THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



OCTOBER 1st, 1839. 



PART I. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



ARTICLE I. 

 ON THE CULTIVATION OF CALCEOLARIAS. 



BY MR. E. BARNET, VICTORIA LODGE, REGENT'S PARK, LONDON. 



The admiration of this lovely tribe of flowers, as far as my ob- 

 servation goes, has been universal, their delicacy, graceful form, 

 elegance, variety, and richness of coloring, with duration of a 

 blooming period of eight successive months, alike combining to 

 give them interest. 



At some of the exhibitions of flowers recently held in and 

 around the metropolis, there have been some most striking and 

 beautiful spotted kinds exhibited, as the Conductor of the 

 Cabinet would see, (We did;) white, cream, yellow, orange, 

 scarlet, crimson, lilac and pink grounded flowers, charmingly 

 spotted with dark. 



I have a considerable collection of my own, and having paid 

 more than the usual attention given by an amateur to their culti- 

 vation, I forward some remarks on the mode of treatment I have 

 very successfully pursued, so as to have plants in pots three feet 

 high with a profusion of flowering branches, so as to compose a 

 compact head of ten feet in circumference. 



Propagation.— -The herbaceous kinds are readily increased by 

 division of the oll'sets, which will generally be found rooted : in 

 order to have plants to bloom vigorous the following year, they 

 should be taken off" early in August, and be planted in pots about 

 four inches in diameter, and be placed in a cool frame, where 



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