REMARKS ON POTTING PLANT!-. 17 



ARTICLE IV. 



ON BOUVARDIAS FOR BEDS, 



BY AMICUS. 



In a foimer volume of the Cabinet, I saw the remarks on this beau- 

 tiful tribe of trumpet flowering plants, and that they readily increased 

 by the roots being cut up into lengths of two inches each, struck in 

 heat, potted off singly into small pots, and, towards the end of May, 

 planted out in the open flower-beds, in a soil of equal parts of sandy 

 peat, loam, and leaf-mould, and that they would form a beautiful bed 

 of lovely flowers. I followed the plan, but found the plants rather 

 weakly to produce a vigorous bloom. At the end of the season, before 

 severe frost, I took them up with as much soil adhering as I could, 

 placed them erect, as close as possible, in an old mignonelte-box, 

 watered them immediately, and placed the box under the stage in the 

 greenhouse, letting it be nearly dry through winter. Early in March 

 I took the box and placed it where it had more light, and watered 

 the plants. They soon began to grow, and about the middle of May 

 I planted them out in the beds, and the show was splendid, a mass 

 of Trumpet Honeysuckle-like flowers adorning the bed from the 

 middle of June to the end of October. When I took the plants out 

 of the box, in May, I cut away straggling roots, and potted them in 

 lengths for an increase of stock. A bed of these neat and beautiful 

 flowering plants, from a foot to half a yard, is one of the prettiest 

 ornaments in a flower-gardtn. 



ARTICLE V. 



REMARKS ON POTTING PLANTS, 



BY AN AUDENT AMATliUll FLORIST. 



It is well known, by all plant growers, that there are tribes which 

 require a very different soil from others, some flourishing in loam 

 or sandy loam, and of a similar nature; whilst others require bog 

 peat, sandy peat, &c. To particularise what kind of soil would suit 

 best is not in my power, nor could space be allowed in the magazine. 

 There is, however a general knowledge now abroad, as to what 

 habit the plant is of, and which suggests the nature of the soil most 

 likely to suit. 



