THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



MARCH, 1st, 1839. 



PART I. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



ARTICLE I. 

 REMARKS ON THE CULTURE OF THE RANUNCULUS. 



BY MR. THOMAS IBBETT, MOUNT PLEASANT, -WOOLWICH. 



In reviewing the Cabinet for May last, I was much pleased with 

 the Article on the culture of Tulips, written by Mr. J. Slater, 

 which does him much credit, and displays sound judgment. I 

 therefore beg to make a few observations, confirmatory of his 

 statement, and may also prove serviceable to such growers as 

 may think proper to put it into practice. 



And in so doing it is but fair to state that I received the infor- 

 mation from Captain Jones of the royal navy, a gentleman that has 

 spared neither pains nor expence in the culture of the Tulip; he 

 says "that having visited every grower of eminence within twenty 

 miles of London to see their blooms, he could find none to equal 

 the late Mr. Velga's of Hammersmith, a gentleman that was well 

 known for many miles round his neighbourhood," and the method 

 he pursued for the cultivation of the Tulip was as follows : 



Having made choice of a good meadow, he took off the surface 

 about six inches deep with the grass sod, which he filled up in 

 the form of a haycock, keeping a sufficient quantity for one year 

 under another, about three months before planting ; he began to 

 make up his bed, first taking out from the old bed about two spits 



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