ON WATER AND WATERING PLANTS. 227 



" The mint, set in this, suddenly began to wither and decay, 

 and in a few days died; as likewise did two more sprigs that were 

 set hi it successively. 



" In another glass he dissolved an ounce of good garden mould 

 and a dram of nitre. 



" And in a third, half an ounce of w.ood-ashe6, and a dram of 

 nitre ; but the plants in these succeeded no better than the 

 former. 



( To be ■continued.) 



ARTICLE V. 

 ON IMPREGNATING CALCEOLARIAS, &c. 

 BY AN ENQUIRER 



I have just been told that Calceolarias can be successfully im- 

 pregnated with blossoms of different genera, and the result is, 

 that Calceolarias are produced from the seed, of a vast variety of 

 colour. If my information be correct I should be glad if some 

 person, or persons, who have tried it, would give a list in the Ca- 

 binet of the sorts of plants which have succeeded, in impregnating 

 successfully the Calceolarias. Also when to sow the seed ; how 

 to treat the young plants, &c, so as to get them into bloom as 

 «arly as possible. An article to be inserted in the November 

 number would much oblige, 



An Enquires. 



ARTICLE VI. 



ON RAISING CARNATIONS AND PICOTEES FROM SEED. 

 BY AN OLD FLORIST. 



The culture of the Carnation, though elaborately written upon by 

 many with ability and experience, has in one point, and that a very 

 material one, been either totally neglected or slightly or discou- 

 ragingly mentioned, I mean the progressive improvement of the 

 /lower and its subvaricty the Picotee, by raising new plants from 

 seed. Hitherto we have been taught that the production of new 

 and fine varieties of either Carnation or Picotee, is an extremely 

 difficult and even arduous undertaking -- the proportion being 



