36 ON SPECIES OF ACACIA. 



The rottenness is prevented by avoiding to give too much water, 

 and by cutting to the quick, the part that is unsound, before it is quite 

 tainted, and covering it over with a dry and light earth. 



In regard to the white disease, we preserve this flower, by not 

 keeping it too dry ; by not placing it in a situation that will be to 

 hurtful to it : and in short, by preserving it from the fogs, which in- 

 fect it to that degree, that they throw it into a disease which kills it 

 without remedy. 



Take care not to place your pinks in any plots of the garden, where 

 there are other flowers of the large kind : whose beds filled with them, 

 afford in the season a very beautiful prospect : but it is always best 

 to raise them in pots, to adorn an amphitheatre made on purpose to 

 receive them. 



ARTICLE IX.— REMARKS UPON GREENHOUSE SPECIES OF ACACIA 



BY A FOREMAN OF A LONDON NURSERY. 



The volumes of the Floricultural Cabinet contain numerous valuable 

 articles on the treatment of various flowering plants, but it appears to 

 me that those individuals who have favoured us with the excellent re- 

 marks on each kind, have generally directed their attention to sucli 

 plants as required a lengthy article upon them. For such I am sure 

 the readers of the Cabinet are much indebted, but there are many, 

 very many, beautiful flowering plants which have not been noticed, 

 they highly merit it ; and though no lengthy remarks are necessary, I 

 think it would be equally acceptable if a few short observations upon 

 them, as to the particulars of the plant, its culture, so as to keep it 

 healthy, and bloom profusely, &c, were given. I believe many of 

 the readers of the Cabinet have hesitated to communicate useful in- 

 formation, merely because the observations they had to make upon a 

 plant, or plants being few, they would not therefore be interesting or 

 useful, but I am sure the more simple the means, the more condensed 

 the remarks, the more acceptable to us. I hope therefore those 

 readers who have practical j knowledge of any beautiful flowering 

 plant, hardy or tender, will favour us with information. To commence 

 with, I herewith send a few remarks upon two genera of plants of 

 which no notice has been taken in the Cabinet, they are the green- 

 house Acacias, and Mimosas. I have included the two, because many 

 of the kinds formerly Acacias have been transferred to the Mimosas, 

 and others of the Mimosas to the Acacias. And considerable confu- 

 sion prevails through the country as to their identity. But whether 

 they are now designated Acacias, Mimosas, Ingas, &c, there is a 

 natural identity in the class of plants and I refer to them as a whole. 

 The plants are profuse bloomers, very showy, most of the kinds pro- 

 duce yellow flowers, some white and others pink : most of them are 

 very fragrant, as the well-known Mimosa paradoxa or Acacia armata. 



