10 PLANS FOR FLOWER GARDENS. 



clayana, to describe in a few words my method of culture, by 

 which the above plants flower abundantly. 



Propagation. — About the last week in August, I select some 

 young cuttings of the Maurandia from the old plants in the bor. 

 ders, &c, and insert them in a little white sand, pressed firmly 

 round the stems. They are placed in a cold frame, with a bell- 

 glass over them, and in three weeks they are rooted. I then pot 

 them off into small 60s, well drained, where they remain during 

 winter, taking care to tie them up neatly. About the first week 

 in March, I give them a shift into small 48's ; and in April they 

 commence flowering, and continue all the summer, if kept shifted. 

 I cut back six plants last August, which were in small 48's pots, 

 and I could now (the 16th of November) gather more than one 

 hundred flowers. We have got some fancy wire-work, on which 

 the Maurandia creeps, and produces a striking appearance. The 

 compost I grow the plant in is yellow loam, with a little leaf-mould 

 and sand. The plant also stands out with me during winter 

 against a south wall, where it flowers freely. 



The Eccremocarpus scaber grows freely from cuttings, taken off 

 early in spring, and inserted in a little white sand, covered with a 

 bell-glass, and placed so as to have a little bottom heat. Plants 

 raised from cuttings flower much freer than those raised from seed. 

 I find the plant flowers best when planted out on a southern bor- 

 der against trellis-work. It likes a strong rich soil. 



Of Verbena pulchella, I keep two or three plants in pots through 

 the winter, and early in spring I make two or three dozen cuttings 

 from each plant, and strike them as above described. About the 

 first week in May, I plant a small bed with them on a grass lawn, 

 where it keeps flowering all the summer, and seems to vie, if pos- 

 sible, with Verbena melindres. M. Bryant. 



•TVor. 16th, 1835. 



ARTICLE V. — Plans for two Flower Gardens, having 

 Gravel Walks between the Beds, fyc. By Emily 

 Armstronge. 



In the following plan (fg. 1 J, 1 denotes gravel walks surround- 

 ing the different beds ; 2, wall ; 3, entrance gates ; 4, shrubberies,- 



