174 ON PREPARING BORDERS. 



Wales in general, as well as many others of the South Sea Islands, 

 and also several, particularly of the larger sorts, from the interior 

 parts of the Cape of Good Hope, from the warmer countries of tern- 

 America, and in short, any of the climes in, or approaching the same 

 latitudes, although the plants when grown will flourish and come to 

 perfection in the greenhouse, yet the seeds will require the aid of a 

 hothed when first sown, to set them in vegetation, and until they are 

 parted and established in their separate pots, then to be hardened by 

 degrees to the open air ; from which time they may be treated as di- 

 rected for the more hardy and common sorts of seedlings. 

 London, July 6th, 1836. 



ARTICLE II. 



OBSERVATIONS UPON PREPARING BORDERS AND PLANTING 

 SUITABLE PLANTS IN A CONSERVATORY. 



BY MR. THOMAS ROGERSON, DALE COTTAGE, WATERFORD, IRELAND. 



Perceiving that Mr. Goodall gives an excellent list of conservatory 

 plants in the July Number of the Cabinet, and having had the man- 

 agement of one for some years, both in its construction, planting, and 

 subsequent management, I herewith send as a continuation of Mr. 

 Goodall 's article, some observations upon the prepartion of borders, 

 planting, &c. 



Plants growing in the conservatory fashion, by their unconfined 

 luxuriant habit, have a much more natural appearance than when 

 growing in pots, forming as it were a wood in miniature, of the most 

 rare and beautiful productions of foreign climes : productions which 

 when properly managed, far exceed in delicacy and elegance any 

 thing ours will produce. Besides having a strong vigorous growth, 

 which could not well be expected from them in pots, they con- 

 sequently produce their flowers with more elegance, and much greater 

 abundance : which is the chief object of the florist, and likewise af- 

 fords to the curious investigator of nature, an opportunity of analyzing 

 the entire process in many plants, of which in other cases he could 

 have foi-med only vague conjectures, or be obliged to rest solely on 

 the authority of others : which, however creditable, is not so satisfac- 

 tory as ocular proof. 



Thus a conservatory properly planned, planted, and afterwards well 

 managed, stand forward as a department merely intended for recrea- 

 tion or study, a conspicuous instance of the perfection to which hor- 

 ticulture has arrived in this country, and the improving spirit of the 

 nobility and gentry in general. 



