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ARTICLE IV.-ON THE TREATMENT OF LONICERA FLEXUOSA, 



So as to cause it to bloom profusely, and of the Russian Violet. 



BY MARIA. 



Being highly gratified with the Floricultural Cabinet, and having de- 

 rived so much benefit from that publication, I consider it incumbent 

 on me to impart all the information in my power through the me- 

 dium of that excellent work. I therefore beg to inform " C. S." of 

 Candover, that I have seen a Lonicera rlexuosa that had been cut 

 back to keep it about six feet high, which was beautiful from the 

 profusion of blossom mixed with the dark green leaf, and of such close 

 growth, that not a particle of wall was visible; it is naturally wild 

 and straggling, and will not flower so well as any other honey-suckle 

 unless kept in order with the pruning-knife. I do not think the Rus- 

 sian Violet likes the confinement of a pot, it takes some time also to 

 get reconciled to the ground before it will blow well. I have this 

 year discovered that the birds nip off the early buds, and I have been 

 preparing some small nets for their preservation, with which my gar- 

 dener is much delighted; I happened to have some coarse scarlet 

 yarn, and being in haste to guard my violets, I recommenced my 

 work, and find that it happens to be particularly effectual as the birds 

 will not approach any thing that is red. Perhaps your correspondent 

 may like to learn the size of my nets. I begin with one stich and on that 

 I net two stiches, and I continue to widen at the end of each row till 

 I come to 30 stitches, and then at the end of every row I narrow 

 that is, take two stitches together, till I come to one stitch, when a 

 square is produced which can easily be fastened to the ground with 

 sticks, and to the wall with nails. 



ARTICLE V.-METHOD OF OBTAINING DWARF PLANTS OF THE 



CHINESE CHRYSANTHEMUM.— By J. K. 

 The following easy method of obtaining dwarf Plants of the above 

 beautiful autumn flower I have practised with success this season and I 

 believe it is not generally known. In the month of September when 

 the plants have begun to show the flower-bud, take the plants from 

 winch you want to have dwarf ones, and tie some moss and mould 

 round the stalk, about a foot or half a foot (according to the height 

 of the plant you desire) from the head of the plant tie it 

 round tight, and in a fortnight roots will strike to the moss when 

 it may be taken off and potted, by this means you will have a pretty 

 dwarf Plant at once, without much trouble. I have this season se 

 veral of the tall growing kinds in pots about a foot high, lookiliR ex 

 tremely beautiful. ° 



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