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day, as well as give plenty of water to the roots, lie need not be sur- 

 prised at his fruit falling off, and the leaves becoming brown ; if he 

 had erected glass, and had not supplied the tree well with water, no 

 doubt every leaf would have fallen from the tree in such a summer as 

 the last was. 



ARTICLE III. 



REMARKS ON THE TREATMENT OF LESCHENAULTIA 



FORMOSA. 



BY MR. J. D. WILSON, OF BECKFORD. JN GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 



Observing an article on the culture of Leschenaultias, by C. C, of 

 Somerset, inserted in last December number, and although the obser- 

 vations are sensible, as far as they go, yet the subject does not go far 

 enough in detail for the entire management. I have had the pleasure, 

 for several years, of annually seeing the splendid specimens shown at 

 the London exhibitions, and obtaining the particulars of management 

 from the gardener who there exhibited the finest and most perfect 

 plant of L. formosa, and having pursued the same mode of treatment 

 most successfully with several plants, during the last two seasons, I 

 am induced to forward the particulars of the mode of treatment 

 pursued. 



In March, 1843, having four healthy young plants growing in 

 thirty-two sized pots, I had them potted in twenty-four's, as follows :— 

 The compost was formed of the following proportions; viz., one-half 

 rough turfy sandy peat, one-sixth silver sand, and the rest of rich 

 yellow turfy loam, and a scattering of bits of charcoal. The soils had 

 been obtained a year before in a turfy state, and been chopped up 

 and turned two or three times. I had a drainage of broken pots, 

 1£ inch deep, and over them some bits of chopped sod, to prevent 

 the compost becoming mixed with the drainage, so as to prevent a 

 free passage for the water to filter away. I removed a portion of the 

 old ball, and then potted the plants carefully in the compost, keepin°- 

 the crown of the roots as high as the rim of the pot, so that the water 

 drains slightly away from the stem of the plant. When this precau- 

 tion is not observed the plant is somewhat liable to perish. After 

 potting I placed the plants in a light and airy part of the greenhouse, 

 giviug a judicious attention to watering. In the la.it week in July I 



