ON THE CULTURE OF THE CALCEOLAREA. Ib9 



to leave all blossom shoots and spurs, these are easily distinguished 

 from wood shoots ; this I do about three times during summer, and 

 by this treatment the tree continues to flower four or five months, 

 making a very grand appearance, and repaying by its beauty for every 

 care a gardener can bestow. 



P. S. The knife should never be used about these trees in winter, 

 except to remove decayed branches, &c. They are easily propagated 

 by layers or cuttings. To accomplish the first : in March, select 

 some of the young branches for the purpose, give a little slit at a 

 bud underneath, they will easily strike root without slitting, and I 

 consider that method to be the safest ; lay them in the usual way, water 

 them occasionally during the summer, and by the following autumn 

 they will be well rooted so that they may be taken off and removed to 

 any warm situation, to gain strength, before they are planted where 

 they are to remain. 



Cuttings— If cuttings are required in June, take some young tops 

 of branches, select a warm place in the garden, place them under a 

 hand-glass, shade them in hot weather, and by autumn they will have 

 taken root. 



ARTICLE IX. 



ON THE CULTURE OF THE CALCEOLAREA. 



B* A SUCCESSFUL EXHIBITOR AT THE LONDON SHOWS. 



The perfection in culture to which the Calceolarea is now brought, 

 as is seen especially by the specimens exhibited at the floral shows 

 around London, is truly astonishing-; so great is the change effected, 

 that the same kinds, as formerly grown, can scarcely be recognized 

 under the improved mode of treatment. Being a successful exhibitor 

 on many occasions at the shows referred to, I send particulars of the 

 mode of treatment. 



Young plants from the herbaceous and half shrubby kinds are 

 readilv increased by slips in October and November, the cool and 

 damp" of being then homed induces the off-shoots that are under- 

 most to emit a quantity of small rootlets. Young, well-ripcncd shoots 

 of the true shrubby kinds may be struck in summer, in Bendy loam 

 and peat, but with the greatest success when plants arc kept in a 

 cool and aowt situation, in October and November, then rootlets arc 



