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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
tiful white veins on a dark ground. It only 
forms one leaf, which, in à weeks, droops and dies. 
The Рет т is megut 
Major Cranxx then d the following Notes 
on the Cultivation of Cotton as a Stove Plant in 
Englan 
asus ng it not "€ that some of my 
tural ee have entere 
wi ng were still n деа 
to complete my knowledge of the habits of the 
different, and p differing, sorts in my now 
rather large coll. 
For cul н асрн в, our great Cotton “ges 
may be divided io. two distine 
races 
the Eastern, the other — V lera 
fi sorts, casting aside the шз of 
ann d biennial, as thane е are, mor 
properly, short-lived perennials These distine- 
ti ill be fou e English 
ama е, th 
its bright yellow tu м 1 
r 
brous habit, generally deem wes sometimes clothed 
or — А 
а 
> ме of shorter, агч 
ity than 
wn the bette 
паху even, w ith 
“The =, of sacks 
сып d will, with 
lants, continue to к from 
learn 
use of 
t atmosphere, both still, anki in motion, 
* The pose pots ана be about ten inches 
across, internal diameter, vulgo twelves » buta 
smaller pot, say DAE will serve to ri 
a pod or two, fairly well Th 
exception and well desery 
well-filled 
will result in pods; 
pá get я 
rene prie wide lateral growth, succulent ee 
an rior development of cotton 
ec d ғ 
rà 
pening, late into the autumn. 
then, either be thrown away, ун as in hei case of a 
valua ble or ан da ort, be r Ke for a 
econ s cultivatio gee warm 
stove s (ege winter temper ature mere they 
althily dor ‚ without losing the old 
leaves, шш abo March when they will burst into 
growth eve mdi ie. 
ing, an 
dow edb tial brown,’ 
ype ati slate’ s poadia кы ъа in a few days 
partly shaken mi nee repotted like a geranium. 
By-and-by the t promis pé shoot should be 
selected to form the plant for t ar, 
Second Division. 
have adopted vae name of, late flowering sorts, 
ms bi iennial, shrubby, or 
st all of them, under 
from 8 to 10. 
so, breakin 
numero 
to sow 
Week ng many plants, -— iom в take many sp 
My oe = ате es moms = gen 
amateurs, vig nfiden bi ren x^ 
fair resu at, if hey will etx implicitly 4 "T 
those instruct 
he в rised in this second са sh 5н ей 
the green юа ‘family of the West Indies, w1 
e now come to the great Oriental family, Go** 
dicum 
m to the more 
І fer Royle 8 rra of bere has been 
"дуе species ог two in each ; 
but, to the eere there is little differen? 
