ON THE CULTURE OF ACHTMENES COCCINEA. 33 



I must add that the observations respecting visitors are not very 

 creditable to a " Junior Florist," inasmuch as the amount received 

 for admission tickets alone forms no inconsiderable item in the annual 

 income of many societies. I admit that visitors attend simply to in- 

 spect the productions ; but doubtless there are many that have not 

 the convenience of a garden, or time to devote to the cultivation of 

 flowers, who are as enthusiastic admirers and as capable of distin- 

 guishing between a first and second rate flower as a " Junior Florist." 

 His advice is certainly pithy and concise ; but unfortunately, many 

 an admirer possesses not the means of becoming an amateur. 



In conclusion, I beg to say that the idea of holding a central an- 

 nual seedling exhibition is a good one, but is attended with an almost 

 insurmountable difficulty, viz. want of cash, and time to spare to un- 

 dertake the journey ; two articles which an amateur florist has gene- 

 rally but a trifling stock to dispose of. 



Rugby, 7th January, 1842. 



ARTICLE VI. 



ON THE CULTURE OF ACHIMENES COCCINEA— {Triverania 



cuecinea.} 



BY MR. JOHN SIMPSON, GARDENER TO JOHN HUSTLER, ESQ., UNDERCLIFFE HOUSE, 



BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. 



Having promised to send you an account of our mode of cultivating 

 the Triverania Coccinea the last time I had the pleasure of accom- 

 panying you through the hothouse and greenhouse at Undercliffe 

 House, on which occasion you seemed so much to admire the speci- 

 mens we had then in bloom, I now with pleasure wish to fulfil my 

 promise. As, however, so many able articles since I promised mine 

 have appeared on the culture of this most interesting and beautiful 

 plant, I fear that the treatment I am about to describe does not differ 

 so much as now to be likely to be of any material service to the general 

 readers of your interesting magazine : however it may be of service to 

 some who may not have read what has been previously written on the 

 management of this lovely plant. 



In the beginning of February I take the pots that contain the roots 

 of the plants that have flowered the season previous, and carefully take 

 away the surface soil till the small tubers appear. I then fill the pots 



