ON THE COB.EA SCANDENS. 5 



Flowers that are party-coloured or streaked must have the streaks 

 painted upon them. Single flowers will require stamens in their 

 centres ; these, if very small or so hidden as not to be conspicuous, 

 may be made of narrow strips of wax of proper colour, which will be 

 much improved in appearance if, when fixed, the ends of them be 

 dipped in gum-water, and fine crumbs of bread mixed with turmeric 

 be sifted upon them. If the stamens are large, they must be formed 

 separately upon fine wires, by moulding between the thumb and 

 finger some of the refuse wax of proper colour, dipping each after- 

 wards, if necessary, in a powder of the natural colour, as in dark 

 yellow for the lily, black for the tulip, &c. The leaves that are 

 attached to the various groups are almost all of cambric, and the ma- 

 nufacture of the artificial flower-makers. 



ARTICLE III. 



ON THE COB^EA SCANDENS. 



BY A TWELVE MONTIIS' SUBSCKIJIHR, OF TOTNESS, IN DRYONSUIKE. 



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About the beginning of August I look over the plant and take off 

 as many cuttings as I think necessary, allowing for a few to fail. 

 I insert them, seven or eight in a pot, in loam and sand. I plunge 

 the pot to the rim in bark, (this is four or five years old,) in a cool 

 frame, and give very little water till the cuttings begin to grow. As 

 soon as they have pushed shoots an inch long I remove the pots to 

 the greenhouse for two or three weeks, by the end of this time they 

 are pretty well rooted. I then pot them off separately in sixty-sized 

 pots, and return them again to the greenhouse, where through the 

 winter they are treated as greenhouse plants. About the beginning 

 of May, I, this year, turned them out of doors (a full south aspect I 

 chose) against a trellis forty feet high, fastened against a house. 

 The border is dug out to about thirty inches deep, and filled up with 

 a mixture of loam, very rotten dung, vegetable mould, and a small 

 portion of sea sand. It is not renewed every year, but as the plant 

 is a free grower, I should think, from the quantity of roots it must 

 throw out, it ought to be renewed once in three yeais. The plant is 



