14 ON THE DEEP INTERMENT OF CHOICE HYACINTHS. 



By this method the plants grew much more regular than if merely 

 pricked out into boxes, where they generally overrun each other. 

 Thus thousands of seedlings may be proved in a comparatively small 

 space. 



I have this season several boxes full of fine healthy plants that I 

 would not have had room for had they been grown in large pots. As 

 I raise my seed in a hot pit, I also place there my boxes until the 

 plants are well established, when I remove them to the greenhouse to 

 be kept moist, but not wet, to prevent the plants clamping off, which 

 they are very liable to do if not well aired in mild weather. 



These remarks, the result of experience, 1 send to you, should you 

 think them worthy of notice in the pages of your most useful Cabinet. 



December 12, 1843. 



[We shall be glad to receive further communications. — Con- 

 ductor.] 



ARTICLE V. 



ON THE DEEP INTERMENT OF CHOICE HYACINTHS AS THE 

 BEST MEANS OF INSURING A VIGOROUS BLOOM. 



BY W. C, M.D. 



The above excellent method of treating fine Dutch Hyacinths was 

 suggested to me when in Paris many years ago. I can bear ample 

 testimony to the striking effect produced by a method which at that 

 time was novel and little known. I am aware that the practice of 

 plunging bulbs at the usual planting season is now becoming pretty 

 general ; but my object in the present article is to insist upon the 

 relative advantage of deep plunging as compared with the usual 

 method. It may be needless to remark that the object originally in 

 view, and more or less attained by such process, was to secure the 

 early rooting of the bulb ; thus placing it under the most favourable 

 circumstances for forming strong and powerful bloom. 



It has been argued, however, that the plunging to the depth now 

 recommended is altogether unnecessary, the depth of one foot being 

 equally conducive to the effect proposed, and securing equally the 

 same advantages ; but a very little consideration will enable us to 

 establish the principle contended for. 



The further and the more perfectly a bulb, whose dormant period 

 shall have approached completion, be removed from the immediate 



