34 THE PRODUCTION OF BLOOM IN INGA PULCHERKIMA. 



An old writer says, " I have often wondered at that ill-natured 

 position which lias been sometimes maintained, namely, that a 

 man's knowledge is worth notliing if he communicates what he 

 knows to any one besides. There is certainly no more sensible 

 pleasure to a good-natured man than if he can by any means 

 gratify or inform the mind of another." It might be added, that 

 this virtue naturally carries its own reward along with it, since 

 it is almost impossible it sliould be exercised without the im- 

 provement of the person who practises it. 



As every ray of the rising sun that gilds the morning, helps 

 to dispel the darkness from the world ; so even a successful mode 

 of planting a gooseberry-bush may add to tlie flood of day that 

 is breaking in upon the minds of tlie lovers of gardening. 



Although the roots of the plant were so slenderly covered 

 from the heat of summer and the cold of winter, the plant grew 

 well ; and in process of time the main roots grew strong, and are 

 exposed to tlie weather as mucii as any other part of the plant, 

 and the stake has become rotten and removed, and the small 

 mound of earth taken away, and the stem and branches of the 

 plant are supported upon a dome of roots that bids defiance to 

 the strongest gales. 



I think it was in the month of May last that its strength was 

 pretty Avell tried by a storm of wind, which continueck for some 

 time, and did considerable damage to many things in the garden : 

 there were few of the gooseberry and currant bushes that escaped 

 injury less or more ; some with broken branches, others laid on 

 their sides, and some of those tliat were planted on the same day 

 and in the same sort of soil, but whose roots were deeper in the 

 earth, and their heads about half the size of the one already no- 

 ticed, yielded to the blast, although they were supported with 

 stakes. 



Such a mode of planting and training the roots of some trees 

 and bushes may be useful in soils that are cold by reason of 

 moisture or situation ; or in exposed places they may resist the 

 storms that often overturn plants whose roots are not strong 

 enough, or spreading enough, to give security to the rest of the 

 plant ; and, among other advantages, a heavier and a better crop 

 of fruit may be expected. 



VIII. — On the Conditions of Groivth necessary to the Pro- 

 duction of Bloom in Inrja pulcherrima. By William Wood, 

 Fishergate Nurseries, York. 



(Communicated November 2, 1847.) 

 This is one of the most brilliant flowered stove-shrubs yet in- 

 troduced to our gardens, and on account of its moderate size is 



