382 Mr. T. Millie on the Cultivation 



Dactylanthes. Isloh. in Si/nops. PL Succ.p. 1 32. 

 globosa. D. subarticulato-prolifera, articulis variantibus, sae- 

 5. pecjue spliajroideis. 



Obs. Hei-ba succulenta, prassingularis, miper a Ca- 

 pite Bonae Spei. Vidi florentem mense Octobris in 

 Horto regio Kewensi, omnium in Succulentis hortorum 

 longe ditissimo. Nullo valde affine, at parum ap- 

 proximat Dactylanth. anacantham Nob. — Euphorbiam 

 anacanthani aliorum. 



Flores longe pedunculati terminales subsolitarii fere 

 ut in D. anacantha. Ramuli virides saepe globosi, 

 diametro semunciali plusve; saepe (in Caldario) elon- 

 gatim teretes, sive cylinckici, ut in D. anacantha. Spe- 

 cies bona. 



LXXVIII. On the Cultivation of the English Cra?iberfj/ [Oxy- 

 coccus palustris) /» d)y Beds. In a Letter to the Secretary. 

 By Mr. Thomas Milne, F.H.S.* 



Sin, 



nPHE sample of English Cranberries which I had the 

 -■- honour of sending to the Horticultural Society on the 2d 

 of September last, were gathered from cultivated plants grow- 

 ing on a bed made in the same way, in every respect, as for 

 Rhododend)-ons, Azalias, Andromedas, and other plants gene- 

 rally denominated American. The soil was brought from 

 Wimbledon Common, and was of that kind known by the 

 name of black heath-mould, or peat, with a considerable 

 quantity of white sand amongst it. The sand I however do 

 not consider very essentiid to the growth of the Oxijcoccus 

 jmlustris; and, if we may judge from the soils on which it 

 grows naturally, it would perhaps be as well, or better, with- 

 out it. The plants were put into the bed in the spring at 

 about one foot from each other every way ; but I believe they 

 would grow equally well, if planted at almost any ^ther time 

 of the year, except durmg the hot summer months, when 

 there would be a greater risk of losing some of them, unless 

 occasionally shaded and judiciously watered. As their slender 

 shoots advanced, they were constimtly laid into the ground 

 about two or three inches deep, in orcler that they might the 

 more certainly root, and be less influenced by the heat and 

 dry weather in summer. This I consider of much importance, 

 and am of opinion that it is in a great degree owing to that 



* From the Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London, vol. v. 

 Part Iir. ^ 



circiun'jtance 



