12 ON THK HOTA CARNOSA. 



If the preceding hints be strictly adhered to, success will follow. 

 I have many other exotics doing equally as well as the Crinums, 

 which, should you consider the same worth recording, I shall feel 

 great pleasure in forwarding for insertion. 



ARTICLE VII.— REMARKS ON THE CULTURE OF FUCHSIAS, 



By Mr. William Barratt, St. John's Botanic Gardens, Wakefield. 



By my former communications you will easily perceive, that I 

 have paid some attention to that beautiful genus of plants, Fuchsias. 

 I have this season added to my stock several very splendid varieties, 

 and intend shortly to give you a continuation of the name, habit, and 

 description of the new ones, to those of mine you have already pub- 

 lished in the Floricultural Cabinet, for the last two years. The 

 hint I wish to give you at present on Fuchsias, is, their arrange- 

 ment in the beds, in order to produce, shall I say, one of the most 

 splendid beds of beautiful and graceful flowering shrubs our gardens 

 can boast of. The shape of bed most suitable is an oval one, say 

 five feet across, and eight feet in length ; plant in the middle of the 

 bed some of the tallest growing kinds ; in the next row round, some 

 middle sized ones, weeping kinds ; next row should be the several 

 varieties of Globe Fuchsias ; and another row dwarf kinds, — and then 

 complete the bed with an edging of Fuchsia reflexa, and Fuchsia 

 microphylla, planted alternately. The plants when planted, should 

 be in the middle two to three feet high, and the other rows gradually 

 less in height ; the edging should be about four inches in height. 

 Although they will not all exactly grow proportionately to their 

 heights when planted, yet they will do something near it, and if 

 planted out in April, or early in May, in rich soil, and a little peat 

 mixed, the effect will surpass the expectation of most people. 



ARTICLE VIII.— ON THE CULTURE OF HOYA CARNOSA, 



BY S. W. E. SMITH, LYMINGTON, HANTS. 



In a former Number of the Cabinet, " Pedro" wishes to know the 

 treatment of the. Hoya carnosa : — I have a beautiful plant, whose 

 branches are nine feet long, and covered with large bunches of its 

 lovely flowers, dropping their delicious juices upon other plants. It 

 is trained across the greenhouse windows ; is potted in a mixture of 

 equal parts of sandy loam, yellow loam, and good manure. I keep 

 it nearly dry all the winter, and in spring and summer water plenti- 

 fully everv two or three days with good manure water. I have struck 



