ON THE CULTURE OF THE TULIP. 7 



thod was attended with considerably more trouble than the follow- 

 ing simple mode : — After the flower-stalk has been cut down, 

 which takes place about the latter part of October, remove the 

 entire plant, including suckers, into large flower-pots, with a ball 

 of earth attached to each plant, sufficient to fill the pot; place the 

 entire in any vacant sunshiny room without fires ; the first week 

 in the March succeeding, take off the offsets from the parent plant, 

 as I am convinced spring is preferable to autumn ; in the course 

 of six weeks, remove them into larger pots ; this causes them to 

 strike freely, when they are transplanted into the garden border, 

 which should be airy, and yet sufficiently screened from cold winds. 

 This border should have been previously prepared with well-rotted 

 stable manure, to the depth of three inches, well trenched in, 

 over it; leaf mould, light mellow loam, pit sand, and yellow clay, 

 well incorporated six months previously, well sifted and raked, to 

 the height of eight to twelve inches over the trenched diing. The 

 border I choose in which to plant my roots is nearly level ; this I 

 prefer for the purpose of retaining a regularity of moisture, which 

 sloping ground does not admit. By the above treatment, I have 

 had strong plants throwing up vigorous flower-stems, to the height 

 of six feet, covered with a profusion of flowers. Observe, during 

 dry weather, to water them frequently, as they require a large 

 portion ; and check the growth of all weeds around each plant, by 

 repeated turnings of the upper surface. 



Emily Armstrongs. 

 Casilerahan, Ireland, Oct. ]3th, 1835. 



ARTICLE III.— On the Culture of the Tulip. No. II. 

 By Amator Florum. 



As you seem disposed to think favourably of my last letter, I 

 will now finish the culture of Tulips. I left, the Tulip bed planted, 

 hooped over, with a net spread over it, protected from rain. By 

 the end of February, the hoops must be raised on posts 20 inches 

 high above the bordering, and the space from post to post closed 

 up by a piece of net strained tight : this is an economical way of 

 excluding cats and dogs, which often, if they get in, damage the 

 best flowers. But a neater way is to have some wire-work in dia- 

 monds, stretched in deal frames about 5 feet long, (any number 



