UO ON THE CULTURE OF NELUMBIUM. 



by preventing it from straggling, as well as giving it a more perfect 

 and handsome appearance. 



The advantages of grafting, are, that it clears your garden of 

 wild growing stocks, promises fair for instant success, especially 

 when the scions are from hardy sorts, such as the Du roi, Maid- 

 en's blush, kc. and your work is complete and tree formed, and in 

 some cases, flowers in a single season. 



In the eveirUof your having neglected to procure stocks, the 

 operation of grafting may be performed equally well with budding 

 upon plants in a neighbouring hedge, and those that succeed can 

 be transferred to the garden at leisure. 



ARTICLE VII. 



ON THE CULTURE OF THE NELUMBlUiU. 



BY C, B. B. 



Having suggested to your readers the experiment of growing ten- 

 der aquatics in warm water tanks, and observing that the Horti- 

 cultural Society have been distributing seeds of Nelumbmm Lute- 

 um, I think a hint on the mode of raising that, and the Eas^ 

 Indian N. Speciosum may not be amiss, as without such instruc- 

 tion, probably not one person in fifty of those who receive the 

 seeds will rear the plant. For some reason or other, probably to 

 preserve a seed which by sinking in deep water, or being buried 

 in mud, is exposed to many casualties, the seeds of Nelumbium, 

 are furnished with an exceeding hard coat, which as long as it re- 

 mains uninjured resists all soaking, whether in cold or warm water. 

 In order to induce them to vegetate in any reasonable time, it is 

 necessary to file the blunt end of the seed, until it just yields to the 

 pressure of the nail. Thus prepared, the seed should be thrown 

 into a pan of water, the temperature of whicn is not above 70 de- 

 crees. When first sown it sinks, but hi the course of forty-eight 

 hours it will begin to push, and as soon as the seed-leaves have 

 protruded a few inches, the young plant rises to the surface, 

 where its leaves expand, and it floats. In a short time it throws 

 down a runner, much like that of a strawberry, which descends to 

 seek the mud. This runner throws out roots, and sends up a leaf 

 and from its extremity a similar runner again descends, and 



