214 ON CLOSELY GLAZED CARES. 



watering over the heads with a fine rose or syringe is very beneficial. 



As the power of the sun begins to increase, and the flowers approach 



their blooming season, it is necessary either to shade the plants or 



remove them to the north side of the house; for if suffered to remain 



in the sun, and allowed to become dry, the plants will be forced 



prematurely into bloom before attaining a desirable height and size. 



When the flower-stems begin to rise, training commences, and a stick 



is put to each shoot, that it may rise in its proper place and assist in 



forming a regular head of bloom. A supply of liquid manure twice 



a-week gives additional strength to the plants and causes the flowers 



to expand freely. By this mode of cultivation I have had plants this 



season three feet high and eight in circumference an entire mass ot 



bloom, of the herbaceous class, and of the shrubby some equally 



splendid, though not so large. 



W. 



ARTICLE VI. 



ON CLOSELY GLAZED CASES IN WHICH TO GROW PLANTS. 



BY CLERICUS. 



Having seen several of Mr. Ward's glass cases, in which plants were 

 thriving admirably, I am glad to observe that more general attention 

 is now tifrned to the plan, and I am convinced they will come more 

 and more into use the better the capabilities are developed. A friend 

 of mine had a case made four feet high, six long, and three broad, 

 with a small door at each end ; in order to grow several Orchidese in 

 it, he had a number of hooks fixed in at the top in order to suspend 

 baskets and logs from, in, and to which the plants were placed, and 

 growing in luxuriance, the moist, close atmosphere, being quite con- 

 genial to them. There are three shelves, the centre one half a yard 

 high, and one on each side nine inches. In it were Oncidiums, Cat- 

 tleyas, Stanhopeas, Maxillarias, Dendrobiums, Laelias, Gloxinias, 

 Achimenes longiflora, coccinea, and rosea, and other plants, besides a 

 number of Ferns. The case is placed opposite to a south-aspected 

 window. During last year Mr. Ward wrote a small treatise on the 

 system, containing 95 pages, (to be had of the booksellers in London,) 

 wherein he states " that a fern and a grass, which came up accidentally 

 in a wide mouthed glass bottle with a lid, first gave him the idea of 

 growing plants in closely glazed cases. He had often tried ineffectually 



