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duced, and the plant repotted in the same sized pot, or it can be put 

 into a larger pot where large specimens are required. Some of the 

 species succeed best worked on the common forcing varieties, such 

 as Tricolor majus, Elatum, Elegans. 



I have found the following compost answer well for them : one 

 barrowful of turfy loam, two barrowfuls of peat-earth, with a little 

 well decomposed cow-dung, sifted through a coarse sieve, well inter- 

 mixed with a good portion of silver-sand ; drain the pots well with 

 potsherds and moderate sized pieces of charcoal, broken small ; break 

 the hole in the bottom of the pot, if it should not be sufficiently- 

 large to cause a thorough drainage. Where a liberal shift is given, 

 I have used small stones and potsherds, broken small, mixed through 

 the soil, to ensure a thorough drainage, as so much depends upon 

 that in the successful cultivation of this class of flowers. 



In taking off the cuttings, I select some good strong shoots after 

 the plants have done flowering, inserting each cutting in thumb-pots 

 full of peat earth, sifted fine, and silver-sand well mixed together ; 

 let the pots be well drained, using a little moss at the bottom ; 

 plunge in a gentle bottom heat, where they will root freely and soon 

 make good plants, giving a little air in the daytime to prevent the 

 cuttings from damping-otF. In shifting into larger pots, use soil as 

 before directed. 



Subjoined is a list of those kinds I am now growing ; they are 

 very distinct in their colours, and well worth cultivation : 



Anemoneflorum. Echinatum. Ternatum. 



Ardens superbum. „ album. Reniforme. 



Bicolor roseum. „ purpureum. Elatum. 



Sanguineum. 



Quinquevulnerum. 



Saepeflorens. 



Formosissimum. 



Holosericum. 



,, majus. 

 Bipinnatifidum. 

 Blandfordianum. 

 Comptum roseum. 

 Elegans. 

 Erectum. 



Echinatum. 



„ album. 



„ purpureum. 



Fulgidum. 

 Flexuosum. 

 Glaucifolium. 

 Glaucum. 

 Jenkinsoni tetragonum. 



Tricolor majus. 



I had nearly forgotten to mention, that when aphis or green-fly 

 makes its appearance, fumigate immediately with tobacco ; otherwise 

 the foliage soon becomes discoloured, and the plants have a sickly 

 appearance. 



Teddington. Joun Parker. 



THE SPOT AND CANKER IN THE PELARGONIUM. 



Mr. Beck's remark in the Florist for May, that he has been trying, 

 by a variety of means, to give the spot to some Pelargoniums, has 

 brought to my remembrance an account I read some years ago, in the 

 Gardener s Chronicle, of some unfortunate cultivator who had been 

 very successful, inasmuch as his whole collection of (I think) seven 

 hundred plants had been " spotted" in the following manner : About 

 the time of this event it was recommended in the Chronicle to apply 

 to the soil of each plant a wine-glassful of superphosphate of lime, 

 stirring it into the surface with a stick ; and this cultivator, following 



