THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



JUNE, 1st, 1S3S. 



PART I. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



ARTICLE I. 



MODE OF OBTAINING DWARF COCKSCOMBS FROM TALL 

 GROWING VARIETIES. 



BT WILLIAM WHEATLEY, FLOWER GARDENER TO JOHN WILLIAM SPICER, ES<J . 



ESHER PLACE, SURREY- 

 EARLY in the month of March the seeds were sown, and placed 

 in a warm frame ; as soon as the plants began to show flower, 

 the best were selected of various shades of colour, and pricked 

 out into large pots, from whom the best again were made choice 

 of, and potted off for flowering, the remainder were left in the 

 pots, until they attained the height of about twelve inches. 

 These by way of experiment, were cut off about two inches 

 under the crests, which were at that time about four inches in 

 length, and potted off into 60's. In the course of a fortnight 

 they were well rooted, and in about a fortnight after they were 

 shifted into48's; three weeks after this it became necessary to 

 give them another shifting, when they were finally put into 32's. 

 During the above process the pots were plunged in leaf mould 

 up to the rim in a warm frame, where they remained till the 

 end of July. The average length of the crests measured twenty- 

 four inches, and five inches across over the disk, and the height 

 "f the plants when fully grown was about five inches abeve the 

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