152 observations on the failure of tlants blooming 



Ely's Queen Victoria 

 Is a first-row flamed Byblomen, good form, bottom very creamy 

 colours dark, feathering delicate. 



Emperor of Austria 

 Is a fourth-row flamed Bizarre, good but rather long cup, bottom 

 pure, excellent marker, and stage flower when grown strong. 



ARTICLE IV. 



OBSERVATIONS ON THE FAILURE OF PLANTS BLOOMING 

 AFTER REMOVAL FROM FRAMES, &c, INTO SITTING ROOMS. 



BY SCOTUS, OF GLASGOW. 



In common with a numerous class of the subscribers to your excel- 

 lent and useful little work, who have no greenhouse, and who trust 

 to the ornamenting of their sitting rooms by the removal from pits 

 and frames, or from the open air, of their floral favourites, as these 

 come into bloom, I have experienced much disappointment in the 

 frequent failure of such bloom, immediately on the removal of the 

 plants into a sitting room, as the beautiful class of Fuchsias, for 

 instance, and, unfortunately, the objection lies to many others, 

 though, perhaps, to few in the same dcgTee. The amateur watching 

 with delight a handsome plant bursting into bloom, and, to enjoy it 

 the more, he has it carried to the house, where, with his other 

 favourites, he may have it always before him; but, to his mortifica- 

 tion, after two or three days pass, flower after flower, and bud after 

 bud, drops off, and he soons finds his admiration limited to the 

 beauty of the foliage. 



This is an evil which all admirers of flowers have felt as a serious 

 one, but I cannot think that it is one without a remedy, and that if 

 the precise cause were better understood the grievance might not be 

 obviated. Perhaps this may fall under the eye of some of your 

 scientific readers, who, I am certain, would confer very great favour 

 upon many of your subscribers, by one cr more articles on the 

 subject suited to the pages of your work. 



It is undoubted that the dry atmosphere of a sitting room is one ill 

 fitted for plants, particularly such as are just introduced when 

 coming into flower; and it is equally undoubted that over watering, 

 or an undue delay in giving water, will produce the mischief to 



