50 ON STRIKING GAILLARDIA PICTA. 



of earth. He then with a spade trimmed off all the top surface 

 of the pile of earth before mentioned until he had as much as 

 would lay over his bed an inch and a half deep, letting it lay 

 eight or nine days exposed to the sun and air, he would then lay 

 on another layer of the same depth as before, and so on until the 

 bed was completed, &c- I have been informed by many persons 

 as well as Capatain J. that Mr. Velga's Tulips surpassed all they 

 had ever seen for the beauty of the foliage and the delicacy of 

 the blooms. 



I do not pretend to be a first rate grower of Tulips, but 1 have 

 no doubt the practice is an excellent one ; my attention being 

 chiefly confined to Dahlias, Carnations, Piccotees, and Pinks, the 

 latter of which I flatter myself, few can excel me in, either for a 

 collection or blooming, 



Should you think the above remarks worthy a place in the Cabi- 

 net, I feel pleasure in forwarding them, and shall feel gratified if 

 they assist any one in the culture of the Tulip. 



T. Ibbett. 



ARTICLE II. 



ON STRIKING GAILLARDIA PICTA FROM CUTTINGS, AND FUR- 

 THER MANAGEMENT OF. 



By Mr. George Geldert, Gardener to Edmund Steer, Esq. Harum, near 

 Hamburg, Germany. 



Not having noticed any thing in the Cabinet on the raising Gaillardia 

 picta from cuttings induces me to send you an account of my mode 

 of management with it during the last two seasons, and if it be 

 judged of sufficient interest for insertion in the very useful pages of 

 the Cabinet, I shall be glad of its early insertion, as it may furnish 

 some particulars for practice during the approaching season. 



In the spring of 1837 I procured some seed of this very neat 

 and showy flowering plant, but the seed not proving very good, I 

 only succeeded in raising a few plants. After the plants had es- 

 tablished themselves in the flower border, and pushed side-shoots 

 about three inches long, I cut them off close under a joint, and 

 inserted six or eight in a small pot. Having a hot bed frame at 

 work, with a little bottom heat, for striking cuttings of pelargo- 

 niums in, I plunged the pot of Gaillardia cuttings therein, and in 

 about three weeks, found every one well rooted. 



