THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



MAY, 1st, 1839. 



PART I, 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



ARTICLE I. 



OBSERVATIONS MADE ON THE EFFECTS OF SITUATION AND EX- 

 POSURE ON DIFFERENT KINDS OF PLANTS, DURING THE SE- 

 VERE WINTERS OF 1837-8. 



BY CLER1CUS. 



As by far the greater number of plants cultivated in this country 

 are exotics, we find they are variously affected by the changeable 

 weather of *our climate, as well as by the attending circumstadlls 

 of the situations they are destined to occupy. Our knowledge, 

 acquired by experience, of the constitution of foreign plants, has 

 suppliedus with rules for our guidance in the distribution of them. 

 If we happen to be acquainted with the native habitat of a plant, 

 we can judge pretty accurately what place it is most likely to 

 thrive in with us. Tropical plants, for instance, we place in the 

 stove, or conservatory ; Australian, South African, Chinese, and 

 South European, in the greenhouse ; and those from the north- 

 ern parts of Asia, Europe, and America, any where in the open 

 air where we may have occasion for them, or which we map 

 think best adapted for them. This is a very natural way of pro- 

 ceeding; but we are not always right in its application; some 

 tropical plants Are killed by placing and keeping them in the 

 stove; because it is not so much the latitude whence they have 

 be*n brought, as it is the eletation of their habitat above the 



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