"^J Hi AVIIAT TO IT. ANT, AM> HOW Tt> IT.ANT. 



two-thirds turfy loam to one-third rotten iii.inurc, with sand to make it porous. The 

 pot-s were well drained — a point of considerable importance. A few .slight wires were 

 strung on each side and over the doorways, and as tlie growth proceeded, carefully 

 tied to them. The first tlowers expanded Novemhcr 20, since which time it has grad- 

 ually extended its branches, bearing a profusion of flowers. The house has been kept 

 as near 50"^ medium night temperature as circumstances would allow. The most 

 healthy plant (occupying the warmest part of the house) covers a considerable space, 

 and has often nearly a hundred blossoms open at one time. The more they are cut for 

 boquets, the faster the succeeding flowers open. Its long footstalks render it an excel- 

 lent flower for this purpose, while the color of its flowers (bright orange-scarlet) make 

 it an acquisition of no mean importance at this season of the year, when every flower 

 has a charm. The plant is materially assisted by occasional waterings with diluted 

 manure water. 



This species does not seed freely, but strikes readily from cuttings, which may be 

 struck in the spring and kept growing out of doors during summer, and flowered in 

 its winter quarters early in the fall. As a summer climber in the open border, it has 

 a great tendency to grow too strong to flower freely, which may be somewhat coun- 

 teracted by keeping it stinted at the roots. 



WHAT TO PLANT, AND HOW TO TLANT. 



BY OBSERVER. 



Spring is almost upon us ; the dreariness of winter is all but passed away ; and the 

 lover of gardens and out-door work may already take up his spade to prepare for the 

 coming season. To many the question is. What trees shall we plant this sjmng? 

 The lover of shade, the admirer of evergreens, those who particularly favor flowers, 

 and othei's who pay their respects to fruit, are making out their lists. The ignoramus, 

 who has none of these loves or propensities, is about to depend on second-hand in- 

 formation, and to be disappointed in the result. So much has already been written, 

 and by such able pens, on this subject, that an occasional correspondent of the Hor- 

 ticulturist^ like myself, feels abashed when he thinks of venturing his own bark on 

 the great waters which are continually surging in books and periodicals, about trees 

 and shrubbery, and grass lawns and flowers. Shall I say it, in all humility, that when 

 I began to learn a little about })Lanting, books failed to enlighten me, because I could 

 not understand what I wanted myself. This is the case with the majority of those 

 •who plant ; they begin when they know comparatively nothing about what they actu- 

 ally want. My own process was to plant a specimen of every thing in the shape of 

 a tree that I could procure ; and such as I did not like, or where they stood too near 

 to each other, I cut down when I got tired of them. I wish I could tell all the 

 pleasure I had in these processes ; how I followed this authority as to the proper 

 season ; how I dug winter holes ; mixed earths of " mold ;" " planted not too deep," 





