TREATMENT OF PLANTS GROWN IN DWELLING-ROOMS. 259 



ARTICLE III. 



REMARKS ON THE TREATMENT OF PLANTS WHEN GROWN 

 IN DWELLING-ROOMS. 



BY A SUBSCRIBER, HALIFAX, YORKSHIRE. 



Having observed in your Floricultural Cabinet for July last, a 

 communication from Scotus of Glasgow, upon blooming plants in 

 sitting-rooms, I beg to observe, that, like him, being an amateur, 

 and passionately fond of Flora's beauties, and having neither green- 

 house or garden, I am constrained both to grow and bloom my plants 

 in my dwelling-house, and which, I assure the readers of the Cabinet, 

 I do with considerable success. I have now (September 28) in my 

 parlour window, which faces the east, several plants in full bloom, 

 particularly Fuchsia racemiflora, Chandlerii, and tricolor, also Cy- 

 clamen Europsea, and odorata, and four Camellia plants in bud, cne 

 or two of which I expect to be in full bloom in the course of another 

 month. I have also grown with equal success Gloxinias, Lilium 

 eximea, longiflora, Tigridia pavonia, Acacia armata, Geraniums of 

 different sorts, — in short, during this season my window has presented 

 a complete mass of bloom, and been the admiration of all who have 

 passed. I may also observe, that I have grown and bloomed several 

 plants of the Epacris tribe, and amongst others Epacris grandiflora, 

 which was a most splendid object, and I have now an Epacris (of 

 which I have not got the name, but which bears small white bell- 

 shaped flowers,) [probably Campanulala alba — Conductor] in bud, 

 and will flower in the course of the succeeding January. Last sum- 

 mer I succeeded in blooming Fuchsia corymbiflora (from a young 

 plant) before it had attained three feet in height; I mention this, 

 from having seen plants in large pots growing to the height of six or 

 seven feet without ever having shown any disposition to bloom. The 

 plan I adopt is to use a rich soil, and confine the roots in a 

 small pot, which will cause the plant to bloom much sooner. In 

 order to grow plants and bloom them in a dwelling-house, it is neces- 

 sary to pay every attention in watering regularly with water of the 

 same temperature as the room in which the plants are, as by using it 

 cold from the well or tap it very often gives a check from which the 

 plants do not soon recover, never to overdo the thing, and always taking 

 care to water in at the pot top. Another requisite is to pot the plants 

 whenever they stand in need, and that in soil or compost suited to the 



