248 OX THE HYACINTH. 



If it be intended to have the pots in the drawing room, it need 

 only be observed, that an attention to watering them as often as is 

 necessary to retain the moisture, and their preservation from se- 

 vere frosts, is all that is required ; but if for growing out of 

 doors, it will be proper to plunge them, and this may be done in 

 the ordinary way, by placing the roots three or four inches asun- 

 der, then filling up the interval between, and afterwards covering 

 them from six inches to a foot until the return of spring, but the 

 greatest care must be previously taken to examine the earth other- 

 wise though but a single wire worm, or other noxious vermin re- 

 mains, the roots are in jeopardy. Or another and much safer me- 

 thod may be adopted, instead of earth, let cinder ashes be 

 substituted in its stead, they can be purchased of the sweeps for 

 3d. per bushel : place the pots on layers of these six inches thick, 

 fill up the space between, and cover them as mentioned above; 

 by this means no insect can approach the pot, so that if the 

 compost in which the bulbs are planted be free from them, no in- 

 jury need be apprehended ; they will now be safely lodged in 

 their winter quarters, and I shall not omit to refer to them in 

 my next communication. 



In the above remarks I have endeavoured to be explicit, and I 

 hope the prolixity of them will not be objectionable. As also 

 in my paper of blooming Hyacinths in glasses in the last Number 

 of the Floricultural Cabinet, no direction is given that has not 

 been subjected to the test of practice, as no doubt yourself and 

 many of your readers can avouch. 



H. L. 



ARTICLE IV. 



A LIST OF TULIPS SUITED TO GROW FOR SHOWING AT FLORAL 



EXHIBITIONS. 



BY MR. JOHN SLATER, BROUGHTON, NEAR MANCHESTER. 



Having been applied to by several of your readers for a list of 

 Tulips calculated for an exhibition, I send you a catalogue of 

 those grown here for that purpose. 



John Slater, 



