THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



JULY 1st, 1837. 



PART I. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



ARTICLE I. 



ON STRIKING THE VERBENA MELINDRES. 



BY A. D. 



I beg to suggest, if you think it worth your attention a plan for 

 striking the runners of the Verbena Melindres, which I have 

 found more successful than any other. When the plants are put 

 out in beds, sink in all directions at about a foot distant, and in 

 all pots (say 60. 8 ) filled with earth ; as the plants incrase over 

 the bed, place a joint over each pot, confining it down by a peg 

 or stone, and let them remain till you are apprehensive of frost; 

 then divide at any length you like, the runner from the parent 

 plant; take up the pots containing a strong well-established 

 plant, and sink the pots again in baskets or boxes of mould, 

 placing them in a cold frame or greenhouse. They will be fine 

 plants for the next spring, and flower immediately on being 

 put out ; whereas cuttings or runners removed from the bed 

 are often sickly and difficult to keep through the winter. 



I have no doubt many other trailing plants would propagate 

 well in the same way, but I have little opportunity of trying 

 experiments, and a very thankless garden soil to work in ; never- 

 theless, I am fond of all common gardening, and have found your 

 little Cabinet very useful. 



Respectfully yours, 



A. D. 



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