 5. For Heartsease, in stands of 24 varieties
..The Middle Silver Medal—Mr Salter, Shepherds Bush. 6 For the second best
ditto. .The Small Silver Medal—Mr Ledgard, Hammersmith. 7 For the third
best ditto. .The Small Silver Medal—Mr Barnard, Buxton Road. 8 For the best
collection of Cut Flowers,—hardy..The Small Silver Medal—Mr Salter, Shep-
herd’s Bush.

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OPEN TO ALL CLASSES.

1 For the best Specimen Plant..The Large Silver Medal—Mr., Lone, Gardener
to Horsley Palmer, Esq. 2. For the second best ditto. .The Middle Silver Medal
—Mr. Redding, gardener to Mrs. Marryatt, Wimbledon. 3 For the third best
ditto. .The Small Silver Medal—Mr. Dickson, Acre Lane. 4 For the second best
ditto. .The Middle Silver Medal—Mr Redding, gardener to Mrs Marryatt, Wim-
bledon. FRUIT.

1 For the best Queen Pine..The Small Silver Medal—Mr, Andrews, South
Lambeth. (2 For the best Dish of Strawberries..The Small Silver Medal—Mr
Lone, gardener to Horsley Palmer, Esq. 3 For the best Bunch of Grapes. .The
Middle Silver Medal—Mr Chapman, Vauxhall.

VEGETABLES.

1 For the best 6 sorts of Vegetables..The Middle Silver Medal—Mr Conway,
Fulham Hurlingham, Fulham. 2 For the second best ditto..The Small Silver
Medal—Mr J. Gard, Camberwell.

REFERENCE TO PLATE.

The Panseys in the plate of the present number are seedlings raised by Mr.
Barratt, Nurseryman, Wakefield, who will give notice by advertisement when he
can supply plants of the kinds. They rank among the most superb sorts yet
raised.

Mimulus Ranbyania, This very splendid flowering Mimulus was raised by the
gardener at the Dowager Duchess of Newcastles, Ranby Hall, near Retford. The

stock was purchased by Mr. Clark, Nurseryman, Retford, and a plant of it we saw
in bloom, very far exceeded anything of the kind we ever saw, being about three
feet high and spreading proportionably.

FLORICULTURAL CALENDAR FOR JULY.

PLEASURE GROUND, FrowEr Garven, &c.—Those annual plants that have
not yet been transplanted out, should now be done, in cloudy and showery weather,
keeping as much earth to their roots as possible, now supporting those with sticks
that require it. Tender annuals may now be turned out into the flower borders ;
they should be refreshed at least once a day with water, and if the sun be very
powerful they will require to be shaded, till they have taken fresh root: those that
remain to flower in pots, must be frequently supplied with water, repotting, &c.,as
they require it. Finish transplanting perennial and biennial plants, sown in
spring. Double Sweet Williams should now be laid. Those Carnations in pots
require particular attention in keeping them well supplied with water, and to sup-
port the flower stems by tying them to neat green sticks with bass;—pipings of
the young shoots may still be putin; those cut at the second or third joint make
the handsomest plants; they should be kept shaded from the hot sun, otherwise
they will soon get scorched and dried up: thay should be finished layering by the
middle of the month. Pinks may still be propagated by pipimgs as in June.
Auricula plants in pots will require a little water frequently in hot weather, taking
care not to pour it on the heart of the plant; all dead leaves should be removed ;
if any of the plants are attacked with the green fly, they should be smoked with
tobacco. Transplant seedling Auriculas and Polyanthuses, and keep them in a
shady place. Pansies may still be propagated by slips of the young shoots; the
seed should be sown either in pots or borders, in a shady place, and well supplied
with moisture. All sorts of Roses (with the exception of the China and its yarie-
ties,) should now be budded. Many sorts of bulbous-rooted plants, as Ranun-
culuses, Tulips, Anemones, &c., which will now be past flowering, and their leaves
decayed, should be taken up, well dried, cleaned, and the offsets separated, and put
in a cool airy place, till the planting season again commences. The double scar-
let Lychnis, and such like plants, should be propagated by cuttings. Dahlia cut-
tings will easily take root if placed in a brisk heat. Continue to cut box edgings,
and hedges, where it was not done last month. Where it is desired to save seed of
Ten Week, Russian, or German Stocks, only allow those single ones to remain,
the flowers of which have five or six petals; if such be reserved they will generally
produce double flowering plants. Towards the end of the month, Roses may be
budded : the first week in August is however considered better. An article is sent
on the subject for that month.

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THE

FLORICULTURAL CABINET,

AUGUST Ist, 1836.

PART I.
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

ON RAISING EXOTIC PLANTS FROM SEED.—By J.C. H.
A CORRESPONDENT in the Cabinet having recently asked for infor-
mation on sowing Geranium seeds, induces me to send the following
article on raising exotic plants from seeds in general, the method is
the result of long and successful practice:

I premise the article by saying that it is necessary to be provided
with a stock of soils of different sorts. (The excellent article in the
July Number furnishes a description of them.) Whatever mould is
wanted for this purpose, should be moderately dry, and finely sifted
before used : the sifting should be performed with two sieves, one of
which must be particularly fine, to procure surfacing and covering
mould for the finer seeds.

The month of February is the most proper season for sowing these
seeds ; as they soon vegetate at this time, and make strong handsome
plants, by the latter end of the ensuing summer; which is an object
of the first consideration in this business: for when sowed later, the
greater part, and more especially the tenderer species, will be too
weak to part into separate pots; and therefore are liable to suffer by
damps and rottenness, during the winter following, by being left in
the seed pots; and should they be attempted to be removed at this
late season, which some will do sooner than suffer them to take their
chance as they are, they seldom prove more fortunate Whereas
those sown about the latter end of January, or any time in the fol-
lowing month, will for the greater part be fit to pot separately in
May or June; and therefore have the whole summer to establish
themselves ; and even such of them as are more slow, will have at
least sufficient strength and woodiness to withstand the casualities of
winter, should they be left in the seed pots, much better than the
soft herb-like produce of later sowings.

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170 ON EXOTIC PLANTS.

As an exception to the above rule, may be mentioned Erica, and
such like seeds which are at first slow of growth, and produce firm,
woody, though perhaps small stems: these, from their nature not be-
ing so liable to suffer from damp as gross, quick growing articles,
may be sown with every prospect of success in the Autumn. Indeed
for heaths, I prefer a September sowing, towards the end of the
month. If the seeds are good they soon vegetate, and will acquire
sufficient strength to carry them through the winter; and being so
small, they stand more detached ; therefore they do not damp or rot
each other: whereas if they are sown in spring, they are not fit for
potting off until it is too late in the autumn to attempt it, and conse-
quently they are left for the winter in their seed pots: when from
their increased size, they will have become so close as to inevitably
injure each other, perhaps, even to the destruction of the whole crop.
Those sown in the autumn are not of sufficient size to be potted off
until July or August in the ensuing year.

The day being resolved on, let a quantity of the different sized
pots be filled with the mould best suited to the nature of the seed to
be sown; as on other similar occasions, it must be pressed down
pretty tight to about half an inch below the rim of the pot, adding
more if requisite; on this may be sown, any of the coarse large seeds,
which should in general be covered one fourth, or half an inch, ac-
cording to their size; but if the seeds are small and curious kinds,
such as heath, &c. a little more nicety is required. For these, the
pots must be surfaced with some very fine mould, in depth about a
quarter of an inch, which will raise it to the same distance below the
rim ; on this, it being perfectly level, and firm, let the seeds be sown
neatly, and even; then with the same fine machine, sift a very light
covering over them, and press it gently down with the hand. If the
parcels of seed are small, two, three, or more kinds, may be sown dis-
tinctly in the same pot, distinguishing each by a small painted stick,
to be set perpendicular in the centre of the pot with the name or
number inscribed thereon.

The sowing being finished, give the pots a gentle watering with
the rose of a water-pot, to be repeated three or four times, until the
mould therein becomes sufficiently moist for vegetation ; let them be
then set in the most convenient, dry, airy part of the greenhouse,
where they can be regularly attended, as to watering and weeding.
Watering they will require at least once a day, in a greater or less
degree; for if they are not kept properly moist, the seeds will not by
any means vegetate freely, if at all; however, the other extreme is to
be studiously avoided. The weeds should be regularly pulled out

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before they attain any size; else, besides the top smothering the
young seedlings, which may have started, the roots, in getting them
out afterwards, not only disturb them, but also the remaining seeds
that may be perhaps on the point of bursting their embryo; by which
means, it not unfrequently happens in places where this strict atten-
tion is not paid, that the greater part of the crop is thereby destroyed.

As the spring advances, it will be necessary to lay a.few sheets of
strong paper over the pots, for two or three hours in the middle of
the day, if the weather happens to be clear, and the sun acts forcibly
on them ; particularly those in which the finer seeds are sown, in or-
der to prevent the surface getting over dry, and powder like; or
otherwise, if the mould happens to be pretty moist, it is liable to
form a mossy crust, which might be particularly injurious, by pre-
venting the young seedling ushering itself into the light, from pene-
trating through it with that ease which is requisite.

It is not advisable to keep these small kinds of seed too long un-
sown, therefore, foreign seed should for the most part be sown as soon
as received, on account of the length of time they are in general on
their passage home; yet there are some, such as heath, and other
firm, hard seeds, which will keep very well for a year or two; a part
of which may generally be reserved for future sowings.

In this manner must they be managed until the beginning or
middle of June, at which season the greenhouse will in general be
found to be too drying a situation for them; they must therefore be
removed, particularly the larger kinds of seed, to some shady border,
where they can be plunged nearly up to the rim in coal ashes, or sand ;
which will greatly assist to keep them in a proper moist state: here,
all the care they will require is to be kept clear from weeds, and
regularly watered, morning and evening if requisite ; but never when
the sun shines strong upon them, lest the tender leaves of the young
plants should get scorched; it will be also necessary to have a care-
ful eye, daily for slugs, worms, &c., otherwise they will be liable to
suffer much from the depredations of these insects, particularly in the
evenings. Should there be any fine light covered seeds, such as
heaths, &c., they must be set in such manner, that they may be co-
vered with a common hotbed frame, in a moderately exposed situa-
tion, so that in case of sudden or heavy showers which might other-
wise wash the seeds out of the pots, they may be occasionally covered
to preserve them from such violence; yet they may be exposed to
gentle rains at time, but never long together, lest they become over
wet, which would soon perish them in this tender state. They will
likewise require to be shaded with a mat in clear weather, oreven a
double mat in the very hottest season.

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Early in July, many of them will be growing pretty fast, and will
require to be potted off into separate pots; as it is much preferable
to do this while they are young and small, before their roots become
matted together, than it is afterwards ; besides, that they have a con-
siderable portion of the growing season before them to establish them-
selves, before the winter stops their career.

In performing this work, care should be taken to match the pot to
the size of the plants, and nature of the species to be potted; as
overpotting these seedlings might be of the worst consequence. The
largest size pots I would recommend for this use, (unless the plants
be particularly strong) are what are called small sixties, or halfpenny
pots: but for heaths, and such like very small articles, a still less
size is to be provided; these are known by the very appropriate
name of thimble pots, on account of their diminutive size.

Being provided with a quantity of these, and the different sorts of
mould properly prepared, that may be requisite for the kinds to be
done, proceed to part the plants ; in doing which, let the nicest care
be taken to preserve as much roots, and earth to each plant, as can
possibly be done without injuring the others; let them be neatly
potted in the proper mould, which must be gently pressed to the
roots, that they may the the sooner incorporate themselves with it.
In this manner, pot as many as may be thought sufficient for the
present purpose, at the same time allowing a few for mischances.
They must then be well watered, in the manner already directed for
seedlings, and set in a cool frame, on coal ashes well rolled, or any
other hard substance that will prevent the worms getting so freely
into them, as they otherwise would. The lights must be kept con-
stantly on, and close, for a few days, more or less, as circumstances
may require ; and it will be also necessary to shade them very secure
from the strong rays of the sun at first ; however in a little time, the
lights may be taken off at night, if fine, having them on, and shading
in the day, until by degrees, the plants are so hardened as to be able
to withstand the full power of the sun; thus in the space of a fort-
night or so, they will be fit to be set in the clumps along with the
other plant.

This business should not be undertaken later than the middle of
August; for if executed at a more advanced season, the plants will
not time to establish themselves, and consequently will not succeed
to the wishes of the proprietor; therefore, any that may remain in
the pots, not strong enough to be parted by that period, should be
removed into the greenhouse early in September, and there placed
in their proper situation in that department until the spring following.

ON EXOTIC PLANTS. 173

Indeed there are some seeds, which absolutely require to be kept for
that term before they will vegetate; whereby it becomes necessary
to examine with care when removing them to the greenhouse, what-
ever pots have not by that time shown any signs of vegetation, and
those which are found alive must be saved, and treated in the same
manner as fresh sown seeds, those which have failed should be emp-
tied, and taken to their place at once.

The pots set in the house will require nearly the same treatment
as usual, viz.; to be kept perfectly clear from weecs, and regularly
watered. Water should now be given in the morning only, as any
damps it may occasion, will have time sufficient to evaporate in
course of the ensuing day ; whereas, if given in the evening, it causes
a chillness about their tender leaves, and from the necessary close-
ness of the house at night, not having free exhalation, it may do a
material injury; not only to the seedlings themselves, but likewise
to the adjacent plants by tending to increase the general damp of the
house.

When first housed, if the weather prove clear, they must be shaded
for two or three hours at mid-day ; but this practice must not be fol-
lowed too closely, as the influence of the sun is but seldom too power-
ful for them at this season, and during the winter months, the more
sun they receive the better: it is also necessary to be particular in
observing that no slugs, snails, or any other insect, harbour about
them, as before mentioned ; otherwise, they may perhaps destroy all
the hopes of the season, in one night; which is to them, as well as
to most other insects, and animals of prey, a convenient time for their
depredations.

By a careful attention to the above rules, adapting them as place,
time, or circumstance will permit, one may expect in the ensuing
spring, to see their remaining seeds of last season’s sowing, begin to
yegetate very fast ; that is, such of them as still have the germ of life
sound, which can at any time be easily ascertained. They will, when
grown to a proper size, require to be parted, and potted separately
in the manner I have before directed; but as itis there noticed, they
must not be permitted to grow too large before this operation is per-
formed, on account of the roots being liable to interweave with each
other, and by that means render it more difficult to be well executed;
besides, it may be injurious in another manner, by occasioning the
plants unavoidably to harbour damps, slugs, &c., the evil tendency of
which has been already, I presume, sufficiently explained.

There is one thing necessary to be remarked before I have done
with this article, which is, that those seeds received from New South

174 ON PREPARING BORDERS.

Wales in general, as well as many others of the South Sea Islands,
and also several, particularly of the larger sorts, from the interior
parts of the Cape of Good Hope, from the warmer countries of tem-
America, and in short, any of the climes in, or approaching the same
latitudes, although the plants when grown will flourish and come to
perfection in the greenhouse, yet the seeds will require the aid of a
hotbed when first sown, to set them in vegetation, and until they are
parted and established in their separate pots, then to be hardened by
degrees to the open air; from which time they may be treated as di-
rected for the more hardy and common sorts of seedlings.
London, July 6th, 1836.

ARTICLE II.

OBSERVATIONS UPON PREPARING BORDERS AND PLANTING
SUITABLE PLANTS IN A CONSERVATORY.

BY MR, THOMAS ROGERSON, DALE COTTAGE, WATERFORD, IRELAND.

Percetvine that Mr. Goodall gives an excellent list of conservatory
plants in the July Number of the Cabinet, and having had the man-
agement of one for some years, both in its construction, planting, and
subsequent management, I herewith send as a continuation of Mr.
Goodall’s article, some observations upon the prepartion of borders,
planting, &c.

Plants growing in the conservatory fashion, by their unconfined
luxuriant habit, have a much more natural appearance than when
growing in pots, forming as it were a wood in miniature, of the most
rare and beautiful productions of foreign climes : productions which
when properly managed, far exceed in delicacy and elegance any
thing ours will produce. Besides having a strong vigorous growth,
which could not well be expected from them in pots, they con-
sequently produce their flowers with more elegance, and much greater
abundance: which is the chief object of the florist, and likewise af-
fords to the curious investigator of nature, an opportunity of analyzing
the entire process in many plants, of which in other cases he could
have formed only vague conjectures, or be obliged to rest solely on
the authority of others: which, however creditable, is not so satisfac-
tory as ocular proof.

Thus a conservatory properly planned, planted, and afterwards well
managed, stand forward as a department merely intended for recrea-
tion or study, a conspicuous instance of the perfection to which hor-
ticulture has arrived in this country, and the improving spirit of the
nobility and gentry in general.

ON PREPARING BORDERS. 175

The house should always be built in the early part of summer,
that the work may have time to settle and season before the plants
are finally arranged therein. The pit also, in which they are to be
planted, should be filled some time before on the same account. For
which purpose, the following composts snould be used in manner
here specified:

Having the pit first emptied to its proper depth, which should be
at least two feet anda half, spread a sufficient quantity of broken tiles,
pots, or coarse gravel in the bottom, to make a floor of four or six
inches, for the purpose of keeping it as well drained as possible, and
over this, a layer of the coarsest siftings of the peat, about six or
eight inches thick, to prevent the finer mould filling up the inter-
stices in the under stratum. This done, prepare a quantity sufficient
to fill up the remainder of loam and peat; they must be well mixed
together and chopped rather fine, about equal quantities of each is a
good proportion, and if about one-fifth of fine sand were added, it
would benefit the compost materially. The whole should be cast up
in a heap, so that any large lumps or tufts of roots may be the more
easily raked off, which is all the preparation it requires.

The mould being prepared as above, proceed to fill up the pit with
it, and observe to raise it considerably above the kirbs of the pit to
allow for its sinking ; also to make it as level as possible, that it may
settle the more regular. There will likewise be a number of smaller
detached places to be filled, which are intended for the reception of
the different climbers ; such as a border along the back wall, against
trellis work, or pillars in the centre of the house, and the piers between
the front and end upright sashes. These should generally be filled
in the same manner as the pit; unless in a case where there is a
small space intended to be occupied by a single plant. There, the
upper stratum should be composed entirely of such sort of earth, as
may be thought most suitable to the species of plant proposed to be
planted therein.

This business should not be deferred later than the middle of July,
so that the earth may have sufficient time to settle, and the plants to
establish themselves therein before winter. Note, the top or sloping
lights of the roof should not be put on as yet; the free action of the
atmospheric air, being particularly necessary to purify and assimilate
the component parts of the soil.

When the mould has sufficiently settled and is judged fit to receive
the plants, which will be in about a month, they should be planted
without further delay ; in performing which it will be requisite, first
to set each plant on the surface, in the place wherein it is intended it

176 ON PREPARING BORDERS.

should stand, that an opportunity may be had of changing any of
them to situations in which it might be thought they would have a
better effect.

Tn thus regulating them it should be a leading principle to pay a
strict attention to variety ; endeavouring to mix the different shades
and foliage in the most agreeable and elegant manner. The future
growth of the plants must also be considered, more than the present
size, and the tall growing species arranged in the hindmost rows, and
the more dwarf kinds towards the front : for although some which re-
quire to be in the back rows may at present be small plants, they
will soon outstrip the others when planted out and encouraged. Care
must be taken likewise to allow each species sufficient room according
to its supposed natural growth.

Having arranged the plants in the best manner, according to cir-
cumstances, provide some of the different earths in separate baskets,
so as to be enabled to add a portion to the roots of each plant, of that
particular earth in which it seems to thrive the best: a precaution
very necessary, as the transplanting these tender plants from a
stronger to a weaker soil, or vice versa, might turn out very in-
jurious: and yet the compost recommended as the groundwork for
filling up the pit, is perfectly congenial to the whole when they at-
tain a strong vigorous growth, at least to such as are particularly
adapted for conservatories, as Botany Bay plants in general, Cape
plants, except heaths and Proteas, which I think do better in pots ;
and in short the full list of what are termed greenhouse plants, with
the above exceptions, which [ doubt not might be done away with
by allotting houses particularly to these genera.

At all events, the plant chosen should be in perfect good health, as
I think the pit of a conservatory among the worst places for the pur-
pose of recovering a sickly one. The hole should be made sufficiently
large to admit, with the ball of roots, any additional earth that may
be deemed necessary. Let the plant be turned carefully out of its
pot, and set upright in the hole, some of the favourite soil being pre-
viously put in; more of which should be added round the roots, and
over that the compost of the pit may be levelled, and the whole
pressed pretty tight to the roots.

In this manner let the whole be planted, but observe that they are
not deeper in the mould of the pit, than they were in pots. Many
of them being extremely liable to canker and mortify, in the lower
part of their stems when planted too deep, particularly the tenderer
sorts. They should all be carefully and regularly supported with
neat sticks, and for the larger species pretty strong ones should be

ON PREPARING BORDERS. 177

used, to prevent the winds from loosening them in their situations.
After which, let them be thoroughly watered with a moderately
coarse rosed water-pot, to settle and bind the earth to their respective
roots.

If this work is done at the proper season, they will make consider-
able progress before the cold of winter puts a stop to vegetation ;
whereas if deferred until late in the year, they for the most part re-
main dormant three or four months: yet they will even then, (pro-
vided they have not been injured by too much wet or otherwise,)
begin to shoot out vigorously, and soon form the most beautiful heads,
and produce their flowers in luxuriance.

The pit and trellis work being completely furnished, and time al-
lowed for the water to soak through the roots, and mould to settle,
the surface thereof should be carefully smoothed over with a fine
toothed rake, or the hand, and rubbish of every kind cleared neatly
away. Then let the other parts of the house be decorated in the
best manner, with whatever plants may be remaining; I mean any
shelves or benches that may be over the flues, or in any other part of
the house; also the window stools, if there is room sufficient to set
pots thereon: these if judiciously filled, with handsome growing and
flowering plants, will add very materially in elegance to the contour
of the whole group; besides, by this management, the house may be
made to answer the two-fold purpose of a greenhouse and conservatory,
as those plants which circumstances may render desirable to be kept
in pots, can be placed to so much advantage on the benches of this
department ; as also in the Spring, any pots of forced flowers, such as
roses, mignionette, lilac, &c., &c., when fit to remove from the forcing
house ; and if a few pots of china rose, or any others of a similar na-
ture in flower, were set occasionally on the surface, or plunged in the
pit in the most vacant places among the other plants, they would
considerably improve their appearance; and being in pots so con-
venient to be plunged, or removed at pleasure, there is no danger of
their injuring either the roots or heads of the standard piants,
when regularly attended to, and care taken in plunging them not to
raise the mould taken out of the holes, too high for the stems of the
adjoining plants.

178 CULTURE OF FOREIGN FERNS.

ARTICLE III.

ON THE CULTURE OF SOME SPECIES OF FOREIGN FERNS IN
THE OPEN AIR IN THIS COUNTRY.—By J. R.

In my letter to you of the 2nd of June, 1835, on the cultivation of
Foreign Ferns, I mention that I was about to try several species out
of doors, intending them to remain during the winter.

I now acquaint you with the result.—On the side of a well shel-
tered bank, I dug away the earth to the depth of from twenty inches
to two feet—on the bottom I laid loose broken stone about six inches
thick, and filled up again with soil composed of light heath mould
and bog earth in equal quantities. The plants being taken imme~
diately from the stove to the open air, did not appear to do well, the
foliage mostly dying down; but the roots flourished in the soil, run-
ning amongst the broken stones, and late in the autumn throwing up
fine healthy shoots.

In the middle of November, I covered over the bed with fallen
leayes, and slightly shaded it with spruce fir boughs. In April this
year I uncovered the soil, and found several of the Ferns then
making their appearance, and the foliage of a few of them had not
died off. The following is a list, both of such as are now doing well,
and of those which were killed by the cold. Considering the long
and severe winter, it is surprising more did not suffer.

The following are now in full growth :—-

Woodsia perenniana. Corvelea sensibilis.

Struthiopteris germaniea. ————-obtusiloba.
pensylvanica. |Woodwardia radicans,

Aspidium Marginale. Cystoa atomarreum,
achrostichoides. Aoliantum podatum.
bulbiferum. Dicksonia pilosiuscula.

Asplenium deneum. Cesmunda Cinnamonea.

Pteris serrulata, (rather weakly.) THE FOLLOWING DIED.

longifolia. Aspidium molle, (one plant is just alive,
Polypodium elatum. but very weakly)
Aspidium zmulum. (so named to me, patens.

but I am in doubt of the correctness. |Blechnum Corcovadense.
Asmunda interrupta. braziliense.
Aspidium auriculatum. Polypodium pectinatum.

If these remarks are worthy your acceptance for the Floricultural
Cabinet, I shall be very glad to communicate any further results of
my trials, as I have now placed out above twenty other species,
hitherto deemed stove plants, and have no doubt of succeeding with
many of them. IfI recollect rightly, Mr, Ashford promised some
remarks on British Ferns, I hope he will not forget them.

June 6th, 1836.

We shall esteem it a great favour to have a continuance of Mr. R’s
remarks, at his convenience.—EDITOR.

DESCRIPTION OF AN INSTRUMENT, ETC. 179

ARTICLE IV.—ON THE CULTURE OF ERYTHROLENA CONSPICUA.
(SYNGENESIA CEQUALIS.)

BY MR. JOSEPH PLANT, NURSERYMAN, CHEADLE, STAFFORDSHIRE,
Havine noticed in the Cabinet, a query, as to a successful method
of cultivating the Erythrolena conspicua, I was anxious to have sent
you the result of my experience in the culture of that plant, but nu-
merous engagements having prevented me, for a few weeks, from
drawing up the detail of management, I was glad to see, in a subse-
quent number, that some person had given a mode of treatment,
which I, at a cursory view of the article, judged would render mine
unnecessary. On a perusal, however, of the article given in the
Cabinet, I find it so unsatisfactory in some particulars, that I could
no longer hesitate about sending my mode of culture.

The Erythrolena conspicua is decidedly a biennial plant. The
seeds should be sown in February in a pot, and be plunged in hot-
bed frame, and remain there until the plants have produced two
rough leaves. They should then be carefully taken up, and one
plant be placed in a sixty-sized pot, using a good rich loamy soil,
then to be put into the hot-bed frame again, and to be shaded for a
few days. When the pots are filled with roots, shift the plants with
balls entire into pots a size larger, replacing them in the frame;
when the roots begin to push through the holes of the pots, shift the
plants again in a size larger, and place them in a pit or cold frame
where they can be protected at night. They will require another
shifting into twelve sized pots, having them well drained, and be
replaced in the pit or frame, after which they will not need covering
at night.

The plants must always be kept moderately moist, but not saturated -
During winter they must be kept in a cold frame or pit, where they
can be covered with glass lights, and be protected in very severe wea-
ther. Early in May following they must be turned out into the
open border with balls entire, and they will produce a profusion of
fine yellow blossoms, comporting in a high degree with the specitic
title it bears.

ARTICLE V.—DESCRIPTION OF AN INSTRUMENT FOR TRANS-
PLANTING SEEDLING PLANTS, &c.—By an OLD SuBscrIBER.
Herewirn I seud you a description and model of an instrument
which I have had made for transplanting seedlings. It has been
in use all the season, and so fully answers the purpose that scarcely
a single seedling plant has failed to get established, though the wea-

ther was so dry and hot.

180 DESCRIPTION OF AN INSTRUMENT, ETC.

I find it is less trouble to sow the seeds of many sorts singly, than
to scatter them in, and afterwards to thin them out. I conceive that
it is bad in principle to thin them out, because the rootlets and
spongiolets must be greatly injured by the operation. But by sowing
singly the plant remains undisturbed, and the rootlets and spongiolets
get fully established in the soil, and by my mode of transplanting,
the roots and soil are removed entire.

I sow my seeds by means of a frame nade of mahogany ; for a 48
sized pot, I use one 4% inches in diameter, in the centre of which
there is a conical peg a quarter of an inch diameter, and the same in
height, and on the circumference of a circle 2% inches diameter,
are six others. When the soil is levelled at the surface, the frame
is pressed down upon it, and on removing it, seven holes will be
made 1% inches apart, into each of these I put a sownd seed ; six out
of the seven (frequently the whole) will vegetate, if properly man-
aged after sowing, and all may be successfully transplanted by means
of the transplanting instrument. One inch and three eights is a
very convenient space for seedlings to grow in, it leaves just room
enough for the instrument, 14 inch diameter, to pass betwixt them.
A transplanter a little larger, say about two inches diameter, would
be exceedingly useful in removing cuttings of plants which have
taken root. In fact an instrument on this principle might be made
strong enough to remove a tree of ten years’ growth, with as much ease
as a loose block of stone. The drawing (Fig. 16.) is half the full size.

a. Is on
arm ; d. the top of the cylinder ; e. the bottom of ditto.

——

CULTURE OF THE TREE ROSE. 181

The transplanter consists of a cylinder in two halves, made of thin
sheet steel one and a quarter inch in diameter inside, by one and
three quarters high; to each half is attached an upright arm, one of
which is bent at right angles, and extends across so as to receive the
arm of the other half of the cylinder. In the end of this cross arm
there is a cleft to receive the upright of the other arm, which slides up
and down it. To the upper partof one half of the cylinder are fixed
two cleats, one close to each edge; in the other half corresponding
studs which fit into them. By means of these and the cleft in the
cross arm, the two halves are kept from shifling sideways, and a gen-
tle pressure keeps them together. In using the instrument, put the
two halves together, push them into the soil, on withdrawing them a
hole will be made to receive the plant. Separate the two halves,
push each down singly by the side of the plant, press them together
and withdraw the instrument, and with it the plant with all the soil
about; then transplant the same to the hole previously prepared for
it. On removing the two sides of the instrument separately, the
plant will be found with the earth about it undisturbed.

Messrs. Holtzapffel and Co., 64, Charing Cross, London, made
two instruments for me, one with the arms rivetted to the cylinder,
the other with each half of the instrument in one piece. The latter
is the least expensive mode, and the most simple in its construction.
Sheet steel appears to be the most suitable material, but tin would
do, although not so durable. I have sent you a model of the instru-
ment in tin, and no doubt suitable ones can be made in Sheffield at
a very moderate cost.

(The instrument would be useful in removing plants from the open
border, if made a suitable size—Conpucror.)

ARTICLE VI.—ON THE CULTURE OF THE TREE ROSE.
BY ROSA.—( Continued from page 82.)

THE most certain time to bud the rose is from the beginning to the
end of August, the sap then being in full force, more especially so if
the weather be moist after a droughty season; whether early or late
in the month will be pointed out by the season being an early or late
one. ‘The desideratum in the plant is, that the bark will most easily
separate from the wood, exhibiting at the inside a free supply of sap.

If the season be droughty the sap will not flow so freely, unless a
good soaking of rain falls, or the stocks have a free watering a week
previously to budding, and if this be repeated it will be an additional
stimulus.

182 CULTURE OF THE TREE ROSE.

If it happens that there is cloudy day to perform the operation of
budding in, take advantage of it; if not, to bud towards the close of
the afternoon will be the best part of a sunny day. I have budded
ten kinds of roses upon one stock, all of which succeeded and have
bloomed most singularly beautiful. Care was taken to have those
kinds which were of a similar habit in growth, for a vigorous growing
kind and a weakly one are unsuited together; the former would by
its luxuriant growth prevent the other for having due support, and
eventually would, in a few years, perish.

In selecting a bud for insertion, choose a strong and healthy shoot,
cut away that part which has pushed since June, and from it select a
bud for the desired purpose. A plump one should be taken, that is;
it should be full, round, quite closed, (i. e. not pushed). Such a
bud may generally be had about midway up the shoot, the lower
ones being more dormant, and the upper ones scarcely perfected
enough. The bud is situated in the axille of the leaf.

The shoot having been cut from the plant, take it in the left hand,
holding the thickest part inwards, then with a very sharp knife, begin
to enter the shoot about three quarters of an inch above the bud, cut-
ting downwards about half way through the shoot, and bring out the
knife about the same distance below the bud, in which case the bud
is contained in the portion cut off, *‘ which is termed a shield,” and
is formed as a segment of a circle. Then take the shield betwixt the
finger and thumb holding the bud downwards, that is, in a different
form to that it had grown in, press the shield so as to be held firmly,
then gently twist the upper end of the shield, “which is nearest
you,” and this will loosen the wood from the shield. The wood
must be taken out with the right hand, whilst the shield is held by
the left. The separation of the wood from the shield must always
begin at the upper end as it had grown. It will then be necessary
to see that no vacuum be in the inside of the bud, if there be, the
root of it is gone, and it will not grow, though the bark might unite,
no shoot could be produced. If there be no hollow inside the bud,
it is fit for use. If the shield does not separate freely from the wood,
the shoot might be soaked for an hour, and it would assist the shield
and wood to separate more readily. The edges of the bark of the
shield must be quite smooth and clean, on no account to be left
jagged. ‘The leaf, in the axilla of which is the bud, must have one
half of it cut away, for the evaporation of the whole would much
weaken the bud, and rather prevent its growth. The shield having
been thus prepared, lay it in water till the incision is ready for its
reception.

CULTURE OF THE TREE ROSE. 183

In a former article I noticed that side shoots must be left to bud
upon; on the upper side of a shoot of the present year, an incision
must be made through the bark an inch and a half long, the lowest
point of the incision to be about a quarter of an inch from the trunk
of the stock, that is, from the origin of the shoot. At the upper
point of the incision already made, a cross cut must be made through
the bark, as long as it will admit the shield readily under it. With
the ivory end of the budding knife, proceed to open the edges of the
bark at the upper part of the incision, and very carefully proceed
downwards, which, if the tree be in a proper state, will separate readily.
This being done, slip in the shield, and carefully force it down, so
that all the shield may be inclosed under the bark, excepting about
the eighth of an inch of the upper part of it, which must be left out-
side, and that portion must be cut across so as to make it fit to the
inside of the cross cut in the incision, so that the bark of the shoot
above the incision, and the bark of the upper part of the shield may
come in even and close contact ; this is very necessary, because the
first union takes place there, by the descending of the sap coming in
contact with the top of the shield.

The bud being thus carefully inserted, must not be removed from
its position; immediately some wet bass matting must be bound tight
round the stem, beginning at the bottom part of the incision, crossing
the ligature front and back, and terminating above the cross cut.
The bud and leaf must be left clear, but only just to peep out. Let
the bass be secured at the top in a knot, and that to be at the opposite
side of the shoot to the bud, in other words behind it. If the knot
were made at the same side as the bud, it would hold wet, and be
liable to damp off the bud in a rainy season. It is of advantage to
shade the bud, which is easily done by taking a laurel leaf and
forming it so, that by tying the ends together and cutting out a por-
tion to fitit to the stock, it will form an arch over, and thus protect it
from the injurious effects of wind, sun, or wet; all of which should
be particularly guarded against for a time, iu.order to secure certain
success. .

Ifit be desirous to have the name retained of each kind of rose
inserted, this must now be attended to by affixing a sheet lead, or
other label thereto, by means of copper wire, with the name or num-
ber to signify it.

Persons who have not been accustomed to budding, should pre-
viously experiment a little upon willow shoots, the bark of which
easily moves, and affords facilities for such attempts.

184. CULTURE OF THE TREH ROSE.

If after budding, the weather should be droughty, the stocks should
have an occasional watering at the roots, which will greatly con-
tribute towards success. ug

If a bud should fail and it be discovered in time, such a shoot may
be supplied by inserting another bud.

Buds may be very successfully inserted into the main trunk of a
stock; one or more buds may be put into it; the bud is found to
succeed best about half way up the stock; the younger the stock the
better it will succeed.

Tf the operation of budding has been properly performed, and the
stocks suitably supplied with wet, from rain or otherwise, in about a
month from the time of budding, the bass ligature may be taken
away, and one tied round ina looseish manner. This admits the
bark to swell, whilst it prevents the edges from being drawn open.

If the weather should be droughty, the first placed ligatures must
be kept too for six weeks, and in case of continued drought even till
spring.

When the stocks have ceased growing, which will generally be the
case by the end of October, the branches of the stock must be cut in
order to strengthen them, and make them neat.

In shortening them, leave about six inches of each above the bud
which has been inserted.

If the ground round the roots be covered a few inches deep, with
some strawy manure, during winter, it will be of some service to do it.

No other attention is required till spring, excepting to have the
stocks properly secured against winds.

T shall, therefore, have an article drawn up in time for the second
season’s management.

Note.—In preparing the bud, it is unnecessary to remove the bit
of wood attached to the bark. Omitting to do so, saves trouble, pre-
vents the bud from being damaged, and more than equally insures
success. We beg to refer our readers to the article on budding, in-

serted in Vol. 2., p. 210.—ConpbucTor,
*

rs
NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 185

PART II.
LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS,

Noticed since our last.

~__1. ACACIA PROMINENS, Conspicuous Acacia, or Nepean Wattle. (Bot. Reg.,

3582.) Natural Order, Leguminose. JLinnzan Class, Polygamia; Order, Mo-

necia. This plant is a native of the barren forest grounds of New South Wales,

in the neighbourhood of the Nepean River, where, producing a vast proportion
of rich golden blossoms, it becomes an object of peculiar attraction, and at the
same time diffuses a profuse fragrance around. It was introduced into this
country some time ago, and is now cultivated at Kew; in the spring, it flowers
most charmingly. It is a fine conservatory shrub, and the fine racemes of rich
golden fragrant blossoms récommend it very strongly. The plant grows about
ten feet high, spreading proportionately. Acacia, from akazo to sharpen ; many

‘species being thorny. .

2. AzaLEA Rawsontl, Mr. Rawson’s Azalea. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Rhodoraceae.
Pentandria Monogynia. Within a few years there have been many fine hybrid
Azaleas raised, both on the continent and in this country, but none to surpass
the present variety. It was raised from seed by our respected friend Mr. Men-
zies, gardener to Christopher Rawson, Esq., Hope House, Halifax, in whose

* splendid and superior cultivated collection of plants, it bloomed this spring.

Mr. Menzies supposes it to have been produced between Azalea phoenicea and

Rhododendron dauricum atrovirens; from that circumstance it is very probable

that it will prove nearly hardy. The plant merits a place in every collection of

this tribe of beautiful flowering plants; the plant being the property of a gentle-

man, not only generally known as an ardent admirer of Floriculture, &e., but
equally so for liberality and endeavouring to promote its interests, and for

others to participate in such rationale enjoyment, we believe it will soon be pre-
sented to the public, and plants to be procured of the Nurserymen. The flowersare
nearly three inches across, of a fine rich scarlet crimson colour; the two upper
petals numerously spotted with darker. Mr. Menzies cultivates the plant in
equal parts of heath mould and well rotted leaf soil, to which is added a little of
hazel loam. We saw his plants growing in a most healthy condition. Azalea,
from azaleas, dry, arid, referring to its habitation.

3. Beconta PLaTANiForia, Platanus leaved. (Pax. Mag. of Bot.) Bego-
niacee. Monexcia Polyandria. This plant is a native of Brazil, and introducd
by the late Robert Barclay, Fsq., in 1829, from Brazil. The flowers have much

+ appearance of most of the species, a flesh colour edged with piok. It has
_ bloomed in the Birmingham Botanic Garden, under the skilful management of
Mr. Cameron. Begonia, in compliment to Michael Begon, a zealous promoter
of Botany. -

4, BYFRENARIA AURANTIACA, Orange coloured. (Bot. Reg., 1875.) Orchi-
dacez. Gynandria Monandria. The present neat flowering species bloomed
dast year in the collection of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, at Chiswick.

It is a native of Demarara. ‘The flower spike rises about nine inches high, sup-
porting about ten flowers, They are of a deep orange yellow, much and beauti-
fully spotted with darker colour. Each flower is about three quarters of an inch
across. bifrenaria, referring to the double strap that conneets the pollen masses
With their gland:

5, Cornorsis Fitiroiia, Thread-leaved. (Bot. Mag. 3505.) A very neat
and pretty flowering annual, sent into this country in the spring of last year,
from Texas, by Mr. Drummond. It bloomed very profusely in the end of sum-
mer. The foliage and habit of the plant much resembles the C. tenuifolia, it.
grows about a foot high. The flowers are about an inch and a half across, the
ray of the petals of a fine orange yellow, and the disk (or centre) of a dark
blood colour, about a quarter of inch across. It deserves a place iu every flower

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border. Coreopsis, from Koris, a bug; and opsis, resemblance, referring to the
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seeds. bay “ 7
6. CRATEZGUS PLATAPHYLLA, Broad-leaved Thorn. (Bot. Reg.,1874.) Ano-
ther handsome species growing in the fine collection in the London Horticultural

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_*Society’s Garden. The plant grows vigorously, producing a fine foliage, of a

deep rich green colour. The flowers are of a pure mite, produced most nu-
merously, much later in the season than the common Hawthorn. The fruit is of
a dark purple colour, of a medium size, making a pretty appearance. Crategus,
from Kratos, strength: referring to the durability of the wood.

7. CRAT#GUS PYRIFOLIA, Pear-leaved Thorn. This plant is also grown in
the Garden of the London Horticultural Society ; itis a native of North America;
the leaves are very large and pretty; the flowers are white succeeded by orange
coloured fruit, the size of the common Hawthorn. '

8. EPIDENDRUM BIFIDUM, Hare-lipped. (Bot. Reg., 1879.) Synonym,
E. papilionaceum. Orchidaceez. Gynandria Monandria. A native of the West
Indies, and introduced from Tortola by Messrs. Loddiges. The flower stem rises |

yout two feet high, terminating with about a dozen very singular flowers. Each

ower is near two inches across. The lip is slit up the middle, of a rosy purple _
colour; the petals yellow, sepals green spotted with red. Epidendrum, from Epi, —
upon; and dendron, a tree, growing upon. e

9. Fucwsta pisconor, Port Famine Fuchsia. (Bot. Mag.,3498) Onagraria.
Octandria Monogynia. Synonym F. Lowei. Mr. Lowe of Clapton Nursery, in-
troduced this species some time ago into this country. The flowers are of the
medium size, and the calyx of a fine bright crimson colour. The petals are of a
deep blue at their base, and lighter towards the edges, to which the specific name '
discolour applies. We find it to be as hardy as most others of this beautiful
flowering tribe of plants. Fuchsia, from L. Fuchs, a celebrated German Botanist.

10. GaURA PARVIFLORA, Small flowered. (Bot, Reg., 3506.) Omagrarice,
Octandria Monogynia. A native of the North West Coast of America. Itisa
biennial plant. The flower stem rises from two to four feet high, terminating in
a spike of many flowers. The flowers are very small, of a deep rose colour; and
thongh not very showy are neat and interesting. Itis grown in the Glasgow Bo-
tanic Garden, quite hardy, and blooms in August and September. Gaura, from
Gaurus, superb; referring to the flowers. 5

11. GENTIANA QUINQUEFLORA, Five flowered. (Bot. Mag., 3496.( Synonym
G. amarelloides. A native of North America. It is a very pretty flowering an-
nual plant, which has bloomed in the Edinburgh Botanie Garden. The stem
rises about half a yard high, being numerously branched, and producing a pro-
fusion of blossoms, each being about an inch long, of a lilac blue colour, and no
doubt would produce a showy appearance, particularly when grown in a large
patch. Gentiana, from virtues of plant first experienced by Gentius, King of
Illyria. 7

12. GoopETIA vinosaA, Wine-stained. (Bot. Reg., 1880.) Onagracea. Oc-
tandria Monogynia. This very pretty flowering hardy annual plant was intro-
duced to the Garden of the London Horticultural Society from California. The —
flowers have much the appearance of Ginothera rosea-alba, they are near two ]
inches across, nearly white, slightly suffused with rosy purple. They are pro-
duced in profusion from July to September. We recently noticed G. rubicunda,
having flowers of an tniform purple colour with an Crangewgye, both are interest- —
ing species. -

13. Irts ALATA, Small winged. (Bot. Reg., 1876.) A native of Algiers, and

Dons country grown in the garden of the Countess of Illchester, Abbotsbury, —

Dorsetshire. The flowers are very fragrant, of fine blue, purple and white co-
ours, spotted with darker. Each blossom is about three inches across, and very
pretty; it bloomsin April: ris, from iris, the eye; referring to its variety of
colours. Sig: r % x
14, ONcIpIUM cRISPUM, Crisped-flowered. (Bot. Mag., 3499.) Orchidacez.
Gynandria Monandria. This very singular and large flowered species bloomed
last year in the fine collection of Mrs. Horsfall, Everton, Liverpool. | It is a na-
tive of Brazil, on the Organ Mountains. The flower stem rises about half a yard
High, terminagng in a raceme of large flowers; each flower is upwards of two

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inches across, of a brown and yellow colour, spotted with red ; the singular curled
form and colour of the flowers, render the species very interesting. Oncidion,
from Ogkidion, a tubercle; two prominences on the lip. 2

15. PHACELIA VINIFOLIA, Vine-leaved. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Boraginez. Pen-
tandria Monogynia. A very neat flowering half-hardy annual plant. The flower
stem rises about half a yard high, branching, producing numerous flowers. Each
flower is about a quarter of an inch across, of a bright blue colour, becoming
gradually paler to the centre. The plant has bloomed in the Birmingham Bo-
tanic Garden, as we also saw it in several places around Manchester. It was in-
troduced from Texas by the late Mr. Drummond. Phucelia, from Phakelos, a
“bundle; alluding to the flowers.

16. PuysostEGIa TRuNcATA, Blunt-calyxed. (Bot. Mag., 3494.) Labiatee. -

-Didynamia Gymnospermia. A native of the Texas, and seeds of it were sent by

the late Mr. Drummond in 1834, to the Glasgow Botanic Garden. Itisavery

“pretty flowering annual plant, deserving a place in every flower garden. . The

flower stem rises about ten inches high, branching, producing many racemes

‘clothed with numerous flowers of a purple rose colour, the throat and part of

lip being spotted with dark purple; each flower is near half an inch aeross.
Physostegia, from Physa, a bladder ; and stege, a covering ; alluding to the calyx.

17. PoINSETTIA PULCHERRIMA, Showy-flowered. (Bot. Mag, 3493.) Syno-
‘nym. Euphorbia pulcherrima. E. poinsettiana. A native of Mexico, where it
was discovered by Mr. Poinsette, in 1828. It has bloomed in the collection at
the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, as also at Dr. Reills, Canon Mills, near Edin-
burgh. It is a most ornamental flowering stove plant. The fine scarlet crimson
bractea, being about ten inches across, produce a most splendid appearance. © In
Philadelphia, the Bracteas, it is said, are as much as twenty inches across; it

o blooms early in Spring; the plant well’merits a place in every hothouse. Poin-
sette, in compliment to Mr. Poinsette, the discoverer of the plant in Mexico.

18. Scrtta Cupantana, Cupani’s Squill. (Bot. Reg., 1878.) Synonym. Or-
nithogalum cceruleum. Hyacinthus stellatus. A native of Sicily. A hardy
bulbous plant, which has bloomed in the collection of H, F. Talbot, Esq., Lacock
Abbey, Wilts. The flowers are produced in a lengthened corymbous head ; each
flower is about half an inch across, of a dull purple colour. The pistil and stems ah

_ of the filaments are of a bright blue, and produce a pleasing contrast ; it blooms
in June. Scilla, from Skyllo, to injure; roots being poisonous.

19. TrapEscantra Vircinica, flora alba, White flowered Virginian Spider
Wort. (Bot. Mag., 3501.) Commelinez. Hexandria Monogynia. This pretty
flowering variety produces a striking contrast with the fine blue and purple
flowered kinds. The present variety is quite hardy and blooms profusely ; each
flower is near two inches across, white, slightly suffused with purple towards the
centre. We have had it some years, it is to be obtained of most of the principle
nurserymen. T'radescantia, from Mr. John Tradescant, Gardener to King Charles
the First.

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PART III.

MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.
MWh vale seta Tes ner 4 2

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“ QUERIES. * . 7”
Being a subscriber to your publication, I hope you, or some of your cor-
respondents, would favonr me in your next part, or as soon as possible, with a
list of the best show Pinks that are going at present. Being only one that is
a cing in the science of Botany, I hope you will give me the best of your

ce, and you will oblige you ‘ JeSe
‘On a SurrasLe Sorry ror ALs.—I should be much obliged if some cor-
ndent would favour me with a description of the proper soil for an i

; oo if one kind would do for all. I fancy I use it too light. I have been think-

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ing of using two parts loam and one of leaf mould, and the other old rotten
dung. Pray what is meaut when the word rich is applied to loam? (We refer
our correspondent to the article on soils inserted in our last number of the
Cabinet.—ConDvUcTor.

On THE CULTIVATION OF ALSTR@MERIAS.—I should be much obliged if some
correspondent who cultivates the Alstroemeria successfully, would furnish me with
a few particulars of management ; I cannot get them to bloom well either in
pots or the open border. An early attention will much oblige, Maria.

Hyacintus.—lI have tried to grow hyacinths in the open ground for several.
years, but cannot get any flowers at all equal to what I have seen in the London _
seed shops. I should be glad if some cultivator near London would give me 4
the particulars of management required during the year. 3

July 12th, Use. JAMES ARMITAGE, a

on
List or sHowy BorpER Frowers, &c.—I and several friends, having small

gardens entirely devoted to flowers, are much in want ofa list of showy herbaceous ;

plants; there are annually, numbers of these plants for sale at the various seeds-

men in town, but we have no knowledge of their character whether showy or Ae |

not ; and if any of your correspondents would favour us with a list of the names, :

height, colour, and month for blooming, it would be rendering usa great service.
A CoLtEcTor OF HERBACEOUS PLANTS. —

REMARKS.

FUCHSIA DISCOLOR possesses one strong claim to our attention inasmuch as
it is a native of the most southern portion of the world, which has yet been *
visited by any Botanist, Port Famine, in the strait of Magelhaens, whence seeds
were procured into this country. The country and hills, from the height of
2000 feet above the sea to the very verge of the high water mark, are covered
with a perpetual verdure, which is remarkably striking, particularly in those
places where the glaciers descend into the sea. The sudden contrast in such
cases presenting to the view a scene as agreeable as it seems to be anomalous.
I have seen vegetation thriving most luxuriantly, and large woody-stemmed
trees of Fuchsia and Veronica, in England considered and treated as tender
plants, in fnll flower withif a very short distance of the base of a mountain
covered for two-thirds down with snow, and with the temperature at 36 degrees.
The Fuchsias certainly was rarely found but in sheltered spots, but not so the
Veronica (V. decussata) for the breaches of the Bays on the west side of St.
John’s Island, at Port Antonia, are lined with trees of the Veronica growing
even in the very wash of the sea. There is no part of the strait more exposed
to the wind than this, for it faces the reach to the west of Cape Forward, down
which the wind constantly blows, and brings with it a succession of rain, sleet,
or snow; and in the winter mouths from April to August, the ground is covered
with a layer of snow from six inches to two or three feet in depth. There must
be some peculiar quality in the atmosphere of this otherwise rigorous climate,
which favours vegetation; for if not, those comparatively delicate plants coud
not live and flourish through the Jong and severe winters of this region.

Captain Kine.

On THE TREE MIGNONETTE.—Last year I treated some plants of Mignonette,
in order to make them shrubby, as follows :—The plants were two feet high, and
produced a large head of blossoms. Iam sure it is well worth the attention it
requires. In a 48-sized pot I potted one good plant, in a very rich Joamy soil.
In five weeks afterwards I removed the plant, ball entire, into a 36-sized pot, using
the same kind of soil. As the plant pushed forth I pinched off all side shoots,
allowing the Zeaf to remain from which the shoot pushed. The plant showed
bloom when about ten inches high; I pinched it off, and it caused the top late-
ral shoot to push upwards for a leader, which I trained for the purpose. On
reaching two feet high, I cut off the blossom, and encouraged about eight of the
best shoots for blooming. They flowered profusely last autumn, and now are
real pictures of beauty and fragrance, aud I expect will continue so through the

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season. I potted off one half of my plants early in May, 1835, and the other early
in June. At the end of April 1836, I repotted the plants into 24s, keeping the
ball entire. I placed the plants at first in a Melon frame, and when six inches
high took them into the greenhouse where I have kept them till now.

Near Boston, May 16th, 1836. SARAH, |

On THE CULTURE OF ProTEAS.—The eager avidity with which spirited, libe-
ral-minded gentlemen in this country, have, at various periods in the course of the
last forty years, sought to possess and maintain in their collections living exam-
ples of the many Genera of PROTEACE, affords an abundant proof of the great
interest they have excited, and of the high estimation in which plants of a family,
possessing forms no less extraordinary than numerous, whether indigenous to the
Cape of Good Hope, or to the arid shores of Australia, have been held.

At one period, within, doubtless the recollection of some of our readers, not
only the King’s gardens at Kew, and the rich Conservatories of GEoRGE H1s-
BERT, Esq. at Clapham, but the gardens of other gentlemen, and especially the
sale-collections of the more eminent nurserymen around London, could boast of
many choice specimens of Cape Proteaceous plants, which, in the present day, are
nowhere to be seen; for having been urged by culture to put forth their showy
flowers, they immediately e-‘terwards, in many instances, exhibited, from mistreat-

ment, debility and sickness, and eventually dying, have ever since been lost to
Britain. Since an ignorance at the time, of the proper mode of managing the
plants of this family, whether natives of the Cape or of New Holland, doubtless
led to the mortality that prevailed at periods not many years subsequent to their
haying been raised from the imported seeds, perhaps it may not be out of place
in this work, to give our readers the substance of a few practical observations
offered us, on the successful treatment of certain of the Order, as pursued at Kew
by the principal very able cultivator in that garden, Mr. JoHN SmiTH, to whose
horticultural knowledge is superadded a critical botanical discrimination of plants
generally, and especially of that numerous and beautiful tribe, the Finicrs, and
to whose talents in these particulars, we are happy, in common with other
Botanists in Britain and on the continent, especially attached to the study of
Cryptogamic vegetation, to bear ample testimony. Adverting to the interesting
pamphlet of Mr. Macnap, the excellent Superintendent of the Royal Botanic
Garden at Edinburgh, on the propagation and culture of Cape Heaths, which ©
appeared in 1831, Mr. SmirH observes, that he had pursued with success for
some time antecedent to that date, the same mode of treatment of PROTEACE&
under his care, that is recommended in that publication, with respect to the eul-
ture of Heaths, viz. in regard to shifting the plants into fresh and larger pots ; in
the process of which, it is very important to afford, by means of potsherds, or
fragments of half-baked pottery, a good drainage below, and especially to avoid
deep potting, by placing the plant, with its ball of earth round the roots quite en-
tire, so as to be some two or three inches above the surface of the soil at the edge
of the pot, which will have the effect of carrying off any superabundant moisture
from the roots to the circumference, and thus prevent the chance of water becom-
ing stagnant round the base of the stem ; byinattention to this latter circumstance,
many a Banxsra and DryanDRa in other collections have been killed ; whilst a
steady regard to free drainage, to an abundant circulation of air, and a low tem-
perature, he has succeeded in preserving many fine proteaceous plants longer than
is generally effected in other gardens in the neighbourhood of London. “ Even
in the present day,” he observes, “‘ there may be some few gardeners, who may
object to the mode of potting certain plants here insisted on, on the ground that,
by being thus raised in their pots above the soil at the edge, they have not a
“handsome look; and this practice, now adopted and recommended by Mr.
Macwnap with regard to Cape Heaths, &c., had its prejudice on his mind for years,
for no other reason, as he himself tells us, “ than that I fancied the plant looked
as if it were ill potted, and, to my view, unsightly.” “ But we now see, how
rouch other and more judicious management, founded on physiological principles,
has overcome the prejudices of former days, and the difficulties attendant on the
enlture of not simply these, but the plants of other tribes :—witness our orchideous
Epiphytes. “ The soil,” continues this intelligent cultivator, “ which I use in the
culture of most of the PRoTEACE™®, is a good fresh loam, with which, if stiff, I
mix a portion of sand, so as not to admit of its being retentive of water. In time,

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after being potted as already directed, the main roots next the stem of the plant
will become uncovered: this circumstance I regard as favourable to the health of
the plant: there will be no danger of its dying suddenly, as I have known many
to do, that have been buried alive,—in other words, been deeply potted!” “ In
the winter months, care should be taken not to saturate the earth with water, nor
wet the leayes or stem more than can be avoided. In dry weather however,
during the summer season, water may be freely given to the plants about sunset,
and a very essential point to be observed is, that, when they are placed out in the
open air in groups, the sun’s rays should not be allowed to fall directly on the
sides of the pots, for if they are, all the feeding spongioles of the tender roots
round the inner side of the pot, will assuredly be destroyed, and the life of the
plant greatly endangered. Repeatedly have I known a Banksra to have been
killed by the solar ray haying been thus allowed to act on the side of the pot,
which six months afterwards retained so much of a life-like look—being kept yet in
its pot—as to appear to the eye of a superficial observer, to be still alive, and in
perfect vigour. The lowest greenhouse-temperature that can judiciously be
allowed, to prevent the effects of frost, is sufficient for the generality of the family
now in cultivation in Britain, and no artificial heat is required for their preserva-
tion, excepting in severe frosty weather.” He adds, with reference to pruning,
that “ as the rapid upright-growing species are, if left to themselves, shorter-lived,
than others naturally more robust, the free use of the Imife is recommended, and
the growth of the plants checked, by keeping the luxuriant shoots cut back. This
remark is especially applicable to those beautiful plants of the Order, with simple,
straight, wand-like stems, such for example as Banxs1a Brownii and DRYANDRA
Serra, Br., the former of which has been lost to several collections that could once
haye boasted of it, by its having been suffered to shoot up into exuberant growth,
far beyond what the slender, tapering, thinly-fibrid root could at all furnish sus-
tenance. By heading these down somewhat, and thus reducing the ascending
axis, or column of circulation, a more robust habit is induced, a growth of roots
in their pots takes place, lateral branches are thrown out, and the plants thus
treated at Kew, are now in the best possible health, with every indicative of being
fully established in that garden.”

Apuis ON RosEs.—The rose is often much infested with what is called the
green fly insect, which may easily be destroyed, by fumigating with tobacco, or if
in the open air by making a solution of quick lime, soot, and water, in the pro-
portion of one peck of each to ten gallons of water. Stir the mixture well together,
and afterwards let it stand till the water is clear, then mix about one-sixth of to-
bacco water from the tobacco manufactory to be had at ls. per gallon, with the
above, and sprinkle the trees or buds with it, and one application will be quite
sufficient.

New. Petuntas.—We have recently seen two very handsome varieties of
Petunias, which have been raised in Germany, viz., one a flesh-coloured, and the
other white, with a darkish eye. Both are very desirable varieties, making a
pretty contrast with the other kinds. We also saw a splendid hybrid Alstremeria,
with flowers near four inches across, it has raised from seed saved from Apele-
grina. The flower is a fine flesh-colour, marked very strikingly with rosy crim-
son. The latter is not yet offered for sale.

Metatiic WirE.—(See Advertisement in our last Number.)—We had, some
time back, specimens of the Wire. We tried it, and found if to answer most ad-
mirably. It is very pliable, and can be used with the greatest ease and readiness.
It is very durable and neat, and a most excellent substitute for bass matting. For
securing plants to walls, trellises, &c., it is peculiarly adapted, as it will also be
found the best tie for Dahlia plants and roots, in order to secure the mames. The
smallest size would be found very suitable for tying up Carnations, &c., a small
twist at the ends only being required, which is very readily done. The pieces will
last many years for the same purpose.

PURPLE-FLOWERED LaBurRNAM.—I haye just seen a branch of the purple-
flowered Laburnam in bloom, which had been grafted upon a branch of the com-
mon Laburnam. Both kinds were in blossom at the same time, and had a striking
appearance. The purple-blossomed shows itself much better in this way than
when it blooms on a stem to itself, the contrast of the purple and yellow showing
the former much better. IsABELLA.

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A Botanica CoLiEecTor, it is said, is about to proceed to Mexico, sent out by
the London Horticultural Society. One is lately gone to South America from
Kew Gardens. We anticipate many treasures in plants, the result of their
labours.

New PLANTS RECENTLY EXHIBITED AT THE BIRMINGHAM SHOW.—From
the Earl of Stamford, Plagiolobium illicifolium, Epidendrum cornutum. From
George Barker, Esq., Eriostemon aispidatum, Gompholobium tomentosum, Pime-
lea hypeuicafolia. From John Wilmore, Esq., Phlox Drommondii. From Wil-
liam Bennett, Esq., Agapanthus umbellatus albus. From Messrs. Pope and
Sons, Double-flowered purple Wall Flower.

HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY'S GARDENS.

On Saturday, July 9th, the third (and last for the season) of the Horticultural
Society’s exhibition of flowers took place at their gardens at Chiswick. The atten-
dance was very numerous and fashionable. Between 6,000 and 7,000 of the rank
and beauty of the metropolis were present. The weather was extremely propitious,
and the day was remarkably pleasant, which doubtless was one great cause of at-
tracting such an assemblage of visitors. The show of flowers and of fruit was
equally varied and rich.

The prizes were distributed as follows :—

THE GOLD KNIGHTIAN MEDAL.

Mr. S. Rucker—Collection of Orchidee. Messrs. Rollisson—Oncidium Lan-
ceanum. Mr. Green, gardener to Sir. E. Antrobus—Stove and greenhouse plants.
LARGE SILVER MEDAL.

Mr. Gaines—Alstromerias. Mr. C. Palmer—Melocacti. Mr, Davies, gardener
to Lady Clarke—Grapes. Messrs. Rollisson—Collection of Orchidee. Mr. Mill,
gardener to Mr. N, M. Rothschild—Queen Pineapples. Mr. Errington, gardener
to Sir P. G. Egerton—Peaches. Mr. Glenny—Roses (Chinese, &c.) Mr. S.
Hooper, gardener—Roses. Mr. Lane, gardener to Mr. J. H. Palmer—Roses
and greenhouse plants. Mr. Butcher, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence—Roses and
greenhouse plants. Mr. Redding, gardener to Mrs. Marryatt—Single specimen of
New Holland Plant. Mr. Rivers, of Sawbridgeworth—Collection of Roses.

THE SILVER KNIGHTIAN MEDAL.

Mr. Cock, Chiswick—Balsams. Mr. 'T. Hogg—Picotees. Mr. Snow, gardener
to Lord de Grey—Cucumbers. Mr. Mills—Cockscombs. Mr. Dennis, Chelsea
—Melocta. Mr, Redding—Ferns. Mr. Buck—Grapes. Messrs. Lane and Son
—Heartsease. Messrs. Rollisson—Heaths. Mr.Clarke—Melons. Mr. Rucker,
jun.—Gongora Specimen. Mr. Cock—Pelargoniums. Mr. C. G. Cooke—Pro-
vidence Pineapple. Mr. Gibbs—Nectarines. Mr. Nieman—Nectarines. Mr.
S. Hooker—Roses (Chinese, &c.) Mr. Wood, Maresfield—Garden Roses. Mr.
Paul, Cheshunt—Garden Roses. Mr. Redding—Sing Specimen of Stove Plant.
Mr. Spence—Specimen of Stove Plant. Mr. D. Ferguson—Single Specimen of
Greenhouse Plant. Mr. R. Mangles—Single Specimen of New Holland Plant.
Mr. Douglas—Single Specimen of Cape Plant. Mr. Marshall—Hardy Herba-
ceous Plant.

SILVER BANKSIAN MEDAL.

Mr. Jackson—Calceolarias. Mr. Gaines—Pelargoniums. Mr. Paul—Chinese
Roses. Rey. Mr. Hinks, Manchester College, York—Droseras, cultivated under
glass. Mr. Myers, Brentford—Chervies. Mr. Mills—Hydrangeas. Mr. R.
Scott—Large Fuchsias. Mr. Buck—Crassula coccinea.

JupGES—Mr. H. M. Dyer, Mr. Greenshields, Dr. A. Henderson, Mr. Herbert,
Mr. Ingram, Mr. Macintosh, and Mr. Richardson,

The company continued arriving as late as 6 o’clock, and many of the visitors,
enchanted by the beauty of the scene, remained until half-past 8, when the set-
ting sun admonished them that it was time to exchange the pleasures of the Hor-
ticultural Gardens for those of the domestic circle.

GRAND SHOW AT VAUXHALL GARDENS.
The flowers and plants were in profusion, and Roses, Ranunculuses, and Cal.
ceolarias were certainly never before exhibited so numerously and so fine. Spe-
cimen plants, too, were in great beauty and variety, and many bore upon them

192 MISCALLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

evidence of great skill in cultivation; while there were several new and beautiful
subjects among them. The following was the award of prizes -—

Greenhouse Plants—1. Mr. Fleming, gardener to C. Ranken, Esq.; 2. Mr.
Glenny. Judges, Messrs. Chandler and Brown. Calceolarias—l. Mr. Bray,
Chelsea; 2. Mr. Gaines, Battersea. Judges, Messrs. Chandler and Brown.
Hardy Plants—My. Glenny (no competitor). Geraniums—l. Mr. Gaines; 2.
Mr. Hill; 3. Mr. Cock. Award by the exhibiters themselves. Ericus—Mr.
Glenny (no competitor). Thirty Heart’s-case (amateurs)—1. Mr. Salter, Shep-
herd’s Bush; 2. Mr. Bridges, Hampton. Judge, Mr. Glenny. One Hun-
dred ditto—l. Mr. Lane; 2. Mr. Gaines; 3. Mr. Hogg, Paddington. Cut
Flowers—1. Mr. Rivers; 2. Mr. Buchanan. Judges. Messrs. Chandler and
Rogers. Specimen Plants (for beauty and skill in cultivation)—1. Mr. Gaines ;
2. Mr. Fleming; 3. Mr. Buchanan. Judges, Messrs. Rogers and Caulier.
Ditto (beauty and rarity)—1 and 2. Mr. Glenny: 3. Mr. Gaines; 4. Mr. Hard-
ing; 5. Mr. Fleming. Judges, Messrs. Rogers and Caulier. Best Orchideous
Specimen—Mr. Glenny. Best Twelve Pinks (amateurs)—Mr. Neville. Judge,
Mr. Glenny. Pinks (collections)—1l. Mr. Hogg; 2. Mr. Chandler. Judges,
Messrs. Glenny and Neville. Ranunculuses (twelve)—1. Mr. Alexander; 2. Mr.
Cannell; 3. Mr. Beck; 4. Mr. Pile; 5. Mr. Sharpe; 6. Mr. Hooker; 7. Mr.
Hogarth; 8. Mr. Caulier. Judges, Messrs. Brown, Hogg, and Glenny. Ditto
(best collection)—Mr. Alexander (no competitor). China and Noisette Roses
(amateurs)—1. Mr. Glenny; 2. Mr. Salter. Placed by exhibiters themselves.
Ditto (collection)\—1. Mr. Rivers; 2. Mr. Wood, of Maresfield ; 3. Mr. Lowe.
Garden Roses (amateurs)—1l. Mr. Glenny ; 2. Mr. Pratt. Judges, Messrs. Rivers,
of Sawbridgeworth, and Wood, of Maresfield. Garden Roses (collection)—1. Mr.
Rivers; 2. Mr. Wood; 3. Mr. Willmer. Judges, Messrs. Glenny and Hooker.

EXTRA PRIZES.

Miscellaneous Collection—Messrs. Chandler. Ditto—Mr. Fairbairn. Collec-

tion of Iris—Mz. Salter. Balsams—Mr. Cock, Chiswick.

REFERENCE TO PLATE.

A. Mimulus Rawsonii, My. Rawson’s.—This very striking and handsome
variety was raised by our esteemed friend Mr. Menzies, gardener to Christopher
Rawson, Esq., Hope House, Halifax. In whose splendid collection of plants, we
lately saw it finely in bloom.

B. Tropewolum elegans, Elegant flowered.—This very handsome flowering plant
we also saw in bloom at Hope House, and Mr. Menzies informed us that it had
been raised there from seed sent to Mr. Rawson, by Mr. Higgins of Liverpool,
who brought it from Chili. It is very far superior to the pretty T. tricolorum ; the
colours of the flowers being much more intense; the flowers are also larger, and
are produced in far greater profusion. It is a most valuable acquisition to a col-
lection of plants, and being a climber which can easily be keptin due bounds,
may be neatly trained upon a wire frame, as recommended by our correspondent
in the last number of the Cabinet, and thus form a most pleasing object.

FLORICULTURAL CALENDAR FOR AUGUST.
_ Prant Srove.—Continne to admit a large portion of air daily, for the benefit of the plants
in general in this department. Attention to watering, eradicating insects, and cleanliness,
must be daily attended to.

GREENHOUSE PLANTs.—AIl exotic trees and shrubs belonging to this department, that are
in want of larger pots, or refreshment of new soil, should (if not performed last month) imme-
diately he done. This is the proper time to propagate Aloes, Sedums, and all others of a suc-
culent nature, by means of suckers or bottom offsets; when detached from the parent, they
should be potted singly into small pots, using light dry compost, and watering sparingly till
they have taken root. In the first, or second week at farthest, inoculation may be performed
on any kinds of the Citrus genus.

FLower GarRDEN.—Dnue care must be taken respecting watering any kinds of annual, bien-
nial, or perennial plants, that may be in pots. Propagate by means of slips, and parting the
roo\s, of any double-flowered and other desirable fibrous-rooted perennial plants done flower-
ing. Likewise increase by offsets the different kinds of Saxifrage. Auriculas should be
cleared of all dead leaves, and shifted into fresh pots; prick out of the seed-bed Seedling
Aurieulas and Polyanthuses, in a shady situation: seeds of both kinds may also be sown in
boxes or pans. Carnations may still be layered, also Sweet-williams, the earlier in the month
the better. Also plant out Pink pipings, which were putin in June. Sow seeds of all kinds
of bulbous-rooted plants in pans or boxes, such as Spring Cyclamen, Anemonies, Ranuncu-
luses, &c. &c. Those kind of bulbs wanted to increase should be taken up, if the leaves be
decayed, and the offsets taken off. Transplant into nursery beds seedling, perennial, and
biennial plants sown in spring. In dry weather gather those flower-seeds that are ripe of any
desired kinds. Plant out such kinds of autumn-flowering bu!bs as yet remain unplanted.

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FLORICULTURAL CABINET,

SEPTEMBER Ist, 1836. i ii)3)%>

PART I.
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

ARTICLE I.

ON THE CULTURE OF THE PANSY OR HEARTSEASE.

BY MR. JOHN SMITH, FLORIST, ISLINGTON.
THERE is scarcely any plant now in cultivation, which is of greater
interest to a flower-garden than the Pansy. The extreme neat-
ness, beauty, and variety of the kinds, their duration of bloom-
ing from April to November, and their peculiar adaptation for
almost any part of a flower-garden—renders the Pansy peculiarly
pre-eminent. Although the plant is of humble growth, yet, it may
be grown upon an elevated mound of soil, so as to exhibit its beauties
as lofty as desirable. I have cultivated it in several situations after
the following manner :—

I had a raised octagonal shaped cone, constructed in the centre of
a flower garden, which was two yards high, I formed it by having
troughs made one foot broad and eight inches deep, tier above tier to
the height named. The interior of the troughs had not a boarded
bottom, but a bar or two to keep the whole together. The substratum
was of good garden soil, and the troughs in which I planted the
Pansies was filled with a light rich loamy soil, a compost which I had
made of turf soil and manure that had been mixed two years, and
turned over several times. In this situation the plants bloomed
most beautifully, and produced a striking effect.

I had a raised bank made against a wall, in order to conceal it from
view of my dwelling, and this was constructed after the same manner,
tier above tier to the height of five feet, and was equally handsome.
The troughs were formed of tiles eight inches deep, above the soil
of the lower tier, and the lower edge was inserted six inches to keep
the tile upright. :

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Cabinet, that an elevated bed may be made of any shape or height,
in which this charming little plant may be grown, and, having
the flowers raised so near to view, is a desirable advantage.

Occasional watering is necessary, but not near so much as persons
might judge would be required. ;

Having said this much of the appropriateness of the Pansy to suit
almost any convenience, I shall now add a few observations on the
culture, &c.

Choice of Sorts.—The properties of a superior flower consists in
the brilliancy of each colour, that is, of each colour being decidedly
strong; the form of the flower should be as near a circle as possible,
and the larger the better; the edges of the petals not to be fringed
or undulated at all, but even and regular. In a flower, shaped as
above described, the small angles which are seen in many pansies
where the petals intersect each other, are wholly done away with ; the
eye should be rather small, and the stigma to gil the same.

Propagation.—New varieties are readily” obtained from seeds.
Some care is necessary in collecting the seeds, as the capsule (seed
vessel) undergoes but little change after itis formed, very soon burst-
ing. When the seeds are ripe, however, the capsule, which before
was pendulous, now becomes erect, and in a few hours afterwards, if
the day be sunny, the seeds will be dispersed.

If the seeds be gathered any time from May to September, it
should be sown immediately after being collected, but if after Sep-
tember it is better to defer the sowing till Spring.

If the seed be sown in the open border, a shady situation is the
best, the soil not being so liable to become droughty. If in boxes
they can be placed in any situation desirable. Sow the seedsin rich
light soil, let the surface be made fine and smooth, cover with ‘fine
sifted soil about one-eighth of an inch deep, and gently, with a flat
board, press the soil to the seed. Never allow the soil to become
dry till the plants are up. When the seedling plants are about an
inch high, they may be transplanted about four inches apart, into a
bed of light rich soil. If the situation be a little shady it will be
the better for the plants; if the season be dry occasional watering
will be necessary. The plants will bloom the same season if sown
early in the year, and, if later, they will bloom the following spring ;
the best will easily remove to another situation.

By Cuttings.—Cuttings will readily strike root at any time from the
first of April to the end September, if the cuttings be selected from
young shoots, the old shoots at the end of summer being hollow, and
such seldom push roots. The ends of the shoots, about two inches

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ON GROWING FERNS IN BOXES, ETC. 195

long, are suitable for the pur pose, cutting through, close under a
joint; they should be inserted in a fine soil of sand and loam, be
watered well, and shaded for a few days, At the end of summer it
is best to insert cuttings in pots or ee so that they can be placed
in a frame to be assisted in striking.

By Slips or Offsets. —The plants will often have a quantity of
shoots that will have struck root, these slips may be taken off at any
time by removing a portion of the soil, and cutting the slips or offsets
off with a portion of roots to each.

By Layers.—There are a few kinds which I have found difficult
to increase by cuttings, nor could I get the shoots to root when
earthed up, in order to encourage them to strike roots into the soil ;
such, I have layed the same as carnations, using a finely sifted soil,
and covering the incised part with it I did; not need a hooked peg.
This mode is very easily done, at any time from the end of March to
the early part of October, and with certain success.

In order to have fine blooming plants, it is necessary to have a
stock raised every year. Such as are raised early in the present
year, bloom fine from April to July, and those raised later in the
present year, bloom from July to the end of the season. One year
old plants are the best blooming ones, make the neatest patches, and
look the handsomest. When much older they make long and strag>
gling shoots, producing small blossoms. Being so easy of propagation
and culture, a continuance of bloom may be secured nine months in a
year. I find that Pansies grown on the elevated beds, being drier than
the ordinary borders of the garden, stand well through the severest
winters. Those plants I cultivate in the usual beds and borders of my
garden, I cover the soil close up to the plants with some rotten tan-
ner’s bark, or mulchy manure from an old mushroom bed, to the
depth of two or three inches, which fully answers the purpose of pre-
serving them from injury. If there be convenience, young plants of
a sort, may be potted off at the end of September, and be kept in a
cool frame or cool greenhouse till March following. T have done both.
A list of the finest sorts, description of them, and some further re-
marks I will send for the following Number.

July 13th, 1836.

ARTICLE II.—ON GROWING FERNS IN BOXES, &c.
In the transactions of the Society of Arts, Commerce, and Manu-
factures. In Vol. 50, part 1, p. 226, (Appendix,) is a letter to B.
H. Jolly, Heng from N. B. Ward, Esq., on his method of growing

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ferns and other plants, which thrive best in a humid atmosphere, by
planting them in a box filled with moist earth, and covered with a
glazed frame, rendered as nearly air-tight as possible. In this situa-
tion they will flourish, even in London, the junctures of the box be-
ing close enough to exclude the particles of soot, smoke, and dust,
which are constantly floating in the air of the metropolis. The same
kind of boxes have been applied by their inventor to a much more _
important service, namely, that of conveying living plants by long
sea voyages, from one country and climate to another, with singular
success, and without the necessity of those minute precautions of
regulating the admission of air and light, and of duly supplying them
with water, which are absolutely necessary if recourse is had to the
usual mode. Cases for New Holland were embarked the first week
in June 1833, and arrived at their destination in the following Jan-
uary. They were on the poop of the ship, the whole voyage, and all
the water they had during the passage was a light sprinkling, during
the hot weather near the equator. The plants, with the exception
of two or three ferns which appeared to have faded, were all alive
and vigorous—they consisted of ferns, mosses, grasses, &c. The
cases were refilled at Sydney, in February 1834, chiefly with ferns
aud two or three flowering plants—the thermometer between 90°
and 100°; in rounding Cape Horn two or three months after, as
low as 20° at eight P. M.; in crossing the line 120°; and on the
arrival of the ship in the British Channel in November, 40°. These
cases occupied the same station as on the outward-bound voyage ;
the plants were not once watered, and received no protection by day ©
or night, yet arrived in the most flourishing state after eight months
confinement. Various other successful trials have been made*to
Para, Calcutta, and other places.—See Letters from N. B. Ward,
Esq. and Capt. Mallard—Transactions of the Society of Arts, Vol.
50, Part 2, p. 189, Appendix.

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ARTICLE III.—ON PROPAGATING PLANTS BY GRAFTING,
BUDDING AND INARCHING.

BY MR. CHARLES TAYLOR, ELAM HALL, DORSETSHIRE.

Many plants are propagated by one or the other of these means; I
cannot, however, omit noticing a very ingenious mode of grafting,
described by M. Oscar Leclerc, of the Jardin du Roi, Paris, in a
communication to the editor of the Gardener's Magazine, and said
to be the invention of Mr. Blaike, an eminent British gardener, who
long resided in France, and who may be considered as the founder of

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modern gardening in that country : “This mode of grafting,” observes
M. Leclere, “which I shall henceforth call the Graffe Blaikie,
succeeds in most plants, both of the hot-house and open air; and it
seems particularly well calculated for the propagation of intertropical
plants and trees. The success which attends it on delicate hot-house
plants, and particularly on these which are hard-wooded, is very
difficult to be obtained by any other means. During the time when
“the sap is in full activity, the scion must be procured, if possible, of
exactly the same diameter as the stock on which it is to be grafted.

“First make two lateral oblique incisions, exactly similar, the one
on the stock from above to below, the other on the scion from below
to above, and both slooping from without towards the centre or in-
terior of the wood. The tongues are then cut in the form of a long
wedge, by stripping them of their bark. The cut parts are then re-
united, by taking care, as usual, to make them coincide as exactly
as possible. The scion being bound by ligatures to the stock in the
ordinary way. The inferior part of the scion, that is, the lower, is
plunged in a vessel of water. It will, however, necessary to remove
the water from time to time, and to renew the base of the submerged
scion by cutting off its extremity.

“The stock is sometimes headed down immediately after the
operation, in which case, particular care must be taken to leave a bud
ora shoot above the incision, in order to attract the sap to the place
where the operation was performed. Sometimes, however, the stock
is not headed down till after its union with the scion is completed.

“When the plant operated on is small, and the scion of a delicate

- species, the plant should be covered with a bell-glass to prevent too
great transpiration of the leaves. The air in the interior must be
occasionally renewed, as, without this attention, it would, by the
evaporation of the water, be rendered too humid. If the diameter of
the scion be less than that of the stock, the operation must of course be
different from the preceeding. In such a case, the incisions must be
limited simply to two hie ones of equal dimensions, one on
the scion, the other on the stock. This is the easiest and the most
natural mode, and also the most favourable for giving solidity to the
graft.”

This mode of grafting is, we think, particularly applicable to oran-
ges, lemons, &c., and these plants, engrafted by any of the ordinary
methods, that will admit of a portion of the scions being left long
enough to be inserted into a phial or cup of water, will facilitate the
operation. Some cultivators practise this mode of engrafting in this
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intelligent and indefatigable botanist, Mr. Murray of Glasgow, who ~
substitutes for the water a potato or turnip, into which he inserts the
bottom end of the scion. Some propagators have recomended in-
serting the lower end of the scion into the mould of a pot, kept ata
proper degree of heat and moisture ; and in some cases where it has
been practised, the scion has rooted in the mould, and where such has
occurred, the part below the union of the graft has been cut off, |
and has consequently produced a perfect plant, giving thus two plants -
instead of one. Instances have also occurred of the scion rooting into
the water, and in like manner producing a plant. It may be men-
tioned, as a necessary precaution in the above method of grafting,
that to prevent too rapid evaporation, produced either by the sun or
winds, a cap of stout paper or parchment has been recommended, which
may be fixed a little below the part operated on, and so contrived as to
enclose the whole of the upper part of the stock. This precaution
becomes particularly necessary when the operation is performed in
the open air, and particularly in the case of resinous or gummy
trees.

Of the plants which belong to those departments, which are pro-
pagated by these methods, may be enumerated the families of Cam-
ellia and Citrus, the varieties of which are generally propagated
by the two latter methods, as are some species of Daphne, Berberis
fasicularis, and various others. Sometimes grafting is performed
on the roots of some rare plants, asin the case of Peonia papavericia
which is often grafted on pieces of the roots of Peonia moutan.

Experienced operators propagate plants by these means with much
success, and indeed the idea of increasing the size of a Camellia,
for example, to an almost unlimited extent, by inarching very large
branches, or, in some cases, entire plants upon others of greater size,
appears to be perfectly practicable. As the size of these plants
adds to their value, and as they are several years before they acquire
a large size, however well they may be cultivated, this mode of in-
creasing them certainly deserves to be more generally adopted. I
possess a plant which has above thirty different varieties growing
upon it. Large specimens of Camellias, and of several other plants,
are more likely to be quickly attained by a process of this kind than
by any other. The precise season of performing the above operations
ou exotic plants, will always be governed by the state of the wood on
the plants, and by no stated period of the season. When the wood
or buds are in a fit state, then the operation should be proceeded
with.

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CULTURE OF THE CAMELLIA. 199

ARTICLE IV.—ON THE CULTURE OF THE CHINESE PRIMROSE.
(PRIMULUS SINENSIS.)—By Anrpisra.

In a former Number I perceive a query upon the Chinese Primrose,
and having myself been a very successful grower, I now send my me-
thod for the perusal of your correspondent.

I raise my plants every season from seed, asI find them bloom
much finer the first year than afterwards. The seed is sown early
in Spring, and when the plants appear above ground, [ transplant
them out singly into small pots. The soil best adapted, is, I find,
rich sandy loam. larly in May I pot them into larger pots, about
eight inches in diameter, and ten deep, and again place them in the
greenhouse, where I allow them a full current of air.

With this simple treatment I have a profusion of strong and mag-
nificent trusses of bloom.

ARTICLE V.—ON THE CULTURE OF THE CAMELLIA.

BY A LONDON PRACTICAL GARDENER.

Tuis very popular family, has always the best effect when cultivated
in a house by themselves; and as there are certain seasons in which
this genus requires a treatment almost peculiar to itself, their sepa-
rate culture is, therefore, the more necessary. The splendour and pro-
fusion of the blossoms of this genus do not only attract our notice,
considered merely as an ornamental plant, but has a considerable
claim on our more intimate regard, when we consider it as supplying
us with one of the necessaries of life, and probably one of the most
exhilarating and useful medicines of which our Pharmacopeias can
boast. From the species Camellia bohea, viridis, and sasanqua,
are obtained the well-known tea of commerce, which is imported by
us from China, where these three species, together with C. Japo-
nica, grow in abundance, and in that country attain the character of
evergreen shrubs or low trees. From these species have been origi-
nated, by cultivation, the many varieties now cultivated. The most
successful and generally adopted method of propagating this family,
is by inarching or grafting ; by either of these means each variety is
perpetuated, but new varieties are only to be obtained from seeds ;
as these seldom ripen, at least.in any quantity, in this country,
and few are imported in a fit state to vegetate, the propagation of new
varieties is consequently a matter of some importance. As, in most
other cases, it is from single flowering plants that seed are to be ex-
pected, although sometimes the semi-double flowers also produce
them, and of these, the common single red is the most prolific in

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200 CULTURE OF THE CAMELLIA.

affording seed. Sometimes seedlings so obtained are used only for
stocks, whereon to work other rarer kinds, although sometimes they
are kept till they attain a flowering state to ascertain their relative
merits. Mr. Knight, of the Exotic Nursery, has many seedling
plants thus originated, which assume as yet different characters, so
far as the buds, leaves, &c. are concerned, from those from which
they have sprung ; and, under the management of that very scientific
cultivator, every justice may be expected to be done them. These,
we understand, have been principally obtained from the magnificent
specimen which he so long and so well cultivated, and to which we
have already alluded. Stocks, however, are for the most part ob-
tained by nurserymen from layers of the common single red, which
‘they have often planted out in pits for this purpose, or from plants
originated from cuttings of the same or equally common sorts. Ca-
mellias are sometimes budded, but for the most part are either grafted
or inarched, in either case, the process of tongueing is dispensed with
as weakening the stock; and that mode of grafting, termed side-
grafting, is preferred. It may be observed, that, of all the stocks,
for this or any other purpose, those obtained from seeds, are the best ;
but, in regard to Camellias, as the seeds are two years in coming up,
cultivators seldom wait till such stocks are of proper size to be oper-
ated on. Sometimes the double Camellias are obtained from cut-
tings, but this is both a tedious and precarious method of increasing
them.

As to the proper season for grafting or inarching Camellias, the
spring is the best, and just at that time when the plants have done —
flowering and are beginning to grow. This state of vegetation does
not always take place at precisely the same time, as some cultivators
force their Camellias into bloom very early ; such, therefore, should
be operated upon not by the exact period of the year, but by the
state of the plants: Some will be fit for this process in January,
February, March, and April. Those, however, which are operated
on in March and April, will have the better chance to succeed, al-
though those which are operated on in February answer pretty well.

During the time the process is going on, the house should be kept
rather closely shut up, and the atmosphere kept rather damp; how-
ever, these must not be too freely indulged in as in the former case,
the plants would be liable to being drawn up weak, and consequently
become straggling and of bad habits. The time that elapses before
a union of the scion and stock completely takes place is in different
sorts, and more particularly in regard to the state of health and vigour
in which the plants may be, as well as the favourableness or unfa-

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vourableness of the season. Observation alone can dictate when the
clay, and afterwards the bandage of matting, should be removed.
There is an evil in allowing either to remain on too long, as well as
taking them off too soon; however, there is less danger to be appre-
hended from their remaining on a week or even two too long, than
than in taking them off a week too soon. Some cultivators adopt the
Graffe Blaikie mode ofinarching with much success, and others also
practise the mode recommended by Mr. Murray, of Glasgow, by
inserting the lower extremity of the scion into potato or small turnip.
Camellias will form a union when the branches are of considerable
size; and, as we have already noticed, very large plants may be
speedily formed,by inarching several whole plants upon one common
stock. This process is now becoming prevalent round London ; and
when the operation is properly performed, and the plantafterwardspro-
perly cultivated, specimens of large size may be expected to become
more common than they have hithertobeen ; and certainly one or two
large specimens of this plant, where there is convenience for keeping
them, are better than a number of small ones, which will take up
the same room, and never can produce so imposing an effect as is the
case with large specimens. Upon one or two plants may thus be
cultivated the whole collection of varieties and species now known.
In grafting Camellias, much care should be taken to perform the
operation neatly, so as to leave as little appearance of the place of
union as possible. I recollect, when this plant was much less common
than it now is, and the methods or propagating it less understood,
that some cultivators, to hide its deformity in the stem, performed
the operation very close to the surface of the pot in which the stock
grew; and when tke union had taken place completely, they used to
repot them into deeper pots, so as to bury the wound under the
mould. A practice so unskilful was of course unsuccessful; the
plants being thus too deeply potted did not prosper, and, as might be
expected, deterred many from purchasing, from an idea that the
plants were either short-lived, or would not grow without the care of
a proficient person. The case, however, is otherwise : scarcely any
plant is easier than the camellia; although it must be admitted,
that, to grow them in the first degree of excellence, much judgment
is required. Camellias, like most other plants, have their periods of
growth and also of the rest; during the former state they cannot
hardly be watered over much, and during the latter, they will soon
languish if too bountifully supplied. For this, no rules can be laid
down ; experience and observation on the part of the cultivator alone
ean be a safe guide.
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ARTICLE VI.

ON THE CULTURE OF CALCEOLARIAS.

BY A STAR IN THE EAST.

Tuis very charming family of plants having now become so general
a favourite and necessary ornament to the flower garden, as well as
the sitting room, induces me to send the following remarks on the
mode of raising seedlings, as well as the general culture thereof, for
insertion in the Cabinet.

But a very few years back, the only calceolaria which [ could
meet with for culture in my flower garden, was the C. pinnata, and
now, in consequence of the attention that has been given in raising
new varieties from seed, I possess upwards of seventy strikingly dis-
tinct kinds. Last year I raised three thousand seedlings, most of
which are now coming into bloom ; many already flowered, are real
good kinds, and amply repay for any trouble. The following is the
mode of management I have successfully pursued :—

On Impregnating for New Varieties.—I tried for several years to
get seed from those plants I cultivated in the open borders, judging
that the flowers would be impregnated by the bee, but either from
_ this being omitted, or if done, the flowers, or seed vessel, was so

damaged by rain or other casualities, that I never could raise a sin-
gle plant. In 1834, I planted a number of plants into the open bed,
and had a three light frame placed over them, taking away the lights,
excepting to protect at uight and from rains. ‘In addition to this I
continued to impregnate the blossoms from time to time.

During the process of watching the blossoms, in order to take the
farina at a proper state, I found that such attention was particularly
necessary, as it was only for a short duration in a proper condition,
and that not when mere dust, but as soon as it became in a limpid state.
The application of this to the stigma at that period, produced the de-
sired effect. A better knowledge can be obtained by practical obser-
vation, than can be supplied in this place. There is also a particular
time when the stigma is prepared for the reception of the farina, this
too will easily be ascertained in practise. My aim has been to obtain
kinds having the highest colours, that should have the largest flowers,
and the pale colours accordingly. I have also been endeavouring to
get the shrubby kinds spotted similar to many of the large herbaceous
varieties—in this I hope to succeed. I never allow any wet to get
upon the flowers after impregnation, and I take. care not to allow the
roots to be droughted ; this attention being paid, I have succeeded in

CULTURE OF CALCEOLARIAS. . 203

obtaining a very large supply of seed, which last year afforded me
three thousand plants, and I have now as many to bloom next year.
It is easily ascertained when the seed vessels are ripe; I am careful
to gather it immediately, and all the seed I collect by the end of
August, I sow immediately, so that the plants get strong enough to
endure winter. On the other hand, if sown much later they are
generally too weak to survive, so that all late seed I save till spring.

I sow the seed upon some finely sifted soil, and place it in a hot-
bed frame, being careful to keep it moist by sprinkling with water,
through the medium of a syringe with a fine rose; this keeps the
soil moist without washing it bare.

In order to insure the seedlings for blooming, I plant them out
into some light rich soil in a cool frame, as early as I find them
stroug enough to bear it. In the winter I protect, them by the lights
and straw hurdles in severe weather.

In watering Calceolarias, I find it necessary to avoid watering the
centre of the plant, or it will very soon rot. I pour the water liber-
ally over the soil, not only close up to the plant, but as far as the
roots extend, by this attention I never lost a single plant.

I find too, that the Calceolarias flourishes best when a portion of
fresh loam is added ; I add to it some well rotted manure, but has it
mixed with the soil three months before planting, for very fresh ma-
nure kills the plant.

Scarcely any plant is more easily increased, the offsets and slips
being mostly furnished with small roots, these taken off and inserted
in a pot, at the side of it, they will soon strike, and become fit for
parting and final planting. The greatest difficulty with the Calceo-
laria, is to keep it through the winter. But I succeed with the fol-
lowing treatment, so as not to loose a single plant.

At the end of September I take off a sufficiency of slips and offsets,
and having a quantity of pots filled one-third with broken potsherds,
I pot six or eight in each 24 sized pot, using a soil composed of
equal parts of peatandloam. This admits of water passing off freely,
so that in the damp of winter the plants never suffer from wet. Af-
ter potting I keep the plants in a shady place out of doors till the
frost is likely to commence, 1 then remove them into the cool frame,
where they are kept from frost. In order to keep them dry, I have
the pots placed upon bricks.

arly in March I pot off the plants into 48 sized pots, still keep-
ing them in the cool-frame, for if placed where there is much warmth,
they often perish. J give air at all favourable opportunities, and stir
the surface of the soil when ever it becomes mouldy or green.

204 : A DESCRIPTION OF CAMPANULAS.

The first week in May I plant out all my stock, turning them en-
tire out of the pots, into the open border, pit-frames, &c.

In planting them out into an open bed, I find it of advantage to
have it raised several inches above the level of the ground; this
keeps it from injury by wet, as well as by raising it high at the cen-
tre, gives a very pretty effect.

Near Lynn, July 21st, 1836.

ArTICLE VII—A DESCRIPTION OF SOME OF THE HANDSOMEST
KINDS OF CAMPANULAS, &c.—By C. DELA PRYME.

A CORRESPONDENT ina late Number of the Cabinet requesting
some information as to the Campanula, or Bell-flower, perhaps the
following may be of some use. There are seventeen principal kinds,
which are here arranged in the order of their flowering, from May to
October.

Names. Colours. |Height in ft. Time of Flowering.
punctata. White. 1 May, June. [earliest.}
azurea. Purple. 13 June, July.
pubescens. Blue. 1 June, July, August.
carpatica. Do. a Do. _ [smallest.]
linifolia. Do. + Do.
speculum. White. 13 June, July, August, September.
caucasica. Violet. q July, August.
collina. Blue. i Do.
pendula. Cream. 1 Do.
lactiflora. White. 5} July, August, September. [largest.]
sibirica. Blue. 1 Do.
Lorei. Bluish. 1 Do.
cephalantha. Blue. 1 Do.
aggregata. Pale Do. 2 Do.
pyramidalis. Bluish. 4 Do.
persicafolia. Pale Blue: 3 Do.
pentagonia. Purple. 14 July to October. [latest.]

Besides these are the saxatilis, speciosa, glomerata, flora-alba,
patula, trachelium, garganica, grandiflora, hederacea, fragilis, (or hir-
suta,) and some others of less note. They are most of them hardy,
easy of cultivation, and handsome. The Campanula may be reckoned
as the head of the border plants, and it has more varieties than any
other (not excepting the Gentiana.) They should not be planted
before the beginning of March or end of February (although this is
sometimes done.)

Cambridge, Aug., 1836.

CULTURE OF TROPHOLUM TRICOLORUM. 205

ARTICLE VIII—ON THE CULTURE OF THE TROPGOLUM
TRICOLORUM AND PENTAPHYLLUM.
BY MR. RICHARD GOODSALL, GARDENER, ENDON HOUSE, MIDDLESEX.

I was much pleased with the beautiful flowering Tropceeolum inserted
in the Cabinet for August; I have possessed the T. tricolorum and
pentaphyllum for several years, and have cultivated them in a very
successful manner; I am, therefore, induced to send you the par-
ticulars of my mode of management, for insertion in the Cabinet.

The soil I use is a mixture of rich loam and sandy peat, and to
have a good degree of broken pots for drainage. Early in spring, I
place one tuber each in a small pot; as some of the tubers are larger
than others, I select a pot about as wide again as the tuber; after
potting, I place them in a Cucumber or Melon frame. At the time
of planting, I give them a supply of water, but being kept in moist
heat they require little afterwards, till the shoots have pushed some
length. ‘This attention is necessary to be observed, for if much water
be given before the shoots push, the root will be liable to rot; so that
my only care is, to keep the soil from being dry.

When the shoots have got a few inches high, I repot the plant
into one a size larger; this is repeated in its subsequent treatment,
whenever it is observed to require it, by the pot being filled with
roots. If the plant be over potted at once, it is certain to suffer by
it, for the roots not occupying the soil, and its being of necessity
kept moist, becomes sour by frequent waterings, and unfit for the
plant to growin. But by often repotting into a size larger, every
due encouragement is given to the successful culture of the plant,
and to secure a profusion of blossom. When the plant has pushed
as high as the frame will allow, I take it into a vinery of mo-
derate temperature, where I keep it for a few days, and then remove
it into the warmest part of a greenhouse, but where a free supply of
air can reach it, tu prevent its moulding. As the plant pushes, I
take care to have it neatly secured, using a stick or two for its early
stages of growth, but afterwards to a wire frame, made something
like what is recommended in the Cabinet. In pushing down the
points of the stick or wire, I do not allow them to be inserted close
to the side of the pot, because the fibrous roots run round there in
abundance, and the point of the stick or wire pressed down there,
would cut the greater part of them through, or by mutilation damage
them in some degree.

When I discover that the plant is attacked by the green fly, I have
it sprinkled at the under side of the foliage with a strong solution of

206 CULTURE OF TROP@OLUM TRICOLORUM.

tobacco water. In order to keep the plant free from the red spider, I
have it often syringed at the under side of the leaves; the red spider
bites the foliage, and causes it to become disfigured by whitish spots ;
if uot checked at first, the insects rapidly increase and spread over
the plant, and will soon destroy it. I avoid syringing it in damp
weather, for the foliage would be injured. The plants thus treated,
bloom profusely to the end of autumn.

When the plant ceases growing and blooming, I withhold water
from it, gradually declining the quantity given, till it is in a state to
be kept dry till the return of spring. I do not take the tuber out of
the soil it had grown in, but retain it therein till the time of repot-
ting in Spring. I keep the tubers in winter in the cool part of the
back shed, free from frost, but not liable to excite them to push.

With the above treatment I have had a plant ten feet high, pro-
ducing thousands of blossoms. The plant deserves a situation in
every greenhouse in the kingdom. [I find it also answers well for
culture in the light room of a dwelling, allowing it air at all conve-
nient opportunities.

The plant is easily increased by seeds, and young cuttings about
three inches long strike freely in sand, if placed in a hotbed frame.

T. pentaphyllum.—This plant I find to grow freely if allowed a
large degree of pot-room, and to be kept in a very airy place in the
greenhouse. I find it to do still better, to turn it out, if the plant
be moderately strong, into the open border in a warm situation. I
have a plant at the front of a greenhouse that is trained to three
stakes, and densely covers them to the height of nine feet, having
many thousands of flowers.

The soil is a good rich loam and peat, half a yard deep, upon a
gravelly substratum; I have supplied it freely with water ding: dry
seasons.

At the end of November the top generally dies, I cut it off near to
the ground, and cover the same with some dry straw chaff, this is
laid six inches deep, over this I place a large milk panshion which
shoots off all wet, keeps the root dry, as well as contributes to keep it
from injury by frost. At the return of spring the tuber pushes freely,
and during the months from July to November, is a perfect picture
of beauty and interest.

I have not had occasion to renew the soil of the border where the
plant has grown four seasons, but when it is indicated necessary by
the condition of the plant. I shall take away the old soil at Spring,
nearly to the tuber, replace it by fresh loam and peat, but not to dis-
turb the tuber at all.

ON RAISING ERICAS FROM CUTTINGS. 207

No insect has attacked the plant in the open air. The treatment
of this species in pots during summer and winter, is in all respects
as done to T. tricolorum, but I advise its culture in the open air.

ARTICLE IX.
ON RAISING YOUNG PLANTS OF ERICAS FROM CUTTINGS.

BY A CULTIVATOR OF EXOTIC PLANTS.

From May to July I think is the most proper season for striking
the cuttings of Ericas, (Heaths,) as the young wood will by that
time be, in general, pretty far advanced in growth.

* The shoots of heaths, and bark thereof, are of such a thin wiry na-
ture when old, that it is nearly impossible to strike them in that
state, hence the many failures by people not aware of this circum-
stance, who most probably were in the habit of leaving more or less
old wood, to cuttings of every description; and these, they very
naturally concluded, were to be put into the soil the grown plant
flourished best in; so that except by mere chance, when they hap-
pened to put in a cutting moderately young, which sometimes vege-
tated, they found it a thing so precarious, and of such difficulty, as
to be induced to abandon the trial altogether. Others more perse-
vering, endeavoured to remedy these defects by a change of soil ;
substituting loam and younger cuttings; but here a fresh difficulty
arose, by the cold nature of so strong a soil, rotting the tender cut-
tings, in many instances before they had time to vegetate; as well
as the young fibres of such, as lived to produce them; unless trans-
planted at an age, in which it was otherwise unadvisable to move
them ; by which many were also lost.

By a series of observations it was found, that the old wood of these,
as well as many other plants, was by no means calculated to produce
roots; that the one soil was too light and unsubstantial to support the
tender green wood while devoid of roots, and the other too cold and
stiff for their nature to flourish in afterwards; therefore, having
proved that the young wood succeeded best as cuttings, the only thing
to be looked for was a warm, open, yet partially retentive medium,
best calculated to obviate the above defects. A good deal depends,
in my opinion, on the choice of sand for this purpose; many prefer
the whitest and finest they can procure; at all events pit-sand is the
most proper; but from recent observations, I am inclined to think,
that its goodness does not depend so much on the colour, as the tex-
ture, a lively vegetating sand being, in my opiuion, preferable to tha‘
of a dead, fine, binding nature, be it ever so white; but it should be

208 ON RAISING ERICAS FROM CUTTINGS.

a pure sand, untainted with any mixture whatever. The manner of
using it, is to have the pot well drained as usual for cuttings, and
then filled with sandy peat, within an inch of the rim; which must
be pressed pretty light, so as not to sink much afterwards; let the
remainder be filled with the sand and well levelled at the top, being
also pressed tight ; the whole should then get a good watering to settle
it before the cuttings are inserted ; then proceed to make the necessary
quantity of cuttings to fill it, and the sand will be soaked sufficiently,
and fit to receive them by the time they are ready. Strong, luxu-
riant, or leading shoots, are not to be chosen,as from their redundancy
of sap, they are exceedingly liable to damps; the ends of the lateral,
or side shoots, are by experience proved to answer infinitely better,
when selected with judgment, so as care is taken to reject any that
have in the least degree attained a hard woodiness of substance, or
that cut wiry, and tough. They need not exceed an inch in length,
two thirds of which is to be divested of its leaves, and finished by a
clean horizontal cut at the bottom ; but in taking the leaves off, it is
necessary to be careful not to injure the bark of the cuttings, by pa-
ring them too close, but rather to leave a part of the footstalk attached
to it. When a sufficient number is ready, let them be immediately
inserted in the sand with a small neat dibber, something about the
size and shape of a goose quill ; they should be pretty well tightened
in the sand, aad have a moderate sprinkle of water to settle it about
their stems. A proper glass being previously chosen, when they
have stood about half an hour to drain, and settle, it should be set
on; pressing it gently on the surface so as to make it perfeetly close.
If this business is begun in June, which is early enough, they must,
(on account of the increased heat of the season,) be plunged in some
cool shady situation, where they can be conveniently shaded when
requisite : an exhausted hotbed, with a frame, and good lights on it,
will answer very well; or otherwise, the north side of any low wall
or hedge where they will be a little sheltered from the noon-day sun,
and have the benefit of it morning and evening ; in either place, the
pots must be plunged up to the rim in old tan or saw-dust; and in
the latter, they will also require to be covered with large cap glasses
over the small ones. When potted and watered, they must be set
on the kirbs, or other convenient places in the stove for a few days,
and shaded until they have established themselves in the fresh mould ;
as soon as they have taken to grow freely, let them be removed to
the greenhouse ;_ but observe not to expose them to the open air en-
tirely at first, as it might do them a material injury ; on account of
which, the lights over them should be kept close than usual for a few
days.

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PART II.

EXTRACTS.

ON THE MANAGEMENT OF THE PLANTS BELONGING TO THE GENUS
Cirrus, in the Garden of Edward Miller Mundy, Esq., M.P., F.H.S., at
Shipley Hall, in Derbyshire. By Mr. Richard Ayres, Corresponding Member of
the Horticultural Society, Gardener to Mr. Mundy.—My green-house is forty-
nine feet long, and seventeen feet wide, with a glazed sashed roof, sloping to the
south ; the back and sides are solid walls; the front is nine feet and a half high,
and has six glazed folding doors, the intervals between which are filled with fixed
glazed sashes. The fioor is a stone pavement, and the house is warmed by a flue
built on arches, and carried under the pavement near to the front glass, the heated
air being admitted into the house through ventilators from a narrow air chamber
adjoining to the flue. The back wall, on the inside, is eighteen feet high, and
that, as well as the sides of the house, are covered with a trellis, the openings of
which are six inches square. Adjoining the back wall, at even distances from
each other, are six holes in the pavement, each two feet square; in these are
growing trees in the following order:—l, a Lemon; 2, a China Orange; 3, a
Lemon: 4, a Citron; 5, a Seville Orange; 6, a Lemon. They were planted
young, nine years since; the border of earth in which they grow extends
under the pavement, and their branches are trained to the trellis. In the same
manner, last year, a Citron tree was planted against the west side, and a Lime
tree against the east side; and these are trained to the trellis at the two sides
respectively. Besides the above eight trees, there are twenty-two in tubs, seven-
teen of which were brought from Malta by Captain George Mundy, of the Royal
Navy, to his father, six years ago; they were then small, but have grown finely
since, and the fruits they have recently produced have been excellent both for size
and flavour. In addition to these trees in tubs, other greenhouse plants in pots
are kept in the house in the winter season. The conservatory, of which a section.
and ground plan are annexed is thirty-two feet six inches long; it is divided
longitudinally into three borders; the back border is three feet eight inches wide,
and its level is elevated three feet above the other part of the house by means of
a wall which supports it. A paved walk, two feet eight inches wide, is carried
over the border, so that only about one foot of it next the back wall is exposed to
view: in this border, at even distances, are planted one Lime, and three Lemon
trees; the Lemons are of my own working, they are nine years old from the bud,
and are now in a fine bearing state; the lime was only turned out of a tub last
March. The centre border is thirteen feet broad; in it are planted, in a
double row, four in each row, at even distances, eight trees, viz.: two standard
China Oranges, one Dwarf China Orange, three Seville Oranges, and two
Maltese Oranges; these last are young plants putin two years ago; the other
six trees are all in a bearing state. In the front border, which is only four feet
wide, three trees were planted in 1818; one is a China Orange, three years old
from the bud, and the two others are Lemons. This house is also used for the
growth of Grapes: Vines are planted in the front of it, on the outside, and
trained up the rafters of the glass roof, being introduced through holes in the
front wall. The trees in each of the three borders of the conservatory are trained
in different ways. Those in the back border are fastened to a trellis against the
_ back wall. The trees in the centre border have their branches in part secured to a

row of stakes set along the front and sides of the border, at even distances from

each other; the stakes are each six feet in length above the ground, into which

_ they are driven about a foot and a half; such of the branches as can be brought

into contact with these stakes are fastened to them, the others are tied to stakes

placed irregularly in different parts of the border, but chiefly at the back; by

these means the branches are spread evenly over the whole extent of the border,
cc

210 EXTRACT.

are well exposed to the sun and light, and also produce a beautiful effect, whether
in blossom or in fruit, the stakes having more the appearance of supports than of
being placed for the purpose of fastening the branches to them. ‘The trees in the
front border are trained flat on a horizontal trellis in the manner of peach trees in
a house, the trellis being two feet from the ground. The borders both in the green-
house and conservatory were filled, at the time the fruit trees were planted, with a
compost made as follows: to twelve barrows full of strong turf loam, six of good
rotten dung and three of vegetable mould were added ; these were properly incor-
porated six months previous to being used, and then put into the borders. After
I had planted both the house, having a few old trees in tubs and pots which were
not in good health, I was induced to try on them the effect of a richer compost,
and I also applied to them waterings of a compounded liquid manure. These
sickly trees were restored to good health in twelve months, and as they made fine
fruitful wood, I was so satisfied of the advantage of my new compost and of the
composition water, that I determined in future to use them with all my other
plants, whether in the borders or in tubs and pots. I have applied them in the
manner hereafter detailed, and the beneficial effects resulting from their use have
exceeded my expectations, not only in the vigour and richness of the wood and
foliage, but in the abundance, size, and flavour of the fruit. The compost is
formed of ten parts (a wheelbarrow full is my usual integral quantity) of strong
turf loam, seven of pigeon’s dung, seven of garbage either from the dog-kennel
or butcher’s yard, seven of sheep’s dung, seven of good rotten horse dung, and
ten of old vegetable mould ; they must be mixed together twelve months previous
to use, that time being necessary to bring the ingredients into a proper state of
pulverization. The composition water is prepared as follows: three wheelbarrows
full of cow dung fresh from a pasture field, two wheelbarrows full of fresh sheep's
dung, and two pecks of quick lime are thrown into one hogshead of soft water ;
the mixture is frequently stirred for’a week or ten days before it is used, and when
applied to the plants, ought to be about the consistence of cream. Previous to
describing my method of cultivating the plants, I cannot avoid observing that in
the usual management of Oranges and other trees of the same description in green-
houses, however fine the plants, they only serve the purpose of ornament, and are
otherwise useless, never producing any fruit fit for the table. The failure arises
from the common practice with most gardeners of taking these trees out of the
greenhouse when they put out the common greenhouse plants for the summer
months; whereas, the proper course which they ought to follow, is to keep them
in the house through the whole season, and to avail themselves of the removal of
the other plants to apply the peculiar treatment necessary to bring them into
proper bearing. From the experience which my practice has given me, I do not
think that Orange and other similar trees require much warmth in the winter
months; I therefore never suffer my house to be heated above 50 degrees by fire
heat until the end of February, or the beginning of March, when, the trees, if in
good health, will begin to show blossom; the fire-heat should then be increased
to 55 degrees; but the houses ought not to be warmed above 65 degrees at this
time by sun-heat, the excess of which must be checked by the admission of air;
and indeed the more air the trees have during the time of blossoming, the more
certain will be the crop of fruit. My trees are washed with a hand syringe about
twice a week in the winter months, advantage being taken of the middle of the
day for that work in cold weather ; in summer they are washed in the morning,
and it is then done every day. During the time the trees are in blossom, they
require more care in respect to watering, I therefore then use a syringe with a
top, the holes of which are so small that they will not admit a fine needle to pass
through them. Clean soft water from the cistern in the conservatory is used for
all these purposes. As soon as the fruit is set I begin to water the trees at their
roots with the composition-water above described, giving more or less according to
discretion; the trees having no other sort of water during the summer months, ex-
cept what little falls from their leaves when they are syringed each morning.

In the early part of June the greenhouse plants are taken out for the summer,
and I then begin to force the trees, by keeping the heat in the house up as near as
possible to 75°, for I do not consider that either Citrons, Oranges, Lemons, or
Limes can be grown fine and good with less heat. Whilst the forcing is going on,
particular attention is paid to the waterings above described. In June I also give

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the trees, whether in the borders or in tubs and pots, a top dressing of the rich
compost before mentioned, this is of the greatest advantage in swelling the fruit,
and it is done in the following manner. The earth above the roots is moved with
a small hand fork, taking care not to disturb any part of the roots; all the loose
earth is then removed clear to the roots, and replaced with the compost. This
operation I have performed for the last six years, on the trees in the borders, and
to it I principally attribute my success in producing such fine and abundant crops.
With respect to pruning the trees, I do not know that regular directions can be
given for the work, but I will statein what manner the trees at Shipley are treated.
Early in February they are looked over; at that time it is apparent what wood is
likely to be fruitful, and as a certain quantity of old branches are yearly cut away
I take out those which seem least promising, and so make room for the younger
and more productive wood. If the trees afterwards grow very strong, the shoots
are shortened according to their strength, in the same way as Peach trees are shor-
tened. Thus the branches pruned are not only fruitful, but they are restrained to
any shape desired, for no sort of fruit trees bear the knife more patiently than
those I am treating of. There is some nicety required in thinning and arranging
the crop. When the fruits are about the size of Green Gages, it is proper to thin
them. Two fruits should never be left together, for they would neither be fine nor
well formed; the quantity left to ripen must also depend on the age and strength
of the tree. The thinnings have no pulp when of the size above mentioned, and
are much esteemed by the confectioner, making excellent preserves.

The fruit which I exhibited to the Society was part of the produce of 1818,
which was particularly great in that year, nineteen of the older trees yielded two
hundred and seyenty-eight dozen of ripe fruit, being nearly fifteen dozen on an
average to each tree. This quantity was thus produced: the Citron tree in the
greenhouse bore eight dozen, each Citron measuring from fourteen inches and a
half to sixteen inches and a half in circumference ; three China Orange trees, viz.,
one in the greenhouse, and two in the conservatory, had sixty dozen of fruit, some
of which measured thirteen inches round; six Seville Orange trees, viz., one in
the greenhouse, three in the conservatory, and two in tubs, bore one hundred and
forty dozen of fruit; seven Lemon trees, viz., three in the conservatory, three in
the greenhouse, and one in a tub, had fifty dozen of fruit; and from two Lime
trees, which were then in tubs, but which are now in the borders, as above men-
tioned, twenty dozen of fruit were obtained. The crop was not so large last year,
I did not expect it would be so, but the Citron yielded seven dozen of fruit; one
of them Mr. Mundy sent to the Society in December last, it was seventeen inches
and a half in circumference. The produce of the other different trees was fine,
not only as respected its appearance, but the excellence of its quality. The trees
this year promise an abundant crop.—Horticultural Transactions.

LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS,

Noticed since our last.

i. Acacia vEsTITA, Cunningham’s Acacia, (Pax. Mag. of Bot.) Linnean
Class, Polygamia; Order, Monecia; Natural Order, Leguminose. This very
profuse and handsome flowering species was introduced in 1820 from New Hol-
land, by Mr. Cunninghame. It is a highly omamental plant; the flowers are pro-
duced in immense numbers upon pendant racemose spikes, half a foot long ; they
are of a fine bright yellow colour, and the plant when in bloom resembles a yellow
pyramid, being in such masses, relieved by a sprinkling of dark green foliage.
The plant grows to the height of six feet, and deserves a situation in every conser-
_Natory and greenhouse ; it blooms from April to June. This species may be pro-
cured at most of the principal nurseries. The plant flourishes well in a mixture

of rich loam and peat—and to have plenty of pot-room, as it grows rapidly it will
require frequent repotting ; this is requisite with all the Acacias. Acacia from
_ ahazo to sharpen some of the species being very thorny.

212 NEW AND RARE PLANTS.

2. ApTOSIMUM DEPREssUM, The depressed. (Bot. Reg. 1882.) Synonym,
Ruellia depressa. Ohlendorfia procumbens. Didynamia Angiospermia. Scro-
phralarine. A very pretty flowering plant, a native of the Cape of Good Hope,
from whence seeds were brought by Mr. Eckton. The plant has bloomed with
Dr. Lechmann, at Hamburgh. It is a greenhouse undershrub, laying prostrate,
and producing a profusion of flowers; they are funnel shaped, more than an inch
long, of a pretty blue colour, having each of the five divisions of the mouth of the
corrolla streaked with black, and the upper part of the throat being white. Mr.
Eckton found the plant growing on the shores of the great Fish River, and there
blooming from October to December. Mr. Bentham says, this plant assimilates very
closely to Salpiglossis prostata. He also enumerates six other species with which
he is acquainted, namely, A. abietinum, A. eriocephalum, A. depressum, A. indivi-
sum, A. tragacanthoides, A. viscosum. Also he remarks upon five species of a new
genus from the Cape, closely allied to Salpiglossis, namely, Peliostomum leucor-
rhizum, P, origanoides, P. scoparim, P. virgatum, and P. viscosum.

The Aptosimum is a very desirable plant, and we hope will soon be in the pos-
session of the nurserymen in this country. Aptosimum, from a, privative; and
ptosimos, deciduous.

3. CRATGGUS TANACETIFOLIA, Tansy-leaved Hawthorn. (Bot. Reg. 1884.)
Synonym, Mespilus orientalis. Another very omamental species of this interesting
tribe of plants, and which deserves a place in every pleasure ground. The entire
family of Hawthorns are at once so highly ornamental and odoriferous, that
wherever their introduction is practicable we strongly recommend it. The beauty
of their blossoms, their fragrance, and the successive profusion of fruit of various
hues and sizes, we think, give them more than ordinary charms. A list and de-
scription of considerable extent will be given in our next number. The present
species is a native of the higher mountains of Greece ; the flowers are large, white,
powerfully fragrant; the berries are produced solitary, as large as a May Duke
Cherry, yellow, and has the scent of an apple; itis also sweet. Crategus, from
Kratos, strength, in reference to the wood.

4. CRAT@GUS ODORATISSIMA, Sweetest-scented Hawthorn. (Bot: Reg. 1885.)
Synonym, C. orientalis. It is a native of the hills near the Black Sea. In this
country it produces its very deliciously perfumed flowers in profusion, succeeded
by clusters of rich red fruit of considerable size and beauty.

5. DOUGLASSIA NIVALIS, Snow Douglassia. (Bot. Reg. 1886.) Pentandria
Monogynia. Primulacee. The late Mr. Douglas collected seeds of this pretty
plant in California, and it has bloomed in the garden of the London Horticultural
Society. When Mr. Douglas was travelling across the rocky mountains, in April
1827, at an elevation of twelve thousand feet above the level of the sea, he was
struck with surprise with a large patch of brilliant purple, surrounded by snow,
which, on a near approach, he found to be the blossoms of this pretty flowering
plant. It very much resembles the Saxifraga oppositifolia. The plant forms a
thick tuft, with branches rising a few inches high, clothed with small flowers of a
vivid purple colour. The two plants raised in the Society's Garden, have been
cultivated in the greenhouse, but it is probable it will flourish better when treated
as alpine plants usually are. Another species, D. arctica, found on the shores of

. the Arctic Sea by Dr. Richardson, is in the possession of Dr. Hooker. Douglassia,
in compliment to Mr. Douglas.

6. EPIDENDRUM SKINNERII, Mr. Skinner's Epidendrum. (Bot. Reg. 1881.)
Gynandiia Monandria. Orchidacee. This very interesting species was sent from
Guatemala, in 1835, by G. U. Skinner, Esq., to James Bateman, Esq., Knypers-
ley Hall, Congleton, Cheshire. In the rich collection at that place it has bloomed,
under the very skilful management of Mr. Don. ‘The species is a most profuse
bloomer, producing a spike of flowers upon every shoot. The flower stem grows
erect, producing a spike of blossoms several inches long; flowers pale purple, an
inch and a half across. The plant merits a place in every collection. Epidendrum,
from Epi, upon; and dendron, a tree, native habitation.

7. HipiscUS SPLENDENS, Splendid-flowering. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Monadel-
phia Polyandra. Malvacee. A very fine flowering species which we find to grow
and bloom freely in the greenhouse. It was introduced from New Holland in
1830, by Mr. Frazer, who, in writing about it, said, “TI consider this plant the
King of all the Australian plants, I have seen it twenty-two fect high.” The

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flowers this season were nine inches across, literally covering the plant; they are
of a bright rose colour. The plant flourishes in a mixture of rich loam and peat,
requiring plenty of pot room; most of the public nurserymen possess plants of it.
It would make a fine show if planted in a conservatory. Hibiscus, from hibiscos,
the name which the Greeks give to Mallow.

8. LastopUs soNcHOIDES, Sonchus-like. (Brit. Flow. Gard.) Syngenesia.
Polygamia cqualis. Itis a native of Armenia, and is growing in the Chelsea
Botanic Garden. The flowers much resembles those of the wild Hawkweed, of a
pale yellow colour. Lasiopus, from Jasios, hairy ; and pous, a foot.

9. ONcrpruM LAaNcEANUM, Mr. Lance’s Oncidium. (Bot. Reg. 1887.) Gy-
nandria Monandria .Orchidacee. John Henry Lance, Esq., first discovered this
plant in Swinam, growing upon a Tamarind tree near to the Government House.
Mr. Lance afterwards found many more plants in different parts of the Colony,
growing upon the branches or stems of the Tamarind, Calabash, or Sapodilla trees.
The plant, however, flourishes freely if tied to the Brugmansia arborea, or Orange
tree. The flowers are produced upon a stiff branching panicle. Messrs. Rollis-
sons of Tooting, had a plant flowered this season (1836,) the panicle having
thirty flowers, each flower being two inches and a quarter in diameter. The sepals
are of a greenish yellow colour at their edges, bright yellow in the middle, and
regularly marked with broad blotches of crimson and chocolate brown; the lip is
of a bright violet at the edge, and a deep violet towards the base. Not only are
the flowers so strikingly handsome in colour, but they possess the additional charm
of the most spicy fragrance, which they retain, even stronger, after the flowers’are
gathered and dried ; no other Oncidium has fragrant blossoms. The plant merits
a place in every collection of this interesting tribe of plants. Most of the nursery-
men who cultivate orchideous plants have this for sale. The London Horticul-
tural Society presented Mr. Lance with the large Silver Medal, for the introduction
of this, and other fine plants. Oncidium, from ogkidion, a tubercle, referring to
two prominences on the lip of the flower.

11. PHONIA TENUIFOLIA, var. PLENA, Double-flowered fine leaved Peony
(Brit. Flow. Gard.) This very interesting variety was presented, by Dr. Fischer,
from the Imperial Botanic Garden at St. Petersburgh, to Mr. Goldie, nurseryman,
at Ayr, Scotland. Itis a very desirable plant for the flower border, not rising
higher than half a yard, and producing large double flowers of a deep rich crimson
colour. ‘The present variety is cultivated in collections around London.

12. Trrronium FucaTuM, Farded Clover. (Bot. Reg. 1883) Diadelphia
Decandria. Leguminose. The late Mr. Douglas sent seeds of this annual
Clover from California, to the London Horticultural Society. Inthe garden at
Farnham Green, it bloomed, but no seeds were produced, so that the plant is lost
from this country. The heads of flowers have a pretty appearance, being of a
cream colour towards the centre, and of a rosy-red at the ray.

13. VERBENA ERINOIDES ; VAR SABINI, Dwarf Erinus-like Vervain. (Brit.
Flow. Gard.) Synonym, V. Sabinia. This pretty flowering variety differs from
V. erinoides in being smaller, closer in its growth, and of more glabrous habit, and
rich purple flowers. It was introduced in 1833, from Chili, and is now in most
general collections. The plant is quite hardy, and blooms from May to November.

PART III.
MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

QUERIES.

On CHRYSANTHEMUMS.—Being a great admirer of that beautiful and inte-
resting tribe of plants, the Chinese Chrysanthemums, and being desirous of
procuring any new plants which are considered good, I trust you will excuse me
for soliciting a corner in your publication for the following query :—Whether the
plants mentioned in your March Number, by Mr. John Carr, as being seedlings,

214 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

raised last year by Mr. Robert Freeman, gardener to W. Brereton, Esq., near
Holt. Norfolk, can be procured from any of the London nurserymen. If your
correspondent, Mr. John Carr, would inform me where I can procure those he has
mentioned, and at what price, he will confer a great obligation on me. The
following are what I particularly refer to:—A pure white, very double, and the
petals naturally arranged in exquisite order—shaped like a double white camellia;
a fine changeable buff, well formed; a beautiful fine white, with small thick set
petals, having the appearance as if covered with snow. Nemo.
South Lambeth, May 31st, 1836.

ON DESTROYING THE THRIP.—Can you, or any of your Correspondents, in-
form me of the best means to eradicate the Thrip from the Dahlia flower,—which
so much infest it ? R. L.

On THE CULTURE OF PaNnsIEs.—There is no part of yourinteresting Magazine
from which I derive more advantage and information than the answers to corres-
pondents. May I request some of your contributors to let us have a paper on the
culture of Pansies. I have seen them at the Chiswick Horticultural Shows, and
been surprised that a flower which was in so little request a few years ago, should
now be brought to such a wonderful degree of perfection in size, shape, and
colour. I have attempted to procure some of the best sorts, but I cannot at all
rival the size of the flowers that I have seen exhibited. I have also seen beds of
Pansies one mass of beautiful blooms. I am induced to ask information as to
the best soil in which they can be grown, and also the best mode of propagation,
in order to form a bed. I attempted this year to plant out cuttings in spring, but
my bed is not yetcoyered. A north exposure in summer, and a south one in
winter, I find to suit them best, and, as they are so easily transplanted, my inten-
tion at present is to plant cuttings in a south exposure this autumn, and to
transplant them early in spring to my bed, which is to the north. If, however,
any of your readers can give us practical information upon the point, it will, I
am sure, be acceptable to many persons,

I remain, &e. &c.
23rd July, 1836. A SUBSCRIBER.

On Bone Manure, &c.—You will much oblige a Subscriber by inserting in
the September Number any information you may possess on the subject of bone
manure as applicable to gardens. It is known to have been successfully employed
in agriculture, and would be very serviceable in gardens by not requiring the beds
to be disturbed, as is done, with great injury to some of the plants, when digging
in manure. The information wished for would embrace the following points :—
1. The kind of soil for which it would be most beneficial.—2. The season and
mode of applying it, particularly as to quantity—3. Whether better adapted for
any particular plants than this; and lastly—4. The address in London of the
persons who furnish the article, with the price. TONBRIGIENSIS.

P.S.—The liquid manure, so generally used in Flanders, would, no doubt, be
be very useful as a surface manure, but it is not easily, if at all, attainable im this
country, and is very offensive.

ON ANSWERING QuERIES, &c.—I venture to assert, in the name of the greater
half of your readers, that if you could induce your contributors to answer queries,
or would shortly answer them yourself, it would render your publication still more
valuable to unscientific subscribers,—who, without putting questions themselves,
would be great gainers from the doubts and suggestions of others. You must un-
derstand this remark is applied to questions which refer strictly to the cultivation
of plants, for you cannot be expected to furnish your readers with taste as well as
knowledge; or to fix upon the prettiest flowers for those who cannot choose for
themselves. I have had great difficulty in procuring another Erinus Lychnidea,
and shall have still more in keeping it, unless you can give me some instruction
as to soil, heat or cold, quantity of water, &c. A. B. L.

Unless an immediate reply to a query was desired, we have usually omitted the
vanswer in the same month, judging it better to let the subject be brought before
our readers, and afford them a sufficient opportunity of favouring our querist cor-
respondents with replies, and thus a probability existed of any query being an-
swered much more satisfactorily than if we gave our individual opinion only. We

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shall be glad if our readers would look over the queries in back Numbers, and for-
ward to us answers which may meet the wishes of those proposing the queries. In
In case we get none, we will attend to the matter ourselves.—ConpDucTorR.

REMARKS.

OrancEe TREES.—A large quantity of Apples having been left in an
Orangery, and suffered to become rotten, the bad air arising from them, caused
the leaves of all the Orange trees to fall off.

Further proof of the continuance of germination in seeds has been received,
by the growth of some taken from tombs, dated in time of Marcus Aurelius, and
also Clodwig.— Country Paper.

TuLips.—The well known taste of the Dutch for Tulips is not diminished ; the
new Tulip called “The Citadel of Antwerp,’ has been purchased for 16,000
francs, (£650 sterling,) by an amateur at Amsterdam.

Horticultural Societies are springing up in almost every town and village in
the kingdom—it shows a good spirit has manifested itself amongst the higher
classes. A Horticultural Society has been formed at Yeovil, in Somersetshire ;
at Kingscote, there has been already two meetings; one has also been formed at
Thornbury, in Gloucestershire.

On InsEcTs INFESTING Ros—E TREES, &c.—When any Rose tree or other
shrub is infested with the green fly, take equal proportions of sulphur and tobacco
dust, and after moistening the plant, dust it over with the mixture. Tobacco
water from the Tobacco Manufactory answers the same purpose, being mixed
with twice the proportion of water. As the latter is not easily procured in some
places, the above mixture may generally be obtained. Rosa,

Hortus Siccus.—In studying Botany, it is of advantage to prepare a book
of dried specimens of plants; sueh a book is termed Hortus Siccus, a dry garden,
Choose from a plant a specimen having flower, bud, leaf, and if possible, seed.
Lay it upon thick blossom blotting paper, placing one or two sheets of the same
over it; upon which, unless the specimen be very succulent and thick, lay ano-
ther specimen, and then more paper. Care must be taken to lay each part of
the specimen smooth and flat upon the paper; no part of the specimen should
be under another part; Cut off any portion that is inconvenient to retain; If
any bud or flower be too thick, pare off some of the under side to make them lie
properly. When they are arranged, put a heavy weight upon them,—after a
Jew hours, carefully shift the position of each specimen to a dry part of the pa-
per, and replace the weight; repeat this, changing the paper if necessary, until
the specimens be perfectly dry. Prepare a solution of gum with a little camphor
in it, and secure each specimen to a page in a folio of cartridge or whity-brown
paper; then write under each the name of the plant, class, order, tree, shrub,
herb, country, &c. In the case of any specimen being very full of sap, a hot
iron may be passed two or three times over the covering of paper—taking care
not to burn it. Fora.

flor WATER SYSTEM OF HEATING Piant Housgs, &c.—I have latterly seen
an experiment tried in the use of glass tubes instead of the cast iron ones, which
answered far better in all respects, giving out the heat much quicker, affording
a higher temperature, and retained it for a longer period. The glass was of the
commonest kind, and quite cheap. It had a very neat appearance ;—I will ob-
tain the particulars of cost and construction, for a subsequent Number of the
Cabinet. R.

REFERENCE TO PLATE.

1. Antirrhinum majus, var. caryophylloides, The large Carnation-like flowered
Snapdragon. This very striking variety of Snapdragon, we received a specimen
of, from Mr. Bridgford. We have seen several plants of it in bloom, it is very
strikingly handsome, and deserves a place in every flower garden. It is quite
hardy, and a profuse bloomer.

216 MISCELLANEUUS INTELLIGENCE.

3. Anagallis Phillipsii, Mrs. Phillip’s Pimpernel. This very superior flowering
Pimpernel, was raised by the Lady whose name is attached, and in compliment to
whom, is the specific name most deservedly given. It is by far the most splendid
flowering Anagallis in this country. We saw it in profuse bloom at Mr. Joseph
Plant’s, Florist, Cheadle, Staffordshire, and Mr. Plant informed us, that as soon
as a sufficiency of plants was ready for sale, he should advertise it in the Cabinet.

3. Calceolaria maculaty.—This very handsome plant was raised by Mr. Joseph
Plant, it is a shrubby variety, and Mr. Plant having succeeded in obtaining
shrubby kinds marked with dark spots, most deservedly merits the thanks of a
Floricultural Public. The plant we took the above specimen from, was profusely
in bloom, and was strikingly handsome. In addition to the present variety, we
had the pleasure of an enraptured view of a considerable number of Shrubby and
Herbaceous kinds, now blooming for the first season, and far exceeding all we
had ever seen. Mr. Plant will give due notice when they will be ready for sale.

FLORICULTURAL CALENDAR FOR SEPTEMBER.

Annual flower seeds, as Clarkia, Collinsia, Schizanthuses, Ten-Week Stocks,
&c., now sown in pots and kept in a cool frame or greenhouse during winter, will
be suitable for planting out in open borders next April. Such plants bloom early
and fine, and their flowering season is generally closing when Spring-sown plants
are coming into bloom.

Carnation layers, if struck root, should immediately be potted off.

China Rose cuttings now strike very freely; buds may still be put in suc-
cessfully.

Mignonette may now be sown in pots, to bloom in winter,

Pelargoniums, cuttings of, may now be put off; plants from such will bloom in
May.

Pinks, pipings of, if struck, may be taken off and planted in the situations
intended for blooming in next season.

Plants of Herbaceous Calceolarias should now be divided, taking off offsets and
planting them in small pots.

Verbena Melindris (chamedrifolia). Runners of this plant should now be taken
off, planting them in small pots, and placing them in a shady stiuation. It
should be attended to as early in the month as convenient.

Plants of Chinese Chrysanthemums should be repotted if necessary; for if done
later, the blossoms will be small. Use the richest soil.

When Petunias, Heliotropium, Salvias, Pelargoniums (Geraniums), &c. have
been grown in open borders, and it is desirable to have bushy plants for the same
purpose the next year, it is now the proper time to take of slips, and insert a num-
ber in a pot; afterwards place them in a hot-bed frame, or other situation having
the command of heat. When struck root, they may be placed in a greenhouse or
cool frame to preserve them from frost during Winter. When divided, and planted
out the ensuing May in open borders of rich soil, the plants will be stocky, and
bloom profusely.

Tigridia pavonia roots may generally be taken up about the end of the month.

Greenhouse plants will generally require to be taken in by the end of the month.
If allowed to remain out much longer, the foliage will often turn brown from the
effects of cold air, &c.

Plants of Pentstemons should be divided by taking off offsets, or increased by
striking slips. They should be struck in heat.

Pansies.—The tops and slips of Pansies should now be cut off, and be inserted
under a hand-glass, or where they can be shaded a little. They will root very
freely, and be good plants for next season,

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OCTOBER Ist, 1836.

PART I.
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS

ARTICLE I.—DIRECTIONS FOR PRESERVING PLANTS.
BY A LADY.

IT is unnecessary to enumerate all the advantages resulting from the
possession of a collection of preserved plants, as they can be fully
appreciated only by a person who bas made considerable progress in
the study of Botany. But the beginner requires to be informed,
that nothing can more materially aid him in his endeavours to be-
come familiar with the objects which vegetation presents to his view,
than such a collection, to which he can at all times refer, either for
refreshing his memory, or for instituting a more minute examination
than he had previously made. Plants are generally preserved by
drying, anda collection of this kind is called a Hortus siccus or
Herbarium. Various methods are in use for drying plants, but the
following, being among the most simple and efficacious, and attended
with little difficulty, is here preferred.

The articles necessary for the accomplishment of the object in
view are, a quantity of smooth, soft paper, of large size (16 quires
perhaps) ; eight boards of the same size, about an inch thick, of hard
wood ; four iron weights, or pieces of lead, two of them about forty
pounds weight, the others half that number. Or in place of these
weights a number of clean bricks may be used, or in short any
heavy bodies of convenient form. Along with these articles, a bota-
nical box is necessary. This box is made of tin, and varies in size,
from nine inches to two feet in length, according to the taste and
avidity of the collector.

In gathering plants for this purpose, such as are smaller than the
size of the paper are to be taken up roots and all. “In many cases,
portions only of plants can be preserved, on account of their size, and
then the most essential parts are to be selected, including always the
flowers. Plants to be preserved are to be gathered in dry weather,

d immediately deposited in the tin box, which prevents their be-

is Iv. pd

218 ON PRESERVING PLANTS.

coming shrivelled by evaporation. If gathered in wet weather, they
must be laid out for some time on a table or elsewhere to undergo a
partial drying. When roots have been taken up along with the
stems, they ought to be first washed, and then exposed for some time
to the air.

Let us now suppose that a dozen specimens are procured. Over
one of the boards lay two or three sheets of the paper, on the upper-
most of which spread out the plant to be dried, unfolding its various
parts, not however, so as to injure its natural appearance. A few of
the flowers and leaves ought tu be laid out with particular care. Over
this specimen lay half a dozen sheets of paper, on the uppermost of
which lay another plant as before, and so on successively, until the
whole are disposed of. A few sheets are then laid upon the last, and
a board placed over all.

Plants, viewed with reference to drying, may be divided into two
classes, the one comprehending those which being thin, soft, and
flexible, require little pressure to reduce them to a level, the other
including such as being stiff and thick require much pressure. Sup-
posing the above plants to have been of the first class, we lay upon
the upper board one of the smaller weights. A series of more stub-
born specimens being, in like manner, placed between other two
boards, we lay one of the larger weights upon them.

Should more specimens be collected next day, they are disposed
of in the same manner; and thus successively. At the end of three
days generally, the plants first laid in are to be taken out, together
with the paper about them. They are to be laid in fresh paper, three
or four sheets being placed between every two plants, and the whole
put between two boards, with a weight over them. ‘The second series
is similarly treated next day, and so on. The paper from which the
plants have been removed is to be dried for future use.

There will thus be four sets of plants: two in the first stage of
drying, and two in the second stage. The plants of the second stage
sets should be taken out about three days after they have been de-
posited, and after dry paper has been put about them, returned to
their places. The paper may thus be shifted until the plants be per-
fectly dry, when they are finally removed. Each plant is then placed
in a sheet of dry paper, and along with it is deposited a slip of paper,
on which are written the name of the plant, the place in which it
was gathered, the time of gathering, the soil, and such other cireum-
stances as may tend to elucidate the history of the species. Thus
prepared, the plants are packed up in bundles, which gradually en-
large their dimensions, or increase in number till the end of the
season.

ON PRESERVING PLANTS. 219

Having in this manner arranged a certain number of plants, the
collector has now to arrange them. For this purpose he has to pro-
cure a quantity of good stout writing or printing paper of large size,
folded into folio, which is to be stitched in coloured covers, making
fasciculi of five or six sheets each. A quantity of fine large post or
other writing paper, in half sheets, folio size, cut round the edges, is
also to be at hand. Let a number of narrow slips of different lengths
be cut from a piece of the same paper, and let some prepared
isinglass or dissolved gum be in readiness, together with a camel-hair
pencil. Take a dried plant, lay it upon a leaf of the fine cut paper,
then fasten it down by means of a few of the slips, to which isinglass
or gum has been applied, laid across the stem and some of the
branches. Two or three slips are generally sufficient for a plant or
specimen. In this manner all the dried plants destined to form part
of the herbarium are treated. Write the uame of each species on the
top of the leaf, and transcribe the notice respecting the place in
which it was gathered, &c., at the bottom. Then arrange the plant
according to system, and lay one between every two pages of the fas-
ciculi. The fasciculi are formed into bundles, by being laid alter-
nately up and down upon each other, as they do not lie conveniently
when the heads of the plants are all at the top of the bundle, because
the stalks and roots are thicker than the flowers. These bundles,
consisting each of ten fasciculi, may be covered by pieces of paste-
board tied by strings. The collection is kept on the shelves of a
cabinet, or in a chest. To prevent the attacks of insects, it is neces-
sary to keep beside it a piece of sponge soaked full of rectified oil of
turpentine ; and to ensure it against decay from damp, it ought to be
kept in a dry and well ventilated place.

The above is an orderly method of forming a herbarinm; but
many other expedients are resorted to. Most plants dry sufficiently
well between the leaves of old books, and many collectors save them-
selves the trouble of forming a neat collection, by huddling up their
specimens in the least expensive or laborious manner.

Another method of putting up dried plants is the following :—The
specimens are fastened to leaves of stout paper of uniform size; the
species are then arranged in order, and all those of the same genus
are placed within one or more sheets of paper, on the outside of
which the generic name is written. The generic fasciculi are then
collected into bundles, on which are written the names of the classes
and orders. Some persons keep their specimens loose, within sheets
of paper. This method is the most convenient for the minute ex-
amination of the plants, but has disadvantages which render it inex-
pedient in ordinary cases.

220 STOVE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS.

ARTICLE II.

ON STRIKING CUTTINGS OF STOVE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS.

BY MR. THOMAS ROGERSON, DALE COTTAGE, WATERFORD, IRELAND.

Besipes the usual supply of the different sorts of earth, &c. there is
another article necessary to be provided before we begin the business
of making cuttings; which is, a few dozen of small bell glasses, (the
white glass is best,) of as many different sizes, as are the pots in
which the cuttings are intended to be planted; they should be fitted
to the pot so as to rest on the inner side of it, about an inch below
the rim; by observing which circumstance, when the pot is filled
with earth, the glass will have room sufficient to sink a little into it,
so as to perfectly exclude the external air, which is of very essential
importance to the cutting while in a dormant state, that is, from the
time they are put in, until they begin to grow. Or they may be
covered by means of a flat piece of glass being placed over the top
of the pot, the cuttings being inserted low enough in the pot to ad-
mit of it being done without the points touching the glass. I prefer
this method to the former.

The cuttings of stove and greenhouse plants may, with pretty
tolerable success, be made almost every season of the year: yet, from
April to August is certainly the most proper; as the plants are at
that season plentifully supplied with young wood, which in most
species, that I am acquainted with, produce roots when made into
cuttings much sooner, than the old wood will if used in the same
manuer. When the day is fixed upon for this business, let a quantity
of pots of the proper size be prepared; I seldom use larger than those
at one shilling, or for the largest cuttings, those at one shilling and
six-pence per dozen, or as they are generally called forties, and
forty-eights. ‘They must be drained in the manner already directed
for seeds, for the purpose of keeping the bottom of the pot as free from
stagnated water as possible; and then, as wanted, about half filled
with the compost best suited to the plant intended to be propagated,
to grow in for a few weeks, when first struck, and the remaining part
with the best loam that can be procured, to insert the cutting in when
ready. On the purity and clearness of the loam, I think, depends in
a great*measure the success of many of the tenderer kinds of cuttings ;
particularly those which are obliged to be kept in moist heat, as it is,
when contaminated with other composts very liable in these situations
to cause damp and rottenness, by the particles of putrifying matter
generally contained in mixed earths ; aud the properties of which are

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put in motion, by the application of heat. As an exception to this
tule, may be adduced sand; which is of very great utility to mix
with the loam, should it happen to be rather stiff for the nature of
the cutting: but then, the sand proper for this use is of su pure a
nature in itself, that it is evident, it cannot have the effect noticed
above in regard to mixed soils.

In the choice of cuttings, preference should be given to the firm-
est wood of the same year’s growth; and of these, only such whose
leaves have attained their full size, and proper colour, which are
generally to be selected from the lateral shoots ; as the upright lead-
ing ones are mostly too luxuriant to make good cuttings. I have
observed that cuttings of many plants, if taken from the lateral shoots,
never become proper erect stems; but are inclined at all times to
form an irregular, bushy, weak head: this is not of small importance
to such collectors as cultivate plants merely for the flower; as such
heads generally produce them sooner than luxuriant leaders. To the
lovers of handsome erect plants, I would, however, recommend to
choose their cuttings from the upright shoots, early in the season,
before they acquire that Iuxuriance of growth so unfit for the pur-
poses of propagation. The tops of the shoots are to be preferred,
unless they happen to fag before used. To prepare them for insertion,
most of the leaves must be trimmed off close to the stem, leaving
only a few at the top, to allow a free respiration of the air necessary
to the life of the plant. This is a most essential article in the art of
making cuttings, particularly those of evergreens; for if they are
deprived entirely of their leaves, or that they otherwise flag, or oc-
casionally fall off soon after they are put in, there will be little or no
chance of their growing. The reason is obvious, because the inhe-
rent sap of the cutting, being deprived of these organs of respiration
that kept it in motion, and the cutting having no roots by the efforts
of which to produce new leaves, the sap, consequently, becomes stag-
nated in the pores of the wood; which, like the stagnation of the
blood in animals, in all likelihood prove mortal, by occasioning an
immediate mortification.

In shortening each cutting to the most convenient length, care
must be taken to do it with a clean cut, in a transverse direction ;
and by no means should they be left exposed, or to lie any consider-
able time before planted. In planting, a small dibble or other con-
venient instrument should be used to press the loam sufficiently tight,
to the base of the cutting, as that is the principle part to be made fast ;
as soon as the while are inserted, and the surface of the mould made
level and a little firm, give them a gentle watering to settle them ;

222 STOVE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS.

they should be left to soak about a quarter of an hour, and then
be covered with a bell-glass, which should be pressed pretty tight
so as perfectly to exclude the outward air. If there are several
cuttings of the same sort, they may be put in one pot, unless they
happen to be very large, or curious sorts: but I would advise to have
each species kept in a separate one, on account of the difference in
time that some of them require to strike roots; and also, that any
scarce or valuable kind should be put only one in a small pot, as
they then are not liable to be injured so much by damp; neither
do they require to go through the precarious operation of separate
potting, so soon after been struck.

Should it be requisite to have a considerable quantity of cuttings
made at the same time, it would be proper to have a one-light box,
with close glasses, (such as are used for raising early cucumbers,)
placed on a moderate hot-bed ready to receive them. It should be
covered with saw-dust or clean tan, about a foot deep, in which to
plunge the pots: but if there are only a few done, they may be
plunged in any frame among other things, provided there is a mo-
derate heat.

They will now require the most particular attention as to watering
and shading. The water must be given twice or thrice very mo-
derately until the earth becomes sufficiently moist, which, if once so,
will retain the moisture for a length of time, by being covered with
the glass: but the shading is the principal care whenever the sun’s
rays fall on the glasses, as nothing will create rottenness sooner than
letting the leaves flag, and lie upon each other, which will be the
positive consequence of the want of shade. The most advisable me-
thod to do it, is, in my opinion, to have a few large sheets of strong
paper, to lay over the glasses within the frame; which at the same
time that it shades the cuttings, does not prevent the sun’s rays from
entering the frame and clearing off any damps that may be accumu-
lated therein: whereas, if matts are laid on the outside of the frame
light, it is evident they will tend to have the direct contrary effect.
However, in the course of a week or fortnight, they will be able to
withstand a little of the rays of the morning and evening sun.

While in an active state, they should be kept rather dry, but not
to an extreme; else the bark will become shrivelled and occasion
a very smart falling off amongst them; on the other hand, should
they be kept in an over moist state, the consequence, would not be
less disagreeable on account of the damp, occasioned by the air being
so closely confined under the glasses; in this case it would be of
infinite service, to have the glasses wiped with a dry cloth about once

ON MYRTLES. 223

a week, which is quite sufficient for hot-house cuttings, as they are
not so liable to suffer from this cause, as those of greenhouse plants.

As the heat of the bed declines, it will be necessary to have another
properly tempered ready, in which to plunge them, when requisite ;
or otherwise, let old be renovated with linings of fresh warm dung,
but in such a manner, as to avoid creating any violent degree of heat
or strong rank steam in the bed, as it is better to do it often and but
slightly at a time, it being a trifling increase of labour, compared
with the probable consequences. By this management one may
expect to have some of the free growing kinds well rooted, and make-
ing rapid progress, in the course of a very few weeks ; when such is
the case, it will be necessary to give alittle air by taking off the bell-
glasses at night, and to keep them a little moister than before. If
they endure this pretty well for a few days, they may be left off en-
tirely, which will harden and prepare them by the time in which it
may be thought convenient to part and pot them separately.

In taking the bell-glasses off at night, it is necessary to observe
that from their closeness they sometimes occasion the cuttings, more
frequently the harder sorts, to produce young leaves and even shoots,
before they have sufficient roots: if at any time these should be mis-
taken for well rooted plants, and their glasses taken off accordingly,
in a few hours they may be perceived by their leaves beginning to
flag; in which case the glasses must be immediately replaced ; other-
wise, if neglected, these tender shoots will be utterly spoiled, and it
will be a very great chance whether the cuttings will ever produce
more or not.

‘ Should the above circumstance happen, they will be observed to
_ be more impatient of damp afterwards: as indeed will all those be
which are growing ; the glasses should therefore be more frequently
dried, and kept off until the leaves, &c. which were under them be-
come dry by evaporation; lest we risk their success, I may say
_ perhaps, their existence, by rotting the first weak efforts towards
active life.

; (To be continued. )

ARTICLE III.—ON MYRTLES.—From an Otp Autuor.
Mons. Licer describes the Myrtle as follows: It is a shrub, that
from its root shoots forth little branches, garnished with small, green,
soft, shining, and pointed leaves, among which grow flowers called
Pentapelous, or consisting of five leaves, white, odoriferous, and in
the form of a Rose. These are supported by an indented cup, which
grows to be a berry as big as an olive, with a crown on the top, divi-
ded into several cells full of seeds, shaped like little kidneys.

224 ON MYRTLES.

Mr. Mortimer distinguishes them into the Broad-leaved Myrtle,
and the Narrow-leaved Myrtle, which are both very odoriferous
shrubs; but he esteems that which affords plenty of double white
blossoms in Autumn, as the best: And also a sort of Myrtle with a
large leaf, called the Spanish Myrtle, which will endure all weathers
without Shelter: And another sort of Myrtle that comes from Caro-
lina and Virginia, which is the hardest of them all; the berries of
which being boiled, yield a substance of a green colour, sweet or
pinguid, which they there scum off, and make candles with, which
do not only give a clear light, but avery agreeable scent. These
will all endure hard winters with a very slender defence.

Mr. Bradiey distinguishes Myrtles as follows : the Large-leaved
Myrtles, which are, the Nutmeg Myrtle, the Nutmeg Myrtle with
variegated leaves, and that with the double blossom, the Orange-
leaved Myrtle, the Portugal Myrtle, and the Spanish broad-leaved
Myrtle.

The Smaller-leaved Myrtles, he distinguishes into the Bird’s-nest
Myrtle, the Box-leaved Myrtle, the Rosemary-leaved Myrtle, the
Silver-leaved Myrtle, the Thyme-leaved Myrtle, and the Upright
Myrtle.

All these, he says, are with ease propagated by cuttings, except
the Orange-leaved Myrtle, and that with the double blossom, which
are much better increased from layers.

The best time for laying Myrtles, he says, is in May, (but Mons.
Liger says in March, which layers should be only the youngest
shoots; (Mons. Liger says, the straitest branches, and those whose
rind is smoothest) which, after the earth has been well stirred, must
be bent into the earth, and often watered, and they will strike root,
and be fit to take off from the mother plant the spring following :
But Mons. Liger says, the September following.

Mr. Bradley says, if you lay down shoots of a year old, they will —
never take root, with all the art that can be used. :

As for multiplying them by cuttings, he advises also, that they be —
young and tender, taken from the Myrtles in July: That the leaves
must be stripped off two inches from each cutting, and set in pots of ©
fine light earth, two inches deep, and an inch one from another, and ‘
frequently watered till they have taken root, which will be about the
latter end of August. Thus they ought to remain till the second —
March before they are transplanted into single pots.

Mons. Liger says, that in order to multiply them by slips cut from
the roots, you must lay open the root of the Myrtle from whence you
design to take a branch; cut it off as close as you can, that there —

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ON MYRTLES. 225

may be the more little roots about it. That this is to be done either
spring or fall : that the earth they are planted in, should be two-thirds
kitchen-garden soil well sifted, and one-third hot-bed mould.

Mr. Mortimer says, Myrtles produced from layers are the most
hardy ; and those from seeds most tender: But neither he, nor Mr.
Bradley, nor Mons. Liger gives directions for;multiplying them by
seed.

He says, that as to the Carolina or Virginian Myrtle, it thrives
best near the sea, and is raised either of seeds or layers. He advises
in planting them, that they be not too close together, nor in too
moist a place ; for that these will cause them to grow mouldy. That
they should be transplanted in the spring of the year, that they may
have time to get root in summer, that the tree may be supplied with
sap sufficient to nourish it in winter.

All agree, that they should be well watered. Mr. Bradley says,
when they have once got large roots, they delight in water, and
should be frequently refreshed with it. Mons. Liger says, they
must be frequently watered in the summer, because the humidities
rectified by the heat of the sun, help layers to take root the sooner.
And Mr. Mortimer says, Myrtles must be well watered summer and
winter, or else they will not take root well.

Mr. Bradley says, the Myrtle delights so much in moisture, that
he has known a pot of it set in a shallow bason of water, on the in-
side of a window, exposed to the South, that has shot above four
times as much in one summer, as any that have stood abroad; and
has continued growing at that great rate for several years, without
renewing the earth in the pot, by only supplying the bason with fresh
water as it wanted; but the shoots of this plant were very tender.

Mons. Liger advises to plant them in a place where the sun ean
come at them, and to water them often: and says, you may know
when they want it by the fading of the leaves.

Mr. Bradley says, in disposing of Myrtles, or any other plants in
the shade, you must do it so, that no other trees drop upon them, nor
must they be confined in too close a place, but have a free air both
round about them and above them, or else the shoots they make will
be very slender and weak.

Mons. Liger says, Myrtles naturally require the use of the shear,
and are to be clipt by art; and if by any accident any of the branches
happen to wither, they are to be cut off to the quick.

My. Bradley directs, that about the middle of April, such old trees
as have been neglected and have thin heads, should be praned about
the roots, and have fresh earth put to them; and that the branches

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226 ON PRESERVING GERANIUMS,

of their heads should be cut within three or four inches of the stem,
and should be pruned about the roots; and that by this ordering,
they will prepare to shoot by that time they come abroad; and if
they have water and shade enough, will make handsome plants that
summer.

Mr. Bradley informs us, that Mr. Whitmil shewed him some
Myrtles that were inarched one upon another, and had taken very
well: among these they were the Striped Myrtle upon the Plain;
the Nutmeg Myrtle upon the Upright; the Large-ieaved kinds upon
the Small; and the Double-blossomed upon several sorts: which
Lrought to his mind some thoughts he once had of making a pyramid
of Myrtles, the base of which should be garnished with the Spanish
Broad-leaved Myrtle, to be followed with the Nutmeg; and next to
that the Silver-edged Myrtle, and npon that the Upright sort, to be
succeeded by the Rosemary and Thyme-leaved kinds, upon which
there might be a ball of the Double-blossomed Myrtle, which would
make a fine appearance.

At Sir Nicholas Carew’s, at Bedington, is a Myrtle of the Spanish

-Broad-leaved kind, which is above eighteen feet high, and spreads

- . about 45 feet. Mr. Bradley says, if to this are joined those Myrtles

that he has seen growing in Devonshire, in the natural ground, he
cannot see any occasion for any great use of fire for these sort of
plants, as is common in greenhouses: but plants that are in pots are
much more liable to suffer by the frost, than if they were in the
naked ground ; and the more woody the plants are, the more hardy
they are.

ARTICLE IV.—ON PRESERVING GERANIUMS IN A SMALL
SPACE THROUGH WINTER.—By Lottsa.

GARDENERS are, in the spring, often at great trouble in collecting a
number of cuttings of greenhouse plants, especially of Pelargoniums;
and after these have struck, and the plants thus formed have flowered
through the summer, they must, when Autumn has drawn near its
close, be put into some place of safety for winter. At those places
where there is not proper accommodation for them, the gardeners hay-
ing a regard for the plants they have reared, are often much per-
plexed in bringing them through the winter,—in consequence, when
the time has arrived at which the plants must be transplanted from
the borders into pots, and after the knife has been used freely upon
them, they are often crowded together in ill-lighted rooms and other
places where they can scarcely draw breath, aud where numbers die,

THE AYRSHIRE ROSE. 227

and those which survive the winter are few and ill-favonred. To en-
deavour to remedy this evil is the object of this article ;—the plan is
avery simple one. About the time at which greenhouse plants are
taken from the borders, go over them and take from them what cut-
tings they can spare; (some may be cut to pieces, and made the
most of ;) then take pots eight or nine inches in diameter, put twenty
or thirty cuttings in each, and plunge the pots to the rim in a hot-
bed which has but slight heat; cover the pots of cuttings with hand-
glasses, or a small frame, and in a short time the cuttings will have
struck root. They may remain there as long as the weather is mild
—when the frost sets in, remove them to a room, or any other place
where they may be protected from the cold ; a small window with a
shelf in front, will contain 200 plants. If the same window was
employed for holding full sized plants, two common sized Pelargo-
niums would fill it. About the middle of March or the latter end,
plant each rooted cutting in a small pot, and put them into a shady
place until the season of transplanting them.

ARTICLE V.—ON THE AYRSHIRE ROSE.—By Ctzricus.

Beine much pleased and interested in the culture of the Ayrshire
Rose, when grown as a climber, or to form a splendid bush, I tran-
scribe an account of its history, &c., for insertion in the Cabinet, as-
sured it will be interesting to its readers.

“The beauty and usefulness of the Ayrshire Rose are not suf-
ficiently known. The rapidity with which it covers walls and fences,
or the sides of unsightly buildings, with its thick mass of branches
and foliage, and the brilliant effect of its numerous white flowers du-
ring the month of July, in situations where it is well exposed to the
sun, and particularly when trained over the roofs of cottages or gar-
den seats, are such valuable properties that no ornamental grounds
should be without it.

A History of the Ayrshire Rose has been published by Mr. Neill,
the Secretary of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, in a paper
in the Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine; and communications
which I have received relative to the plant from Mr. Robert Aus-
tin, of Glasgow, and Mr. George Douglas, of Rodinghead, near
Kilmarnock, have enabled me to add some few particulars to Mr.
Neill’s account. It is stated to have been raised (in what manner I
shall hereafter observe on) in the garden of John Karl of Loudon,
at Loudon Castle, in Ayrshire, in the year 1768 or 1769. Mr.
Douglas, who at that period had the charge of the estate and gar-

228 THE AYRSHIRE ROSE.

dens at Loudon, has informed me that he gave a plant of the Rose
to his friend Mr. Charles Dalrymple of Orangefield, near Ayr, from
whose garden it was introduced into the nurseries in his neighbour-
hood, as well as at Glasgow; it was at first ‘called the Orengefield
Rose, but subsequently received the more general appellation by
which it is now known. It has been considered by some as a native
wild plant of Ayrshire, but I believe there is little doubt, that it was
first observed in the gardens of that county, where possibly the ori-
ginal plants, or at least some of their earliest offspring, are still to be
seen. Mr. Woods did not consider it as indigenous in Britain, since
in his Synopsis of the British Roses, communicated to the Linnean
Society in 1816, and subsequently published in their Transactions,
he has not even mentioned it.

From Seotland, it reached the nurseries round London, but was
not noticed by any of eur periodical works on plants till 1819, when
Dr. Sims published an account of it in the Betanical Magazine.
His description was made from specimens of plants which cover a
building, in the garden of the late Sir Joseph Banks, at Spring
Grove; these came from the nursery of Mr. Ronalds, at Brentford,
and were planted in February, 1811.

The Ayrshire Rose has slender branches, which grow rapidly
in one season to a very great extent (thirty feet and upwards),
but they are so weak as absolutely to require support; the older
branches are greenish brown, with a few small pale faleate aculei
growing on them; the younger branches are green, with a tinge
of purplish red, and armed with falcate red aculei; those branches
which grow to any extent are so slender and flexible, as to hang
down almost perpendicularly from the last point to which they are
nailed or tied. The smaller side branches are very numerous, and
are abundantly covered with leaves, so as to form a thick close mass ;
the plant rarely throws up strong sureuli, or root shoots. The leaves
are deciduous ; the stipule long and narrow, red in the centre, edged
with glands, but otherwise smooth; the petioli have a few uncinate
aculei and some small glands scattered over them; the foliola are
either five or seven in number, the lower pair being much the
smallest, they are flat and smooth, shining on both sides, but paler
though without glaucousness underneath, ovate, pointed, and simply
serrated; the edges, and particularly those of the vigorous leaves,
being sometimes tinged with red. The flowers are produced abun-
dantly from the beginning to near the end of July ; they rarely grow
singly, but are often threes, and on strong shoots the cymes contain
many flowers, from ten to twenty or more ; the bractez are tinged with

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red, pointed, waved, edged with glands, and bent backwards; the pe-
duncles are long, fine, and covered with glandiferous sete ; the ger-
men (tube of the calyx) is elliptic, contracted at the top, and covered
with sete, but not so much so as the peduncle ; the sepals (leaves
of the calyx) have a few fine pinne, are covered with glands, have a
point at the end extending beyond the bud before it expands, and
when the flower opens, they are reflexed ; the bud is cream-coloured,
the petals are large, obcordate, expanding flat, and their edges are
somewhat lapped over each other; the stamina are numerous, and
bright yellow; the stigmata are united, porrect, and hairy. The
scent of the flower is very pleasant. The fruit when ripe preserves
nearly its original shape, is elongated, and not much increased in
size.

The characters of the common Rosa arvensis, which do not agree
with the preceding, are these: the plant, wherever situated, is not
inclined to grow to the same extent; the branches are stronger,
thicker, and more able to support themselves; the younger shoots
have more the appearance of surculi (which often arise from the
root), they are glaucous, on the exposed side of more blueish green,
and on the exposed side purple and deeper coloured; they bear fewer
leaves, and the bush is consequently not so thick and close. The
foliola are most frequently seven, and, under similar circumstances,
smaller; they are usually broader in proportion to their length,
somewhat folded, not flat, more rugose on both sides, an opaque green
above, pale, glaucous, and without any appearance of shining be-
neath, with serratures less sharp, and the mid-rib occasionally hairy
on the under side. The flowers appear at the end of June, and often
grow singly ; the peduncles are thicker and stronger; the germen is
shorter and thicker, less contracted at the top, and usually smooth ;
the sepals are either without pinne or with only very slight ones,
they frequently have no terminated point, and when the flowers open,
are not reflexed; the flower at its first opening is cupped, and not
flatly expanded; the stigmata are quite smooth, not hairy. The
fruit, when ripe, is considerably swollen, and generally nearly glo-
bose, but its shape varies in different plants.

The differences between the Evergreen and the Ayrshire Rose are
also capable of being distinctly described. The Evergreen Rose is
by no means a free grower, and though it extends, when trained
against a wall, to some distance, it does not do so, rapidly ; its shoots
are equally slender, but not so weak, and they are rather more pur-
ple; it forms, however, with its branches and leaves, a very thick
bush. The leaves are evergreen, and though similar in shape, are

230 THE AYRSHIRE ROSE.

readily distinguished by being much more glossy and shining on
both surfaces, which occasions them to appear altogether of a darker
hne; they are also of a thicker substance, have finer serratures, and
are more inclined to bend back. The flowers appear from the mid-
dle to the end of July, they are less numerous, and generally weaker,
but accord in all other points.

The character given of the Ayrshire Rose by Mr. David Don, in
Mr. Neill’s paper in the Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine, agrees
well with the plant ; but it is not sufficiently extended to distinguish
it from R. sempervirens. As compared with R. arvensis, he describes
the leaves of that species as ovate, and of the Ayrshire as elliptic,
and represents the fruit of R. arvensis as globose, with peduncle,
nearly smooth, whilst the Ayrshire Rose has ovate fruit and glandi-
ferous peduncles. I am not aware that the R. arvensis has ever been
found with peduncles approaching to smoothness, and therefore sup-
pose that the description was made from a plant late in the autumn ;
for when the fruit approaches maturity the sete drop off the pe-
duncles, and leave them nearly smooth. Mr. Neill, though he con-
siders the Ayrshire Rose nearly allied to the R. arvensis, seems to
suspect that it may be the Rosa prostrata of De Candolle; but that
plant, according to the description of it in the works referred to, has
a nearer resemblance to R. sempervirens; it is besides a weak grow-
ing shrub, and has its flowers usually solitary and not in cymes.

Mr. Neill states that the seeds from whence the Ayrshire Rose was
obtained were part of a packet received from Canada or Nova Scotia,
and it appears by his account, that several plants of it were produced
together. Mr. Douglas further mentions, that a person, under the
direction of Dr. Hope of Edinburgh, was sent to Canada to collect
hardy plants and their seeds, for several noblemen and gentlemen in
Scotland, who defrayed the expense of the collection by subscription,
and that the Ayrshire Rose was raised, in 1768 or 1769, from seeds
in the Earl of Loudon’s share of the produce of this mission.

No Rose having the slightest resemblance to the Ayrshire, or to
which it can possibly be assimilated, has been brought to us, or de-
scribed, from the American continent ; and as we are tolerably well
acquainted with the plants of the northern part of that country, it
may, I think, be safely alleged, that the seeds could not have been
those of an indigenous Rose of America.

Mr. Lindley is perfectly correct, in his notice of the Ayrshire
Rose, in observing that two sorts have been cultivated and sold in the
nurseries under that name ; the fact is, that one of these is the com-
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with the figure in the Botanical Magazine, it is not surprising that
the mistake has hitherto remained uncorrected ; but to his opinion,
that the Rosa capreolata of Mr. Don, which is the true Ayrshire
Rose, is so identified with R. sempervirens, as not to differ from it in
any respect, or, in other words, is the same thing, I cannot assent ;
Mr. Lindley was induced, I apprehend, to give this opinion from
finding the botanical character of R. capreolata, as drawn up by Mr.
Don, accord with R. sempervirens, and from believing the Rose he
saw at Kew to be the true Ayrshire; but I have ascertained that the
Ayrshire Rose was not in the Royal Gardens at the time when Mr.
Lindley there enquired for it, the one supposed to be it, being ac-
tually Rosa sempervirens.

A more difficult task remains to be performed, that of ascertaining
what this shrub is. That it cannot be identified with the type of any
described species is clear; it is equally certain that it has not yet
been found growing naturally wild any where, so as to enable us to
treat it as a species, or as one of those varieties of ascertained species
which, from their not being traceable to a single original, but being
abundant in the districts where they are found, I consider as a higher
class of variation, or as sub-species of a well defined type. If, as is
mentioned above, several plants of it were raised together, we have
still to look for its parent, which would probably agree with it, if
several of its seeds produced similar plants; but it does not seem
certain that more than one plant was first produced, and it may con-
sequently be considered as an accidental variety, referable either to
R. arvensis, or R. sempervirens.

The Rosa arvensis is a very rare plant in Scotland, and does not,
as I am informed, grow wild in Ayrshire, therefore no seed of that
species could have come by chance from a native plant, to give it
being ; nor is it very likely that Rosa sempervirens, which, even in
the south of England, is a tender plant, would have freely ripened its
seeds in the climate of Scotland, so as to have casually produced the
young plaut there. I therefore consider it more probable that the
new Rose did actually originate in the garden at Loudon Castle, from
some seed transmitted to, or collected for, the Earl of Loudon; and
I think that the seed must have been that of Rosa sempervirens,
which if it was really imported from America, must have been the
produce of a garden plant, since the species is exotic in that country.

The Ayrshire Rose certainly has more affinity to R. sempervirens
than to R. arvensis, the inflorescence especially accords exactly, the
chief differences being that the leaves of the Ayrshire Rose are deci-
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sempervirens I therefore propose to place it, considering it to be a
deciduous and free growing variety of that species; in order to pre-
serve Mr. Don’s name, it may be called Rosa sempervirens capreo-
lata.

If a comparison be made of the Ayrshire Rose with Rosa arvensis,
in the state we usually find it, the differences between them are so
numerous that there cannot be a doubt about the propriety of sepa-
rating them. But there are varieties of Rosa arvensis in which some
of these differences are often less apparent, or altogether assimilated.
For an acquaintance with these varieties I am indebted to Mr. Wil-
liam Borrer, with whom I have had an opportunity of personally ex-
amining them in their native habitats in Sussex. Rosa arvensis in
accidental varieties has sported very much, and has produced some
particularly ornamental plants ; but those I am now about to mention
are not single productions, they are found growing wild in various
places unconnected with each other. Of these the first variety has
the fruit slightly covered with seta, but does not differ in any other
character from the common Rosa arvensis. Inthe second, the leaves
are elongated, and sharply pointed, and the fruit is also elongated.
The third accords with the second, except that the fruit of it is
slightly hispin. The fourth has many peculiarities, it is far less ro-
bust than the common sort, having weak shoots, which are conse-
quently very pendant, and the joints do not grow straight but in a
zig-zag manner; the foliola are smaller, less rugose, flatter, rather
bending back, and shining on the upper surface; below they have
the glaucousness of the type, though less of it, and somewhat shi-
ning; the flowers grow mostly singly, sometimes in cymes, but very
seldom in great numbers. The first and third of these varieties agree
with the Ayrshire Rose in the hispid fruit ; the second and third in
their lengthened leaves and elongated fruits ; but they have no other
peculiar points of accordance. When I first heard of the fourth va-
riety, I expected we had got the Ayrshire Rose in a wild state; its
weak and pendant branches, and the shining quality of the foliola en-
couraged the opinion, but the flexuose habit of its shoots, their short-
ness of extent, and the difference in the leaves, though approxima-
ting, overthrew my hope.

Tn the cultivation and management of the Ayrshire Rose there i is
little difficulty ; layers of its shoots root easily, and it strikes readily
from cuttings. When placed in good soil it grows so rapidly, that
by the second summer, the planter, if he wishes to cover a consider-
able space with its branches, will be gratified by the attainment of
his object." —Horticultural Transactions.

EXTRACT. 23:

PART II.

WT RA COT.

ON THE CULTIVATION OF PINKS.

A BRIEF account of the cultivation of Pinks pursued by me I now subjoin, hop-
ing, though the subject be trifling and unimportant in itself, it will afford some gra-
tification to those persons who are fond of flowers.

I formed my Pink beds and planted them about the middle of October; they
were raised six inches above the alleys, to enable the heavy rains to pass off during
the winter. The soil consisted of a sandy loam, or more correctly speaking, of a
commixture of yellowish loam, common black garden mould, road grit taken from
the entrance to Paddington pond, washed before it was used, and a good portion of
rotten horse-dung, well incorporated, with a good bottom of dung from the cucum-
ber pits: added to which, I top-dressed the beds in the beginning of May, after
weeding and lightly hoeing the surface, with nearly an inch thick of rotten dung
passed through a coarse sieve, in which was a small quantity one-year old sheep-
dung, the sweepings of the St. John’s Wood-lane sheep-pens.

I watered them freely with the pipe of the water-pot between the rows, when
the pods ei swelling and showing bloom ; for if the plants lack moisture at this
stage of their growth, when the weather is generally hot and the ground dry, the
flowers seem to languish, and neyer attain that degree of perfection they would do
if the beds were kept moist and cool. The top-dressing prevents the ground from
cracking, and the rains and water given from the pot passing through it, convey
gradually a wholesome nourishment to the plants.

The effect of careful, over careless cultivation was never perhaps more clearly
evinced than in an instance in my own neighbourhood this season. A friend of
mine, who had received from him all the superior varieties of Pinks, planted them
in a bed in the common way ; and though they were pretty healthy, and sent forth
sufficient blooms, they presented only a sort of uniform sameness, undistinguished
by that pleasing variety of bright colouring, and beautiful lacing peculiar to each,
which were so manifest in mine: a common observer would have said that they
were Pinks altogether different from mine.

Florists contending for a prize, and anxious to get their flowers large, leave
three pods only upon each stem, and four or five stems to alarge plant, two or three
to a small one, cutting off the rest as they spindle up to flower: as soon as the
pods are full formed, they tie a slip of wet bass round them, to prevent their burst-
ing irregularly, and place a glass or other covering over them when in bloom, to
protect them from the sun and rain, thereby preserving their colours from being
soon faded and tarnished.

If there has been much frost during the winter, and the earth is consequently
rendered light and loose when it thaws, the roots, by such extension of the ground,
will sometimes be raised almost out of it: in that case it will be necessary, any
time about the beginning of April, to tread the mould down lightly with the foot,
or at least to compress it firmly round the plants with the hand.

A Pink bed will continue, and flower very well, for two years in succession,
though most florists renew their plants every year by piping the grass, in order to
have them young, healthy, and vigorous, and if they are confined to the same plot
of ground, they take care to add a little fresh loam and rotten dung to it, every
time they make up a fresh bed.

Columella and Pliny, in their works on Agriculture, have given directions for
the selection of good soil, which cannot be amended at the present day: the fol-
lowing are some of the tests whereby they distinguish it. ‘“ That it is of a blackish
colour: glutinous when wet, and easily crumbled when dry; has an agreeable
smell; imbibes water, retains a proper quantity, and discharges a superfluity ;”
&e. Gardeners who cannot meet with such soil ought to use artificial means to
form it, by bringing together different kinds: sand and stiff loam being the princi-
pal ingredients required, the one for strong soils, the other for light.

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234 NEW AND RARE PLANTS.

Before I use fresh dug loam, I always take the precaution to strew over it a lit-
tle quick lime well slacked, andin a hot state, to correct any acidity, or decompose
any injurious saline compounds. Lime also is an excellent application for the
destruction of slugs, snails, worms, and other injurious insects, as well as for the
dissolution of inert vegetable matter. J

You will excuse the minute detail, which I have entered into more fully than I
intended when I sat down ; but as I took the pains to make the experiment, I give
it you, because I have every reason to be satisfied with the success of it.

Before I conclude, I beg to call to your recollection that I am neither gardener
nor florist professionally, but that I commenced the cultivation of flowers in tlie
first instance, with a view to amuse a depressed state of mind, and reinvigorate a
still more sickly state of body. I therefore solicit your utmost indulgence towards
the remarks which I have made on the cultivation of that pleasing little flower, the
Pink.— Horticultural Transactions.

LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS,

Noticed since our last.

1. ALuium srcuLttM, Sicilian Garlick. (Brit. Flow. Gard., 349.) Natural
Order, Asphodelee ; Linnaan Class, Hexandria; Order, Monogynia. This re-
markable species of Garlick is grown in the Chelsea Botanic Garden; it grows
yery extensively in Madonia, inhabiting the shady valleys; itis also found in other
parts of the kingdom of Sicily. The flower stalk rises to the height of four feet,
crowned by an umbel of near thirty blossoms, which, when expanded, are pendu-
lous; they are of a greenish yellow colour, marked with rosy-purple and white.
The whole plant has a very disagreeable scent, being far more powerful than that
of any other species. Allium, from the Celtic word all, acrid; alluding to the
properties of the plant.

2, ANTIRRHINUM GLANDULOSOM, Glandular Snapdragon. (Bot. Reg. 1893.)
Scrophularine ; Didynamia Angiospermia. A very pretty flowering hardy annual,
introduced into this country from California by the late Mr. Douglas. The flower
stem rises about two feet high, branching, and each branch terminating with a ra-
ceme of flowers of some length. The blossoms are of a fine rose colour outside,
and pale yellow within. ‘The plant blooms from July to the end of the season.
Seeds are produced in abundance. It merits a place in every flower garden. An-
tirrhinum, derived from Snoutwort, the appearance of the corolla resembling the
snout of some animal.

3. ARDISIA ODONTAPHYLLA, Tooth-leayed Ardisia. (Bot. Reg.) Like all the
other Ardisias, this species is a handsome evergreen hothouse shrub. It is a na-
tive of Bengal, where it was discovered by Dr. Buchanan. The flowers are of a
pale salmon colour streaked with rose; they are highly fragrant. Ardisia, from
ardis, the point of a weapon, referring to the sharp pointed segments of the corolla.

4, BEGONIA SANGUINEA, Blood-red Begonia. This very striking species is a
native of Brazil, from whence it has been introduced into this country in 1832.
It has bloomed in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden. It requires a hothouse tem-
perature. The stems are of a fine red colour, and the leaves at the upper side of
a green, perfectly smooth, and at the underside of a very deep blood-red, produc-
ing a striking appearance. ‘The flowers are white. The plant deserves a place
in every collection of hothouse plants.

5. BERBERIS EMPETRIFOLIA, Crowberry-leaved Barberry. (Brit. Flow. Gard.)
Berberidee ; Hexandria Monogynia. Mr. Lowe, of Clapton Nursery, recently
introduced this plant into this country; Mr. Lowes collector, Mr. Anderson, dis-
covered it in the straits of Magellan. It is a very delicate and pretty plant, form-
ing a procumbent shrub with slender twiggy branches. The flowers are large, of a
rich orange yellow colour. This plant is offered for sale in the London Nurseries.

6. BLEeTIA PATULA, Spreading flowered. (Bot. Mag.) Orchidee; Gynandria
Monandria. This very neat and pretty flowering species, is a native of Hayti,
and was introduced into this country in 1830. It has flowered in the stove in the

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Edinburgh Botanic Garden. The flowers are produced upon an elongated raceme,
each raceme having upwards of twenty flowers upon it; the blossom is nearly three
inches across, of a beautiful reddish lilac colour ; the base and edges of the labellum
are white. It is a very desirable species, and merits a situation in every collection
of stove plants.

7. CIRRHZA TRISTIS, Sad-coloured. (Bot. Reg. 1889.) Orchidacee ; Gy-
nandria. Another very pretty Orchideous plant, a native of Mexico; it has
bloomed in the collection of Messrs. Loddiges. The flowers are produced upon a
pendulous raceme of several inches long ; the flowers are of a dark purple, suffused
with blood colour and greenish yellow; the labellum is of a dark purple; they
are very fragrant; each flower is rather more than an inch across; the petals are
very narrow. ;

8. CoTONEASTER LAXIFLORA, Loose clustered flowered. (Bot. Mag. 3519.)
Rosacee ; Icosandria Digynia. This species forms an upright shrub from five to
six feet high. It has been recently introduced into this country by the London
Horticultural Society. The plant makes a pretty addition to our hardy shrubs; it
has much the appearance, in foliage, of a Vaccinium rather than a Cotoneaster.
The flowers are small, of a rosy colour, produced in pendulous cymes.

9. CALLEOPSIS TINCTORIA, var. ATROPURPUREA, Dyeing Calleopsis, Dark
flowered variety. This variety of the well known and much admired Coreopsis
tinctoria, now called Calliopsis tinctoria, is very superior to that species; it was
vaised from seed saved by Mr. James Tait, of Merry Flats, near Glasgow. The
flowers are about the size of C. tinctoria; the centre is yellow, surrounded by a
circle of dark purple, beyond which, to the extremity of the petals, is of a fine red
scarlet colour; some of the flowers are destitute of the yellow centre. Itis a splen-
did flowering annual, and deserves a place in every flower garden; we have grown
it this season in masses, and it produces a fine show. Seeds of the kind will be
plentiful in the hands of the London seedsmen next spring.

10. CraT@eus sPATHULATA, Spathula leaved Hawthorn. (Bot. Reg., 1890.)
Rosacex ; Icosandria Pentagynia. Thisspecies forms a pretty bush, growing about
five feet high. The C. virginica of the nurseries is the true C. spathulata ; it very
much resembles the C. parcifolia, but it differs from that species by the leaves be-
ing. edged with strong dark glands, and having large leafy stipules. The flowers
are white, produced in clusters of two or three in each, succeeded by green fruit of
moderate size. It is a native of the dry woods in Virginia and Carolina. Crate-
gus, from Kratos, strength ; referring to the durability of the wood.

1]. CyrropopiuM PUNCTATOM, Spotted flowered. Orchidiacew ; Gynandria
Monandria. A very splendid flowering species, introduced from Brazil by Wil-
liam Swainson, Esq., some years since. It bloomed for the first time in the Glas-
gow Botanic Garden in 1835. The petals are yellow; sepals mostly spotted with
purple and red; the lip has a purplish red edge; the remaining parts of the flower
are yellow, altogether producing a splendid and striking contrast.

12. Crocus sUAYEOLENS, Fragrant (flowered) Crocus. (Brit. Flow. Gard.
352.) A very pretty pale blue flowered species, a native of Italy ; it is also found
growing plentifully about Rome. It is cultivated in the garden of the Honourable
W. T. H. F. Strangways, Abbotsbury Castle, Dorsetshire. The pretty and fra-
grant flowers recommend it to every garden.

13. GiLi1a TENUIFLORA, Slender flowered. (Bot. Reg. 1888.) Polemoniacee ;
Pentandria Monogynia. The late Mr. Douglas sent seeds of this new hardy an-
nual from California, to the London Horticultural Society ; Mr. Douglas had ap-
pended the name Gilia splendens to the packet, but it certainly does not merit such
an appellation, being very much inferior to G. tricolor. The flowers of the pre-
sent species are produced upon slender, branching stems, which rise to about two
feet high; each flower is about a quarter of an inch across, of a pale rose colour,
slightly streaked with red outside, and of a fine violet in the inside. The flowers
do not produce much show where a single plant is only grown; but if grown in
masses, it makes a pretty addition to the flower garden.

14. Lupinus tatirouius, Broad-leaved Lupine. (Bot. Reg. 1891.) This
species was found in California by the late Mr. Douglas; it is a hardy perennial.
The flowers are like L. littoralis, of a purplish violet colour. Lupinus, from Lupus,
a “0 ; veferring to the exhausting properties of the roots of the plant with the
soil,

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PART III.
MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

QUERIES.

On A List or PLANTS FOR A ConsERVATORY, &c.—Having a small Conser-
vatory on the outside of my window, warmed only by the heat of the room, and not
by any regular flue, I should be obliged if some correspondent would give me the
names of such a collection of plants as would look gay and be fragrant, during the
autumn, winter, and spring. I do not want them in the summer, I should not
have troubled you with the query, did I not think that many plants which would
thrive in a regular Conservatory, would not thrive in such a place as I have de-
scribed, which is merely heated by the hot air from the room.

July 12th, 1836. A SUBSCRIBER AND CONSTANT READER.

On THE ANOMATHECA CRUENTA, &c.—A Subscriber is very desirous of learn-
ing, through the medium of your Cabinet, the best method of raising the Anoma-
theca cruenta. I have saved, this summer, a great quantity of seed. Will any of
your Correspondents inform me when it is to be sown,—if to be raised in a hotbed
or open pans in the greenhouse,—whether seedlings of the same year will blos-
som,—and what is the proper soil for raising the seed in? This information will
much oblige A SUBSCRIBER.

August 25th, 1836.

On THE Wi1rE-WormM.—A long time ago, I sent a query to you on the subject
of the Wire-Worm.—I wanted to know the best mode of getting rid of the pest. In
answer to my query there appeared an extract from a floral publication, recom-
mending the careful sifting and examination of the mould,—this process would be
very difficult to perform to a great extent. In a garden near my residence, which
contains fourteen acres, the proprietor lost in one season, a very extensive collec-
tion of Dahlias, entirely from the wire worm. If any correspondent of the Cabinet
knows of a method which would be effectual in a case like the above, and could be
easily done, I should be greatly obliged by the information.

A SUBSCRIBER AND CONSTANT RKADER.

ANSWERS.

On Mixine Hersaceous PLants with Suruss.—In answer to your Cor-
respondent “Juvenes,” on the bad taste of mixing herbaceous plants with shrubs,
he will find an article in Vol. LI, No. 65, page 412, of the Gardener’s Magazine,
by the Conductor. In the first place, the author has stated in a former part of the
work, that “one of the most common errors in ornamental gardening, is that of
mixing herbaceous plants with shrubs and trees.” The reason ¢s very simple, viz.
that neither can thrive properly, and that supposing both to thrive in the same de-
gree, the one injures the effect of the other. However pleasing and picturesque it
may be to see trees, shrubs, and flowers, all struggling together for the mastery in
a natural wood ; yet this sort of beauty is totally unsuitable for scenes of art. The
object of collecting trees, shrubs, and flowers into a garden, is to produce them in a
higher degree of perfection, and show them off to greater advantage, than can be
done in a state of wild nature. Now, whatever, in the planting, cultivation, or
management of a garden, interferes with these two objects, the perfection of the
plant, and its display to the greatest advantage, must be wrong, unless we are
wrong in our views of what is the object of garden culture. If the object in a gar-
den is to imitate nature by mixing trees, flowers, and shrubs together indiscrimi-
nately, and crowding them together as they are to be seen in a state of nature,
then, of course, our argument falls to the ground, and the present general practice
of fringing the margin of shrubberies and plantations with herbaceous plants, ad-
mits of justification. On the other hand, if we are right in the objects proposed to
be attained by a garden, then flowers ought never to be planted where there is

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some obvious impediment to their arriving at a high degree of perfection, or where

there is some other rival object of beauty to interfere with their effect. I will con-

tinue the subject at some future time. W. Horst.
(We shall be glad of any observations on the subject from Mr. Hurst.—Conp.)

On Destroyinc Moss, &c.—As I have not seen any answer to the question
put by Maria in the June Number of the Cabinet, page 137, in which she asks
for information how to get rid of moss in a long gravel walk. I conjecture that
the walk is possessed of one if not both the following evils, namely, that the walk
lays wet, and that the gravel is of a very close or clayey nature. To remedy these
eyils, I would advise Maria to have the walk well drained, and some sharp sand
mixed with the gravel; the draining may be done in the following manner :—take
the gravel off, about a foot inside, along the centre of the walk, and lay it on one
side, and take out the sub-soil the same width and depth; then make the bottom
of the drain firm, and lay in a good hollow drain with bricks or stones, and fill up
the remainder with small stones to within an inch of the top, and lay the gravel
on again. If the walk is more than six feet wide, then there should be two drains,
that is, one towards each side. There is another way in which walks may be laid
dry, but it is attended with more trouble and expense than the former; but
where materials can be had without much expense, I would recommend it. It is
as follows :—In renovating an old walk, begin at one end and take off the gravel
for about six or eight feet, and carry it to the other end, then take out the sub-soil
about six inches deep at the sides, and keep bearing a little deeper till you come to
the centre ; this being done, lay in a drain as directed above :—the whole must then
be filled up to its proper height with stones or other hard material, laying the
smallest at the top. Then take the gravel off another length, and put it on what
has been drained ; next take out the sub-soil and drain as before, and so go through
the whole walk. If the gravel is of a close or clayey nature, it must not be laid
on more than an inch thick, some sharp sand may be mixed with it as it is laid on.
In making a new walk, it is best to drain the whole length at once. In making
or draining a walk, if the walk does not fall either way, the drain must be cou-
structed to convey the water off. W. DENYER.

On Coroni“ra GLauca.—In the July Number of the Cabinet, page 163, Maria
wishes for information on the Coronilla glauca. I advise her to pinch off the tops
of the leading shoots. Young plants are sometimes shy of blooming, particularly if
they are growing luxuriantly. The lateral shoots thus caused will be flowering
ones. W. DENYER.

REMARKS.

On a List OF THE BEsT HyAcinTHs For Forcinc.—Many of your readers
would, we think, cultivate Hyacinths with much greater pleasure, could they as-
certain which were most worthy of their attention. But the London Catalogues
containing some hundreds of varieties, with no other distinction than Double and
Single of Red, Blue, White, and Yellow, and many of the most expensive, being
so inferior to some of the lower priced varieties as to render the prices no criterion
of quality, they are discouraged in their attempts to select the best. Having for
Many years paid particular attention to Hyacinths, growing annually in pots and
glasses several hundreds of the finest varieties cultivated in Holland, we send for
insertion in your Cabinet, (should you deem it worthy of a place) a select list of a
Sew uf those, which we consider the finest, for blooming in pots and glasses, (all of
which are at very moderate prices) hoping by means of your extensive circulation,
to obviate the above evil. J. Sutton & Sons.

Reading, Berkshire, July 1836.

(We refer our Readers to Messrs. Sutton’s Advertisement, in this month’s
Cabinet. ConbDucTor.

On THE GrowTH oF Piants, &c.—When plants advance but little in their
frowth, and assume a very dark or blue green colour, it shows a want of water, or
an obstruction to the action of the capillary attraction; and when a plantis of a
light green colour, and is diminutive and puny in its growth, and there is evidently

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no want of water, it shows a want of carbonaceous matter, or a general deficiency
of nutriment. If plants and trees grow very luxuriantly in branches, forming
large leaves, and producing little fruit, it shows that there is a luxuriant supply of
hydro-carbonate, or an excess of carbonaceous matter, lying at a great depth trom
the surface, and a want of oxygen; when the leaves and branches are deformed
and distorted by blisters and blotches, and by irregular contractions and contor-
tions of the stalks, fibres, veins, or ribs of the leaves, or when tumours break out
on the leaves and shoots, it shows that an excess of putrescent carbonaceous matter
containing nitrogen surrounds the roots. HAYWARD ON Horticulture.

THE QUALIFICATIONS REQUISITE FOR A COMPLETE GARDENER IN THE
YEAR 1720.—A great many gentlemen who are lovers of gardening, have often
the misfortune to meet with such gardeners, who being wholly ignorant of the foun-
dation of the art, and having only a confused knowledge of the manner of dres-
sing and improving a garden, do often destroy or injure it. Those authors who
have treated of the qualifications necessary to a complete gardener, have enumer-
ated those that follow:—1l. That there being a great deal of difficulty in the art,
the gardener ought to be such an one as has a natural bent of genius to the
study. 2. That such a person ought to be instructed in the latin tongue, writing,
arithmetic, the mathematics and designing, that he may be able to read authors
treating of the art, understand proportions, draw plans, designs of gardens, com-
partments, parterres, &c. 3. He should be acquainted with the terms and rules
of botany, so as to be able to distinguish every sort by its proper name, and to
class and assort plants to their respective tribes or families. 4. He ought to be
well grounded in the philosophical principles of his art, and to be a good naturalist,
that he may reason pertinently of the difference and goodness of soils, &e. 5. He
ought to observe the different degrees of heat necessary to promote the growth of
plants that come from different climates; to study the nature and temperature of
all plants, to know which of them require a hot, dry, or fat soil. 6. He ought to
know thoroughly how to order a flower garden, a kitchen garden, and an orchard ;
and what he ought to plant in the one, and what in the other. 7. He ought to
make a collection of the several sorts of fruit, and keep memorandums of their
respective characteristics, and take particular notice of the different times of their
ripening. 8. He ought to converse with those persons who are ingenious in hus-
bandry and gardening, and to observe their different ways of practice. 9. When
a man has arrived at the forementioned qualifications, it will be much for his im-
provement to travel to Holland and Flanders, which will furnish him with general
ideas, which may very much contribute to his improvement. In Holland he may
see that the study of gardening is not unworthy the wisest or greatest men in the
country; and if he be well accomplished in the art, will be treated by them with
extraordinary respect. In flanders, though their gardens differ from those in
Holland, being more after the English mode, yet being the best passage to France,
his mind will be better prepared to pass a judgment of the French gardens; the
excellency of which consists chiefly in the management of fruit-trees, except Ver-
sailles, which Mr. Bradley says, is the sum of every thing that has been done in
gardening ; that Trianon and Manii are partly of the same taste, anda sight of
them will furnish a man with fine ideas. Dr. Agricola says, it is impossible that
any description should clearly represent to us all that is remarkable in fine and
noble gardens; that when he reflects on Versailles only, and what he has seen
there, he cannot but think that he had a foretaste of paradise, all his senses being
struck with astonishment ; and though he has the whole represented in fine prints,
yet it was only a shadow of what was so naturally figured there : and therefore he
thinks it absolutely necessary, that gardeners should travel into foreign countries.

Tue ORIGINAL CHARTER OF THE GARDENER’S COMPANY.—This charter
was granted to the gardeners in the third year of the reign of King James the First,
when the buildings in and near the city of London, were not half so many as now
they are; and there were many spaces vacant of buildings between the houses in
London and Westminster, which are now built upon. Mr. Stow says, that in for-
mer times there was not a continued street of buildings between the cities of Lon-
don and Westminster, as now there is, but much vacant space of fields and open
grounds between, and so as not being paved the way was often bad to pass, and
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Queen Elizabeth, that Sir Robert Cecil building a very fair house beyond the Sa-
yoy at Ivy-Bridge, leveled and paved the highway near adjoining. Within the
compass of one age, Somerset House and the buildings were called country houses,
and the open places which were about them were employed in gardens for profit ;
and also many parts within the city and liberties were occupied by working gar-
deners, and were sufficient to furnish the town with garden ware; for then but a
few herbs were used at the table in comparison to what are spent now. The en-
couragement that these’ gardeners met with at this time, gave occasion to many
others to set up and profess the same calling near London, who by their unskilful
management committed several abuses: therefore it was proposed that the London
gardeners, who were professed men, should become a body, and inspect the work
of others who were pretenders to the art. But notwithstanding this charter
granted in the third year of King James, the city increasing in buildings, the com-
pany’s privileges were invaded by many that called themselves gardeners, so that
they were obliged to solicit an additional power. The most material parts of the
charter are as follows :—“ James, by the Grace of God, King of England, Scot-
land, France, and lreland, Defender of the Faith, &c. Whereas divers and sun-
dry personsinhabiting within the city of London, and sixmilescompass thereof, have
continually taken upon them to use and practice the trade, craft, or mystery of Gar-
dening, Planting, Grafting, Setting, Sowing, Cutting, Arbouring, Raking, Mount-
ing, Covering, Fencing, and removing of Plants, Herbs, Seeds, Fruits, Trees,
Stocks, and Sets, and of contriving the conveyances to the same belonging, being
ignorant and unskilful, having not been brought up in the said trade or mystery ;
and whereas the said persons have also daily sold and set unto our loving subjects,
into sundry the parts of our dominions and countries, dead and corrupt plants,
seeds, stocks, and trees, to the great deceit and loss of our said subjects: for redress
and prevention of which deceits and wrongs, we did by our letters patents, in the
third year of our reign over this our kingdom, grant to the gardeners then inhabit-
ing in London, and within six miles of the said city, that they should be one body-
corporate, by the name of Master, Wardens, Assistants, and Commonalty of the
Company of Gardeners of London, and did thereby give unto them divers powers
and privileges, as by our said letters patents appeareth ; and whereas we are cre-
dibly informed, that there are certain defects, questions, and doubts, found and
arisen in and upon our said letters patents, whereby the public good and profit of
the said company is much hindred, and the abuses aforesaid still continued ; which
Company of Gardeners have hereupon made their humble petition unto us, that
we would be graciously pleased to renew the said letters patents, with amend-
ments of these defects, and with such other necessary additions and alterations,
as we think most fit and convenient. Know ye, &c., that from henceforth all
person or persons, as now are freemen of the said Company of Gardeners, and
all other person or persons to be admitted into the said company according to the
provisions in these presents expressed, and which are, or shall be inhabiting in
London, or within six miles of the said city only, and none other shall be one
body corporate and politic in deed and in nature, by the name of Master, Warden,
and Assistants, and Commonalty of the Company of Gardeners of London, &c.,
and that by the said name they shall have perpetual succession, &c.” The charter
proceeds in a formal set of words, and gives a full power and authority to them to
have a public seal to be altered at their pleasure, and to purchase lands, &c. “ And
to nominate, elect and chuse, and swear, every year, the Wednesday in Whitsun-
week, one Master, two Wardens, and four and twenty Assistants, to be chosen out
of the said Company of Gardeners, who shall order, rule, and govern the said cor-
poration. And that it shall, and may be lawful to and for the Master, Wardens,
and Assistants for the time being, or the greater part of them, to admit into the said
company such person of persons, as they in their discretion shall think meet; and
they have also a power to take and keep as their apprentice or apprentices, all and
every such person or persons, as will bind themselves apprentice or apprentices for
the term of seven years and upwards. And further we will, and by these presents
for us, our heirs and successors, do straitly prohibit and forbid, that no person or
persons whatsoever, inhabiting within the said city of London, or the liberties
thereof, or within six miles compass of the said city, do at any time hereafter use,
or exercise the art or mystery of gardening within the said city of London, or the
liberties thereof, or without the same within six miles compass of the same city,

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either in places privileged or not privileged whatsover, without the licence and con-
sent of the said Master, Wardens, and Assistants of the said Company for the time
being, or the more part of them, thereunto first had or obtained, other than such
of our subjects as shall garden for their own household or private spending; and
that no person or persons being not admitted of the said company, and dwelling
above the space of six miles from the said city of London, shall henceforth sell or put
to sale, or offer to put to sale any Plants, Herbs, Roots, or Seeds, Trees, Stocks,
Slips, Sets, Flowers, or other things usually sold by gardeners, within the city of
London, or within six miles of the said city, but only in and at such accustomed
times and places, as the foreign baker and other foreigners, being not free of our
said city, use to do with their bread or other victuals ; and then also shall depart the
said places or markets with their said goods by them to be brought for sale, &c., upon
pain of forfeiture of such Plants, Herbs, Roots, Seeds, Trees, Slips, Sets, Flowers,
&c., all which forfeitures shall be distributed amongst the poor of the place, where
such forfeitures shall be taken.” The charter also sets forth the power of the com-
pany to make laws, constitutions, &c., for the good government of the master, war-
dens, &c. And also the power given to the master and wardens, or to any two of
them assisted by two of the assistants, to search and view all manner of plants,
stocks, sets, seeds, flowers, &c., in any market within their limits, to see, if they
are found good and wholesome, and if they find any such wares deceitful, unwhole-
some, dry, rotten, &c., to make seizure of them, or to burn or consume them with
the assistance of the clerk of the market, or to make seizures upon any forfeitures
mentioned in the charter. And the charter further commands, that the Lord Mayor
of the city of London within his liberty, and the justices of the peace within the
limits specified in the charter, shall upon such offences committed against the com-
pany, commit such offenders to the next gaol, till they have satisfied the demands
of the company. The peace of meeting for the company of gardeners, is in the
Trish chamber of the Guild-Hall of the city of London.

REFERENCE TO PLATE.

A. Sphenogyne speciosa.—This is a most beautiful flowering annual, growing
about a foot high. We received seeds of it from the Cape of Good Hope, in the
spring of the present year. The plant is of handsome foliage, and a most profuse
bloomer. The flowers open fully when the sun shines upon them, and then dis-
play a show of the most pleasing kind. We have had it in bloom since the Ist of
June, and it appears likely to continue to the end of the season. A bed of it
would be a delightful contrast to one of an opposite colour.

B. We feel sorry it is not in our power to give a larger specimen of this very
splendid flowering shrubby Calceolaria. It has recently been raised by Messrs.
Hammond and Stephens, Nurserymen, Taunton, Somersetshire. Our readers
will, however, perceive that of its class of colour in the shrubby kinds, it stands
unrivalled, and merits a place in every collection.

C. Forsyth’s Beauty of Anlaby Pansy.—This very handsome kind was raised
by Mr. Forsyth, Florist, Anlaby, near Hull. The flower is of first rate excellence,
both in form and colours.

D. Nolana atriplicifolia——A new and very handsome flowering annual, of
prostrate growth, or if grown in masses will rise to half a foot high. The flowers
are produced most numerously, and give a very pretty appearance. The plant
deserves a place in every flower-garden. It is a desirable plant to grow in order |
to hang pendulous over the edge of a vase, pot, &c. contrasting with Verbena me-
lindres, Anagallis fraticosa, &c. Seeds may be obtained of the principal Seeds-
men next spring.

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NOVEMBER Ist, 1886.

PART. ¥
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

ARTICLE I.
A DESCRIPTION OF CLIMBING & AUTUMNAL FLOWERING ROSES,
BY THE REV, JAMES JONES, A. M. BRISTOW RECTORY.

Many of the Autumnal Flowering Roses being now in bloom, both
climbers and others, I forward for insertion in the Cabinet, a list of
what I know to be good. The kinds I have seen in bloom, and have
carefully compared the flowers with the descriptions given by Mr.
Rivers, Mr. Wood, and others, celebrated for growing Roses, that I
can testify to their correctness and agreement, as to merit. I have
forwarded the list now in order that, being inserted immediately, it
will be serviceable to those persons desirous of procuring plants for
autumn planting.
CLIMBING ROSES.

Division I—AyrsHIRE Roses (ROSA ARVENSIS.)

Name. Colour. Form and Character.
Ayrshire Queen (Rivers’) dark purplish crimson cupped and double.
Blush, or Perthshire lilac blush cupped and double.
Countess of Lieven white cupped and double.
Dundee Rambler white with pink edge compact and very double.
Elegans, or Double White. white expanded, semi-double.
Jessica

Lovely Rambler bright pink cupped, semi-double.

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Queen ofthe Belgians pure white cupped and double.

- Rose Angle pale pink expanded and double.
Ruga pale flesh globular, large and double.
Splendens ;

Division II.—Rosa MULTIFLORA.
Alba ~~ pale flesh compact, small and double.
Crivelli
Elegans i blush and white compact, small and double.
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Name.
Fragrans
Grandiflora
Grevillii minor
Grevillii Scarlet, or Russel-
liana
Grevillii, or Seven Sisters
Hybrida, or Laure Dayoust
Rubra
Superba

Cotour.

bright rose shaded

dark crimson

CLIMBING AND AUTUMNAL FLOWERING ROSES.

Form and Character.

compact and double.

compact and very double.

purple, red, and blush expanded and double.

changeable blush
rose

imbricated and very double.
compact, small and double.

bright rose, pencilled cupped and double.

Division III.—EVvERGREEN ROosEs (ROSA SEMPERVIRENS).

Adelaide d’Orleans
Banksieflora
Brunonii

Carnea grandiflora
Donna Maria
Eximia

Félicité perpétuelle
Leopoldine d’Orleans
Madame d’Arblay
Major

Melanie de Montjoie
Myrianthes

Plena

Princesse Louise
Rampant

Rose foncée

Rosea

Scandens

Spectabile

Triomphe de Bollwyller

pale rose, shaded
white

bright purplish red
pale flesh

pure white

creamy white

pale flesh

pale flesh

white

white

delicate rose

white

creamy white & rose
white
rose

pale rose
pale flesh
lilac rose

imbricated and double.
compact, small and double.
cupped and double.
cupped, large and double.
cupped and very double.

compact and very double.
cupped and double.
cupped and very double.
large and single.
expanded, large and double.
cupped and very double.
compact and double.
cupped and very double.
cupped and double.
cupped, large and double.
compact and double.

» expanded, semi-double.

cupped and double.

creamy shaded white cupped, very large & double.

Division I1V.—Boursautt Roses (Rosa ALPINA.)

Arethuse

Blush, or Florida
Crimson, or Amadis
Drummond’s Thornless
Elegans

Gracilis

Tnermis

Red

rose
pale flesh

globular and very double.
globular, very large & double.

bright purp. crimson reflexed, large and double.

vivid rose

purple, white stripes
bright purplish rose
vivid rose

bright rose

cupped, small and double.
expanded and double.
cupped and very double.
cupped and yery double.
cupped and semi-double.

Division V.—Bankstan RoseEs (Rosa Banks12&.)

Rose levigata
Rosa sinica
White Banksia
Yellow Banksia

white
white
white
creamy yellow

single.

single.

compact, very dble. & frequent
compact and very double.

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Division VI.—Hysrip CLimBine ROsEs.

Name.

Astrolabe

Bengale Formidable
Cassorettiana

Clair

Indica major

Miller’s Climber

New York China.

Watt's Climbing Provence

Colour.
bright rose
rose
pale flesh

Form and Character.
compact and very double.
cupped, small & very double.
cupped and semi-double.

bright crimson purple cupped and single.

pale blush
bright pink
bright red
rose

expanded, large and double.
expanded and double.
cupped and double.
globular, large and double.

Roses for the Autumnal Rose Garden, that bloom from June tril November.

PERPETUAL ROSES.

Name.
Antinous
Blanche Lamourous
Billiard

Belle d’ Automne

Belle Italienne

Belle de Trianon

Clair Duchatelet

Crimson Perpetual, or Rose
du Roi

Constancy

Chabert

Couronne des Pourpres

Crispata

Cuvier

De Nuilly

De Rennes

Délice d’Hiver

Désespoir des Amateurs

Flon

Ferox

Four Seasons, Blush

Four Seasons, White

Four Seasons, Monstrous, or

Bullée

Four Seasons, Thornless

Georgina

Gloire des Perpétuelles

Grand Perpetual, or Fabert’s

Grande et Belle

Henriette Boulogne

Jean Hachette

Jenny Audio

Josephine Antoinette

La Mienne

Louis Phillippe

Colour.
very dark crimson

purplish shaded rose

rose
pale flesh
deep rose
lilac rose
purplish red

light crimson
pale flesh
purplish rose
purplish rose
pale rose

rosy red
bright carmine
bright rose
bright rose
lilac rose
bright rose
purplish deep rose
rose

white

pale rose
pale rose
bright rose
deep rose
bright rose
deep purplish rose
pale blush
lilac rose
bright rose
rose

deep rose

Form and Character.
cupped, finely shaped & dble.
cupped and very double.
expanded and double.
expanded and double.
cupped, large and double.
cupped and double.
globular and double.

cupped and very double.
cupped, very large & double.
expanded and double.

cupped and double.

cupped and double.

cupped and double.

globular and very double.
cupped and very double.
expanded, large and double.
compact, small & very double
compact and very double.
globular, large & very double.
cupped, semi-double.
expanded and double.

globular and large.

expanded and double.
globular, very large & double.
compact, large & very double.
globular, very large & double.
globular, very large & double.
compact and large.

globular, large and double.
globular, very large & double,
cupped and very double.
compact and very double.

dark purplish crimson expanded and very large:

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Name.
Lodoiska.
Madame Feburier
Ma Delice, or Douce Mellie
Marie Denise
Noel
Pompone Four Seasons
Pulcherie
Preval
Pestana, or Scarlet Four
Seasons
Perpétuelle d’Angers
Palmire, or Blush Perpetual
Perpetua nova
Panaché de Girardon or
Striped Perpetual
Palotte picotée
Portlandica carnea
Portlandica grandiflora
Prudhomme
Queen of Perpetuals
Royal Perpetual
Saint Barthélemi
Scotch Perpetual
Sisley’s
Stanwell Perpetual
Sixth of June
Triompe de Vitry
Volumineuse

Colour.
pale blush
rose
pale rose
pale with rosy centre
lilac rose
pale flesh
purplish red
pale rose

bright crimson

very pale flesh

pale rose

lilac rose_

pale flesh, striped
with red

pale flesh

pale rose

deep rose

rose

pale flesh

bright rose

purplish rose

blush

rose

pale flesh

deep rose

bright rose

blush

CLIMBING AND AUTUMNAL FLOWERING ROSES.

Form and Character.
globular, large and double.
cupped, large and very double
cupped and very double.
globular and large.
expanded, large and double.
compact, very small & double.
globular and double.
expanded and double.

cupped, semi-double.

expanded and very large.
compact and very double.
cupped and very double.

cupped and double.

compact and double.

cupped semi-double.

globular, very large & double.
cupped and very double.
cupped and very double.
cupped, very large & double.
cupped and semi-double.
cupped and double.

globular and very double.
expanded and double.
compact and very double.
expanded and double.
globular, very large & double

BOUBON, OR L'ILE DE BOURBON, ROSES (Rosa BourBONIANA.)

Name.
Antoine
Armosa
Augustine Margat
Aristide
Augustine Lelieur
Cent Feuilles
Charles Desprez
Chloe
Common
Diaphane
Dubreuil
Dubourg
Duc de Grammont
Earl Grey
Faustine
General Hoche
Gloire de Rosamene

Colour.

delicate bright rose
rose

pale rose

pale flesh

bright rose

crimson scarlet
bright purplish rose
pale blush

purplish rose

very pale flesh
bright rose
bright crimson

Form and Character.

cupped, large and double.
cupped and double.
cupped, large and double.

globular and very double.
cupped, large and double.
cupped, large and semi-double
cupped and very double.
globular, large and double.
cupped and very double.
globular, small and double.

cupped and double.
cupped and double.
cupped, large and semi-double

CLIMBING AND AUTUMNAL FLOWERING ROSES.

Name.
Gloire de Guerin
Henry the Fourth
Ida
Jeane d’Albret
La Tendresse
Lemesle —
Latifolia
Le Brun
Malvina

Madame Desprez
Marshal Villars
Millesie
Nectarine
Oleander-flowered

Philippart

Pierre Foulard

Psyche

Philemon

Rose d’Amour (Madame
Neumann)

Roi de Perse

Sir Robert Peel

Sylvain

T. Rivers

Valerie

Veleda

Victoire Argentée

White, or Julie de Loynes

Walner

Colour.
purplish crimson
pale rose
carmine
very bright rose
pale rose
rosy lilac
rose
bright rose
bright rose
lilac rose
purplish deep rose
pale rose

rose

peach shaded
purplish rose
light crimson
lilac rose

purplish rose

glossy pale flesh
pale rose

purplish rose
delicate rose

rose

blush

glossy pale blush
white

vivid purplish rose

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Form and Character.
globular and very double.
cupped and double.
cupped and very double.
cupped, large and double.
cupped, large and double.
globular and very double.
cupped very large and double. -
globular and double.
globular and very double.
globular, large and double.
cupped and very double.
cupped and very double,

expanded, and like Nerium
splendens.

cupped, large and double.

globular and very double.

cupped, small and double.

cupped and very double,

globular and double.

cupped, very large & double.
cupped, large and very double
globular and double.

cupped, finely shaped & dble.
cupped and double.

globular, large and double.
cupped and very double.
cupped, large and double.
cupped and double.

CHINA ROSES (Rosa r1npica).

Alphonsine

Amiral de Rigny

Amiral du Perri
Animating

Alba elegans

Bardon

Beau Carmin

Belle Traversie

Belle de Florence

Belle Tlyrienne

Belle Isidore

Camellia blanche
Camellia rouge
Camellia plena variegata
Camellia semiplena variegata
Candide

purplish crimson
vivid crimson
fiery crimson
purplish red

cupped and double.
expanded, large and double.
cupped, large and double.
cupped and small.

white, shad. with blush cupped, large and double.

pale blush
crimson, shaded
white

light carmine

crimson and rose

pure white
bright rose

pure white

cupped, large and double.
cupped and very double.
compact and double.
cupped and very double.

expanded and double.

globular, large and double.
imbricated, or camellia-like.

globular and very double.

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Name.
Cramoisie éblouissante
Cramoisie supérieure
Cramoisie triomphante
Countess of Albemarle
Clara
Clarisse
Duchesse de Valiére
Duc de Bordeaux
Duchess of Kent

Duchesse de Berri, or Grand

Val
Dame Blanche
Darius
Ensign Bisson
Ermite du Mont Cindre
Fabvier
Fenelon
Fenelon du Luxemburg
Flavia
Grandidier
General Chassé
General Moreau
Glory
Gloire d’ Auteuil
* Gouvion St. Cyr
Grandiflora
Henry the Fifth
Hortense
Tndica minor
Indica minor, crimson

Indica gloriosaor odoratissima lilac rose

Indica heterophylla
Imperiosa

Joseph Deschiens
Josephine

L’Azure

Leopold

Le Sombre

La Coquette

Le Volcan

Le Vermillon
Louis Phillippe d’Angers
Madame Desprez
Madame Bureau
Madame Desmonts
Marjolin

Napoleon
O'Connell

Colour. Form and Character.
vivid crimson reflexed and very double.
crimson expanded, large and double.
crimson cupped and very double.

pale rose, red centre compact, large and double.
white with rosy centre globular and very double.
pale blush globular, large & very double.
lilac rose cupped, very large and double.
lilac expanded and very double.
shaded pale blush cupped, large and double.

dark crimson compact and very double.

white globular, large and double.
purplish deep rose cupped and double.
pale rosy lilac expanded and small.

dark crimson purple cupped and double.

bright scarlet cupped and semi-double.
purplish crimson globular and double.

deep lilac rose shaded globular, large and double.

crimson globular, large and double.
bright rose, shaded cupped and very double.
bright rose, shaded cupped, large and double.
bright rose cupped and double.

clouded crimson expanded and double.

carmine cupped and double.

deep rose reflexed, very large & double.
vivid scarlet cupped and double.

shaded bright rose cupped and very double.

rose compact and small.
crimson compact and small,
globular and very double.
rose cupped, with leafy calyx.
dark crimson, shaded cupped and double.

bright crimson cupped and double.
lilac rose expanded, large and double.
pure white globular and double.

clouded dark crimson cupped and double.

carmine compact and double.

bright red cupped, large and double,
bright carmine cupped and double.

crimson globular and very double.
pure white cupped, very large and double
pure white globular and double.

blush and rose
purple crimson
shaded blush
dark crimson

cupped and double.

globular, large and double.
cupped, very large and double
cupped and double.

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Name.
Petit Nini
Petite Triomphe
Pluton
Peoniaflora nova
Perfection
Princesse Marie
Roi des Cramoisies
Ronald’s China
Reevesii
Romaine Desprez
Rouge Superbe, or La Regu-
liére
Reine de Peestum
Striata
Strombio rubra
Sulphurea superba
Triomphe de Gand
Theresia Stravius
Triomphante, or Peony Noi-
sette
Turenne
Van Dael
Weber
White
Willow-leaved.

Colour.
rosy lilac
bright red
dark crimson
pale lilac rose

bright crimson
reddish purple
bright crimson

Form and Character.
cupped, small and double.
cupped, small and double.
globular and double.
globular, very large & double.

cupped and double.
expanded and large.
cupped and double.

purplish shaded rose cupped, large and very double

crimson

compact and double.

blush with buff centre cupped, very large and double
rose, striped with red cupped and double.

red
pale sulphur

bright rose, shaded

pale flesh

deep rose & crimson

purple,
lilac rose
bright rose
pure white
bright rose

globular and very double.
cupped, very large and double
cupped, very large and double
cupped and double.

reflexed, large and double.
cupped and double.
glokular, large and double.
cupped with very stiff petals.
globular and double.
expanded and semi-double.

TEA-SCENTED CHINA ROSES (Rosa tnpica opORATA).

Aurore

Aline
Boutelaud
Belle Helene
Buffon

Belle Felix
Belle Clorinde
Belle Elvire
Bourbon
Blush
Caroline
Cedo Nulli

straw changing to buff expanded, very large & double

rosy blush
delicate rose
pale flesh
purplish rose
bright rosy lilac
rose

bright rose
white

blush

carmine

Coccinea, or Colville’s crimson vivid crimson

Cels

Dremont

Fragrans

General Valazé

Gracilis

Grandifolia, or Thouillet
Hardy

red

delicate rosy buff
bright crimson
shaded pale blush
bright red

pale flesh

vivid rose

cupped, large and double.
globular, large and double.
cupped and very double.
globular and very double.
expanded and very double.
cupped, large and double.
globular and double
globular, large and double.
globular and double.

cupped and double.
expanded and double.
expanded and double.
cupped, large and double.
cupped and double.
globular, large and double.
cupped and small.

cupped, large and double.
expanded, large and double.

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REMARKS ON THE MOUTAN PHONY.

Name. Colour. Form and Character.
Hamon blush, shaded, crims. globular, very large & double.
Hymenée white, yellow centre cupped and double.
Tphigenie lilac rose globular, large and double.
Isidore pale rose, shaded expanded and double.

Julie Sisley
Jaune Serin

blush with rosy centre globular, large and double..
straw colour and rose cupped and double.

Lucile Delmart bright rose cupped and double.

Lejas vivid light crimson _—_ globular and very double.
Lyonnais pale flesh cupped, very large and double
Louis Philippe delicate rose cupped, large and double.
Lutescens mutabilis pale straw cupped and double.
Lutescens nana reddish yellow cupped, very small & double.
Maximilian rose and buff cupped, large and double.
Magnifica, or Magnus Ladulas rose, marbled cupped, large and double.
Mesfré pale flesh

Madame Guerin

Mutabilis rose, changing tocrim. cupped, large and double.
Nitida white with rosy centre globular, large and double.
Odoratissima lilac rose expanded, large and double.
Princesse Stephanie pale flesh globular, large and double.
Palavicini yellowish white cupped and double.

Potart flesh with buff centre expanded and double.
Pallida bright rose, shaded —_ globular and double.

Réve du Bonheur rosy buff cupped and very large.

Roi de Siam pure white globular, large and double.
Reine de Cythére pale flesh cupped, very large and double
Reine de Juillet, or Plantier bright rose globular, with stiff petals.
Strombio cream and blush globular and very large.
Superbe de Vitry delicate rose globular and very double.
Taglioni white with buff centre globular and double.

Triomphe du Luxembourg _ buff and rose cupped, large and double.
Yellow pale sulphur cupped, large & semi-double.
ARTICLE II.

REMARKS ON THE MOUTAN PZONY, OR TREE PONY.

BY J. S. L.

A very elaborate, but in many parts both fabulous and mistaken ac-
count of the Moutan Ponies is given in the Mémoires sur les Chi-
nois, the substance of which I will briefly note. They are stated to
be of considerable antiquity in the gardens of the north of China,
and are supposed to have been originally found wild on the moun-
tains in the province of Ho-nan. They were at first cultivated in
the district of Luo-yang, and subsequently in the Imperial Gardens
of Kai-fong-fou, in Ho-nan ; but they appear to have succeeded best

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in the province of Hou-Kouang, from whence they are now supplied
to the gardens of Pekin, and other parts of the Empire. They are
stated to have received various names, as Hoa-ouang, or King of
Flowers, Pé-leang-kin, or Hundred ounces of Gold (from their value),
and Mou-chao-yao, or the Tree Peony, to distinguish them from the
Herbaceous Ponies. It is represented that Moutans have been cul-
tivated frequently of various heights, from very dwarf plants, to trees
of twenty-four feet high, and that different varieties have existed,
which produced their flowers at different seasons, some in winter, and
some in autumn ; but the spring flowering varieties are those now in
cultivation. These are said to be very numerous, with flowers of
various degrees of fullness, from semi-donble to very double, and of
the following colours, “rouge, violet, pourpre, amaranthe, jaune,
blanc, noir, et bleu” in great variety. Some are represented to pos-
sess considerable fragrance. Accounts of the way of cultivating the
Moutans in China are also given ; they appear to be propagated from
seed, and by other modes of increase which will be noticed bereafter.
I do not place much reliance on the correctness of the details in this
memoir, which extends to several pages ; and I am incredutous, not
only as to some of the colours of the flowers, which are said to exist,
but also as to the extent in number of the varieties.

The provinces and places above mentioned, are in the northern
and central parts of the Chinese Empire, and the habits of the Mou- ,
tan evidently exhibit an high mountainous, or alpine origin, subject
to being buried under snow during the winter. They make strong
shoots early in spring, and break rapidly into foliage, and blossom.

In the description of China, published by Duhalde, in 1753, very
little notice is taken of the Moutans ; they are described under the
general name of Pivoines, as being of different colours, and some of
them fragrant. A brief notice of the Moutans in the gardens at
Canton, will be found in Dr. Abel’s account of Lord Amhert’s Em-
bassy to Pekin, in 18165; but it contains no information respecting
them which is not herein stated. They are not mentioned, as far as
I have discovered, in accounts of other travellers in China.

It must be concluded that the Moutans were transferred from
China to Japan, where they are cultivated ; but they do not appear,
however, to have been introduced in much variety into the latter
country. Kzempfer, in the fifth fasciculus of his Amenitates Exotice,
printedin 1712, describes the plants of Japan, and (p. 862) among them
the Botan, as a species; but does not mention any varieties. He dis-
tinguishes it by its woody stem from an Herbaceous Pwony called
Saku Jaku, of which he names three varieties. Thuanberg, in his

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Flora Japonica, printed 1784 (page 230), confounds the Saku Juku
and Botan together, referring both, most absurdly, to the Peonia
officinalis of Linn#us, and states that they are cultivated im every
garden of Japan. The Saku Jaku of Kampfer is, according to the
printed opinions of those who have attended to Pzonies, referable to
the species well known in our gardens as P. albiflora, though neither
of the varieties mentioned by him have white flowers.

All the Moutans are sufficiently hardy to bear exposure in the
open ground in the winter. The Banksii has been considered the
hardiest ; but neither that nor Papaveracea appear to suffer from
frost, and they are, consequently, frequently planted in the borders
of gardens ; they will all grow in a northern aspect, and perhaps such
a situation may be better suited to them, than one where they would
receive more of the direct influence of the sun. But though they
are not hurt by the severity of winter when planted out, the chilling
blasts of our springs have very ‘injurious effects on them, and both
the leaves and flowers are often cut and injured when entirely unpro-
tected at that season. From this cause, those who desire to have
them in the greatest perfection, give them a covering of glass, under
which the beauty of the blossoms and the delicacy of the foliage is
perfectly preserved. They ought however to be planted in a border,
in preference to being kept in pots. Warmth from fire or steam is
not necessary to them; they are brought earlier into flower by heat,
but not improved by it. The best mode of protecting them, and at
the same time of having them in perfection, is that of glass frames,
or houses without flues: these may be made of any dimensions that
fancy may require.

The propagation of Moutans, upon their first introduction, was a
matter of considerable difficulty ; they have, consequently, borne a
high price in the nurseries; and though they are now multiplied
extensively, yet, with all the experience which has been acquired,
the obtaining strong new plants of them is a tedious operation. All
modes of propagation have been tried with them, viz. by seeds,
suckers, grafts, cuttings and layers. They rarely produce perfect
seeds, but would probably do so more frequently if the impregnation
of the stigmas was properly attended to. The seedlings which have
hitherto been obtained, as may be observed from the accounts of such
in the former part of this paper, are but few. Suckers, or rather
root-shoots, may sometimes be severed successfully from large old
plants, and such soon become strong enough to fower. If the work
is carefully executed, grafts of the rarer sorts may be fixed on pieces
of the roots of the more common. ‘These pieces of roots must be es-

ares,

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tablished in pots, and in the spring, a bud, witha little wood attached
to it, may be joined to the root in the manner of a graft, a slice of
the root being taken off to receive the piece intended to be united to
it. When the fitting is completed it is to be covered with clay, ta-
king care to leave the eye exposed; the pot must be kept covered
with a hand-glass. Trials have been made of a plan of grafting the
Moutan on roots of Herbaceous Ponies, and I have heard that it
has sometimes succeeded, but not sufficiently to encourage the prac-
tice generally. I have not witmessed the operation, but have been
informed that it is performed by attaching a short slip of a branch of
a Moutan, on which there is a bud, to the stcculent tuber of an
Herbaceous Peony, binding them tightly together, sinking them
below the surface of the earth, and covering them with a glass; _ the
tuber supports the graft until it emits roots sufficient to maintain it-
self independently. Ripe cuttings taken off in August or September,
with a small piece of the old wood at the end, and planted against the
sides of garden pots, in a mixture of loam, leaf mould, and sand well
drained, and protected from the air by glasses, will succeed. The
pots must be kept secured from the frost in the winter, and shaded in
the summer; in the spring, the progress of the cuttings may be as-
sisted’ by being placed in a frame with a gentle bottom heat. But
the most general plan of multiplying Moutans is by layers, the shoots
for which purpose should be planted either in protecting pits, or, in
sheltered borders, which should be covered with mats spread over
hoops; the branches when laid down, require a longer time than is
usual with common shrubs to emit roots, and the largest are seldom
fit to be removed till they have remained two years attached to the
stool. The soil used for this operation is good rich loam, made light
by a considerable mixture of sand, with the addition of one-fourth
part of heath mould. The shoots when laid down require to have a
longitudinal slit, or tongue, made in the inner side of the bend ; and
this must be done with care, for, being brittle, the wood is liable to
break ; the tongtied part should be bedded in a mixture of loam and
sand.

In addition to the above, it may be interesting to know the nature
of the methods of propagating the Moutan in use among the Chinese.
Upon this subject we have no information, except from the accounts
in the Mémoires sur les Chinois, before alluded to. According to
these, the modes of propagation, exclusive of that by seeds, are three-
fold, viz. by suckers, by splitting the stem, or by grafting.

Whien suckers are produced by an old plant, the earth is carefully
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the union of the sucker with the parent root is uncovered. They
are then separated, but the wound of the old plant is suffered to re-
main exposed for a day or two till its surface dries ;.dry earth is then
placed about it, and care is taken that no moisture is applied for the
space of a fortnight afterwards. The young sucker is enwrapped in
fresh leaves, in which state itis kept till the: lower end becomes
shrivelled, and so much contracted, that the two opposite sides touch
each other. Itis then planted in rich earth, which is rather dey
than otherwise, and kept well shaded till it has rooted; care being
taken to guard it from frost.

When the operation of splitting the stem is performed, an old
plant is selected, and its stem is regularly slit into four or six equal
portions, from the top to the very bottom, among the roots; the
divisions of the stem are kept apart until the wounds begin to dry,
when the middle of the stem is filled with a sort of plaster, made with
mortar (mortier) and rich earth, among which is mixed fat and a
small quantity of sulphur. The plant so prepared is suffered to re-
main till the autumn, when each division is fit to be separated,
with the portion of the root belonging to it.

Grafting is practised on the roots of the more common Moutans ;
when this is attempted, the root of the stock is laid bare during some
weeks, to the depth of three or four inches; just before the autumn
shoot is made, the earth is again heaped about the root, and soon
afterwards, when the sap appears in full motion, the operation is
performed. This is done in the way we call crown grafting. A
kind of clay made with rich mould, formed into a sort of mortar with
the expressed juice of Herbaceous Peony roots, is then applied
about the scion and stock. The plant is afterwards shaded from the
sun, and protected from frost during winter; and, when the spring
arrives, it is left to take its chance. If the scion ever pushes, all
danger of losing it is past.

ARTICLE III.—ON TAKING IN GREENHOUSE PLANTS,
THAT HAVE BEEN IN THE OPEN AIR DURING SUMMER,
AND TREATMENT IN WINTER IN THE GREENHOUSE.

BY THE FOREMAN OF A LONDON NURSERY.

THE attempt would be impertinent, to fix the precise day in which
greenhouse plants should be housed, the variations in the temperature
of the seasons, in different years, render it impossible. However as
the young tender shoots of the summer's growth, are extremely
liable to be injured by the frost; as soon as any symptoms of this

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appear, they should be removed to their winter quarters ; where, if
the greenlouse is built on a proper principle, they can still have the
benefit of the free air, and at the same time be in a situation to be
protected, when necessity requires.

Impressed with this idea, I think they should at all events, be
removed in the earlier part of September. Therefore, about a fort-
night before that time, they should be regularly examined, and any
roots that may have extended themselves through the holes at the
bottom of the pots, cleanly cut away,* with a knife or some such
instrument: this tends to stop the too luxuriant growth, aud being
executed ata proper period, before their final removal, they have
time to recover themselves from the partial check they may have
received by it; which would come doubly severe, if deferred until the
time of removing them into the house; the transition from the cool

bottom on which they stood, to the dry boards of the greenhouse
: b stage, being so materially different.

It will be also requisite to have the flues examined as to their
cleanliness, and tried with a smothering fire, lest there should re-
main any cracks to admit the smoke into the greenhouse. The

4 wall should likewise be fresh whitened, at least every second year ;
and any repairs that may be necessary to the stages, or glass-work,
previously rectified.

Things being thus prepared, and the time fixed on to remove the
plants, the large heavy enes, such as orange trees, &c. sheuld be
; carried to the places where they are to stand at once, as it will be
very inconvenient to remove them after the house becomes crowded with
other piants. The smaller kinds must be regularly placed in front
of them, with a gradual descent from the back, down to the lowest in
front, placing any curious, or handsome plants in flower, in the most
prominent and conspicuous situations. They must not be set too close
when first put in, as it would occasion most of their tender leaves to
turn yellow, and fall off; either should they, if the house happens
to have been built on a close construction, be by any meaus taken in
when their leaves are wet.

3 < seer eAM Ep eS

In large collections, could the different genera be kept together, it
would I think have a much better effect; in particular the more
numerous ones, such as heaths, Proteas, geraniums, &c. and indeed

* The cutting of tse extraneous roots away at this season, is not likely to be ot
such serious consequence to the plants, as if done when shifting, as the ball of
root is preserved undisturbed within the pot, yet in some of the more luxuriant
species that may have been plunged in the borders, it will be preferable to break
the pot rather than destroy the roots, and of course the plant put into a larger
one immediately. :

254 ON TAKING IN GREENHOUSE PLANTS.

heaths are of that unsociable nature, that they will not do well if
mixed promiscuously with other plants, especially any of the broad
leaved kinds: it is implied by this observation, that there should, if
possible, in, all large collections at least, be separate houses for these
very numerous genera; but in all houses there is a variety of
situations ; some more airy, near the windows, on end and front
benches, for such as heaths, Proteas, &c.; all mountainous, Cape
plants, should be kept if possible on shelves, such as graphaliums,
bulbous geraniums, &c. &c.; some closer, as the principal stage and
back benches, for orange trees, geraniums, and all such as growin low
sheltered situations: thus in every instance it is necessary to attend
to natural habit.

When they are all housed, and dirt of every description taken
away, let as much free air be given as possible in the day time ; and
even at night, should the weather prove moderately mild, and free
from any appearance of frost. In fact, I have seldom seen frosts
at this early season so severe, as to injure any greenhouse plants,
that were not immediately exposed to its perpendicular effect : there-
fore the front windows may be kept open continually, unless there is
a prospect of its being particularly severe, or accompanied with cold
driving winds, in which case it will be necessary to keep them pretty
close.

If air is too sparingly admitted at this season, when many of the
plants have not yet finished their summer's, growth, it will inevitably
cause them to produce weak and tender shoots; which will be ex-
tremely liable to damp off ata more advanced season, when the
house must be unavoidably kept close on account of the severities of
the external air; and besides, it will tend to give them amore general
tender habit, and render them less able to resist the winter colds
than they otherwise would. Hence it is evident, that they cannot
receive too much air, whenever the state of the external air will ad-
mit of it, by being free from all appearance of frost; as it will be so
much to their advantage to be thus hardened, before the winter
assumes its severest front.

This is a practise I would strenuously recommend to all cultivators
of exotics, to be observed the whole period they remain in the house,
their own observations on the state of the weather being their con-
stant guide. ‘

Water should also be plentifully administered when they are first
taken into the house, as the dry board, on which they now stand
as well as the elevated situation, and free circulating air, occasions
them to require more than when they stood on the moist earth;

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however, by nomeans go to the extreme, giving it only when evi-
dently necessary.

It isa common, but in my opinion, a very erroneous practice, to
place pans under the pots, indiscriminately, and by many they are
regularly filled with water, twice, or thrice a week, or perhaps every
day, whether the plants may want it or not; and this they are
pleased to term a saving of labour; and it eventually becomes so
in fact; for they have seldom so much care, and trouble on their
hands, in the spring, many of the most curious plants being killed
by this treatment: for, although it may not perceptibly injure the
coarser kinds, its pernicious effects on the tenderer sorts must be
evident to the commonest observer; as the earth in the bottom of the
pot, by being constantly in the water, becomes coagulated, and sour,
and is consequently liable to rot the young fibres, by which the
plants in general contract a languid and sickly habit.

As the close foggy weather advances, water must be given more
sparingly, else it will conspire with the atmosphere to increase the
damps of the house; which will inevitably injure the plants by
rotting their leaves. These, and dead flowers, should be picked off
as soon as they are observable; otherwise they will make a very
disagreeable appearance.

Early in November all the tenderer Cape bulbs should be planted ;
viz: Ixia, Iris, Morea, Gladiolus, Anthol yza, Galaxia, Oxalis,
Lachenalia, Ornithogalum, &c. &c. as they generally commence
vegetation about this time, and will supply a most beautiful variety
of flowers for the ensuing spring and summer.

When growing they should be kept pretty moist, particularly the
stronger species ; otherwise they will not flower freely, and such as
do will not be so fine: however, when they have done flowering, and
the grass indicates an end to vegetation for the season, they should
be gradually dried ; and when perfectly so, either set in the pots in
a dry sheltered place, or otherwise taken out of them, and put in
separate paper bags, in sorts, until the Autumn: I prefer the latter
process ; it is necessary to keep them in sorts, otherwise the strong,
which are not always the finest kinds, would smother the delicate
ones, that in many instances produce the most brilliant, and frequently
odoriferous flowers.

The months of November and December, seem to be more noxious
to the health of plants, than any other season; by reason of their
being full of sappy leaves, and the remains of many of the Autumn
flowers being still on them, when the weather, (which at this time gene-
rally becomes close, and chilly,) renders it necessary to keep the house

256 ON TAKING IN GREENHOUSE PLANTS.

shut, and warm; this occasions a most pernicious damp to exhale
_from every part of the house, and even from the earth in the pots ;
which fixes on the leaves, and other parts of the plants, to their
inevitable injury, particularly the younger parts, such as were the
produce of the preceding summer. [If this kind of weather continues
for any considerable time, it will be adviseable to give a little fire heat,
to help in drying up these baneful exhalations, and also as much air,
as can be safely admitted by the doors, and front windows; more
especially when fire is added; otherwise the heat of the flues will,
instead of expelling the contaminated air, rather occasion it to exhale
more freely, and be of worse consequences.

At this season also, the plants should be regularly examined to
clear them of all dirt, and also to scrape off any moss, &c. that may
lave grown on the surface of the mould, and to renew it with a little
fresh loam. This contributes much to their good appearance, if
neatly executed.

Very little fire heat seems to Le requisite to the preservation of
greenhouse plants, in this climate ; in fact, the less it is found neces-
sary to use, the better. { have never practised it, (except in the case
of damps, as before mentioned,) until I perceived the frost so severe,
as to lower the spirit in the thermometer several degrees below the
temperate point, and then merely sufficient to raise it again to the
above mentioned point. If this can be done without the assistance of
fire, so much the better, for which purpose, bass mats must be
used along the lower parts of the house, where they can be con-
veniently fastened ; these will be of infinite service even when fire is
used, as less of that element will suffice ; but they should be always
taken off in the day to admit the light, unless the weather happens to
be particularly severe.

Sometimes in the depth of winter, there is a succession of very
clear weather for several days together, wherein warm sunny days,
succeed the coldest frost, and nights in which fires have been abso-
lutely necessary ; in this case, it will be requisite to give all the air
possible in the day, (unless strong harsh winds, or other occasional
preventatives happen to prevail,) observing, to shut the windows up
close, early in the afternoon, so as to include part of the natural heat
of the atmosphere, within the house. Such weather renders an in-
crease of water necessary, especially over the entrance of the flues,
where the fires have the greatest force. It should be administered
in the morning, and ought to be kept in the house all night to expel
any frosty particles it may have imbibed, and render it nearly equal
to the temperature of the air of the house.

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PART II.

LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS,

Noticed since our last.

1. MYANTHUS BARBATOS; Var. labello albo. Bearded Flywort, white tipped
variety. (Bot. Mag. 3514.) Orchidee. Gynandria Monandria.—A native of
Demerara, from whence it was introduced into this country, by Mr. Alleard,
Stratford Green, Essex. And in the collection of that gentleman, it bloomed in
May, 1836. The flowers are produced upon a long aud many flowered raceme.
Each flower is about two inches across, having narrow petals, of a dark green,
spotted with dark purple within, with paler spots on the outside. The lip is
fringed with numerous long white hairs. Altogether it is a very pretty and sin-
gular flowering plant, meriting a place in every collection. Myanthus, from
muia, a fly; and anthos, a flower. The flowers look very much like a pressed
fly, when they are dried.

2, PHONIA ALBIFLORA; var. Pottsii. Potts’ Chinese Pxony. (Brit. Flow.
Gard. 351.) The late Mr. John Potts sent this very handsome variety from
China, in 1822. The flowers are of a large size, double, of a rich crimson co-
lour, and are by far the most splendid of all the varieties of albiflora. The
plant is quite hardy, and a profuse bloomer. In the garden of R. H. Jenkinson,
Esq., Norbiton Hall, Kingston, Surrey, it has bloomed very freely, having, this
season, about forty Howers upon a single plant.

3. SARRACENIA RUBRA, Ked Side Saddle Flower. (Bot. Mag., 3515.) Sarra-
cenia; Polyandria Monogynia. A native of Louisiana, in the Southern United
States of America. The plant has often been introduced into this country, but
being very difficult in cultivation, has been lost; a plant, however, has bloomed
in the stove of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, March 1836. The flower scape rises
to about two feet high, producing one flower. The flower hangs in a drooping
manner; of arich deep red colour, having a splendid appearance. The flower
is from two to three inches across.

4. STREPTANTHUS HYACINTHOIDES, Hyacinth-flowered. (Bot. Mag., 3516.)
Crucifere; Tetradynamia Siliquosa, An annual plant, a native of the Texas,
where it was discovered by the late Mr. Douglas. The stem grows to about a
yard high, branched. The flowers are produced upon long racemes, bearing nu-
merous flowers, which hang in a pendulous manner; they are of a bluish-purple
colour. The flower much resembles a small hyaciuth blossom, but having very
narrow petals, The plant has bloomed in the Greenhouse of the Glasgow Bo-
tanic Garden.

5. STROBILANTHUS SaBINIANA, Mr. Sabine’s Strobilanthus. (Bot. Mag.
3517.) Acanthacee; Didynamia Angiospermia. Synonym’s, Ruellia Sabiniana.
R. argentea. It. macrocarpa, var. argentea. This pretty flowering plant was
introduced into this country by Dr. Wallich. Itis a native of Nepal. It re-
quires a hothouse temperature. Dr. Wallich named it in compliment to Joseph
Sabine, Esq., to whom Horticulture is very greatly indebted; we hesitate not to
say, that the present superior state of gardening, and the very extensive taste for
it which now prevails, owe, in a considerable degree, their rise to that gentleman.
The 5, sabiniana grows three feet high, shrubby. The flowers are produced in ter-
minal spikes. The cvrolla is funnel shaped, lower part of the tube yellow, the
rest of a bright blnish-purple. It blooms the latter end of winter.

6. Yucca Draconis, Dragon-tree-leaved Adam’s Needle. (Bot. Reg., 1894.)
Lililaceew ; Hexandria Monogynia. A very pretty flowering species, cultivated
in the Nursery Establishment of Messrs Backhouses, York. It grows freely in
the open ground. ‘The spikes of flowers rise about three feet higher than the fo-
lage, producing an immense number of blossoms. The segments of the flower
expand much more in this species than any of the others, which adds very much
to its interest and beauty. The petals are of a greenish-white, with the tips of

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the petals of a deep rosy-purple. The plant is a native of Carolina, where, it is
said, it will grow to the height of ten feet. Messrs. Backhouses find that Yucca
filamentosa, glaucescens, rufocinecta, and recurvifolia, as well as the above des-
cribed species, grow and flower in the open air.

7. Yucca FLAccIDA, Weak leaved Adam’s Needle. (Bot. Reg., 1895.) This
species is probably a native of North America. It is cultivated in the Garden
~ of the London Horticultural Society. This species does not appear to produce
a stem as the others do. The flower stalks rise some feet high, each producing a
panicle, having numerous flowers of a greenish yellow colour, the tips of the pe-
tals having a small spot of red at the lower side.

8. CENTAUREA Batsamira, Costmary-leaved. (Brit. Flow. Gard., 355.) Com-
posite. Syngenesia, Polygamia Aqualis. Synonym, Carduus orientalis. Seeds
of this plant were sent from the Imperial Botanic Garden at St. Petersbugh, to
this country. It is a native of Armenia, and has been recently introduced.
The plant is a hardy perennial. Stems rising to about two feet high, each ter-
minated by a moderate sized flower, of a sulphur colour. It is cultivated in the
Chelsea Botanic Garden.

9. Crataeus Aronia, The Aronia Thorn. (Bot. Reg., 1897.) Synonym,
Mespilus orientalis. This species is a native of the Levant, and is one of the
largest and most like timber of any of the thorns. The plant is a very free
grower, and grows toa very neat form. The fruit is as large asa fine sized
cherry, of an apricot yellow colour, and, being produced in such abundance,
causes the tree to be very ornamental, and a most suitable one for the lawn, or
other part of the pleasure ground. Crategus from Kratos, strength ; alluding to
the wood.

10. Cytisus zoxicus, Holian Cytisus. (Bot. Reg., 1902.) Diadelphia De-
candria. The plant is a native of Stromboli, where it was discovered by Profes-
sor Gassone. Seeds of it were sent from Naples, to the Hon. W. F. Strangways,
in whose garden, at Abbotsbury in Dorsetshire, it bloomed this year. It is an
erect growing shrub, the branches terminated with racemes of yellow flowers. It
is supposed that the flowers will be handsomer when the shrub is older, and that
they will be produced more abundantly.

11. EprpDENDRUM G&MULUM, Emulous Epidendrum. (Bot. Reg. 1898.) Or-
chidacee ; Gynandria Monandria. This pretty neat flowering species has flow-
ered in the collection of Richard Harrison, Esq.; to that gentleman it was sent
by Mr. Hesketh. It is a native of Para. The plant very much resembles Epi-
dendrum fragrans. The pseudo bulbs of E. emulum are perfectly oval, and not
tapered to each end as in E. fragrans. The flower stalk is about three inches
long, producing three or four flowers upon each.

12. EscaLLonia ILLIN«ITA, Varnished Escallonia. (Bot. Reg., 1900.) Escal.
loniacee; Pentandria Monogynia. A very pretty evergreen species, much more
hardy than any other of the genus. The leaves are broad of a pale green colour
varnished, producing a very pretty appearance. The plant forms a very neat
bush. The branches are terminated by racemes of many flowers, which are white,
tinged with green at the under side. It blooms from the end of July to October.
The plant emits a very powerful scent, rather disagreeable. It is a native of
Chili, growing in the Mountainous parts of that country. Escollonia Montevi-
densis is quite hardy with us at Wortley, grows verysvigorously, and blooms pro-
fusely ; the flowers being white. Escallonia rubra is equally hardy, thrives and
blooms most admirably. All the species are highly deserving a situation in
every shrubbery. They are handsome plants even without flowers, but very at-
tracting when in full bloom, more particularly so when the bush has got to a
tolerable size. We find the plantto flourish well in a mixture of loam and peat.

13. EvpHorsia Bosert, Mr. Bojer’s Spurge. (Bot. Mag., 3527.) Euphor-
biaceze; Monesia Monandria. Professor Bojer sent this species from Madagascar.
It is a very pretty stove plant, and merits the title of splendens, much beyond
the one so called. It has bloomed in the stove in the Glasgow Botanic Garden,
at the end of winter, more or less at most seasons of the year. Each Involucre
has four scarlet bractez, half an inch across, which produce a pretty appearance.
This species is not so full of spines as E. splendens, more coriaceous, more oval
and retuse leaves, the bractezes are of a much higher colour.

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14 FucHsIA MACROSTEMA; VAR. RECURVATA, Large-stamened Fuchsia. Re-
curved flowered variety. (Bot. Mag.,3521.) Onagraria; Octandria Monogynia.
This very pretty flowering variety was raised from seed by Mr. Nevin, at the
Glasneviu Botanic Garden, Dublin. ‘The plant is of a most vigorous habit.
The fine red calyx, has its five divisions much recurved, exposing the pretty blue
petals to full view. The flower and flower stem are near six inches long. Like
every other of this graceful, pretty fowering genus, the present deserves a place
in every collection of Fuchsias.

15. LaPEYROUSEA ANCEPS, Two-edged Stem. (Bot. Reg., 1903.) Synonyms,
Gladiolus anceps, G. denticulatus; Ixia Lapeyrousea, I. pyramidalis; Iridacez,
Triandria Monogynia. The plant is a native of the Cape of Good Hope. It
requires to be cultivated in the Greenhouse or pit frame. The stem rises about
six inches high, each producing from six to eighteen flowers. The flower is
about three quarters of an inch across, white, and fragrant, emitting a very
agreeable perfume. It blooms from June to August. Lapeyrousia. so named in
compliment to Mons. Picot de la Peyrouse. Author of the Pyrenean Flora.

16. Monarpa aristatTa, Awned. (Bot. Mag., 3526.) Synonym, M. citrio-
dora; Labiate, Diandria Monogynia. This species is a native of Arkansa Ter-
ritory, as also about San Felipe, in Mexico. It has recently been sent to this
country by Mr. Drummond. The plant is quite hardy, and blooms from July
to September. It has been stated to be perennial, and on some occasions annual.
The stem rises to about a foot high, producing whorls of pale rose-coloured
flowers.

17. MYANTHUS DELTOIDESUS, Triangular-lipped Flywort. (Bot. Reg., 1896.)
Orchidacee; Gynandria Monandria. ‘This very singular flowering Orchideous
plant, is a native of Demerara, found upon trees near to the great waterfall of
the Demerara river. It is cultivated in the collection of Richard Harrison, Esq.,
Aughburgh, near Liverpool. The flowers of this species are very distinct from
any other, the lip is destitute of the fringe of hairs, which M. cristatus, and M.
barbatus have. The flower stem is near a foot long, bearing about half a score
blossoms—each near two inches across; the lip is of a rich purple colour; the
other parts of the flower green, spotted with dark purple, and have a very pretty
appearance. Dr. Lindley has observed, “ that when the third part of the genera
and species of Orchideous Plants was published in 1833, he was only acquainted
with Myanvthus cernuus, and eristatus,—the latter, the learned Professor con-
sidered, a Catasetum, and the former as the only genuine species of the genus ;
thus, in some degree mistaking the real generic character of Myanthus, in con-
sequence of the imperfect materials of which he was then in possession. But
now that four species are known in a living state, it has become necessary to
alter the original character of the genus, so that it may include Catasetum cris-
tatum. This, Dr. Lindley thinks is more advisable than to unite Myanthus with
Catasetum, as recommended by Sir William Hooker. If the latter measure were
to be adopted, it would be equally necessary to suppress the genera Monachan-
thus, Mormodes, Cynochus, &c.. the effect of which would be to form a hetero-
genous collection of species, the principal combining character of which, would
reside in the peculiar succulent stems. As they now stand, each has a clear dis-
tinction, and each possess as many species as are usually assembled under newly
discovered types of structure. Myanthus has already four; Cynoches two; Mo-
nachanthus two; Catasetum five; and Mormodes one species.

_ 18. PeENSTEMON HETEROPHYLLUM, Various-leaved. (Bot. Reg, 1899.)
Scrophulariacee ; Didynamia Angiospermia, The late Mr. Douglas discovered
this plant in California, from whence he sent seeds to the London Horticultural
Society. Itis.a hardy herbaceous species, blooming from June to October. The
flower stems rise to about two feet high, and bear a profusiou of flowers of a
purplish-red colour, of a very handsome appearance. Each flower is near an
inch and a half long. It is a very desirable species, and merits a situation in
every flower garden. Pentstemon, from pente, fine, stemon, stamen.

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PART II.
MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

QUERIES.

On Hoya carnosa.—I shall be much obliged if you, or any of your corres-
pondents, can render me any information on the best mode of raising and treat-
ing the Hoya earnosa. Also a list of 20 or 30 sorts of the most hardy and vigo-
rous kinds of Chinese Roses—climbers, to run up a trellis facing the north, and
a few for the south; state their height. Also a list of 20 or 30 sorts of hardy
annuals, new sorts, and the time for sowing. If this could appear in your next
number, I shall be still more obliged.

PEDRO.

On Insects.—At a meeting of the Entomological Society, the secretary called
the attention of the members to the destruction committed in the Market Gar-
dens around London, during the present season, by a species of Aphis, which
had abounded and propagated to an incredible extent, upon Cabbages, Brocoli,
&e., and which had not previously been observed by the Market Gardeners, by
whom it is called a “ New Species of Blight ;” it was stated, that by watering
the plants with tobacco and lime water, the injurious insects might be destroyed.
I beg leave to intimate, that I have tried the experiment with eminent success
upon plants infested with the insects named to such an extent as to be con-
sidered incurable, but which are now entirely free from them, and in a most
healthy and thriving condition. AN ORIGINAL SUBSCRIBER.

Bayswater, Sept, 29th, 1836.

On COMPETITION AT FLoriIcuLTURAL Exutpittons, &e.—As the general -
rule of competition seems to be imperfectly understood by many competitors,
and I, as well as others, wishing to have a more general knowledge of the same,
I here forward for insertion in the Cabinet, the following query. A competition
list standing as follows :—For nine best Tulips in classes, viz., three Roses, three
Bybloemens, and three Bizards. Suppose a competition taking place as below,

the reader will perceive, that every class Roses. — Bib. Biz.
is competed for by itself. Now I wish A 1 3 3
some correspondent could apply the gen- B 2 1 1
eral rule to the opposite table, and show Cc 4 2 2
us how A and C stands for competition, D 3 4 4d

for it is quite plain how B and D stands. By answering the above query in the
December Number, you will oblige me, as well as others, JaMES FigGans.

ANSWER.

A List OF THE BEST SHOw Pinxs.—In answer to your correspondent, J. S.,
p- 187, [ am induced to send you the following list of the best Show Pinks, at
present in cultivation; some of them are old flowers, but they need not be de-

spised for that as they are real good Show Flowers. J. Bes
Admiral Codrington Ford’s Formosa
Barrett’s Codrington William of Walworth
Barnard’s Bexley Hero Hoggs Fanny Kemble
Bow’s George the Fourth Hopkin’s One in the Ring
Beauty of Shrewsbury Hardstone’s Conqueror
Clark’s Matilda Knighi’s Lady Acland
Colonel Austen Keyne’s Reformer
Copley’s Mars Kilmer’s Matchless
Davey’s Lord Brougham Lodge’s Red Rover
Day’s Earl of Uxbridge La belle alliance
Faulkner’s Duke of St. Albans. Marshall’s Defiance

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Norris’ Rainbow | Ripshaw’s Queen Addfaide
Norman’s Delight Taylor’s Green Grass
————. Benjamin Nonpareil
Beauty ——— Beaute Supreme
Conqueror Unsworth’s Omega (extra)
———— Earl Grey Wood’s Eminent
Piggott’s Beauty of Cheltenham Wilmer’s Matchless
Pitman’s Magnificent ——— Lady Paget
Parry*s Union - Wells Sultana

Pillard’s Eygnsforth Beauty
Rolf’s George the Fourth

Superb
Princess Victoria

Rainsford’s Prudence Young’s Joe Miller

Fancy Pinxs.—Blush Superb, Roi de Roses, Smith’s Windsor Castle,
Wood’s Hebe.
REMARKS.

THE Signs oF FarR WEATHER.—When the sun is fair and bright at its rising
in a morning, and is blushing without spots or black clouds near him when he sets
at night, it is a sign of fair weather. When the moon is three or four days old,
and has her horns sharp and pointed very bright, it is a sign of fair weather till
she comes to the full, if not the whole month. If the moon has a bright shining
circle about her, when she is at the full it promises fair weather for many days.
When the stars shine clear and bright, and seem to dart out pointed rays, it is a
sign of fair weather. Also when clouds sink low, as into vallies at south-east or
south-west, it is a sign of fair weather. If the tops of hills be clear, it is a sign of
fair weather. If there are to the north-west, white scattering clouds like fleeces of
wool, itis a sign of fair weather. When white clouds or mists hang just over
rivers, and disperse no further, it is a sign of fair weather. When a rain-bow ap-
pears after a shower, and the blue yellow part of it be very bright, and the highest
colour, they are tokens of fair weather. When bees fly far from their hives, and
come home late, it isa sign of fair weather. When there are great swarms of gnats,
it presages fair weather. Glow-worms shining by night, is a sign of fair weather.
When larks rise very high, and continue singing a long time, itis a sign of fair
weather. When kites fly aloft, it bespeaks fair dry weather. The Lord Bacon
gives this reason for it, because the kite mounts most into the air of that temper,
wherein he delights; for this aspiring bird does not so much affect the grossness
of the air, as the cold and freshness of it; for being a bird of prey, and therefore
hot, he delights in the fresh air. When lapwings or ployers fly high and then
low, and make continual crys, it bespeaks warm weather. When swallows fly
high, it is a sign of fair weather. When owls hoot much, it is a sign of fair
weather; and though owls do always hoot much both in wet and dry weather, yet
there is this difference, that their hooting is more clamorous in wet weather, but
more easy and sedate in fair weather.

MoNUMENT TO Mr. Dovuctas.—It is proposed to erect a monument to the
memory of the late lamented Mr. D. Douglas, and it is hoped that all botanists
and amateurs will aid the undertaking by subscribing towards it; as also to tes-
tify their sense of the great services rendered to Botany by his exertions. J. K.

New AnpD Superior Danvias.—During the last and present month, we have
taken our annual tour for ascertaing which are the best sorts of Dahlias, either
come out last season, or new ones likely to come out next. A list of them we
are preparing for a succeeding number, as also a list of other plants, which came
under our observation. ConbDucToR.

Deata or Mr. CunnrncHamMe.—Intelligence has been received of the death
of Mr. Richard Cunninghame, the Colouial Botanist, at Sydney, New South
Wales. The unfortunate man was murdered by savages in the interior of the
country, whither he had accompanied an expedition, whom he unfortunately
wandered away from in search of plants, (as was his duty as a Botanist,) and was
lost in the bush, and never seen afterwards; but from intelligence gained from

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some of the natives, it was discovered that he was murdered by savages, who
mistook him for an enemy. Mr. C. was a very able botanist, and of an amiable
and obliging disposition, he was beloved and respected by all who knew him,
and his death is universally lamented by every colonist in New South Wales,
and his friends in England. Thus, within the short space of two years, we have
to mourn the loss of three eminent British collecting Botanists, Mr. D. Douglas,
who met his death in the Sandwich Isles; Mr. Drummond, who fell a victim to
the unhealthiness of the Mexican climate; and the above unfortunate Mr. Cun-
ninghame,—all three of whom may be said to be martyrs to the science of
Botany, and whose labours will never be forgotten from the many beautiful ad-
ditions to our flower gardens, which each of them introduced, and many of which
bears their name, and will transmit their memoirs to the latest posterity.

GRAND DAHLIA SHOW AT SALT HILL, NEAR WINDSOR.

Tuts splendid exhibition was honoured by the presence of Her Majesty, the
Princess Augusta, and a large party from Windsor Castle. Her Majesty appeared
much delighted with the various collections of flowers, and condescended to name
two splendid seedlings, one a yellow belonging to Mr. Wilmer, and a lilac of
Mr. Browns. The first was named Superba, and the latter Beauty. The judges
of nurserymen’s flowers, were Mr. Glenny, Mr. Salter, and Mr. Wheeler; the
jndges of amateurs’ blooms were Messrs. Brown, Widnall, Brewer, Gaines,
Pamplin, and Willmer. The prizes were awarded as under. Collections of 50
Blooms (private gentlemen or their Gardeners, growing more than 200 plants)
—l. Mr. Glenny ; 2. Mr. Salter. Stands of 24 Blooms (ditto)—1. Mr. Glenny ;
2. Mr. Cooper; 3. Mr. Maher; 4. Mr. Dodd; 5. Mr. Hughes; 6. Mr. Turner ;
7. Mr. Weedon; 8. Mr. Roake. Stands of 12 Blooms (growers of less than 200
plants)—1. Mr. Kellner; 2. Mr. Skelton; 3. Mr. Lidgard; 4. Mr. Smith; 5. Mr.
Lawrence ; 6. Mr. Hancock; 7. Mr. Bragg; 8. Mr. Wakeling; 9. Mr. Maher.
Seedlings 1836—Mr. Glenny, Mr Clark, Mr. Kellner, Mr. Skelton, and Mr.
Bland. Ditto 1835—Mr. Maher, two; Mr. Clark, two; Mr. Nevill, one.
Collections of 100 blooms (nurserymen and growers for sale)—1. Mr. Mountjoy ;
2. Mr. Brown; 3. Mr. Willmer; 4. Mr. Jackson; 5. Mr. Gaines. Stands of 24
Blooms (ditto)—1. Mr. Brown, Slough; 2. Mr. Gaines; 3. Mr. Mountjoy; 4. Mr.
Willmer ; 5. Mr. Lovegrove; 6. Mr. Pamplin ; 7. Mr. Hill; 8. Mr, Lane; 9. Mr.
Girling. Seedlings }835—1. Mr Willmer for an extra prize, and one other; Mr.
Mr. Brown, one; Mr. Widnall, two. Seedlings 1836—Mr. Jeffreys, Ipswich,
two: Mr. Gaines, one; and Mr. Wilson, one. Device Mr. Pearson, Silver Medal.

BATH ROYAL HORTICULTURAL AND FLORAL SOCIETY.
ANNUAL DAHLIA SHOW, OPEN FOR COMPETITION TO ALL ENGLAND.

THE fifth and last exhibition of the society of the season, at Sydney Gardens,
took place on Thursday, September 15. List of prizes——Dahlias.—Collection
of 24 flowers—l. Rev. S. Ward; 2. Mr. Heale; 3. Mr. J. Sealy. Ditto 18— 1.
Mr. W. Heals; 2. A. Wickham, Esq.; 3. Mr. Kington. Ditto 12—l. G. C.
Tugwell, Esq,; 2. Mr. Pinker. Seedlings—l. Mr. Kington; 2. J. A. Wickham,
Esq.; 3. Mr. Russ. Extra subscription Dahlia prizes, given in plate.—First
Class.—First prize, a handsome silver tankard, value ten guineas, Mr. Mountjoy,
Ealing, for the following 48 blooms :—Madeline, Ariel, King Otho, Beauty of
Perry Hill, Tarrant’s Invincible, Beauty of Cambridge, Clara, Mountjoy’s Bur-
gundy, Criterion, Lady Ripon, Yellow Perfection, Sir H. Fletcher, Venosa,
Metropolitan Perfection, Cedo Nulli, British Queen, Metropolitan Calypso,
Glory, Venus, Countess of Liverpool, Springfield Rival, Beauty of Camberwell,
Hon. Mrs. Harris, Hadleigh Champion, Beauty of Lullingstone, Ne plus Ultra,
Colville’s Perfection, Squibb’s Flora, Metropolitan Lilac, Angelina, Brown’s
Bronze, Mrs. Wilkinson, Forester, Well’s Paragon, Newick Rival, Widnall’s
Paragon, Prince of Orange, Gem or Royal Adelaide, Beauty of Slough, Vulcan,
Lady Ann, Paris, Wheeler's Marchioness, Bishop of Winchester, Crimson
Triumphant, Scarlet Perfection. Secund prize, ahandsome silver teapot, value
six guineas, Mr. Jackson, Kingston, for the following 48 blooms —Graunta, Mrs.

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Wilkinson, Brutus, Queen, Unicorn, Beauty of Dulwich, Triumphant, Tarrant’s
Invincible, Glory, Thalias, Seal’s Fanny Kemble, Norbitton Hero, Ariel, King
Otho, Countess of Errol, Mars, Bride of Abydos, Springfield Rival, Lady Errol,
Psyche, Cedo Nulli, Agamemnon, Jackson’s Lady Sugden, Jackson’s Sir Edward
Sugden, Dodds’ Mary, Beauty of Perry Hill, Prince of Orange, Red Rover, Cri-
terion, Sir H. Fletcher, Metropolitan Calypso, Widnall’s Perfection, Paragon,
Beauty of Counball, Apollo, Jackson’s Rival Yellow, Hon. Mrs. Harris, Angelina,
Paris, Sir R. Peel, Newick Rival, Empress, King of the Whites, Gem, Ada Byron,
Lord Byron, Lady Ann, Vinosa. Second Class.—First prize, a handsome pair
of goblets, value eight guineas, Mr. Gaines, Battersea, for the following thirty-
six blooms :—Magnum Bonum, Fanny Kemble, Unicorn, Mrs. Wilkinson, Beauty
of Lullingstone, Hermione, Fisherton Rival, Girling’s Purple, Kindle’s Perfection,
Crocus, King Otho, Lady,Lascelles, Triumph, Springfield Rival, Miss Wilson, Bar-
net’s Venus, Lord Byron, Conquering King, Bride Abydos, Grandis, Knight’s
Scarlet, Sir H. Fletcher, Alpha, Westland Marquis, Lady Rendlesham, Beauty of
Dulwich, Glory, New Royal Purple, Marquis of Abercorn, Cork Invincible, Ve-
nosa, Bronze, January, Brewer. Second prize, handsome silver sugar bason,
value five guineas, to Mr. Brown, Slough, for the following thirty-six blooms :—
Brown’s Royal Adelaide, Brown’s King of the Fairies, Brown’s Queen Elizabeth,
Brown’s Corinne, Brown’s lon, Brown’s Ariadne, Brown’s Quilled Perfection,
Brown’s Sulpkur, Brown’s Bronze, Springfield Rival, Smith’s Napoleon, Wid-
nall’s Perfection, Sir H. Fletcher, Dodds’ Mary, Countess of Sheffield, Countess
of Moreton, Clark’s Royal Adelaide, Mazeppa, Bride of Abydos, Cri-
terion, Mrs. Wilkinson, The Queen, Hermione, Rosea Superba, Elphin-
stone’s Polyphemus, Cream, The Star, Douglas’s Glory, Lord Liverpool, Me-
tropolitan Rosette, Metropolitan Perfection, Metropolitan Lilac, Three Seedlings.
Third Class. First prize, handsome silver cup, value six guineas, to Mr. Squibb,
Salisbury, for the following 24 blooms:—Squibb’s purple perfection, Squibb’s
Hon. Mrs. Harris, Dodd’s Mary, Lilac Perfection, Alpha, Warminster Rival,
Vandyke, Metropolitan Blush, Metropolitan Perfection, Metropolitan Calypso,
Springfield Rival, Holman’s Scarlet Perfection, Newick Rival, St. Leonard’s
Rival, Lady Bones, Hermione, Newby’s Duke of Bedford, Smith’s Napoleon,
Clarke’s Royal Adelaide, Countess of Orkeny, Glory, Widnall’s Venus,
Squibb’s Purpurea Surperba, Mrs. Wilkinson. Second prize, handsome silver
salver, value three guineas, to Mr. Mountjoy, Ealing, for the following 24
blooms :—Bride of Abydos, Mountjoy’s Burgundy, Criterion, Colossus,
Lady Ripon, Glory, Beauty of Perry-Hill, King Otho, Sir H. Fletcher, Ne Plus
Ultra, Hon. Mrs. Harris, Callsar’s Perfection, Springfield Rival, Ariel, Colvill’s
Perfection, Lady Ann, Well’s Paragon, Jupiter, Mrs. Wilkinson, Metropolitan
Lilac, Gem, Paris, Vulcan, Newick Rival. Third prize, handsome silver sugar
castor, value two guineas, to Mr. Willmer, Sunbury, for the following 24 blooms:
—Prince of Orange, Hopwood’s Lay Ann, King Otho, Mrs. Wilkinson, Countess
of Morton, Ariel, Miss Cust, Cedo Nulli, Dr. Halley, Well’s Champion, Red
Rover, Well’s Paragon, Luna, Mrs. Harris, Burgundy, Shine Yellow Perfection,
Jeffery’s Triumphant, Dodd’s Mary, Purple Perfection, Beau Fragera, Leonatus,
Gem or Royal Adelaide, Lord Darby, Bride of Abydos. [By some over sight,
owing probably to the vast extent of the show, the stand of 24 blooms belonging
to Mr. Brown, of Slough, was overlooked until the first prize had been awarded.
The judges, however, very handsomely made the amende, by voting to Mr. Brown
a prize equal in value to the first prize, (six guineas,) for the following twenty-
four blooms :—Brown’s Corinne, Brown’s lon, Brown’s King of the Fairies,
Brown’s Ariadne, Mrs. Wilkinson, Mazeppa, Criterion, Purpurea Elegans, Bride
of Abydos, Countess of Moreton, Dodds’ Mary, Metropolitan Perfection, Brown’s
Blue Beard, Brown’s Sulphur, Brown’s Royal Adelaide, Brown’s Goliah, Lilac
Perfection, King of the Whites, Smith’s Napoleon, Springfield Rival, Four Seed-
lings.] Fourth Class.—First Prize, handsome pair of butter boats, value five
guineas, to Edward Davies, Esq., Entry Hill, Bath, for the following 12 blooms:
—Burgundy, Ariel, Bronze, Countess of Errol, Springfield Rival, Hon. Mrs.
Harris, Mrs. Wilkinson, Dromio, Paragon, Hermione, Calypso, Dr. Halley.
Second prize, handsome silver cup, value two and a half guineas, to Joseph
Neeld, Esq., M. P., for the following twelve blooms :—Benbank’s Ode, Douglas’s
Glory, Metropolitan Blush, Purpura Elegans, Hermione, Chippenham Hero,

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Captain Ross, Cassina, Hon, Mrs. Harris, Springfield Rival, Calypso, Mrs. Budal.
Fifth Class.—Second Prize, handsome silver fish-slice, value two and a half
guineas, to G. C, Tugwell, Esq., for the following nine blooms :—New’s Poly-
phemus, Brown’s Sulphur, Hon. Mrs. Harris, Elphinstone’s Polyphemus, Doug-
las’s Glory, Ariel, Brown’s Bronze, Lady Fordwich, Queen. Third prize, pair
of handsome silver ladles, value a guinea and an half, to R. Godfrey, Esq., for
the following nine blooms:—Heale’s Defiance, Jason, Queen of Dahlias, Wid-
nall’s Perfection, Hon. Mrs. Harris, Venosa, Village Maid, Touchstone, Queen of
Selwood. Seedlings.—First prize, handsome pair of salts, value a guinea and a
half, Mr. Brown. Second ditto, sugar tongs, value one guinea, Mr. Gaines.
[Mr, J. Harris of Upway, Dorset, produced several very beautiful seedling dahlias,
which had if been within the meaus of the Society, would certainly have obtained
a prize.] Drawings of flowers.—Artists’ prizes—l. Miss Rosenburg, Bath; 2,
Mr. J. Wakeling, Walworth, Surrey both for groups. Amateurs’ ditto,—1. Miss
Mintorn, 7, Frielaud Place, Clifton, for a group; 2. Mrs. St. John Maule, of the
Villeas, Batheston, for a single flower—An Extra Prize was awarded to Mrs. G.
P. Smith, for some beautiful paintings of fruit.

SHEFFIELD GRAND HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

On Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 14 and 15, the exhibition of flowers,
fruits, plants, and vegetables, open for competition to all England, took place at
the Botanical Gardens. Beautiful as were many of the exotics exhibited in the
conservatory, particularly the orchideous plants and other rarities, the chief
point of attraction was manifestly the dahlia tent; and certainly the extensive
and diversified display, consisting, as it did, of every conceivable variety of this
fine flower, was eminently interesting. Judges—Mr. Lambert, Wadsley House ;
Mr. Cameron, Birmingham; and Mr. Wilson, Gopsal, seat of Lord Howe. The
following is a list of the prizes, which were awarded as follows: —Dahlias.—Stand
of 50—}. Silver cup, value £15, Mr. Widnall; 2: Silver cup, value £10, Mr.
Levick; 8. Silver cup, value £5, Mr. J, Billington. Ditto for 24—l1L. Silver
cup, value 7/., Mr. Windall; 2. Silver cup, value 5/., Mr. J. Spencer;
3. Cutlery, value 3/. Mr, Bates. Ditto of 12 |. Silver Medal, Mr. N.
Wilson; 2. Table entlery, Mr. Taylor; 3. Salts, value 4/-. Mr, J. Dyson
Seedling, (unnamed)—1. Snuff-box, value 5/., Mr. Harrison ; 2. 3/., Mr. Wilson,
3. 2/., Mr. Windall; 4. 1/., Mr. N. Wilson ; 5. Snuff box, Mr. T. Clark. Single
Specimen (not a seedling)—£2. 2s. Mr. Taylor. Judges—Mr. Lowe, Upper
Clapton, London; Mr. Cunningham, Edinburgh; Mr Ryder, Leeds; and Mr.
Buchanan. Blithefield, seat of Lord Bagot. Plants.—Orchideous (collections)
—l. Silver cup, value £10., Mr. Cooper; 2. Silver cup, value £5., Mr Menzies.
Stove (collection)—1. Silver cup. value £10., Mr. Paxton; 2. Silver cup, value
£5., Mr. Appleby. Greenhouse (collections of 20)—1. Silver cup, value £10.,
Mr. Menzies; 2. Silver cup, value £5., Mr. Paxton. Hardy (collection of 12)
—Silver cup, value £5., Mr. Menzies. Orchideous (single specimen)—£2. 2s.,
Mr. Paxton. Greenhouse—£2. 2s, Mr. Menzies. Hardy—£1. Is., Mr. Menzies.

REFERENCE TO PLATES.

Malva Fulleriana.—This very splendid flowering Mallow has recently been
raised from seed in this country, from whence obtained we do not know. Itisa
hardy shrub, growing freely and blooming profusely, if planted in a sheltered
situation, and reaches from eight to ten feet high, forming when in blooma most
beautiful object. The plant merits a place in every shrub-bed or border. The
stock, twelve plants, has been forwarded to us for disposal at one guinea each.
Orders for which will be executed by us, or any of the London Seedsmen.

Dodds’ Mary Dailia.—This beautiful variety was raised by Mr. Dodds, Gar-
dener to Sir George Warrender, and it is generally considered by all who have
seen flowers of it, to be nnrivalled in its class; wherever we have seen it exhibited,
either in the country or metropolitan shows, its superiority was so evident, that
the most inexperienced in a knowledge of the properties of a first rate flower,
were struck with its beauty, whilst those persons capable of ascertaining its merits,
without a single exception that we have seen or heard of, state that it is, in its
class, superior to any other exhibited this year.

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THE

FLORICULTURAL CABINET,

DECEMBER Ist, 1836.

PART UT:
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

ARTICLE I.

ON DRYING AND PRESERVING SPECIMENS OF PLANTS.

BY PRIMULA SCOTICA.

I HAVE read in your Number for October, “A Lady’s’” directions
for preserving dried plants, and have one or two suggestions to offer
by way of improvement, should you think them worthy of insertion.
I always use blotting paper to dry the plants in, as it absorbs best ;
if they are very succulent, I prefer the thick white kind. Instead of
wooden boards, I make use of millboards, as less clumsy, (one sheet
cut in two,) and two dozen of these will enable the drier to have a
great number of plants under press at once. Your correspondent
uses a very needless quantity of paper at once. Nearly all plants
require only two or three sheets, if they are laid in the innermost ; a
millboard slid placed between every two or three plants; and at the
end of three days, if the papers are damp, the plants should be care-
fully taken out, and put in the same number of dry, smooth sheets.
If necessary, the papers should be changed in two or three days after
this, but most plants will be thoroughly dried in six days, some
sooner. My weights are laden, with handles; 120lbs., and 210lbs
each, and these weights answer better than heavier ones. The plants
should be dried, and kept in a dry airy room, where there is no fire.
A plant should never be taken from under the ‘weights till it is
quite stiff. I keep my duplicates in half sheets of blotting paper,
laying those of the same species between two loose sheets, and tying
up anumber of these leaves and plants between two half sheets of
millboard. My herbanum is a large halfbound book, composed of
cartridge paper of the largest size, and between each leaf I have a
slip of cartridge paper bound in, the length of the page, so that when
the book is full, the edges close evenly. Each page is cut with four
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266 ON PRESERVING SPECIMENS OF PLANTS.

slips, so as to admit a leaf of the largest folio writing paper, leaving
a good margin of cartridge paper. On each leaf of writing paper, I
fasten a plant with thin hot glue, touching one or two leaves and
flowers, and the back of the stalk. One or two leaves should have
the under side uppermost, also one or two flowers, so as to display
the plant naturally. If the plants are small, two varieties, or two
species even, may be placed very well on one page. At the foot of
the plant, should be written the Latin and English generic and spe-
cific name$, a reference to some Botanical work, as Hooker’s British
Flora, the date and place of gathering. This plan, which enables
me, as my collection increases, and the genera are filled up, to move
the plant on its half sheet to any part of the book, was recommended
to me by an eminent Botanist, and I have found it very preferable to
those generally employed. Neither paste or gum will answer so well
as glue, if it is used while hot.
October, 17th, 1836.

ARTICLE I1.—ON DESTROYING MOSS ON WALKS.

BY MR. JOHN SHEPHERD, KELHAM, NOTTS.

In your Floricultural Cabinet for September, I observed a few re-
marks on getting rid of Moss on gravel walks, addressed to ‘* Maria.”
Well knowing what a troublesome thing it is, and having had a great
length of gravel walk under my care for a number of years, caused
me to turn my attention to the evil. The method recommended by
Mr. Denyer, may be in some respects efficacious, but not entirely
sufficient to answer the purpose alluded to, besides the expense at-
tending it would render it not very easy to put in practice. The
method [ would recommend to ‘“ Maria,” would be simply this :—
Take common salt and strew it thinly over the moss, taking care not
to let the salt touch the edging, if box, and should not come nearer
than eight or nine inches. This will entirely destroy the moss al-
ready grown, and prevent its reappearing for some years to come. I
had a walk of considerable length, so much infested with moss and
worm hills, as to render it troublesome, and even dangerous to walk
upon. I salted it about six years ago, since which, neither worms
or moss have appeared, and the walk has acquired a consistency and
firmness which has fully convinced me of the superior efficacy of salt.
The method here pointed out, will answer quite as well ina shady

walk, as in one openly exposed to the sun.
Kelham, Oct, 22nd, 1836.

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ON PINKS. 26

ARTICLE III.—ON THE PROPAGATION OF PINKS.
BY MR. WILLIAM ST. CLAIR, OAK PARE, GALLOWAY.

AxouT ten years ago, I adopted the method recommended by Mr.
Me.’Phail, in his work on gardening, for the propagation of Pinks ;
as it differs in some respects from methods I have seen recommended
in the Cabinet, I beg leave to lay it before your readers.

T use small frames of several sizes, none of them more than two feet
square, by ten inches high behind and seven in front ; on an exhausted
hotbed, or flat mound raised about six inches, having a full south
exposure, I lay about two inches of rotten dung and vegetable mould
chopped together; on this the frame is set, and a mixture of light
loam, vegetable mould, and sand, put into it ; about two inches of this
is quite sufficient. When the old plants are coming into flower, I
prepare pipings much in the usual way, only I push clean off the
pair of leaves at the joint I cut the piping at, and shorten one or two
more pairs if I find it necessary:’ I water with a fine rose, sometime
before pushing in the pipings, and give a little to settle the earth
after inserting them; when they are quite dry, I put on the sash,
and allow it to remain on till they have struck root, unless the wea-
ther has been very dull and moist, in that case, I remove the sash for
about half an hour when the weather clears up. I use slips of paper
for shading them, running a slip up the centre of each frame, and
putting something on it to hold it down; I do not cover with this
shading more than half of the glass in the sash, and allow it to re-
main on day and night till the pipings are rooted, which will take
place in eighteen or twenty days; during this time I allow them no
air, even in the hotest sunshine, but on perceiving that they have
begun to grow, I give air gradually and finally remove the sash. In
a short time their roots get into the chopped dung, which adheres
well to them in removing.

By following the above method, every piping will strike root, and
though it has something scorching in its appearance, I find the wa-
tering they get at planting quite sufficient for them till they are
rooted, providing none of the external air is admitted.

Should the above merit a place in your excellent publication, I
shall probably transmit to you for some future number, a few obser-
vations I have made in floriculture.

Oak Park, Galloway, Oct. 17th, 1836.

(We shall be obliged by the promised favours.—Connucron.)

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268 ON WATER PLANTS.

ARTICLE IV.—ON WATER PLANTS.
BY THE REY. R. RAY. MELSHAM, DEVON.

THE beautiful Flowers of some of the Water Plants do at least equal,
if not surpass many of our most curious land plants, and especially
those in the West Indies; I am pursuaded many curious persons
would have made plantations of them, if they had known how to have
done it: but though America exceeds us, yet we are not without
them in England, as the Water Lilies and Ranunculuseses of several
kinds, that are so frequently found in our rivers and ponds, and
especially in Cambridgeshire where there is a great variety.

Water Plants may be cultivated in gardens, although there are
neither ponds, rivers or springs in them ; and I recommend the doing
of it in the method following.

Either in garden pots glazed, without holes, or in troughs or cases
of wood of oaken boards two inches thick, six feet long, and two
feet wide, and two feet and an half deep; if they are for large plants
that grow under water, the troughs need not be so deep. The cor-
ners of these troughs should be strengthened with iron, and the in-
side should be well pitched, and the outside painted.

These pots or troughs should be filled one third part with common
unmixed earth for water lilies, or pond weeds, or such as require
depth of water for their leaves to swim in.

And for water Arums, water Plantains, and Ranunculuses, which
love not so much depth of water as the former, they may be filled
two thirds with the same earth.

And so for those water plants that grow in Bogs and Marshes, the
pots or troughs may be filled with the earth within five inches of the
top.

This may be performed in April, when the water plants begin to
appear, which may be planted from that time till the middle of June;
and the vessels may be filled with water as soon as the plants are put
into them.

It ought also to be observed, that many of the water plants are
Erratics, swimming about from place to place, as the wind carries
them, taking no root in the earth, only striking their roots in the
water; as Ducks-meat, Frog-bits, and Water-Soldiers: a small
quantity of earth in the bottoms of the-pots or cases, will be sufficient
to maintain the water in a right state for the support of these.

And indeed, the best way to understand the right method of
cultivating them in gardens, will be, to observe the mode of growth,
and the exposure of those plants that we would civilize in our gar-

ON WATER PLANTS. 269

dens. For the plain road of nature should be always followed, or at
least kept in view, in order to obtain healthful plants.

In thus artificially cultivating water plants, it is my opinion, that
those that naturally grow in rivers should be frequently refreshed
with spring-water: but such as delight to grow in standing pools or
ponds, should be seldom interrupted with it.

It may also be observed, that water plants, when they are removed
are as long before they recover themselves, to renew their growth, as
Jand plants are. And whereas it is an usual thing to shelter land
plants from the heat of the sun, after they have been transplanted,
water plants must be treated quite contrary, and must be exposed to
the sun, after their removal.

The seeds of water plants are of two kinds; the one kind swimming
on the top of the water, and the other sinking to the bottom as soon
as it is shed; following the nature of their mother plants in that re-
spect : for if the seeds of such plants which naturally swim on the top
of the water, should sink to the bottom, those seeds would not be in
the proper station which is required for their growth ; and so of
consequence would perish: and so on the other hand, the seeds of
such plants, which naturally grow under water, will not swim on the
top of it.

It may also be observed, that in our climate no one Water Plant
is an evergreen; but all of them are either vivacious or annual, and
either loose their leaves down to their roots, or entirely perish, ex-
cepting only their seeds; for it is impossible that they should live
and grow in frozen waters.

Therefore, in order to preserve their seeds, that we may be sup-
plied with the several kinds from year to year; the plants are to be
followed from the flower till they are ripe, and then they should be
put into earth and water, to preserve them fit for vegetation the next
spring ; for that is the way that nature takes, and there is no difficulty
of doing this in pots, &c.

They may be put into the pots or troughs as soon as they are
gathered, and may there either sink or swim according to their
nature, until the spring causes them to sprout ; and they will prosper
and require but a very little attendance.

I do not doubt but that the seeds of Water Plants will produce as
many varieties as the seeds of land plants every year.

As to exotic Water Plants, I am of opinion, that they are best
to be procured and brought hither in the seeds; and whereas in
America the waters are generally adorned with beautiful plants ;
if they were procured by some ingenious correspondent in those parts

270 ON MIMULUSEs.

they may be put (each sort by itself) into bottles of water and earth
with large mouths, and only to be covered with a linen-cloth; for
if they were stopped with corks, the liquor would be apt to ferment :
and these bottles might be put into a vessel of water, and so be
brought to us; and when we receive them, they should be sown in
the pots, as directed before, and set into hotbeds, until the weather
in England comes to answer the heat of the climate they came from.

When the seeds are gathered, the person who does it should
curiously observe the depth of the water they grow in, the quality
of the soil under the water, the situation, and whether it is standing
or running water they grow in; and above all, the taste of the water,
whether it be fresh, or salt, or brackish.

When we have made a good collection of varieties of Water Plants,
they may be disposed into classes, and the several tribes ranged in
their proper order, which would be of use to such as read lectures
on plants: and for want of this, is the occasion that water plants are
so little known. ‘

The most proper season for disposing and removing them, is as
soon as they are out of flower, and the leaves begin to decay, which
is about the beginning of September. The stems or branches of
them should then be cut off near the root ; and their roots should be
planted at due distances in the pots or troughs, as before directed.

Those Water Plants which come from foreign parts, must be
sheltered in a greenhouse, during the winter; for if they, like the

‘exotic land plants, so far preserve their natural season of growth,
that they will only sprout in the spring time of their native countries;
they will sometimes flower with usin the winter season. And while
they are in the greenhouse, they should frequently be refreshed with
water, somewhat warmed with the heat of horse-dung or the sun,
and be allowed as mucb air as possible.

ARTICLE V.—ON THE CULTURE OF MIMULUSES.
BY SALVIA.
Some time since a Query was inserted in the Cabinet from “S. P.,”
on the culture of the Mimulus, not having seen any reply, I beg
leave to submit to the perusal of your respected correspondent, my
method of treatment, with several of its species and varieties, trusting
it will meet the wishes of “S. P.”

Mimulus moschatus, Musk-scented. This kind I have found to
be perfectly hardy, having stood most severe frost through winter,
without the least perceptible injury; more’ particularly so when
grown in an elevated situation, as on rock work, or raised bed. The

ON MIMULUSES, 271

tops die in winter, but the roots remain good, and at the return of
spring push forth shoots. The plant delights in a rich soil. When
the summer season proves dry, the plant’ requires a free supply of
water ; if deprived of this it will be weakly and produce few flowers.
When grown in such a soil, and well attended with water, I have
had the plant to grow two feet high. I tried a single plant in a rich
soil, and pinched off all suckers as they appeared, and I had the
pleasure to see a fine plant two feet high, clothed with blossoms, this
was grown in a pot, placed in the flower garden.

I have several vases placed in a flower garden, a plant of a Fuch-
sia, or other ornamental plant, is placed in each, being grown ina
pot, I had a circular pot a few inches deep, made to fit to the inner
rim of the vase, and up to the edge of the pot containing the Fuchsia,
&e., in this I planted the Mimulus moschatus, attended it well with
water, the shoots pushed rapidly, and hanging gracefully down the
side, flowered abundantly, having a pretty appearance, and perfuming
the air to a considerable distance. I painted the vase green in order
to show the flowers to advantage.

I find that the plant speedily exhausts a soil that was well enriched
at the first planting, and if not replanted, soon becomes weakly. I,
therefore, replant every second year, by taking up the roots as soon
as the shoots push at spring, in entire masses, with the soil adhering
and placing such upon a rich soil, fill up the interstices with similar
soil, in this way the plant grows vigorously the first season.

This plant is very ornamental when grown in pots, and kept in a
greenhouse or room, a liberal supply of water being given—keeping
a portion in a stand in which the pot is placed.

The plant is easily propagated, either by division of the roots, &c.,
by sowing seed in the spring, or even by cuttings of the shoots.

Mimulus roseus.—This is.a very delicate flowering species, re-
quiring a rich sandy loam. It is easily raised from seed, and
flourishes well, either in the open ground, or cultivated in pots. The
flowers are not produced so numerously as in any other species or
varieties I possess, but they are of a pretty rose colour.

Mimulus variegatus.—This is a very neat and pretty fowering
species, making a showy appearance; it delights in a rich
loam. A bed of it looks well. It also grows freely in pots. The
plant is easily propagated, either by seed or division. It is a far
prettier species than the roseus, and deserves to be in every flower
garden.

Mimulus rivularis—A considerable number of very handsome
varieties have been raised from this species, as Youngii, Smithii

272 ON MIMULUSES.

Elphinstonea, Rawsoniana, Wheeleriana, Ranbyana, &e. This plant
delights in a rich, moist soil, mixed with sand, and if it be a little
shady it is beneficial. The colours of the flower are better,, and
the plant more vigorous. A very free supply of water is necessary,
in order to grow this successfully. I have had a single plant to grow
three feet and a half high, and be six feet in circumference, produc-
ing avast profusion of flowers, most amply repaying the little extra
attention paid to its culture. When I obtained this plant at first, I
was instructed to grow it in a small shallow pond, keeping the roots
immersed in water, I was told that it would there succeed far better
than by any other method, but in this particular I find it very much
to the contrary. A soil as above described, and a good supply of
water in dry weather, is all that is required. I had a plant of M.
Elphinstonea, grown in a pot this summer, the size above particu-
larized. The species and all its varieties, are readily increased by
taking off rooted shoots, or by cuttings. Seed sown in spring, and
the plants pricked out into a bed of rich soil, will flower by July and
continue through the season. The impregnation of these kinds, with
any, or all of the others, produces a pleasing and interesting varia-
tion of flowers. ;

M. Bifrons.—The flowers of this very pretty species, are large
and showy. The flower stem rises about eight inches high: The
fine bright yellow blossoms, with one large deep crimson spot are
very pretty, they are highly ornamental from April to November.
The plant in all respects, requires a treatment as directed for M. 7ri-
valaris and all its varieties.

M. glutinosa.—This is an old inhabitant of our greenhouses, and
is most deservedly so. The plant is shrubby, and of easy culture,
producing abundance of buff-yellow flowers. It delights in a rich
sandy soil, having the pots well drained. This kind being planted
in the open border in spring, becomes a most pleasing object through
summer. It requires a warm and sheltered situation, and to be
grown in a soil as above stated. Cuttings of this kind readily strike
root. I have endeavoured to obtain plants of this kind being im-
pregnated with M. rivalaris, and having succeeded in getting seed,
I hope next year to be gratified with satisfactory results, by having
flowers of the herbaceous kinds upon a shrubby plant.

M. cardinalis.—This is the newest species I possess. I procured
a plant in the summer of 1835, which bloomed and produced seed.
I sowed itin January, and early in February potted the plants into a
rich soil, keeping them in a melon frame, with a moist and brisk
heat. I repotted the plants every two or three weeks, up to the end

ON RANUNCULUSES. 273

of May, and when too large for the frame I placed most of them in the
greenhouse, where they were kept through the summer. One plant
has grown six feet high, and spread proportionably, making a fine
show with its blossoms. Other plants were from four to five feet. A
rich soil well drained, plenty of pot room, and a free supply of water,
will furnish plants of the above size.

About the middle of May, I turned out a few of the potted plants
into the open border in the flower garden, one reached five feet high,
the others very fine. In this situation I gave a free supply of water.
The plants in both instances were fine specimens, and very superior
to any I have seen elsewhere, and had a most beautiful appearance
when inbloom. The largest plant had one hundred and five flowers out
at one time. I tried one plant to stand in a pan of water, and the
others to be watered in the usual way, but giving a very free supply ;
and by the latter mode the plants were not only healthier but much
larger. I concluded that the continued water in the pot, soured the
soil, and thus injured the piant. I have now a number of young
plants in small pots, for next year blooming. [I judge a cool part of
the greenhouse will be suitable to keep them in through winter.

I find that there are two or more kinds by the name cardinalis,
the one I have, is of a fine deep scarlet red, with the segments of the
limb of the corolla quite flat; the other is of a orange outside, scarlet
within, and the limb of the corolla bent baék ; the latter is not near
so handsome as the former.

ARTICLE VI.
REMARKS ON RAISING SEEDLING RANUNCULUSES.

BY MR. CARY TYSO, WALLINGFORD, BERKSHIRE.

THE importance of raising Florists flowers from seed, by which uew
and improved varieties are obtained is becoming increasingly manifest
in the superb new sorts of Carnations, Picotees, Pinks, and Dablias ;
but the cultivation of Ranunculuses from seed is limited, to a very
few persons; though new and superior varieties are obtained with
equal ease and certainty of success. We grow some thousands every
year, and though more than half of them are comparatively worthless,
yet generally four or five in a hundred are equal to the best in
cultivation, and some of them superior to their far-famed predecessors.
It is certain that those who grow only the old sorts cannot success-
fully compete with those who grow seedlings, as may be proved
by reference to the Metropolitan and Royal Berkshire Horticultural

274 LIST OF BORDER FLOWERS.

Shows. At the latter Exhibition, fifteen out of the twenty-two
prizes awarded to this beautiful tribe of flowers were taken by seed-
lings, and in the collections of hundreds three-fourths were seedlings,
although the exhibiters possessed extensive assortments of named
varieties. Some growers have even declined the cultivation of old
sorts, and continue to grow those from seed only.

The seed should be sown every yearin autnmn, or early in Spring,
growers will thereby have the pleasure of seeing a constant succession
of new flowers of superior size, shape, and colour, and will obtain a
profusion of bloom. In an unfavourable season, some years since,
when the old roots did not bloom more than ten in a hundred, even
then the seedling beds presented masses of bloom. If persons will
only make a trial of seedling Ranunculuses they will find it very
amply to repay them.

ARTICLE VII.—ON DESTROYING THE CATERPILLAR.
BY M. S.

Havine heard much of the difficulty of getting rid of Caterpillars,
I thought a statement of how to prevent them might not be unac-
ceptable. This I have for years succeeded in, by placing bags of
sulphur on sticks, about 18 inches high, amongst the beds of all the
Brassica tribe. On the first appearance of the yellow or spring but-
terfly, which (the effluvia being offensive to them) prevents their
laying their eggs in its vicinity. I have also found the same effect
from strewing sulphur over those trees, gooseberries, or any plant
subject to them, or the green-fly, on roses, &c. The practice has, in
the course of the last 20 years become pretty general, having recom-
mended it to various gardeners and farmers. The cottagers in the
neighbourhood make use of matches, with what effect I know not.

Should you think this worthy of insertion in your useful and
widely circulating Magazine, I shall feel gratified by having contri-
buted an article to so agreeable a publication.

N. B. A teaspoonful of brimstone inclosed in muslin, not too
thick, to prevent the escape of the effluvia, is better than linen or silk.

ARTICLE VIII.
SELECT LIST & DESCRIPTION OF PERENNIAL BORDER FLOWERS.

BY MR. JOHN BROWN,
At Messrs. Buchanan’s Nurseries, Camberwell, near London.
Ir appears from your Florist’s Magazine, that some correspondents
are desirous of a Selection of Hardy Herbaceous Plants. I herewith
subjoin the following Select List, trusting it will meet your approba-

ees oe Ae "sy

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LIST OF BORDER FLOWERS.

275

tion, and gratify their anxious expectations. I have been particular
in selecting the most showy and free flowering Plants: Observe

those marked with * are the most New and Rare Species.

All that I have mentioned may be procured at this Establishment,
or of Mr. Lowe, at Clapton; Messrs. Dickson, of Chester; or most
of the Provincial Nurseries.

Note. The early part of the Spring is decidedly the best time to
procure them, as they are less liable to injury from the packing, &e.
I have stated the month of blooming, the
colour of the flowers, and the heights, so that in planting they can
be readily arranged as to height and the colours diversified, accord-
ing to the individual’s pleasure. I will remark as preliminary to the
List, that most of the Plants mentioned as flowering in any particular
month, will sometimes come into flower the month preceding, and
continue in bloom one or more of the following months.

than at any other season.

Generic Name. Specific Name.

Actea spicata
Aconitum nitidum

Bupthalmum grandiflorum

grandiflorum
versicolor
album
*Moldavicum
pyrenaicum
Achillea *acuminata
m ageratum
: ptarmica-flore-pleno
Alyssum saxatillis
Olympicum
Anemone pulsatilla
*pensylvanica
‘Antirtrinum Majus bicolor
Arabus alpina
lucida variegata
Aster alpinus
Do. flore-albo
Astrantia maxima
Asphodelus luteus
Aubrietia deltoides
hespendiflora
Aguilegia *garnierana
- *glandulosa
oe Canadensis
Betonica grandiflora
Braya ‘alpina

Calliopsis palmata

‘Months.
May
July
June
Septem.
August
Septem.
June
August
_ Septem.
July
April
June
April

March
June
May
May
June
May
March
April
May
June
April
June
June
August
May

Colour of the Flowers.

White
. Blue

Blue

Bright Yellow

White

Greenish White
Yellow
White
Yellow
White
Yellow
Yellow
Violet
White

Scarlet and White

White and Yellow
White
Purple
White
Pink.
Yellow
Purple
Purple

Purple and Straw

White and Blue
Rosy
Purple
Purple
Yellow
Yellow

Height in Ft.

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276 LIST OF BORDER FLOWERS.

Generic Name. Specific Name. Months. Colour of the Flowers. Height in Ft.
Calliopsis rosea July Red 2
Campanula Carpatica July Blue z
*pulla June Blue 3
pyramidalis : August Pale Blue 1
*Do. flora albo August White 4

glomerata flore pleno albo May White 1

——_——_ punctata June Spotted Do. 1
*garganica July Blue,” Trailing,
Catananche ccerulea July Blue,

*bicolor June Blue and White 1g
Centrocarpha hirta September Yellow 3 ile
Chelone glabra October White 2

obliqua September Purple 3
— barbata June Orange and Scarlet 35
* speciosum June Blush 4
Chrysanthemums of sorts October Various
Chrysocoma dracmaculoides September Yellow 2
villosa August Yellow is
Convyallaria Majalis May White 05
flore-pleno May White Er
Coreopsis verticillata August Yellow 3
lanceolata September Yellow 3
Cortusa Mathioli April Red z
Coronilla Tberica July Yellow, Trailing
varia August Pink or Rose
squamata, August White 1
Corydalis noblis May Light Yellow 1
Coptis *trifolia April Brown one-eight
Cypripedium album May White 14
spectabile June Red ES
Crackia liliastum May White SP Le
Delphinium speciosum July Blue 4.
grandiflorum-flore-pleno June Dark Blue 2
—— Do. album do. do. July White 2
*Barlowii June Blue 13
Dictamnus *angustifolius May Lilac 2

Faxinella June Red 3
—_———- albus May White 3
Dielytria formosa June Flesh 1

eximia July Flesh 1

Draba ciliaris February Yellow s
azoides March Yellow Ca,

Dracocephalum speciosum August Pink or Rose 2

Ruyschianum June Blue 1

peregrinum July Purple s

Dodecatheon Meadia April Light Purple ]

*elegans May Rosy 1

——_—— albiflorum April White 1

ESE

LIST OF BORDER FLOWERS.

Generic Name. Specific Name.
Echinacea *intermedia
Eranthis hyemalis
Erinus alpinus b
Epimedium alpinum
Epilobium variegatum
angustifolium
Dodonei
Eschscholtzia Californica
— *crocea,
Francoa ramosa
appendiculata
Funkia ovata
obcordata.
Galardia aristata
Richardsonia
———-*picta
Gentiana septemfida
——— cruciata
Catesbei
aurea
acaulis
verna
——_—— Saponaria
Geum Chiloense
Geranium pratense-flore-pleno
Gypsophilla prostrata
————— grandiflora
Heleborus lividus
niger
Hemerocallis flava
Heimia *salicifolia
Hypoxis erecta
Tberis Tenoreana
4 stylosa
Tnula hirta
odora
Tris Hookerii

spicata
Linum maritinum
alpinum

album

Months.
August
February
March
April
July
June

August
June
July
July
June
May
August

April
June

July

May
August
September
July

July

June
June

Colour of the Flowers.

Red
Yellow
Purple

Rosy
Purple
Purple
Yellow
Orange
White
Purple
Blue
White
Yellow
Orange
Red and Yellow
Light Blue
Dark Blue
Blue
Yellow
Blue
Purple
Blue
Copper-coloured
Blue
Red
White
Purple
Pink or Rose
Yellow
Yellow
Yellow
Pale Purple
White and Pink
Yellow
Yellow
Purple
Purple
White
Blue
Blue
White
Purple
Purple
Purple
Yellow
Blue
White

277

Height in Ft

is eas alae lll aed

Jo

— —
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Nis

SIG RD Be es ren BORD et Rs ie 8S pet tS 8

one-sixth

Lond
Nik Rp

el

Nik

Neo to De NH = BH

278 LIST OF BORDER FLOWERS.

Generic Name. Specific Name. Months. Colour of the Flowers. Height in Ft
Linum austriacum July Blue 1
Lobelia cardinalis - September Scarlet 3
fulgens August Scarlet 3
splendens August Scarlet 2
*speciosa June Blue 3
amena July Blue 2
Lupinus Sabinianus May Yellow 3
polyphyllus June Blue 33
albiflorus June White 3>
Lychnis *fulgens June Scarlet 13
Chalcedonica-plena July Scarlet 2
alba-plena June White 2
Lysimachia verticillata July Yellow 1
angustifolia August Yellow 13
——_—_——_ *affinis July Yellow 2
punctata June Yellow 13
Lythrum salicaria July Purple 2
Macleaya cordata May Red and Yellow 5
Meconopsis cambrica May Yellow 1
Melittis grandiflorum May White and Yellow 1
Melissophyllum June Flesh 1
Nepeta Violacea July Blue 2
Nescea triflora August Blue 2
verticillata September Purple 2
Orobus vernus March Purple 1
Amantius June Yellow 1g
*latifolius . July Blue u
albus May White 1
Qnothera acaulis August White z
*macrocarpa June Yellow 1
Missourensis August Yellow i
*ceespitosa July White 1
speciosa major August White 1g
*Taraxifolia July White 3
—- serotina September Yellow 2
Ononis *picta May Yellow and Purple 1
rotundifolia June Pink or Rose 2
Onosma LEchioides June Yellow 1
*Gurelini May Straw beg
Papaver bracteata , June | Red 4 aa
orientale May Red Gy
*Nudicaulecoccinea February Red and Orange 1
— *croceum May Saffron Ee
Pascalia glauca July Yellow 1
Petrocalis pyrenaica May Pink z
Pentstemon digitalis July White 13
atropurpureus August Dark Purple 14
—_————— pulchella June Purple 14

LIST OF BORDER FLOWERS. 279

Generic Name. Specific Name. Months. Colour of the Flowers. Height in Ft.
Pentstemon *Cobceo July Whitish 2
elegans June Light Purple iz
Phlox *speciosa June Flesh 1
*excelsa July Furple 4
—— *tardiflora August White 2
— *Whelleriana June Pink 3
paniculata alba August White 3
suaveolens July White 2
—— carnea September Pink IZ
* ovata May Purple 1
* reflexa October Red 25
divaricata April Light Blue il
amcena June Pink or Rose oo
*Drummondii (annual) June Red (changeable) 1
subulata April Flesh Trailing
setacea May Flesh z
*nivalis April White z
*procumbens April Purple Trailing
*verna : March Red >
Polemonium *pulcherrimum July Blue =
Potentilla formosa June Pink 1$
splendens May Yellow 1
*Hopuoodiana June Brown and Rosy 1g
*Russeliania July Scarlet 2
O’Buinna August Brown and Rosy it
tormentilla New Trailing
verna March Yellow $
Primula cortusoides May Red 1
Phyteuma canescens August Light Blue 1
Ramonda pyrenaica May Purple 4
Rhexia *virginica June Purple ij
Rudbeckia purpurea August Dark Purple 4d
fulgida August Yellow 25
Ranunculus aconitifolius May White I
Saponaria ocymoides May Red z
Saxifraga nivalis June White PE
oppositifolia March Purple Trailing
punctata June White 1
_ granulata-pleno April White 1
Simsia amplexicaulis July Yellow 4
ecu *podolica May White 4
Spigelia Marilandica July Scarlet 1
; lidago alpestris September Yellow 2
—— Cambrica August Yellow 5
—_—_ minuta July Yellow t
danella alpina April Purple t
—— montana May Purple t

=_
Nix

ce tartarica June Pink

280 LIST OF BORDER FLOWERS.

Generic Name. Specific Name.

Statice speciosa

latifolia

Sisyrrinchium anceps

Stenactis *speciosa

Telekia *speciosa

Teucrium campanulata
Canadense

Tradescantia *congesta

Virginica-alba

—$<——— — rubra

ceerulea albida
plena

Trollius europzus
humilis
Asiaticus
——— patulus
Thalictrum formosum
—— medium
glaucum
contortum
Uvularia perfoliata
— ———flayvor
Verbena *venosa
Lambertia
——— melindres
*Sabini
Vesicaria utriculata
Viola palmata
pedata
cornuta
attenuata
Veronica incana
grandis
elegans
gentianoides
pumila
pinnata
— fruticulosa

Months.

July
July
May
August
July
July
August
June
May
June
May

September

May
June
May

June
July
June
May
June

September

July
May
June
May
May
June
May
April
July
August
May
May
May
August
July

Colour of the Flowers.

White
Lilac
Blue
Lilac
Yellow
White
Purple
Blue
White
Red

Blue and White

Purple
Yellow
Yellow

Dark Orange

Orange
Purple

Green and Yellow

Yellow
White

Pale Yellow

Yellow
Rosy
Lilac
Scarlet
Purple

Light Yellow

Purple
Blue
Purple
White
Blue
White

Pink or Rose
Dark Blue

Blue
Purple
Flesh

Height in Ft
1

Ris

— Om ee OR eR Ree Ee ee Oh
nh Niet

m Wd Sh 0 Or

Trailing
Trailing

Po ON Ch ncn nO)

one-eight |

Hence you may imagine, if those Plants were judiciously arranged
in a pleasure-ground, or other compartment appropriated to them,
with a Selection of the most preferable Annuals, Shrubby Calceola-
rias, Nierembergias, Mimuluses, and Pansies, interspersed among,
what a most uncommon pleasing appearance they would make for
at least nine months in the year.
the practice of the present age, more particularly in extensive —
flower-gardens, to plant the most of Annuals, &c. in large groups

Although it is universally

ON THE HEARTSEASE. 281

or separate beds, nevertheless I propose a few of the choicest to be
introduced, into any suitable vacancies among a collection of Herba-
ceous Plants in the confined gardens around London, or any other
diminutive pleasure-ground: as, from experience, I am induced to
observe, that they would to a certain extent be much more attractive,
and look infinitely better.

I shall be at any time most happy to subscribe Floricultural
knowledge, if you consider my communications worthy of accep-
tance.

August 25th, 1836.

(We shall be glad to hear from Mr. Brown at all times.—Conp.)

ARTICLE IX—ON THE HEARTSEASE.

BY MR. TODD, ROLVENDEN, KENT.

Havine paid considerable attention to the propagation and subsequent
culture of the Heartsease, I am induced to send the following
observations, upon this interesting and beautiful flowering plant, for
insertion in the Cabinet, hoping it will be of some interest to its
readers.

So strikingly handsome, and attractive are the flowers, and so
easy of propagation, generating at a most surprising rate, that I
hesitate not to say, that the Heartsease will, ere long, become the
pride of every flower garden, from the humble cottage to the splendid
palace. |

The family of this pretty flowering plant, comprises a vast variety
of colours, and form. It is to me quite astonishing that such perfect
_ flowers should have been produced from their progenitors. I could
_ refer to many such by name, but as some of the readers of the Cabinet

_ may not know them, I beg to state what are in my opinion the pro-
__ perties of a good flower. Whatever the colours, are they should be
clear, and distinct ; not blended and suffused together. The flower
should be as broad as it is long, and the two upper petals should
occupy about one half, and the lower petal be about one quarter, the
two side petals exhibiting to front view the other quarter. The

whole of the petals should join neatly together so as to form a flat
surface, combining to compose a circle as near as may be, allowing
for a small deviation from the circumference line at the places where
the petals meet, and the incurvature of the lower edge of the bottom
petal. The merits of the flower are judged by its perfection of form
in the above respects, and not to size, a large wavy edged, or wavy
surfaced flower, would be far inferior to a small one possessing the
Kk

282 CULTURE OF THE HYACINTH.

properties above described. On no account should size be substituted,
_for form in estimating the merits of flower. The mode of treatment
ay pursue is simple but very successful.
Early in May I take off the small suckers that are appearing « above
ground, of which there is usually a free supply from the old plants, I
cut them off close to the old plant, at a joint; I then pot them off in
sand, about an inch of each being inserted therein, [ water them
well at that time to settle the soil close to the stems, and in an hour
afterwards I cover them closley with a hand glass which is not re-
moved from off them, till they are rooted, this is easily ascertained by |
the tops pushing.
I take care to shade them on sunny days. When rooted I take
them up and transplant them into anursery bed, in a warm situation,
there they remain till about the middle of July, at which time I put
them out, with as much earth adhering to the roots as possible, into the
places where they are intended to bloom, which they will doall the end of
summer and autumn, and flourish exceedingly finethe following spring.
When the plants have grown very vigorously and the shoots are
long, I cut them down rather closley, after which they soon recover.
By this mode of treatment they very far exceed anything I ever saw
of Heartsease elsewhere:
I never keep plants beyond the second year, as they get too
bushy, and the flowers are small, compared with those the year old
plants produced. The soil I bloom them in is as follows:—Two
parts loam, one part sandy peat, and the other well rotted hotbed
dung ; these are well blended together.
Those plants I intend to grow for producing flowers for exhibition,
I plant in a half shady situation, the colours are thus preserved pure :
and clear.

ARTICLE X.—ON THE CULTURE OF THE HYACINTHS.

BY J.R. W. WELLINGTON, SOMERSETSHIRE.

THERE are so many accounts written on the culture of the Hyacinth,
that I fear you will consider mine superfluous, but as the manner
in which I force my Hyacinths is different from any that I have seen
published, perhaps you will give it a place in your useful and valuable
publication.

Almost all growers of Hyacinths imagine that they are brouee to
greater’ perfection by growing them in a sandy soil; but the follow-
ing course which I have adopted and the success I have met with,
incline me to think mine the best plan. _

ON THE REVERSA ELEGANS ROSE. 283

I take two sixth parts of well rotted cow-dung, at least two years
old, to which I add two sixths parts of fine soft sand, and the remain-
der with rotted leaves, all of which I have well chopped up but not
sifted. I plant them in narrow deep pots filled with the above com-
position, allowing the bulb to be about half buried in the mould.
When I have potted off the number I intend to force, I take a
common cucumber frame, put it on a level surface on the ground,
_ into which I place the Hyacinths, filling the frame with saw-dust.
_ IfT cannot part with a frame, I dig a pit sufficiently large to contain
the number I intend to force, about eighteen inches or two feet deep,
_ making it perfectly level, into which I place the Hyacinths and fill

_ itup inthe same manner with the saw-dust. I then form a ridge,
_ with the earth taken out of the pit, onthe top. I always pot my
_ Hyacinths for forcing the last week in September or early in October.
When Hyacinths are required to be in flower at Christmas they
should be taken out of the pitin November. I prefer letting them re-
main until the latter part of January or beginning of February, by
_ which time they will have filled the pots with roots, and made flower
stems six or eight inches in the saw-dust. When taken out of the
saw-dust they are completely blanched. I then place them ina cold
frame with plenty of light; after remaining there for two or three
_ days, I give them a little air by lifting the light at the back, and when
_ they get their proper green colour, which they will in the course ofa
_ week, I place them in the plant stove where I plunge them about one
third of the depth of the pot in the bark bed, letting them have all
the air and light I possibly can.

.. By this treatment I have had remarkably fine Hyacinths.

ARTICLE XI.
REMARKS ON THE REVERSA ELEGANS ROSE, AS SUITED FOR
A TRELLIS OR AS A PILLAR ROSE.

BY MR. ARCHIBAULD GODWIN, COLLYCROFT, NEAR ASHBOURNE.

A 8 much interest of late has been taken in that truly interesting and
lovely flower, the Rose, I beg to forward a few remarks
which may be of some little service to the readers of your valuable
egscine. Amongst pillars of Roses, there is scarce one that can
equal, if any can surpass, a Rose I have cultivated for about four
years, called the reversa elegans. I had two small plants of it acci-
dentally sent tome ina quantity of the variety Noisette purpurea,
4 “which I planted in a strong loam in the month of November, not

neglecting to incorporate with the soil, a good quantity of half decom-
, Kk3

284 ON THE BRUGMANSIA SUAVEOLENS.

posed hotbed dung; each of them obtained the height of twelve
or fifteen feet the following summer, and the succeeding summer ex-
hibited two pyramids of roses for the space of three months, and
formed two of the most conspicuous and splendid objects I ever saw,
and elicited universal admiration from all who saw them. Its habit
is a good deal like that of the Noisette, flowering in clusters, of ten
to twenty-seven, and in vast profusion. The colour is a vivid pur-
plish crimson, with a white stripe up each petal. It is well adapted
for a trellis; and asa standard, has a most striking effect, when
the umbrella form of training is adopted, particularly when on a good
high stock, resembling a complete creeper, covered with the Roses to
the ground. Hence its adaption for planting in the centre of cir-
cular rosery, on a stem five or six feet in height, trained to the sur-
face of the soil. This plan may be adopted with the Double White
Musk, which is rather shy in flowering freely in some situations; but
this system of training will have the desired effect. By bending
down the shoot as above, it checks the superabundant flow of the sap,
and produces an abundance of bloom. If you deem these few prac-
tical observations worthy of insertion in you interesting work, they
are, of course, at your service.

ARTICLE XII.—ON GROWING [THE BRUGMANSIA SUAVEOLENS,
(DAUTRA ARBOREA,) IN THE OPEN AIR.

BY MR. JAMES BROWN, GARDENER, KERR LODGE, HANTS.

Durine the last two seasons I have bloomed the Brugmansia
Suaveolens in the open air, and the mode of treatment I pursue I
here subjoin, hoping that it will be of service tothe readers of the ©
Cabinet.

Early in the spring of 1834, I took off a number of cuttings, and
struck them into a melon frame. When rooted I pot six off into”
twenty-four sized pots, using a rich soil, the plants being placed in
the greenhouse during the year. I repot them into a size larger
early in August. I keep the plants in the greenhouse till the middle
of May 1835, and then turn them out into the border, with balls
entire, the situation being open to the sun and sheltered from the west
and north. The soil of the border is taken out to the extent of a
circle four feet diameter, and half a yard deep, the space is filled
up again with the soil and an equal portion of well rotted hotbed
dung nearly a year old.

Wheu each of the plants were put out into the border, they were well
watered, which was repeated very frequently during the whole season.

LIST OF MOSS ROSES. 285

The plants soon began to grow surprisingly. On the twentieth of June
T took the blade of an old scythe and cut round the ball of roots, about
two inches from the old ball, and to the depth of the soil. I repeated this
operation, at two inches from where it was last cut, on the eighteenth
of July. The check which the plant received by this cutting in of
the roots, caused the shoots to produce blossoms, a profusion of which
IL had from an early part of August to the end of October. The six
plants were put out, three on each side a walk, and they had a most
beautiful appearance.

-T took up the plants the first week in November, repotted them,
and kept them in the greenhouse during winter. About the middle
of May this year, I planted them out again, and treated them in
every respect as before stated. The plants have been a complete
Picture of beauty, and are likely to continue so to the end of the
season. Next spring I purpose raising young plants, the large ones
becoming too big for a greenhouse in winter. I had not an oppor-
tunity of obtaining a supply of manure water, but I think ifI had |
that to have given the plant occasionally after the blossoms had
begun to show, it would have increased the length of the shoots, and
of course increased the number as well as the size of the flowers. T
can assure the readers of the Cabinet, that the experiment will
amply repay for the trouble.

ARTICLE XIII.—A DESCRIPTION OF THIRTY OF THE BEST
KINDS OF MOSS ROSES.

BY THE REV. J. JONES, A. M., BRISTOW RECTORY.

_ Tue annexed list and description of moss Roses, are such as I have
_ selected and taken remarks upon this season, aud whichI can confi-
_ dently recommend to the readers of the Cabinet. I have planted a
bed of them, and [ expect next season a delightful show of bloom ; the
plants are strong, and I hope will answer my expectations; I have
uta basket full of litter manure round the stem of each, which I
; ave found of essential service with all the moss Roses; it keeps the
4 soil cool in summer, and causes the plants to bloom profusely and
vigorously. I always put the manure over early in November, and
then throws a slight covering of earth over the whole, in order to
“prevent its removal, which causes it to decompose, and conceals the
_ unsightliness of it.

T have my bed raised a foot above the surrounding ground, which
_ keeps the plants from injury in wet and frosty winters; yet it is not
too dry, when the manure is placed, for any dry summer,

286 ON PROTECTING PLANTS.

I think all the tribe of moss Roses are beautiful, but especially the
selection I have made ; the kinds are very distinct. The Rouge de Lux-
embourg is a very ]uxuriant grower, and of a fine dark crimson colour.

A Fleurs Ponctuce striped curious rosy long buds and very double
purple

Blush pale blush globular and very double

Crimson, or Damask light crimson expanded and double

Crimson, or E’carlate of the very bright rosy globular, large and very dbl.

French ;

Common rose globular, large and very dbl.

Crest, or Crested Provence —_ rose globular, very large and dbl.
with fine crested buds.

Damask fine crimson large double, globular

De Vieillard delicate rose globular and very double

Evclatante brilliant rose cupped and double

Gracilis

Lancel very deep red large and double

Mottled rose, mottled globular and double

Moussue partout, or Zoe rose globular and double the plan;
covered with moss

Miniaturé (Rivers’s) bright crimson cupped, very small, semi-dbl.

New Crimson beautiful crimson large and double

Prolific rose globular dbl, abundant bloomer

Pompone, or De Meaux pale blush compact, small, and yery dbl.

Perpetual White white, often striped bloominginclusters, and some-

with pink times in the autumn
Peacock’s Mottled Blush blush, pretty blush _— globular and large double
Pourpre Clair splendid red globular and double

Rouge de Luxembourg, or deep red with purple cupped and double, splendid
Ferrugineuse tinge

Scarlet, or De la Fleche carmine cupped, small and double

Spotted carmine with pale spots expanded, semi-double

Sriped pale with red stripes cupped, and partially mossed

Sage-leaved bright rose cupped and very double

Single Rose bright rose expanded and large

Single Lilac lilac rose expanded

Single (River's) rose globular and distinct ;

Single Crimson (River's) dark purplish crimson cupped, large and yery mossy

White Bath, or Clifton White pure white globular and dbl., very mossy

White (Old) yery pale flesh globular and yery double, but
partially mossed 3

ARTICLE XIV.
ON PROTECTING TENDER PLANTS DURING WINTER

BY MR. JAMES FERGUSON, GARDENER, NETTERBY LODGE, GLASGOW.

THE winter season is now approaching, when it will be found neces-
sary to protect many of the beautiful flowering tender plants. I for-
ward for insertion in the November Cabinet, (the article was re-
ceived too late) the methods I have adopted for the last six years,
with complete success ; very little trouble is incurred in the at-
tention required, as well as being much neater than any method I ~
have seen in use elsewhere. . F
For tender shrubs, as Standard Fuchsias, Rhododendron arboreum, —

ON PRESERVING PLANTS. 287

&c., Escallonias, Camellias, Salvias, Mesembryanthemums, &c., I
make frames in the following manner:—I take four strong stakes,
strong hazel rods, I have them inserted in the ground at equal dis-
tances round the plant, so as to clear the ends of the shoots; then
I unite the tops together to one point, securing them there. I then
cut, by means of a fine toothed saw, some notches up the two sides
of the rod, which are outwards; having done this, I have a quantity
of deal laths, which are about an inch and a half broad, these are
then nailed to crosswise, in doing which, I commence at the bottom,
and, having fastened the first.tier, I then place another above that,
and so proceed to the top, In nailing the laths, I place them in the
notched part of the uprights, so that they overhang each other a
quarter of an inch, but not to have the lower edge of the lath above,

_ to touch the upper edge of the lath below it; I allow a space here of
a quarter of an inch—this is easily effected by the notches being cut
for the purpose. The openings at the overlaps admit air and light
to the plant, but at the same time exclude wet from it. Both these
advantages are of importance in order to obtain the ubject desired.
With a few very tender kinds of plants, I have strewed in, previous
to putting the case over, some dry fern leaves, commonly called

brake or braken, among the branches, and I have found this to
keep perfectly dry through winter, answering every desired end.
Where brake is not to be had, branches of beech, with the leaves

upon them, furze or broom may be used to answer the same purpose:
IT always cover the ground over the roots, to the extent of two or three
feet, according to the size of the plant, and about six inches deep

_ with chaff from the corn-mill This keeps dry under the covering,

_ and preserves the roots better than any other material I ever used,
such as bark, sawdust, &c.

~The framing of laths, &c., I have painted, and though I have used
them for six winters, they are as good as when new. I take off the

_ frame from the plants, when I judge the severe weather is over, usually

about the middle of April.

The above kind of covering is very far preferable to that of thatch-

ing over with straw, which keeps the plants dark, and the straw often

_ becomes mouldy, and kills the plants. I made a few coverings of
wicker work, common willow twigs, but these did not answer, the

__wet dripping through the covering, and being thus kept damp inside,

more damage was done than if left exposed to the open air.

____ For smaller plants I made coverings of the lath frame work suited

to their size. With such covering I have preserved strong plants of

_ Maurandia dophospermum, &¢ , without sustaining any injury.

‘*%

288 ON BLEACHING LEAVES.

To preserve tender kinds of herbaceous border flowers, as Verbena
Melindres, Lobelia fulgens, &c., I had a number of covers made
similar to dish covers, only at the edgesI had four legs made
to hold them a little way above the plant, and to fix them firmly
in the ground, so as not to be removed. These were made of clay,
similar to that used for garden pots. They shoot off the wet, keep
the root dry, and yet allowa circulation of air underneath. Previous
to placing the pot, I lay a small portion of light leaf mould, or some-
thing of that nature around the crown of the plant; these pots look
very neat, and answer fully. I use the same covers in autumn for
blanching endive for salad. They are very cheap, having purchased
two hundred for one pound.

ARTICLE XV.—ON BLEACHING LEAVES, &c.

BY H. D.

I forward the inclosed for insertion in the Cabinet, in answer to the
query of “ A Practical Lady Gardener,” on bleaching the skeletons
of leaves.
The skeletons of leaves and other delicate vegetable fibres, may be
perfectly and safely bleached, by means of a very dilute solution of
chloride of lime, in the following manner :
A table-spoonful of the solution, as commonly sold at druggists’ shops,
may be added to a quart of distilled or pure spring water, and the
fibre soaked therein for three or four hours, or until the colour dis-
appears; it is then to be taken out, well washed and soaked ina
large quantity of pure water, to remove any adherent chloride, and
afterwards dried, with free exposure to light and air.
It is sometimes, although rarely, necessary to repeat the process
twice or thrice. a
Another good method, but much slower, is to lay the substance on
a clean cloth in the open air, exposed to the sun, and frequently to
sprinkle with clean soft water.
London, June, 26th, 1836.

NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 289

PART II.

LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS,

Noticed since our last.

_ 1. AspasIA VARTEGATA, Variegated flowered. (Bot. Reg., 1907.) Natural
Order, Orchidacee; Class, Gynandria; Order, Monandria. This very neat and

' pretty flowering species has bloomed for the first season in this country, in the

_ collections of R. Bateman, Esq., and of Mr. Knight, King’s Road, Chelsea, during

_ the present year. It is an inhabitant of the tropical part of South America, in its

“native state. The plant is of easy culture, The petals are yellow at the edges,
and green up the middle, streaked and spotted with red; the labellum is white
spotted and streaked with violet. Hach flower is upwards of two inches across;
the flowers are delightfully fragrant in the morning. The plant merits a place in
every collection of Orchideous plants; being of easy culture, it is probable it may
soon be procured at a low cost. Aspasia, from aspasomia, I embrace ; alluding to
the column embracing the labellum.

2. .AMARYLLIS PsITTACINA, HYBRIDA. Hybrid variety of the Parrot Ama-
ryllis. (Bot. Mag., 3528.) This splendid variety was raised in the hothouse of
William Griffin, Esq., South Lambeth, London; it is anhybrid between A. John-
sonia and A. psittacina. It has bloomed in the stove at the Glasgow Botanic
Garden. The flowers are very splendid, usually four flowers are produced in a
scape. Each flower is near six inches across. The petals are white, with a small

_ portion of green at the lower part, the edges and tips have a broad portion of fine
_ crimson, and numerous crimson stripes run up the petals; altogether it is a most
beautiful flowering variety, well meriting a place in every stove.

3. BEconta FiscHert, Dr. Fischer’s. (Bot. Mag., 3532.) Begoniacee ;
Monecia; Polyandria. This pretty plant was sent from Berlin in 1835, to the
Edinburgh Botanic Garden, where it bloomed in the spring of the present year.
The flowers are of little interest. The foliage is smooth, when young of a bright

red, at the under side, paler at the veins, anda pretty pink above, having too a
peculiar silvery lustre, which remains upon the old leaves, which at that stage are
of a yellowish green on the upper side, and of a more pale red at the under side.
It is a very neat plant, and well deserves a place in the stove; like the other spe-
cies it is of easy culture.

4. BARTONIA AUREA, Golden-flowered. (Brit. Flow. Gard., 357.) Loasee ;
Polyandria; Monogynia. A very pretty flowering annual; the flower stem rising
a foot high. The plant produces a profusion of showy flowers, of a fine golden-

ellow colour. Each blossom is about two inches and a half across. The plantis
Wioative of California, from whence it was sent by Mr. Douglas to the London
Horticultural Society, in whose garden it recently bloomed. It delights in a shel-

tered and sunny situation, and is to be grown in a rich soil, where it will bloom pro-
fusely. The plant requires to be raised as a frame annual, and to be planted into

_ the border in May.

6, CLINTONIA PULCHELLA, Pretty Clintonia. (Bot. Reg., 1909.) Lobeli-

acer; Syngenesia; Monogamia. A native of California, from whence it
was sent by Mr. Douglas to the London Horticultural Society. It is a pretty

_ flowering tender annual, of very humble growth, only rising a few inches high.

_ The flowers are rather larger than Clintonia elagans, blue, with a broad white spot

at the centre, stained with a rich yellow. The flower is about half an inch across.
~ Its delicacy of growth will prevent its spreading rapidly through the country.

6. Cyrropopium WiLLMoREI, Mr. Willmore’s. (Birmingham Bot. Gardens,
-p.4.) Orchidacew; Gynandria; Monandria. The plant was discovered by Mr.
Henchman, in the vally of Cumanacoa, in the republic of Venezuela. The species
is of terristrial habit, growing among decayed vegetables. The leaves of the plant
grow more than six feet long in its native habit. ‘The species has bloomed in the
very superb collection of John Willmore, Esq., Oldford, near Birmingham, haying
a flower stem four feet six inches high, very much branched, producing a panicle

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of numerous flowers, each flower being above two inches across. The sepals and
petals are of a yellowish green, spotted with dullred; the lateral petals are brighter
in colour, but not so much marked as the sepals; lateral lobes of the lip of a pale
red; the intermediate lobe yellow, having the edge spotted with red. A ve
handsome flowering species, deserving a place in eyery collection. Cyrtopodium,
from Kurtos, convex; and pous, afoot; in reference to the convex claw of the
labellum. |

7. CRASPEDIA GLAUCA. (Bot. Reg., 1908.) Composite; Syngenesia; Poly-
gamia cequalis. Mr. James Backhouse, of the firm of Messrs. Backhouses, Nur-
serymen, York, went to Van Diemen’s Land a few years since, and from thence
he has sent the present plant to the York Nursery. It is a perennial herbaceous
plant, growing upwards of a foot high. The flowers are globular shaped heads
more than an inch in diameter, of a yellow colour. Each of these heads is com-
posed of smaller heads, producing a pretty effect. Craspedia from Kraspedon, a
fringe ; referring to the feathery pappus.

8. Cratacus Mexicana, Mexican Hawthorn. (Bot. Reg., 1910.) Another
pretty species of Hawthorn, which is a native of the Tierra fria of Mexico. It is
a small growing tree, with dark green shining leaves. In warm countries it is an
evergreen. The flowers are white, each corymb having a considerable number.
They are succeeded by large yellow fruit, each fruit is the size of a May Duke
Cherry. Both the blossoms and fruit make a pretty appearance among the bright
green foliage. Crataegus from Kratos, strength ; referring to the wood.

9. EpIDENDRUM MACROCHILUM, Large-lipped. (Bot. Mag., 3534.) Or-
chidee ; Gynandria; Monandria. A very handsome flowering orchideous plant,
a native of Mexico, from whence it was introduced by Charles Horsfall, Esq.,
Everton, near Liverpool. In the rich collection of Mr. Horsfall’s Orchidew, it
bloomed during the last summer. ‘The scape rises about a foot high, terminated
with a raceme of four large handsome flowers, without scent. The flowers are,
sepals and side petals, of a greenish-brown colour; lip, white, when old cream
coloured, having a large red-purple spot at the base. Each flower is near three
inches across. The flowers are singularly pretty. Epidendrum from Epi, upon
dendron, a tree ; native habitation of the plant.

" 10. EpIMEDIUM MACRANTHUM, Large flowered. Berberacee; Tetrandria;
Monogynia. (Bot. Reg., 1906.) A native of Japan, which has flowered in the
garden of the University of Ghent. The flowers are very singular in form, more
than an inch across, of a pale violet colour, which are very fragrant. The plant
is quite hardy; it is grown in the nursery of Mr. Osborne, Fulham. Epimedium
from Media, where the plant to which it belonged, was said to grow. There are
two more species in the garden at Ghent, viz., E. Violaceum, and E. Musschianum.

11. Iperts coronaRiA, Rocket Candy Tuft. (Brit. Flow.Gard.) Crucifera;
Tetradymia; Siliculosa. This hardy annual is of considerable beauty, being very
showy, and of a pure white. The clusters of racemes are numerous, and very
large, being three or four inches long; at a distance the fine flowers very m
resemble the Double White Rocket. It blooms for several months during summer.
Tt well deserves a place in every flower garden. Seeds of it are to be obtained of ©
most of the London Seedsmen, as Charlwood, Kerman, Warner, Carter, Flanagan,
Chubb, &c.

12. IoNopsis TENERA, Delicate flowered. (Bot. Reg., 1904.) Orchidacez ;
Gynandria; Monandria. A native of Havannah, from whence it was brought by
Captain Sutton, in 1835, and by that gentleman presented to Sir Charles Lemon,
Bart., in whose collection it has bloomed. The scape rises about eight or ten in-
ches high, bearing a loosish panicle of delicately marked flowers, which are of a
pale pinkish-white, beautifully marked with bright violet coloured yeins. But
little is known in this country of the plant of this genns; it is rare to find them in
collections of orchidez, by reason of the difficulty of preserving them on their jour-
ney in the ship, and even when they are safely imported, they are difficult to cul-
tivate, and are soon lost. They are natives of the woods, and there grow upon
the smaller branches of the trees, or upon dead branches, which their delicate white
roots soon overspread. There appears to be four species known of this genus, viz.,
I. tenera, I. utricularioides, I. pallidiflora, I. paniculata; the flowers of the latter
species are of a snowy whiteness. It was discovered in the ancient forests of
Brazil. Jonopsis, from ton, a violet; and ophis, look ; meaning violet faced. —

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13. ONCIDIUM IRIDIFOLIUM, Pigmy Oncidium. (Bot. Reg., 1611.) Orchi-
dacee ; Gynandria; Monandria. A very curious species, the foliage being scarce
an inch and a half long, and the flower stem little more than two inches high.
The flowers are very neat and pretty; yellow, streaked with red; each flower is
about three parts of an inch across. It has bloomed profusely under the skilful
management of our friend Mr. Cooper, at Wentworth House Gardens. It isa
native of Mexico, and in its native habit, is found to grow exclusively upon the
branches of Orange and Lemon trees, and constantly prefers a dry situation, and
to be exposed to the sun.

14. ONoBRYCHES RADIATA, Radiated. (Birm. Bot. Gard., 3.) Leguminose ;
Diadelphia; Decandria; Synonym, Hedysarum Buxbaumii. The plant is a na-
tive of Caueasus. It is perfectly hardy, growing two feet high. It is a perennial
plant. In its native situation it inhabits hilly parts of rocky districts. The flowers
are produced on cylindrical spikes, they are of a pale yellow colour; the standard
is also marked with red lines, and has a yellow spot. The plant has recently
bloomed in the Birmingham Botanic Garden. It was raised there from seed pre-
sented by John Hunneman, Esq., in 1834. It delights in a light and dry soil.
Onobrychis, from onos, an ass, brycho, to gnaw; alluding to cattle being fond of
this tribe of plants. P

15. PHACELIA TANACETIFOLIA, Tansy-leaved. (Brit. Flow. Gard.) Hydro-
phyllee; Pentandria; Monogynia. An half hardy annual, a native of California,
sent from thence by Mr. Douglas. The fower stems rise about a foot high, ter-
minated with cymose racemes of flowers, the limb of pale purple colour, the tube
white. When first coming into bloom it is pretty, but it does not bloom more
than five or six weeks.

16. RONDELETIA ODORATA, Sweet-scented. (Bot. Reg., 1706.) Synonyms,
R. coccinea, R. speciosa; Cinchonacea; Hexandria; Monogynia. The plant is

_anative of Havannah, growing upon the bushy covered rocks near the sea, and

_ it has occasionally been observed to grow upon the naked rock itself. It is a pretty
hothouse shrub, growing several feet high; the shoots terminating (each) with
three corymbous pannicles of flowers—they are of a bright vermillion colour, and
violet scented. The plant usually blooms at the end of summer. It is a very
pretty flowering plant. Rondeletia, sonamed by Plumier, in compliment to G.
Rondelet, a Physician.

17. TURNERA ELEGANS, Elegant flowered. (Birm. Bot. Gard.,2.) Turner-

acee; Pentendria; Trigynia. The plant is a native of South America, and the
West Indies; it was introduced a few years ago, but is not generally cultivated, as
yet, in our stoves. Itis a slender evergreen shrub, growing about a yard high.
‘The petals are of a pale yellow, or sulphur colour, beautifully shaded with deep
orange near the centre : and a purple-brown spot, near the base. Each flower is near
two inches across. Twurnera, so named by Plumier, in memory of William
Turner, M. D. F
* 18. VEsICARIA GRACILIS, Slender stemmed. (Bot. Mag., 3533.) Crucifere
__ -‘Tetradynamia; Siliculosa. A native of Texas, where it was found by Mr. Drum-
mond. Itis an annual plant, the stems rising about nine inches high. The
_ flowers are of a bright yellow, produced on axillary and terminal racemes, several
inches long; it continues in bloom nearly all summer ; each flower is near half an
inch aeross. It is a suitable plant for ormamenting rock-work.
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PART III.
MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

QUERIES.

On AvRicuLAS.—Will you in your notices to correspondents, be kind enough
to tell me where and at what price I can get the following Auriculas :—Leighs
Colonel Taylor, Oliver’s Lovely Ann, Taylor’s Glory, Whittaker’s True Blue,—
or perhaps some of your correspondents could give the necessary information if
this were made public ? Loros.

Bridlington,

“R. T. W.” will feel obliged to any correspondent of the Cabinet, by a solution
of the following question :—by what principle in nature are flowers impregnated
with aroma ?

Bricuton ATHEN£UM.—Is the Atheneum at Brighton rebuilt, or rebuilding?
I have not heard anything of it since its fall. If some Brighton reader of the
Cabinet will give me a reply, I shall be obliged. J.K.

ON TREATMENT OF ALPINE PLANTS DURING WINTER.—If any of your
correspondents will inform me what is the best method of treating Alpine plants
during the winter, in this country, it will much oblige TROP@LUM.

It will much oblige a susbcriber to the Cabinet,if he can have any information
respecting a Botanical Society, which is said to be formingin London. C.F.P.

On BriLitarpIERA Merxocarpa.—Can you, or any of your correspondents,
give me some information on the treatment of the Billardiera Melocarpa? I haye
now trained it against a wall, fronting south-west, which is much exposed
to wind. It was bought this summer, and immediately planted out, but I do not
think that it has flourished well. Should it be taken in for the winter, or will it do
only matted up? I should be much obliged by an early answer, in time to provide
for the winter. KawMia.

November 7th, 1836.

(WE are not at all acquainted with the species here named, but if it be from the
same country as the other species, we should think it would do well covered with
matting, as noticed. As far north as Yorkshire, we have found some of the species
to endure the winter without any covering, and not to be injured in the least.
We think that a slight covering of matting, short hay, or moss placed over the
branches, and that covered by a piece of thin oiled canvass, would be the best pro-
tection; the latter prevents the interior covering from becoming wet, which is of
importance in order to preserve the branches. When the inner covering, whether
matting or what else is used, is allowed to get wet, it retains that, and the shoots
become mouldy and perish. The canvass covering prevents such injury, and
is very cheap. The yellowish coloured canvass is the best for the purpose,
looking neater. We have found the Billardieras to flourish very well in a soil
well drained at the bottom, and composed of equal parts of good rich loam and
sandy peat.— CONDUCTOR.)

ANSWERS.

WirE-wornM.—1 beg to refer your correspondent, who has twice solicited in-
formation on the most effectual method of destroying the Wire-worm, to the second
Vol. page 118, of your extremely useful and well conducted periodical. I
have tried S.H.’s method, which is precisely the same as that recommended by
Sir J. Banks. and pronounce it to be effectual, but very troublesome. Rape-cake
in powder, has been used by Lord Albermarle, as we find by the Horticultural
Register, at page 649. Mr. Poynter, however, says, that Cow-urine is immediate
destruction to Wire-worms ; it will also destroy grubs and moss upon trees, and

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give a luxuriance both to trees and young crops, but it must be administered to
trees during a frost, to young crops during the Spring, and must be poured near
them but not upon them—the soil having been first a little stirred.

Ris We FT.

ON A YELLOW FLOWERING PLANT &c.—Seyeral of your correspondents haye
made enquiries respecting a yellow flowering plant, for a bed, to contrast with
other colours. I beg to inform them that there is no plant with yellow flowers, more
suitable for a bed, than the Sanvatalia procumbens, which grows about six-inches in
height, and continues in bloom from June till the frost kills it. It is beautiful
when in full bloom; its pretty dark yellow flowers rising one above the other, so as
to conceal nearly the foliage from the eye. The Leptosiphon densiflorus, and an-
drosaceus form a neat appearance when planted in beds, and masses, one haying
white, and the other rose coloured flowers.

ON A LIST OF ANNUALS.—A correspondent, “Pedro,” page 260, wishes for a
list of hardy Annuals, and the time of sowing. By referring to almost any of the
yolumes of the Cabinet, he will soon find out what time to sow, &c. The follow-
ing is a list of the most beautiful and showy sorts in cultivation, and will bloom
freely in the open bed or border. If those kinds marked with two asterisks, be
forwarded by being raised in a pot in a room or frame, and afterwards planted
out, it would contribute to having the kinds more early in bloom. All the kinds
may be procured of the London seedsmen as Charlwood, Kernan, Warner, or
Carter, &c.

Anutirrhinum glandulosum Lupinus subcarnomis
* Anchusa versicolor — elegans
* Campanula Loreyi * ————__ nanus
* Coreopsis coronaria * Heliophylla arabioides
* _____—__ diversifolia * Leptosiphon densiflorus
* —___— filifolia * —______—_ androsaceus
tinctoria atropurpurea Malope grandiflora
Calliopsis bicolor ee -- alba
** Calandrinia grandiflora +* Nemophila insignis
** ——_______—- discolor a —__——— grandiflora
Clarkia pulchella Nolana paradoxa
: alba * atriplicifolia
grandiflora * @nothera humifusa
* Collinsia bicolor -- rosea-alba
* Eutoca multiflora *+ Phlox Drummondii
* — viscida * Phacelia congesta
* Menziesii ** Sphzenogyne speciosa
Goodetia rubicunda * Sanvatilia procumbens
* Gilia tricolor Schizanthus diffusus
* alba : ————— humilis
—-— achillefolia ————— Grahami
coronopifolia ——_——_— pinnatus
*—— tennuiflora Zega leptantha
* Kaulfussia amelloides ** Zinnia elegans and its varieties.

Lasthenia Californica

The above list of hardy Annuals contains none but showy kinds. Those marked
_ thus *, will look best when grown in a bed of a sort, upon a grass plat. I shall
_ shortly send you an article on the subject of sowing annuals in beds, &c.
Wilts, November, 1836. AUR

In reply to “ James Figgans” request, in Number XLV, I have to observe,
that the plainest and most simple rule which can be applied to the table he has
popes: on that containing any number of competitors in any number of classes,
is the following :—In the table, are four competitors, therefore, the numerical value
of the prizes, will be four, three, two, one; consequently, he who obtains a first
prize, will reckon four, a second prize three, a third prize two, and a fourth prize
one; therefore, B reckoning eleyen, will be the first ; A, counting eight, will be the
second; C’s number being seven, will be the third; and D’s four, the fourth, This
mode of calculating, holds good in any number of classes, and any number of

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competitors, thus :—Seven classes of Roses competed for by seven persons.
Crimson Yellow Lt. Blush Striped Dark White Dk. Blush. oh
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32
28
25
24
3 29

This table shews, that B and C being equal, are entitled to have the first and
second prize divided between them, A the third, &c.,

Now for a further proof of the correctness of this mode of calculation : :-—Suppose
that the four competitors in ‘‘ James Figgans” table, were to have four prizes in
each class, and that the prizes were to be 2s., 1s. 6d., 1s.,and 6d. in each—B would
obtain 5s. 6d., A 4s., C 3s. 6d., and D 2s, which in sixpences, would be as 11,
8, 7, and 4, before given in the solution. Hoping this will satisfy your correspon-
dent and his friends, I remain An OLD FLORICULTURAL FRIEND.

Sheffield, Nov. 14th, 1836.

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REMARKS.

THE PornsETTIA PorcHERRIMA.—P. pulcherrima is fully deserving the
most earnest attention and careful management, in order that it may be so grown
as to produce its flowers as perfect in our stoves as those grown at Philadelphia,
where, it is stated, the beautiful scarlet whorls of bractee which terminate the bran-
ches measure as much as tw enty inches across, and are equal in colour to the finest
tints of Rosa Sinensis.

It is decidedly a splendid feature among our ornamental plants, and, from its ~

habit, we feel confident it may be cultivated with the application of the common
treatment given to stove-plants. (At Mr. Bunneys, Nurseryman, Kingsland Road
we saw it fine there.) It is kept in rather a close atmosphere in the stove, along
with other tender plants, all of which are now and then syringed over when the

weather is fine, in order to prevent the attacks of insects or the accumulation of —

filth. In the day, if fine, a free circulation of airis kept up; and at night the
temperature of the house averages from 65 to 70 degrees. The soil used, and
which seems to suit well, is very sandy loam; in potting, care is taken to ensure a
good drainage, and as soon as the roots reach the inside surface of the pot, an
additional shift is immediately giyen, so that the growth is never checked and the
plant in consequence is kept continually progressing. It requires a great supply
of water at the roots.

On New or HANDSOME FLOWERING PLANTS.— During the last summer we

have taken two tours, and visited many of the principal gardens in the country, as
well as nursery establishments, with the intention of seeing what new plants were
deserving of recommendation to our readers. The following list contains a portion
of what we saw, and all of which are showy and interesting. We shall give an
additional list of such, in subsequent numbers of the Cabinet. We intend to take
two or more journeys every year, for the same purpose. We have also engaged a
person in London, to visit, every month, the nursery establishments there, and to
furnish us with a list of whatever is new, showy, and interesting; the lists will ap-
pear from time to time.

Buddlea madagascariensis.—A greenhouse species of great beauty, and blooming
for a considerable season, well deserving a place in every collection.

Bignonia jasminoides. ea noble looking plant, with large dark green leaves,

and fine trusses of flowers. It is well worthy a place in every greenhouse. It

is probable that it would bear the open air like the other species. £-

Solana Lambertiana.—This is ,a fine large leayed species, bearing a corymb of
pretty purplish blue flowers, which are rendered still more striking with its fine
yellow anthers.

Clematis azwrea.—This new species is most beautiful, and deserves a place in
every greenhouse or conservatory. (See figure in the present number).

Spirea argenteo, Silvery-leaved. A hardy shrub of great beauty, bearing hand-
some reddish coloured blossoms.

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Gesneria splendens.—A. most strikingly handsome flowering species, and which
we were informed would flourish freely with a greenhouse temperature. The flowers
are near two inches long, of a brilliant scarlet colour, marked with a very dark
crimson spot. The plant produces a profusion of blossoms. It deserves a place
in every collection.
Nuttallia papaver, var. grandiflora.—The plant is nearly hardy, and blooms
freely. The flowers are of a deep rosy-red colour, each of which was from two
and a half to three inches inches in diameter. The plant well deserves a place in
eyery flower garden.
Phlox Drummondii. A figure of this beautiful flowering annual, we gave early
_ this year. We have seen three kinds in bloom, the original species, and two varieties
which are very handsome, one of the varieties has pink coloured flowers, and the
other very nearly a velvet colour. There are some other varieties which we saw,
- but not of equal interest with those we mention. Every flower garden should be
ornamented with these plants, and when grown in pots in a greenhouse, they are
fine summer ornaments for the purpose.
Cytisus elegans. A new and handsome yellow flowering species, requiring, as
we understood, to be grown in the greenhouse.
Hovaillicifolia. A fine flowering species, with handsome foliage, it deserves a
place in every greenhouse.
Manettia glabra. Its very handsome trumpet shaped blossoms, of a fine ai
colour, and produced in profusion, renders this plant most desirable for the green-
house. The plant may be obtained, two or three feet high for half a crown; no
person, we think, would regret the purchase.
Poinsettia pulcherrimus. This plant is becoming much in repute, that part of
it, which answers the purpose of a splendid flower, is the bracteal leaves, they ex-
pand to the dimensions of from twelve to twenty inches across, and are of a fine
erimson-red colour, at once most strikingly grand. It will require a hothouse
temperature, we are informed, though we saw very healthy plants growing in a
greenhouse in October. The price of a small plant would be £2., and of a plant
three or four feet high, from £7., to £10.
Trop@olum. A new kind with fine yellow flowers, the form of T. tricolorum.
Being produced in abundance, renders it a desirable species; Mr. Thompson,
Nurseryman, Beaulah, near Norwood, Surry, has fine plants of it forsale. It has
been imported from Valpariso. Mr. Thompson offers plants of it at one guinea
each, and they are well deserving the price.

Rhododendron ponticum, var. flora plena, Double flowered. A very pretty lilac
purple flowered variety ; it deserves a place in the shrubbery.

_ Gillardia picta.—The profusion of beautiful blossoms which this plant produces,
_ renders it one of the most showy. The large crimson red centre, margined with

bright yellow, and the flower two inches across, makes a splendid appearance. We
recommend it for every flower garden. Plants may be obtained at two shillings
each; or seed may be procured at a reasonable charge.

Verbena pulchella alba.—This is a white flowering variety of this pretty creep-
_ ingplant. Very suitable for rock-work, or dwarf edging for a bed, or border—it is

_ cheap.

___—*Verbena Drummondii.— Much the habit of V. Lambertii, but much more robust,
haying flowers larger, and of a deeper rosy-red colour. It may be procured at two
gullings each.

Salvia leucantha.—A very pretty species which we saw growing in the select
and well managed collection of Mrs. Marryatt, Wimbledon. We shall give fur-
_ ther particulars of many scarce and valuable plants we saw in this enchanted

Place.

Silene flos aculi plena, Double flowering. Thisis a very pretty flowering piant;
yery free in blooming. ‘The flowers are of a rosy-lilac colour. It merits a place
in every flower garden.

Gardogit Hookerii—A most beautiful flowering plant, which deserves a place
in every greenhouse. The plant is a most profuse bloomer ; the flowers, each, an
inch and a half long, of a fine orange-red colour, producing a most imposing ap-
pearance. The plant appears to grow freely in sandy peat. It strikes well from
cuttings; the old plants are apt to die off, but a supply of young plants should,
we think, always be kept up. No person will regret the purchase of the plant—
it may be procured at a moderate cost.

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Lantana Cellowii—A very pretty flowering species, of recent introduction.
(This we shall notice again)

Brugmansia aurea, Golden flowered. The flowers are larger than those of B.
sanguinea. It is a very desirable species to cultivate with the suaveolens and san-
guinea.

Linum cummingia.—A very handsome flowering flax, with yery pretty yellow
flowers. The plant deserves a place i in every greenhouse.

Pultenea subumbellata.—This is a very handsome flowering plant; its neat
growth, pretty flowers, and profusion of them, recommend it to every greenhouse.

Samolus prostrata. This is a pretty flowering greenhouse plant, flowers freely.
The blossoms are small, but very neat.

Frankenia panciflora. ” “The specific name very ill accords with the profusion of
flowers produced. The plant merits a place in every greenhouse. (We shall no-
tice this hereafter.)

Pultenea vestita—A very handsome flowering plant of this neat and pretty
tribe. It is far the handsomest of any we known, and deserves to be in every
greenhouse. Mr. Lowe has plants of it for sale, as well as of most we have men-
tioned.

Rubus Chinensis——A new species, of singular and pretty growth. We have
heard this plant very highly spoken of, and recommended to every collection of
greenhouse plants. It was not in bloom when we saw the plant, but if we recol-
lect right, the flowers, it was said, were large and of a pink colour. This we will
ascertain and give further particulars.

Melaleuca.—A new species, the specific name not known. It is of a dwarfish
habit, bearing abundance of flowers of a fine pink colour. This deserves a place
in every collection. We shall endeayour to get further particulars of this plant.

Statice arborea ; S. foliosa ; and S. puberala. We saw plants of these new and
fine flowering species at Mr. Lowes; the two latter we have seen in bloom, and
consider them pretty. We have been informed that twenty-five pounds per plant
is asked for the first named kind, by the nurserymen in Scotland, where it has
bloomed, and attracted considerable notice.

Euphorbia Jacquinii—A new and handsome species, the flowers something
like Poinsettia pulcherrima. It deserves a place i in every collection. If we mis-
take not, we were told it would flourish well in the greenhouse. Of this plant we
shall give further remarks.

Gompholobium mucronata.—A beautiful flowering species—the yellow and red
blossoms being produced in profusion. It is a very desirable plant for the
greenhouse. F

Solanum arborea.—A fine looking stove species, producing large lilac coloured vA a
blossoms, making a pretty appearance. a

Stephanotus floribundas.—A very neat and pretty flowering plant, making a
pretty appearance in September, October, and November; very ornamental to the
greenhouse.

PELARGONIUMS.—The following twenty-six kinds of Pelargoniums, are the &
most superb and splendid which are to be found in the fine collections around
London. The selection was made out of many hundreds at the different nurseries.
The whole may be procured of Mr. Catleugh or Mr. Gaines.

Aletia Lady Nithsdale

Village Maid Jantho

Colossus Nosegay

Glow Worm Maid of Athens tap
Lady Blanche Rougeet Noir é
Eliza Rembrant

Pictum Brutus

Francisea Standard

Spadilla Bellissima

Lydia Criterion

Feu de joie Amelia

Chief d’ouvre Bride

Giraldine Dennis’ Perfection

MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 297

Mr. H. Stanford, Florist, &c., St. Leonards, Horsham, Sussex, forwarded to
us some specimens of a very splendid seedling Pelargonium. The flowers are
very large, and of a brilliant rosy-scarlet colour, producing nine of its large
blossoms in one truss; and many of these upon a single plant. Mr. Stanford
is provided with strong plants, which will be ready for sale, at 7s. 6d. each, by
April 1837.—ConpucTor.

REVIEWS.

Frora METROPOLITANA, or Botanical Rambles within thirty miles of London;
being the result ofnumerous excursions made in 1833,34, and 35; furnishing a
list of those plants that have been found on the different heaths, woods, com-
mons, hills, &c., surrounding the Metropolis, (more particularly the counties of
Surrey and Kent,) chiefly from actual observation, and the latest authorities.
Intended for the student in practical Botany. With a list of the land and fresh
water shells of the environs of London. By Daniel Cooper, London, 1836. S.
Highley, 32 Fleet Street; 12mo., p. p. 139.

Mr. Cooper has rendered essential service to those persons who have oppor-
tunities of walking much in the circle of the country that is described ; to per-
sons of this class the work must be of peculiar interest. We think every in-
habitant of Britain ought to know the native plants, more particularly, however,
all that are to be found in the neighbourhood in which the individual resides.
The plants to be found near to the specified places, are grouped according to
the natural system. Wimbledon Common, including Putnly Heath, 227 species
are described as growing. Wandsworth Common, 110 species are enumerated,
&ec. The author may, doubtless, render work still more useful by giving the
colours of each flower. It is a neat pocket volume of peculiar interest.

_ Frora HiBERNICcA, comprising the Flowering Plants, Ferns, Characex,
Musci, Hepatica, Lichens, and Alge, of Ireland. Arranged according to the
natural system, with a synopsis of the genera, according to the Linnean system,
by James Townsend Mackay, M. R. I. A., Associate of the Linnean Society,
&e. Dublin: W. Curry and Co., 1836; p. p. 632.

The work is got up, as it is usually termed, in a very superior manner, and
is highly creditable to the author and publishers. The description of the or-
ders, &c., and of the plants, is very complete. Reference is also given to the
native situations of each. It is a very valuable acquisition to the inhabitants
of Ireland. The second part of the work, which contains the Musci, Hepatice,
and Lichenes, comprising 260 pages, of the 632, is peculiarly useful and inter-
esting. As every resident of a country ought to be acquainted with its native
plants, we hope the readers of the Cabinet, resident in Ireland, will avail them-
selves of the use of this publication.

Tue Botanic Garpen, or Midland Floral Magazine, containing accurate
delineations, with Botanical and popular descriptions of plants cultivated in the
greenhouse or open garden—and remarkable either for their beauty, their va-
_ riety, or their singular structure. Conducted by G. B. Knowles, Esq., M.R.C.S,,
F.L.S., &c.; and Frederick Westcott, Esq,, Honorary Secretaries of the Bir-
-mingham Botanical and Horticultural Society.

Three Numbers of this new periodical have appeared. The size is large post
_ 4to., and each number contains four coloured figures of new, or otherwise inter-
esting plants. There are eight pages of letter-press, two to each figure. One
_page is nearly occupied with scientific Latin descriptions of the plant; the other
with useful directions for its cultivation. These instructions are highly credi-
table to the gentlemen who conducts the work. It is got up in a superior
‘style, which renders it necessary for the price to be high; we fear this will limit
the circulation of a work which ought to be extensive, much less than its merits
entitle it.

Tue Boranist, containing accurately coloured figures of tender and hardy
Ornamental Plants, with descriptions scientific and popular, intended to convey
both moral and intellectual gratification. Conducted by B. Maund, F.L.S. ; as-
sisted by the Rev. I. S. Henslow, M.A., F.L.S., Pofessor of Botany in the Uni.
yersity of Cambridge.

pap

298 MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

This new periodical, like the Botanic Garden, so long and ably conducted by
Mr. Maund, is-peculiarly neat; it is printed in uniform size with that work,
having a large and small edition. Each number contains four coloured figures
of plants,—both hardy and exotic plants are included. Dissections of various
parts of the flower, &c., are given to illustrate what the conductors have in view.
The chief object appears to be the illustration of the natural system of Botany.
To accomplish this fully, they propose from time to time, to prefix a short popu-
lar view of one or other of these orders, in The Botanist. A dictionary of bo-
tanical terms is given on a separate sheet, with the work, but can be bound up
separately, being of a smaller size.

REFERENCE TO PLATE.

A Clematis azurea.—This very handsome flowering species, has been lately
introducedinto this country, but from whence we know not. We saw it blooming
freely in the greenhouse of Mr. Lowe, Clapton Nursery, near London, Itis a
most valuable acquisition, and will be a very great ornament to the greenhouse
or conservatory. Being a climber, it will be peculiarly adapted for making a
show up a pillar, along a trellis, or trained up a wire frame, of the kind noticed
in the Cabinet. The plant appears to grow freely in a rich loamy soil.

B Kennedya glabrata, Smooth-leaved. This very handsome and neat flower-
ing plant has recently been introduced from New Holland, and certainly far
surpasses any other species in this country. It is a greenhouse climber, grow-
ing freely in sandy peat soil, and blooming most profusely. Its pretty scarlet,
brown, and green blossoms, are strikingly neat and pretty beyond our descrip-
tion. It deserves a place in every greenhouse or conservatory. Mr. Knight of
King’s Road, has plants for sale.

C Lychnis Bungeana.—This very handsome half hardy plant was introduced
into this country, in 1835. It was sent from St. Petersburgh by Dr. Fischer.
The plant has bloomed in several collections during the last summer. _Alll the
plants we have seen of it, have been grown in pots, and being kept in a cool,
light, and airy part of the greenhouse. The soil was a rich loam and sandy
peat, and plenty of potroom. The finest plant we have heard of, was seen by
our friend Mr. Barratt, in a tour he took in Scotland, who states that the plant
was three feet high, or upwards, and the stem crowned by a head of blossoms,
about eight or ten inches in diameter. A coronet of blossoms of such a bril-
liancy of colour, must be peculiarly showy, and recommend the plant to every —
greenhouse. We are informed that plants may be kept in a cool frame during ~
winter, so as to preserve them from injury by frost; and if turned out into the

open border in rich soil, and a sunny sheltered situation, it will flourish freely 2%

and bloom profusely. The plant increases freely by cuttings, in consequence
of which, plants may now be procured at a very reasonable price.

D Pentstemon Murrayanus, Mr. Murray’s Scarlet Pentstemon.—A hardy per- ;

rennial plant, a native of the Texas, from whence it was sent by Mr. Drum-
mond. Seeds of it were sent rather late in the summer of 1835, but the plant
however blossomed that year in theGlasgow Botanic Garden. We haye seen a
plant this year grown in a border of rich soil, open to the sun, and sheltered
by a brick wall, which had a flower stem five feet high, with numerous spikes
of flowers, producing a splendid appearance. The plant ought to be grown in
every flower garden. Plants may be obtained at a very reasonable price. Our
wish to give our readers a figure of it in the present plate, prevents us doing
more than give a small specimen, and the flowers we have drawn one-third less
in size than the specimen from which the drawing was taken. Our readers will,
however, be able to judge of its merits by the figure.

INDEX

TO THE PLANTS, FIGURED IN VOL. IV, 1836.

Acme of Perfection, Dahlia ....
Anagallis Phillipsii .... Sister
Antirrhinum caryophylloides ....
Barratt’s Four Seedling, Pansies

Beauty of Anlaby Pansy BF ose

Bignonia cherere .... Ac
Calceolaria maculata .. on ats
splendens .. choc

-Calochortus venustus .. aie tis
splendens .. sine

‘Chrysanthemum indicum, var sulphurea ..

_ ——_—_—___— expanded crimson

_ Canavalia bonariensis .. ote ote
Clematis azurea Pen sce
Dodd’s Mary Dahlia .. acete
Eutoca Menziesii .... foie

viscida es cate

Inimitable Dahlia .... wears
‘Kennedya glabrata .... sorts
Lychnis Bungeana .... abe
‘Malya Fulleriana .... 5665
Mimulus cardinalis .... afele/
——-— Elphinstonea oes

Ranbyania .. sce

- Rawsonia .... aie! os
Nolana atriplicifolia,... aed
‘Oxalis Piotte araiete Biot
ntstemon Cobaw .... axes

- Murryanus sees
Phacelia congesta ..-. Reiere
*hlox Drummondii .... Tate
henogyne speciosa ane?

_ Thunbergia alata, var. alba ....
_ Tournefortia helitropioides ....
Tropeolum elegans .... tee

sanguinea ...

Facing Page.

97
193
193
145
217

Reference.

e 119
vale 216
rs 215
3 198
tIOO 240
ae 72
z 216
5 240
“| 47

ae 95
ie 24
Ao 24
dad 24
72

% 298
Sone 264
aici 144
set ciet 47
Sapo 298
mraletd 298
Aaa 264
miles 96
Brtare 144
wiatele 198
Aho 192
wise 240
pad 47
sQ08 96
eeiate 298
Hort 47
eee 72
asters 240
BARC 95
artic 141
weet 192

GENERAL INDEX.

A. B., Query on Cape eae Soon Anat Mente
a BLS Answer by cone Breste arene
A. B. L., Remark on anéwerlng Queries: by aes tec’ eee
Acacia vestica, noticed es erates ernie debe i,
prominens, do. Byerets geet tion ee
A Constant Reader, on Peat Soil : Stic
A Country Florist, on the culture of Or chideous Plants, by aE
A Cultivator of Cape Bulbs, On Basia a Pit Pra Ey, Sree
A Cupar Florist, Query by : coe Serine
Adesmia pendula, noticed ve an arejero onate
A Friend to the Floricultural Cabinet, Query by. Bo Tater mlante
A Foreman of a London Nursery, On Inarching, &e. erarats ois
Agrostemma Bungeana, noticed revels cece coer eee
A Lawyer's Clerk, Query by sade occ crane
Alstremeria aurantiaca, noticed, see eece aitrele sese
— Query on the Culture oF SQ0C oe ve weyers
Allium siculum, noticed : wees weiss oe
Alpine Plants, Query on the Treatment of siete eaiete
Amateur des fleurs, Query by srarete
Amateur Florist, On the Culture of the Tulip, by Nia
Amicus, Designs of Flower Gardens, by : 56, 117, 137,
Amaryllis sarniensis, Culture of, by Snowdrop > oh fe recs sities
Psittacinia, hybrida, noticed eee wows wae
Anagallis Phillipsii, reference. to figure of wists ejeeis viele
Anchusa versicolour, noticed wisle 5 Soels siete vaste
Angrecum caudatum, do. dos aaiets srelets ateyets
Annuals, on a proper soil for, wets ~ ee sie sie Bie fe:
Annuals, List of 5 C see va
An Old Subscriber; on a Seedling Tr ansplanter, by Bad uae
Antirrhinum carryophylloides, reference to figure ‘of Mietete ac |
glandulosum, noticed .... eee “sein
Anomatheca cruenta, Query on raising and culture otic ss ae
An Original Subscriber, Query by rcv eoee cone eee
An Old Florist, Query by cae Ceres SAT Ericka
A Practical Lady Gar dener, Answer by
A Practical lady Amateur, On the culture of the N eopoliton Violet, by
An East Hants Constant Reader, Query by avers ale Pct
Aphis (green fly) On destroying OU cae wees
Aptosimum depressum, noticed St donid Beier era
Arboretum, Remark by a5 Bierce diva’ erate atic
Ardisia odontaphylla, noticed” sles cisterns Blaine
Armstrong Emily, On Plans of Flower Gardens. sees sees
On the Culture of German Asters afetste wees
On the culture of the Lobelia cardinalis Pace
——_—_—_—_——— Remark by Rioters Sece see apateke
A Regular Subscriber, Query by eaee eee ores eos
Aristolochia fetans, noticed Sas aalsle cieks. swe
A Star in the East, On the Dahlia, by sere veer eae
— — On the Hydrangea, by Rietcls esee Ar
Astragalus Monspessulanus, noticed ,... sees cose AICS
Asters, German, On culture of ages joo Satie Road
Aspasia variegata, noticed cn Peay aeete 6.50
A Subseriber and Constant Reader, Query by .... Semele seen

Auriculas, Query on wees SAsteC ejaree cass aerate

GENERAL INDEX.

Page.

A Subscriber, Answer on the Dahlia, by see ; 138
Query on Destroying the Scale infesting Camellias, by 163

Query on Pansies, by Atet stares ae 214

A Yellow Flower, on wees ena NF ee ge aNade 138
Azalea Rawsonii, noticed, .... Avot prelais Tera’ 185
Mudiflora .... eialets eich wares OAc plate 104

ah On the Culture of .... ASS es ae Ace 31
Lgl A Query on the Dahlia, by mecca AAee Sao 45
ost Barratt, Mr. Willliam, On ae Roses, by Feats wiaioha 73
: - Bartonea aurea, noticed ae micisie Pyar’ erate 62
_ Bath Horticultural Meetings.... cose wales ores 119, 132, 140
Bay Tree, On Propagating the .. Salers nacre apa alas 67
Begonia platinifolia, noticed... . s)e/0 LPNS ease iota 185
sanguinea do. «se. He BSE Bo Aes siete 234

Berberis empetrifolia, do. .... pent Belse asi ste ete 234
Bifrenaria aurantiaca, do. .... ete sees Sood 185
Bignonia cherere, Reference to figure of. aie wefe le Bets efators 72
Bletia patula noticed .. < aiejee Dass Src 234
—Tankervilliz, On the culture of, by Mr. Parkin .... Ree 97

; Query on.. So55 arabes alates erst 45
—————Oncultureof ... cone nicl Aaleia 126

Botanists Guide, by H. Watson, Esq., Baviewed Se saree Price 62
Bouvardia triphylla, On the culture of.. erele'e cece orion 65
Box, On a, for conveying flowers in .... wiv ot ecee Siscaxe 125
Bone Manure, Query on eters AS ones wees aris 215
Brugmansia arborea, On the culture of .. Sohe Siafals AG Ae 165
Brugmansia Suaveolens,.On Growing once eee esi 284
Brunonia australis, noticed .... ae birdie Aes See 63
Bryant Mr., On the culture of Maurandia Barclayana ..., sxe 9
Bug, Query on the Mealy .... siete spe asia HERS 19
Bulbs, Remarks on Cape .... eee sees ne sets a Usa
Border Flowers, Select list and description of perennial, by Mr. J. Brown 274
Botanic Garden, or Midland Flora Magazine, Review of the wba s 297
Botanist, Review of the eco eves sails sieyWis ib.
Bleaching Leaves, On, by H. D. Ane saree Siatels Bee 288
Begonia Fischeri, noticed .... ose see shor Seika 289
Bartonea aurea, do. .. eee see sees sees sees ib.
Botanical Society, Query ona .. AoA gree S0GE Soha 292
Billardiera Melocarpa, Query on dic Fess pstais sree 292
Cary Tyso, Remarks on Raising Seedling Ranunculuses, by i OS 273
Clair, Mr. William, St., On the Propagation of Pinks .... a caksia 267
Clintonia pulchella, nciead aa vete eae taae alelate okatnis 289
____Cyrtopodium Willmorei Soo sees eleee won oees 289
- Craspedia glauca, do.’.. aia ala erce even <.syeha cease 290
_ Cratcegus Mexicana, do. Siac sister, veces Seisie AN 390
Competition, Answer on, .... Bhs mae a5 et sents 294
Clematis azurea, Reference to figure .... Pre Ori 3 <jateia 289
C, On Heating Greenhouses, by cvs BieiO aeitis sfebia 101
Calceolaria maculata, Reference to Figure estes ee ese 216

* Query on a white.... oss seisie sees 18
“a On raising new varieties of Mimuluses, by este sees 76
_Gatopss Drummondii, noticed Beate Ages BH: ABAE 15
tinctoria, do. ceee cece sie a jiu ele)e ce R 90

tinctoria, atro purpurea, do..... orem pisiaia iaieve 235

- Catoehorts yenustus, Reference to figure wwits uae ofste 47
splendens, do. .... Sees ecee eee wate 95

Peiveanthus precox, Query on.. sshote By Ad erate Sinker 137
Camellia reticulata, noticed .... state ree cone vous 161
Query on a list, and prices of, .. vaieis sy0)67 etna a 18

__~ On growing in the open air .... Soe sae afee.s 67

302 GENERAL INDEX.

Camellia On the culture of the .. eiaiate fale bee

Donckelarii, noticed .. inet sath sheets

A continued list of .... Sisiels sale mieiia
Cambridge Florist Society, Exhibition of.. eee oe
Campanula Loreyi, noticed .... Seles wleleks S51
Campanulas, A description of some of the handsomest ....
Cape Bulbs, Query on erate swine areal vou
Carr, Mr. John, Remark by .... miata eiavale Sore
Carnation Show, near Wolverhampton.... eee cose
Catleya labiata, noticed veee finials wees Foe
C. C. C., Remark by .. here nner cals siete
Centracarpa chrysomelia, noticed cers once 2a
Cereus Napoleonis do... wees siejrie wes eeee
Chrysanthemums, A new arrangement of the Chinese ....
On Growing dwarf plants of.... cece

Remark on Seedling .. slelete wees

Query on Seedling .... ite sees

Challenge to Ranunculus growers eee cone eens
Charles, Mr. William, On the culture of the Dahlia, by ....
Chelagastra gracilis, noticed.... AAG eens aeee
Citrus, On the culture of the Genus ,... ASCE asters
Cirrhea tristis, noticed ase aislats igh aldlete
Corroloba virens, noticed op aie Babys tate sete

Conolly, Jun., Query by Mr. T.. qa soos efna's
Remarks on Pinks, by Mr. T. .... sees

Collomia Cavanillissi, noticed .. plese siorete wialele
Conservatory, Query on a list of plants for a small Sane
On preparing the borders ofa __.... Bc
Cooperi Drummondi, noticed.... tees cone cece
Coreopsis coronata, do. Jor" Sel s vs\e.s woes
senifolia, do. Sens pe pioraire wes selena
diversifolia, do. .e.e. sisle a letei ators
filifolia, do... = pips ccee Cie ele oeuvre
Coryanthus macrantha, do. .... eves SON 5 ar
Coronilla glauca, Query on ...- aces eoee wees
Caterpillar, On Destroying the, by M. S., aayene salar
C.S., Query by .... eee ooee sep ose
Cosmelia rubra, noticed acres sletars sees Sie tle
Cotoneaster laxiflora, do. efetays Boa Seles sees
Crategus Crus-galli, do. eee Siase's o efels Smee
prunifolia, do. ceee cece eee odes
pyrifolia, do. Gan eee sleie.0 <n oie
plataphylla, do. .... Vics wove waite
odoratissima, do. .... ceee * at's BA
tanacetifolla, do. .... mie Sie aigtate ooee
spathulata, do, setae eos cee siaieh
macrocarpa, do. eee. gene wees acetate
orientalis, do. slsiele ig ASCs acti
macroccana, do. .... serale ecwe pine
heterophylla, do. .... cose seisie SHINO
Crocus suaveolens, do. Sia meiote sis\ste eis
Crybe rosea, do. .s+e vee cece eee eee
Cyrtopodium punctatum, do.,.... dnp nase Biever
Dahlia blooms, query on carrying .... Aen 7)
On the proper pronunciation of Aya «sil
Query on the Introduction .... eves sisisie
Plants, Query on, ngaG oleae salere
Flowers, Remark on Stand for HaHa Ac
On striking young shoots of .... -a0 Ac
Remarks on the Tree = . Stic eidials

at

GENERAL INDEX.

Dahlia Query on a hundred of the best ears
A list of prize, for 1835 steers sella
A list of the highest prized, .... Balerd

A few remarks on the eee oes
Dahlia Blooms, and a Box for conveying ele sie
Culture of, by Mr. William Charles ....
Show at Horsham, .... Seo mies
Exhibition of at Salthill, selene oeee
ie at Bath ainiele Astate
; at Sheffield excels plavere
ass History of the sees cose waste

E Daphne odora, noticed, 3306 Sa65 eae
___- Dendrobium macrostachyon, noticed .... miefes
densiflorum OL Seite eerie
moniliforme, do. Seles atetele

Denyer, Mr. William. On destroying moss by
Devonian, On the Culture of the Pomegranate, by a
On Forcing Roses, by a “nes
Doncaster Horticultural Society, Exhibition GDieece
Drying Plants, new method of .... ..-. Soak

Douglassia nivalis, noticed, .... «se. ores
Earwigs, on destroying, LOOOML DUGO sisi
Eccremocarpus scaber, Answer on, .... sialels
Elichrysum bicolor, noticed, eaieie aires
Epidendrum emulum, do. .... cove Sekele
armenium do. .... cose soc
Epidendrum Skinnerii, noticed .; Sates 5085
bifidum cece Bock
conopseum = ee Sci5c Sood
Ephiphyte, Query, by stores sterols Sobic
Ericas, A select list of Cape .... sees S65
On raising Young Plants, of .... iets
Erytholena, Conspicua, on the Culture of eiers
Escallonia illinita, noticed .... eiafb<

Eulophia lurida, noticed .. .... Alec eoee

Euphorbia Bojerii, noticed .... coee winter

Exotic Plants, on raising fromseed .... ate fore

_ Ferns, on the culture of some Foreign in the open air
On Growing in Boxes veee afaieie

Epidendrum macrochilum, noticed .... SAAS

Epimedium macranthum, do..

Figgans, Mr. James, query by = oe Send
Fireside Tradition esse sleee wets
Flora Hibernica, Reviewed .... craters oar

Flora Metropolitana, or Botanical Rambles, Reviewed
Flora, Gleanings by aleore Soe fetes
Query on Camellias, by seer 2 cee
On a Hortus Siccus, by ovee Boon
Flower Gardens, Designs for, Cate Soho
____— Beds, Baskets, &c. On, by Gooseberry ....
Flowers, Query on a list of ase eielets
Florists Cultivator Reviewed, «eieiel Hse
Floricultural Impostures sox Hea
Fuschia macrostemma noticed, O68 Bae
discolor, : ae Sis = ociie
Remarks on weit a nar ater
on a hedge of Relee dati

Galatella punctata, noticed,

Ferguson, Mr. James, On Protecting Tender Plants durin

E. T. E. description of a box for conveying flowers i in, by : C

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10, 56, 117, 157

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304 GENERAL INDEX.

Page
Gaurea parviflora do. S506 soe%e cece rare steht 18
Gardener, on Qualification for a Complete aie aera eda
Geert, Mr. C. V., on the culture of Azeleas, by ...- wrote sua
Gentiana quinqueflora, noticed, bese cece cus eons
Geraniums, on preserving through Winter 5Au5 coe sisters
Geranium Seed, on the best season for sowing .... eine wrote
Gigantic Flower tals Bea seals Sinvals eee cece
G.J., query by ...- 8509 eee fe atote niaiels eevee
Gilia tenuiflora, noticed eee 55545 eral ie nde efeloe!
Ginger, on the culture of .... pare cove eee
Gladiolus’s, query on HOS Bie pe cove eaiete okies

Gleanings from Old Authors.... nae shes ..- 60, 82, 125,
Godwin, Mr. A., Answer on Roses stele Mees siswe
Godwin, Mr. Archibauld, Remarks on the Reversa Blegans Rose, as suited

for a Trellis, or as a Pillar Rose ..

Goodall, Mr. Francis, On a list of conservatory plants, by a anes
Goodetia lepida, noticed tails 3355 sitions athe $iate
vinosa, do. .. a ialeie a atata Rew stale eelele
rubicunda, do. P 5 Re BAH
Gooseberry, On Flower Beds, Baskets, ke., with figures, by.. es.
Grafting, on, Rhododendrons .. preter ohh nee oidib'e
Greenhouse Plants, on taking in ute seals ose oie
Guernsey Lilly, on the culture of the .... Ares eee eee
Habenaria procera, noticed .... hic o
Hampshire Horticultural Society Exhibition ete
Heartsease, On the Culture of, tics Seren sielete
Heartsease, On the, by Mr. Todd Sees an one welgne
Heating a Pit-Frame, On, By a Cultivator of Cape Bulbs ae eee
a Greenhouse, &c. .... ae ees alere ates
by Steam, On a4 aeieie AGE) oils Fao
Henrietta, On destroying Earwi igs, by - ritio ovens
Herbaceous Plants, ‘Answer on Sucre. with Shrubs Stic a/eely
Hibiscus splendens, noticed . sistete ome ayers Sass
rosa sinensis, do. .... Siete seat sie Se vis a
Hortus Siccus, Ona .. cove ofa wate’ 3 ebay
Hot-Water Apparatus, Reamatk 6 On) pistateis sates rai 2 sist
On Heating, by areere steve reer
Hoya carnosa, Query on the Culture of . areitje cleisfe AD

Hull Floral Society, Exhibition of wes eae
Hurst, Mr. William, On mixing Herbaceous Plants with Shrubs, by -«

Hyacinths, Query on the Culture OL asc 346 oleae
On a List of the best for Forcing ence < sists eee
Hyacinthus spicatus, noticed. . ones
Hyacinths, On the Culture of, by Je R. W. Wellington cone
Hydrangea hortensis, On causing the Flowers to become blue Ae
Remark on, a slate Ae
Inarching, On, Stove, Greenhouse, or other Plants, “ide nek
Innovator, Remark on Pinks, by eh aivie eeee . eves
Insects, Query on, sie en Sqr eee soos .
Ipomea rubro cerulea, neue we iatete <ewle Sorc
Iris alata, ateuere Choc tye watele esi
spuria co 2 a ene
Iberis coronaria noticed ° case
Tonopsis tenera, do. .. elem aiiese ee a
Jaobrosa integrifolia, noticed, we ee. F sa
J. C. H. Answer by... mere 500 ate sae
J. K., on Dwarf Chrysanthemums, by.. Brie ; siete
on a List of Show Pinks, by .... ctos ae
queries by aes wees ajeies eee

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Jones, Mr. T., Query by. eat: nas you ‘93
Z Rey. James, on a List of Roses, by cece i 241
z. Rey. J., A Description of Thirty of the best kinds ‘of Moss Roses: 285
: J. R., on the cultdre of Foreign Ferns in the open air .... Tee 178
" TR W., query by .-. ayave’e bates BUC Agee aera 45
he J. W.D:, remark by ...- Og phat or. ib.
- Kamel, Mr. G. J., On a List of * Camellias: (continued) rls reas 154
; ‘Kageneckia cretegifolia wanted.. weyers Sate aoe ae 95
Kennedyia glabrata, noticed . Bea Dee AY. a BR ib
Stirlinghii alsjele soe Mate eee even ib
microphylla wane coos eee ete Shion ib.
Laburnam, Remark on the Purple Blossomed .... ears celts 190
Landscape Gardener Reviewed. . eee =ptars ecaree 35555 86
Lapeyrousia anceps, noticed.... avalos z.a)e6 eles stovate 259
Lasiopus sonchoides, do. «+-- canis wietate ON boro 213
Lasthenia californica, do. .... myal s9 mere ACH Noise 43
Lathyrus rotundifolius, do. .... Gouge Savers afeleis seek 135
Leaves, Answer on dissecting .. wees eee anes Fete 19
Leeds Florist Society, Exhibition of .... Ssiate Séido Hoa 142
Leptosiphon androsaceus, noticed Dane Bane Wn AS Te 135
Linaria canadensis, noticed .... ar atcse AS 6 Suet tai 90
Lilium longiflorum, do. aes te cose sickens Sate By ar 43
Linum Berendiera, do. stelels Ae Ar ABE 106
London Horticultural Society, " Exhibition ‘of areal aie 109, 140, 191
Lonicera flexuosa, on the treatment of .. aves Bri © RE seis 123
Lobelia cardinalis, on the culture of .... acne tay Msg 6
decurrens, noticed .. . wateys aren Sasa eae 90
Louisa Harriett, On the Culture of Cyclamen persicum, by ae 30
> Remark by.. Bod wheter Siaee Asee 71
Lupinus bimaculatus, noticed, . are) bie eee Heer ees 16
subcarnosus, do. .. Sickel Eetets eietere Sislere 63
texensis, do. .«. ~eae Sater sles Scho 135
latifolius, do. Bee MGe Riatte 235
Lychnis Bungeana, noticed, 4 bieraye ALES fare 162
Reference to Fig. asda sane seyere bod: 298
Lycium afrum, noticed seats vis ge Sd 63
M. S., On destroying the Caterpillar, by Be 32p0 274
Moss on Walks, On destroying, by Mr. John Shepherd Hoon ae 266

Moss Roses, A "description of Thirty of the best kinds of, by the Rev. J.
Jones, : Ses wale SE Ad 285
“e Mimuluses, On the Culture of, by Salvia Het Sists/s S60 270
_ M.S., On destroying the Caterpillar, by ee each S 274
ay Macradenia tricandria, do. .... 0 alers Se etale Bass 16
Malva Fulleriana, Reference to figure. SES eer aiuto’ 264
Manettia cordifolia, noticed .... aca shee oeee : 162
Maria, Query on Alstremerias, by 3066 eee AK eves 188
On Culture of Lonicera flexuosa, by eae eves dere 123
hy Query on Coronilla Glauca,by...- naee Ses atetele 163
4 Query on Moss, by ... - wets ela 137
i} Answer on a Yellow Flow ering Plant, by. SD peters eitels 138
me On destroying Snails, by ie A Sta 121
Markham, Mr. H., On the culture of Ginger, by Fi toes Sige 122
On C alture of Bletia Tankervillie, by if ries afer 126
if PP avarmodes atropurpurea, noticed sabe 162
Martin, Mr. John, A new arr angement of Chrysanthemums, by oes 25
Maud, Mr. J., on causing the Hydrangea hortensis to produce blue flowers, by 78
Maurandia Barclayana, On the culture of nee ove’ Rots: 9
Maxillaria rufescens, noticed .. ar Ar Aas AA Pees 105
ayomatica, do. .. csee 162
Mearns, Mr. John, on the culture of Bouvardia triphylla, by . 65
Metropolitan Society of Florists, &c., Exhibition of 1 13, 114, 115, 139, 191

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Mimulas, Query on the ee80 aici sO abe
On raising new varieties of .... Seid rae?
Cardinalis, Reference to Figure asi ae
Ranbyana, do Attic saee chs aie aeee
Rawsoniana,do. .... <tisre Honk ee
Elphinstonea, do. .... wis we ewer a aie

Mignonette, On the culture of the Tree, .. we fg yale

Mimosa sensitiva, Query on .... ees ave 03) LT aise

Monarda aristata, noticed .... sce ania rahe

Mondrassora autumnalis, noticed $593 <Tahels penta

Monument to Mr. Douglas, ona nioyes bei erst ~ Ae

Moss, Query on destroying ...- Hae 4 shaela Br a

On destroying alta Save. Shake psig

Myanthus barbatus, noticed .... seas oie are aie ae
deltoidesus, do. .... Bisset Sar eraies

Myrtles, History, &c., of .... siecle Socal Ries

Nerium thrysiflorum, noticed.... ofa late iste mere

Nemo, Query by SS ea SERS heya syarere

Nemophila aurita, noticed .... veee shsreie a aha

Nierembergia calycina, do .... ost Senn oiel ae

Nolana atriplicifolia, Reference to figure.... ait aid

N. S. H., Answer by Syon isin wees RH

Ochranthe arguta, noticed .... sie js osee yA oS

(@nothera densiflora, noticed Fiala-e ate ie aisiers
serotina, do. hem sane b ajois ees
humifusa, do. ated PeOy ».ajane ome

Oncidium Russelleanum, do. mete ayefeis sista
altissimum, do. ets gus sigians Sioias
cornigerum, do. .... seve one Heeee
crispum, do. Soe esis. « sais err
Lanceanum, do. .... Shiels See ee

Orange trees, Remarks on .... Beare Ada Sap

Orchideous plants, On the culture of reitese eee sreldie

Oncidium iridifolium, noticed .. eee Ati: Fisitie

Onobryches radiata Fa ~eue sins" Pelee

Orchideous Plants, Query on.... ereiels aint

-——— Query on the foliage of, being damaged Sales

Oxalis Piotte, noticed eit Sto Bose 9 Lae

Reference to Figure ace BAC Gat

Oxura chrysanthoides, noticed AoW S55 CHAP

Pansy, Pearson W alton, Remarks on, .... oie ai =e ae

Pansies, Mr. W. Barratt’s Seedlings, Reference to Figures of ....

Peat Soils, Query on Risk 38 Jes nit eiou

Pelar soniums, Remark on .... EPS eee oe

Pendulous growing trees, Remarks on .... ae aes

Pentstemon Cobee, noticed, .... $e ais sisi

Reference to Figure . misies sielece eo
Murrayanus, do..... sfayeje cose oa
Reference to Figure Se6r Spr

Pereskia Bleo. noticed sce Saja </sis,0 ode

Peristeria pedunculare, noticed.... ateicie erect {sie

Phacelia congesta, (Oke le Poeve icisic ssc sie

Reference to Figure .... “BOS Oc
vinifolia, noticed, 5298 Sr ate

Phacelia tanacetifolia, noticed, oer eee aa

Phlox Drummondii, Reference to Figure Aecie Bee

Physostegia truncata, noticed, sane Ses oeee

Picotees, Remarks on octig Peete anyore dees

Pimelea ligustrina, noticed .... sees As. eet

Pimelea hispida, do. Tiapels aie bie = aie sinew

Pinks, Query on Superb os spa Jt a be

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Pinks, On the Culture of .... i eiate Soft F 233

Remarks on, by Innovator ae aielas 5 68, 118

fy On Superior, Stereie Bigheid 109

© Propagation of, by Mr. “William St. Chair ‘ z 267

Plants from Madagascar : he 132

ti A List of, suited for a Conservatory» - wees 149

ow A List of, for training, .. Su aa E 152

Plants, meiieek on New or Handsome Flowering 294

Pleurothalis picta, noticed, ; See = wales 44

Poincettia pulcherrimus, noticed BS le a 187

Poincettia pulcherrima, Remark on the .... a6 294

Pomegranates, Double, Culture of, by a Devonian, .... er 98

Double Flowered, Culture of, by Mr. David Whale. . $9

Potentilla mollissima, noticed ORG ve Aint 106

R, Query on Roses, by - t eres 69

_. R, On dwarf Yellow Flow ering ‘Plants, by . : ae is 68

R, On the Culture of the Ranunculuses, by sistas al? 81

=. RyQuery by Sorc = a acatats 68

2 Ranunculuses, A List of Sect ‘Seedling ig : aX 115

- Ranunculuses, Seedling, Remarks on Raising, by Mr. Cary Tyso. ele 273

Rhodedendron hybridum, noticed, “ aisiele = Le

pulcherrimum, do. : Sent alate 17

flavum, noticed, Ets 107

: arboreum var roseum, noticed, - 163

t arboreum, Remarks on : oi _ 166

Ribes malvaceum, noticed .... Bet shes 163

R. L., Query by soc nied 214

Rondeletia odorata, noticed, 291

Rosa, On Pruning Garden Varieties, by .. 80

: On the Culture of the Tree Rose, by 36, 79, $2, 181

Rose, On the Culture of, by Mr. Barratt,. . 2 74

budded ona Black Currant Z . Sielels 68

On destroying the Aphis, &c. on the ‘ a cies) LOO 215

+7 On thé History of the Ayrshire .. aia aos 226

s Remark on the Double Yellow eeeied Sante a Ate 165
Rose, Remarks on the Reversa Elegans, as suited for a Trellis or as

" a Pillar Rose, by Mr. Archibauld Sota: ep iatctts 283

Rosa microphylla, noticed Pasties 136

oses, On changing the Colour of, pide 108

A Description of Climbing and Autumnal Flowering 241

On Forcing, by a Devonian ekars 75

Remarks on Mr. Rivers’ List ace Bane aed 69

On the Sale of ° A shee 70

W, T, Answer on Propagating the Bay (ree ax eres 67

On the Culture of Mimuluses, by .. ne o vrai 270

acha viscosa, noticed 3 3 tense eae. 64

cochilus falcatus, do. 7 eae ats bya ib.

h, On ulture of the Tree } Mignonette, by wee 189

acenia rubra, noticed ase 257

on Camellias, Query on destroying th the ig atte 163

cupaniana, noticed 3 SAE 187

ing Transplanted, A Description of a a. eats Gt 179

s and Bulbs, to be disposed of aed Spall 166

On East and West Indian, Remarks on ; 138

necio ampulaceus, noticed airs Aes 136

um Orchideum, Dr. Lindley’s Remarks on lt

pherd, On destroying Moss on mag by Mr. John. 266

e regia, noticed § 17

ls, On destroying 121

Snowdrop, On the Culture of Amary llis sarniensis
South London Floricultural Society, Exhibition of

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Specimens of Plants, On drying and preserving, by Primula Scotica 265
Spectator, On the Culture of the Camellia, by a weet onan 52
Cape Ericas, by a. ae. Ae, 57
Sphenogyne speciosa, Reference to Figure. Sas eielere 240
Stand for Pansies, Query on a aaa 355 19
On a, for Pansies, by Mr. Carey Tys0, Sites stae 51
Stove Plants, Remarks on estets elaths 100
Streptanthus hyacinthoides, noticed _ .... eure aie 257
Strobilanthos Sabiniana, noticed : otette eiete ib.
Stocks, Query on, for budding Roses upon sheiete 93
Sutton and Sons, Remarks on the best Hyacinths for forcing) by .. 237
T. B., Query by. . ciety wees athe ciel 66, 67
Talckaa speciosa, noted AEs 2 64
Tender Plants, On Protecting, dora Winter, by Mr. ‘Ja ames Fer guson 286
Thrip, Query on destroying the. =e Shc 214
Thunbergia alata alba, Reference to Figure of ieee deel 95
Todd, On the Heartsease, by Mr. sithSee aeet baat 281
Tonbridgiensis, Query by ...-. Ao over ome 214
Tradescantia virginica alba, noticed ays¥eNie pret eile 187
Trichophylla tortilis, noticed. . ast sere 163
Tournefortia helitropioides, Refer ence to Figure (1) elt, = ofetate 144
Trifolium fucatum, do orale we eas aeete KIC 213
reflexum, do. Bites Aine: Petals erates 64
Tristania macrophy LiL oye Ta ac smu 91
Tropeolum elegans, Reference to Figure of. Shaner eniete 192
—_———tricolorum, On the Culture of the eis patch 205
Troxicum glaucum, noticed sisfeie sien s Senate Satele 44
Tulip, Remark on the Seeds of the on Biota: Bheave 138
Answer on a Box for Dahlias blooms, by efor ie sigie's 138
On the Culture of the. ae ome. Pe atets 7h
Tulipa, Gleanings from Old Authors, by - ae via 60, 82, 125
Tulips, Remarks on the price of Sexe 4 AR eet 215
Turnera elegans, noticed ae oeltg 291
Tyso, Mr. Cary, On a stand for exhibiting Pansies $ in, by ares 51
Tyso and Son, Catalogue of flower roots, &c., of Messrs., nioticnd <8 62
Veltheima glauca, oihed areiole cece bfeiee A) 17
Verbena rugosa, do. - sees 625 alta 4
erinoides, var. Sabinia, captieed tela er a viele a QD QS
Veronica labata, noticed cee Sai vines ig ee 44
speciosa, do. icici AGS Sieiele wi tiate 44
ligustrifolia, do. ebay Art Ufete © oleate 44
diosmefolia, do. .... cies 2385 ie 4a
exaltata, do. SS Weisie\ fone OOO BS C3 107
Versicaria gracilis, noticed .... fe mete we. 291
Violets, Query on Russian ... ee han pice 66
On culture of Neapolitan Brett Poe 118
Warwickshire Floral Society, Exhibition ‘of se eke Sisies 21
Weather, Signs of Fair ~ rate To wats % 261
W., On the Culture of the Hy aan by e R. Ring 282
Whale, Mr. David, On the culture of the Double flowered 4 Pomegranate, by 99
Wire, Remarks on Metallic .... 191
Wire Worm, Query on destroying Sau Sar noid 236
Wire-Worm, Answer on the.... pobis Eide 292
Wood, Mr. William, Remarks on et by Sel eters 70
Wolverhampton Carnation Show eieis's stehete Srerate 24
Yellow Flowering Plant, On a dwarf det Sc opie 68
Young, Mr. John, Remarks by Bites ota eae 20
Yucca draconis, noticed sad Reh fe se 257
flaccida, do. 5 3607 Sage iets 258

Zephyranthus Drummondii, do: “cae rears Feeu: 91

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