'30 on the AURICULA. 



ARTICLE VI. 



ON" THE TREATMENT OF THE ERITHRYNA LAURIFOLIA. 



BY G. H. S. 



The Erythriua laurifolia was introduced into Britain in the year 1800, 

 from South America, and is generally treated as an inhabitant of the 

 stove and greenhouse only, which ou trial is found to grow, and flower 

 most beautiful when planted out in the open air with other exotics from 

 the same country ; using a compost of peat, sandy loam, and decayed tree 

 leaves, well chopped and incorporated together, but not sifted. If planted 

 in spring, head it down almost to the surface of the ground, and place a 

 hand-glass over it, keeping it close until all the buds are broke, then 

 admit plenty of air in favourable weather ; on the hand-glass being 

 removed, the young shoots must be well secured, in case of wind, as 

 they are very apt to break, if not supported. If treated as above, it 

 will have a fine green foliage intermixed with its beautiful scarlet 

 blossoms from July to September. When it has done flowering, it 

 may be headed down and covered with tree leaves for the winter, or 

 all the shoots tied together, and then rolled up with hay-bands, and 

 in spring treated as before directed. 



AjRTICLE VII.— ON THE CULTURE OF THE AURICULA. 



By James Sluppkerd, Nursery Seedsman and Florist, Winchester. 



I have for the last ten years practised growing Auriculas, and 

 followed Mr. Emerton's plan, laid down in his Treatise, for several 

 years ; but loosing so many plants, year after year, convinces me that 

 his compost is too hot, which induced me, three years ago, to try 

 a fresh compost, and it proved very successful. My plants this 

 year completely cover the pots with leaves, which have from 

 twelve to twenty-two leaves, with trusses, from nine to twenty-two 

 pips. 



Good soil and good management, as Mr. Emerton observes, is noj 

 easily beaten, although I differ with him in many respects ; as for in- 

 stance, I do not use exactly the same soil, nor keep my plants under 

 "•lasses in the winter, neither keep them in the same situation when in 

 bloom. The situation in which I keep my plants for the four winter 

 months, viz., October, November, December, and January, is under a 

 shed, in a full south aspect, where they can enjoy all the sun. Ob- 

 serve to keep them tolerably dry ; the beginning of February I top- 

 dress them and put them under glasses, but giving them all the air 1 

 possibly can, and also to keep the frost from them ; I manage to keep 

 them as warm at night as in the day, for this being their growing 

 season, they like to be kept at a regular temperature, if not, they 

 will become more or less chilled, and not bloom free. The situation in 

 which I like to keep them, when in bloom, is in an east aspect, letting 

 them have the sun till 8 o'clock in the morning, after which. 1 shade 



