40 NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



is to take off the cuttings the middle or latter end of June, and plant 

 them in an open border till the latter part of August. I then take 

 them up and pot them into forty-eight- sized pots, larger or smaller, 

 according to the size of the roots. After potting they are placed in 

 a warm situation in the open air, where they can be shaded for a 

 short time till they can bear the sun, after which they are fully ex- 

 posed. 



Towards the latter end of September I put them in the greenhouse, 

 letting the windows be opened every mild day to their full extent. 

 If frost happens, or sharp cutting winds, or damp foggy weather, I 

 keep the house closed more or less. No forcing is requisite further 

 than to screen them from the frost. 



As early as the weather will permit in the following May, I trans- 

 plant them into beds in the flower garden. The soil which I employ 

 is composed of the following materials, viz. : one part road scrapings, 

 which is collected in the winter season, and kept in a large heap 

 twelve months at least before I use it. The winter following I turn 

 it over two or three times, exposing it to the frost as much as pos- 

 sible. One part well sifted leaf mould ; and two parts loam. All 

 are well mixed together, along with a very little rotten dung from an 

 old cucumber or melon bed. The above compost in the beds is a 

 good spade deep. If the weather is dry in summer, I water them 

 two or three times a week with manure water. 



I have invariably found that by treating" them thus they bloom 

 beautifully, until overtaken by the frost. I never pinch the heads of 

 the shoots, as it induces such a production of lateral branches, and 

 causes the plants to become short and bushy, and is a great hinderance 

 to their blooming. The same course of treatment applies to Smith's 

 new scarlet, and succeeds equally well. 



PART II. 



LIST OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 



in periodicals. (Continued from page 19.) 



Geranium rubifoi.ium. — Bramble-leaved. (Bot. Reg. 67.) Geraniace*. 

 Decandria pentagynia. Seeds of this plant had been collected on the Hima- 

 layan mountains, and presented to the London Horticultural Society, by 

 Dr. Royle. It is a hardy perennial, growing about afoot high, and blooms 

 freely. It is very liable to be destroyed by wet during winter; and, in order to 



