ON STRIKING PLANTS. 2.V 



admired tribe. Though many of our recently produced species 

 are priced at from five to fifteen shillings each, yet about a 

 hundred of us, of longer standing in the world, may be obtained 

 of large cultivators for five pounds. 



There are a few sorts belonging to other classes, which if ac- 

 ceptable to your readers may be brought into notice with a few 

 remarks at a future opportunity, by your humble servant, 



Crowfoot. 



ARTICLE II. 

 ON STRIKING PLANTS FROM CUTTINGS, &c. 



BY EDINENSIS 



I have felt at various times inclined to communicate to you, 

 for insertion in your useful, because practical publication, the 

 results of experiments, some with which have been attended with 

 doubtful, and others of decided success ; but has hitherto been 

 deterred, by a reluctance to put you to the expence of postage, 

 for which probably the value of my observations might not com- 

 pensate. Having purchased all, except" Yol. IV. of the Cabinet, 

 (which I have again and again ordered, but without success) ; I 

 have looked over all your editorial notices on the fiy-leaf and 

 elsewhere, but could never, amidst all your requests for com- 

 munications, find so much as a single hint, ho.v correspondents 

 should act on the very important, I shouid rather say, the deli- 

 cate point, the post paying of their letters. I find, however, 

 that most of your correspondents prefer-being anonymous, or to 

 flourish under the name of some fashionable or favourite plant, 

 or flower, and of course, under such guise or disguise (not know- 

 ing who your correspondents may be) you are not bound to retain 

 their lucubrations, nor consequently be subjected to postage from 

 them, unlesss you please. Relieved therefore by this view of the 

 matter, I feel less annoyed at the thought of a shilling and three- 

 halfpence, which, in the first instance, must be paid for these re- 

 marks.* 



I have ever read with the utmost avidity all that relates to 



* Any communication sent by letter signed anonymous or otherwise ifoi'an 

 useful character, we shall be glad to receive.— ' OMDUCTOR, 



