7o Off b-YCHKIfi Fl-IHiS:,- 



several into colour. I have tried old mortar pounded fine a:vi 

 riddled through a five riddle, and about one-third of this mixed 

 -well with three-fourths of maideu soil, has broken the sever?.] 

 breeders very fine. I have also taken them up in bloom, and 

 placed them in the same : this also has answered my expectations 

 the following year. Change of soil, is after all, the best means 

 which I have tried yet. 



I had omitted to mention in its proper place that each Tulip 

 seed will produce a distinct variety, and that many of them in a 

 breeder state, cannot be distinguished from each other, but 

 when broken have proved distinct varieties ; this shews the ne^- 

 eessity of keeping each root separate as before mentioned. 



AETICLE. II. 



Cm THE CULTIVATION OF THE LYCHNIS FULGF.NS, 



BY META. 



The Lychnis Fulgens does not appear to be so well known, or so 

 generally cultivated, as its beauty deserves ; and finding no 

 other notice of it in the Floricultural Cabinet, than an inquiry in 

 the first volume, as to its preservation during the winter,I forward 

 the following observations on its culture, being a pan which suc- 

 ceeded well last year. 



In the beginning of March the seeds were sown in a light rich 

 soil, about six in each half-pint pot, and then placed in a gentl? 

 hot-bed : the seeds did not germinate quickly, and not more than 

 half came up. (I think it does not seed freely, as I see none 

 advertized in your various lists for this year.) When the young 

 plants were about three inches high the pots were removed into 

 the greenhouse, and the seedlings were never disturbed, as I 

 have found by the experience of the previous year, that they were 

 very impatient of removal. "When they seemed to require it, the 

 soil was carefully taken out from the top of the pot, and re- 

 plenished with a mixture of one third loam, one third peat, and 

 one third leaf soil : they were sparingly supplied with water ; with 

 this method of treatment, they flowered beautifully the following 

 July. After flowering they only required sufficient water to 

 enable them to perfect their seed, and to prevent the soil from 

 baking, and then were suffered to subside into that state of rest, 

 which all tuberous roots require. Before winter the roots had' 



