] 12 OM THE CULTURE OF EUPHORBIA JACQUINIFLORA. 



the same worth inserting in your widely circulated Cabinet, they are 

 at your service. 



Ahout the beginning of February, or as soon as my old plants have 

 made young shoots from three to four inches long, I select as many 

 shoots as plants required for cuttings, and as strong as I can get 

 them, allowing a small portion of old wood to each cutting, and 

 insert them into a pot of white Calais or river sand well drained, 

 place them under a hand or bell-glass in a corner of the stove or 

 propagating house. In the space of three weeks they will have taken 

 root, (they strike freely). I then remove the glass and harden them 

 gradually, pinching the top off eacb cutting, in order to induce 

 laterals, and remove them to a situation as near the glass as possible. 

 As soon as they begin to grow after being stopped, I pot them off, 

 separately, into small sized pots, in a compost of sandy peat and leaf 

 mould rather sandy for the first time of potting. Care must be taken 

 not to allow them to run off to two or three shoots only, as they are 

 certain to do if neglected, but that is readily prevented by pinching 

 off the tops, as they grow sufficiently long to admit of the same. I do 

 so, as occasion requires, all summer up till September, when I allow 

 them to make flowering shoots. I pot them frequently during the 

 season three or four times at least, always draining the pots well with 

 broken crocks or lumps of dry peat. Water is given sparingly until 

 they show flower, when a pretty liberal supply is given. The proportion 

 of compost used is one spadeful of leaf-mould to two of peat; by 

 these means 1 can, and have plants from three to four feet high, 

 with from nine to twelve spikes of flowers from ten to fourteen inches 

 long. I throw out my old plants as soon as I see my cuttings are 

 struck and make room for something else. E. Boyerii and E. 

 Splendens and several others I grow with equal success in the same 

 sort of compost, but, as is well known to all growers of plants, they 

 will not become similar specimens so soon as E. Jacquiniflora. 



Should my remarks be of any service to you, I can, at some future 

 period, forward to you a few remarks on different floricultural 

 subjects. 



[We thank our Yorkshire friend for his kindness: we shall be 

 obliged by the other promised favours. — Conductor.] 



