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ARTICLE IV.— ON THE CULTURE OF ERYTHROLENA CONSPICUA. 

 (SYNGENESIA CEQUALIS.) 



BY MR. JOSEPH PLANT, NURSERYMAN, CHEADLE, STAFFORDSHIRE. 



Having noticed in the Cabinet, a query, as to a successful method 

 of cultivating the Erythrolena conspicua, I was anxious to have sent 

 you the result of my experience in the culture of that plant, hut nu- 

 merous engagements having prevented me, for a few weeks, from 

 drawing up the detail of management, I was glad to see, in a subse- 

 quent number, that some person had given a mode of treatment, 

 which I, at a cursory view of the article, judged would render mine 

 unnecessary. On a perusal, however, of the article given in the 

 Cabinet, I find it so unsatisfactory in some particulars, that I could 

 no longer hesitate about sending my mode of culture. 



The Erythrolena conspicua is decidedly a biennial plant. The 

 seeds should be sown in February in a pot, and be plunged in hot- 

 bed frame, and remain there until the plants have produced two 

 rough leaves. They should then be carefully taken up, and one 

 plant be placed in a sixty-sized pot, using a good rich loamy soil, 

 then to be put into the hot-bed frame again, and to be shaded for a 

 few days. When the pots are filled with roots, shift the plants with 

 balls entire into pots a size larger, replacing them in the frame ; 

 when the roots begin to push through the holes of the pots, shift the 

 plants again in a size larger, and place them in a pit or cold frame 

 where they can be protected at night. They will require another 

 shifting into twelve sized pots, having them well drained, and be 

 replaced in the pit or frame, after which they will not need covering 

 at night. 



The plants must always be kept moderately moist, but not saturated- 

 During winter they must be kept in a cold frame or pit, where they 

 can be covered with glass lights, and be protected in very severe wea- 

 ther. Early in May following they must be turned out into the 

 open border with balls entire, and they will produce a profusion of 

 fine yellow blossoms, comporting in a high degree with the specific 

 title it bears. 



ARTICLE V.— DESCRIPTION OF AN INSTRUMENT FOR TRANS- 

 PLANTING SEEDLING PLANT?, &c— By an Old Subscriber. 

 Herewith I send you a description and model of an instrument 

 which I have had made for transplanting seedlings. It has been 

 in use all the season, and so fully answers the purpose that scarcely 

 a single seedling plant has failed to get established, though the wea- 

 ther was so dry and hot. 



