8 ON THE CULTURE OF ITOMOPSIS PICTA. 



treated. I would advise him, therefore, to keep all the foliage above 

 the soil, and water once moderately, and little more will be necessary 

 through the winter months. 



I have not mentioned the visitations of earwigs and wireworms at 

 all in the foregoing remarks, because these are invaders which have 

 never yet intruded upon my flowery domains. I shall also leave the 

 other parts of the query unanswered, as I have always grown my 

 plants in the open ground, and chiefly in good fresh soil, without the 

 use of much manure. Among those florists who grow their Carna- 

 tions in pots, there will doubtless be some one willing to give " A 

 Young Beginner " another article on their management when grown 

 in that manner. 



I preserve my plants during winter in common frames, keeping 

 the lights constantly raised up, except in very cold stormy weather, 

 Avhen I generally shut them close. I find this plan answer very well, 

 and would recommend " A Young Beginner " to trouble himself 

 about no other till he gets more experience and a larger stock, and 

 then he may, perhaps, be inclined to try experiments. Frequent 

 inspections, at leisure hours, take place during the winter months ; 

 and a florist's stock, whether in the flowering season or not, is always 

 a fund of recreation and delight to him, whenever a cessation from 

 the sterner duties of life gives him leisure for looking after it. For 

 my part I never feel happier than when I am superintending a bed 

 of flowers just coming to perfection ; and, in conclusion, I beg to 

 congratulate " A Young Beginner " upon his possession of a taste 

 for the beauties of Nature, which cannot fail, in his hours of recre- 

 ation and retirement, to be productive of a never-failing source of the 

 purest pleasure. 



Felton Bridge End, December 2d, 1841. 



ARTICLE III. 



ON THE CULTURE OF IPOMUFSIS PICTA. 



BY A SOUTH BRITON. 



Having seen several queries in your Floricultural Cabinet re- 

 lating to the Ipon-.opsis picta, I send you the following obsemitions, 

 if you think them worthy of a place therein. 



