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may be applied in different proportions without the least risk of injuring the 

 plants. Had it been given to the Chrysanthemums at an earlier period, the 

 result might have been probably still more striking. 



Schizanthus retusus~and S. IIooKEitii. — I had seeds of the Schizanthus 

 retusus and Hookerii given me by a friend in the spring of 1839, from these I 

 raised plants, potted them in rich loam, j art of which I repotted in July into 

 much larger pots and kept in the greenhouse ; others I planted in rich soil in 

 the open border in a warm part of my flower-garden. The plants were very 

 carefully attended to in watering, &c, but not a single flower stem pushed. I 

 kept those grown in pots in the greenhouse during winter; those id the bed were 

 taken up in November, planted in a 1 ox of soil which J kept too in the green- 

 house. In March I repotted half of those in pots in a rich soil, but not one 

 plant bloomed ; I turned out those which survived in the box into the border, 

 as well as the remnant in pots which I did not repot in March, not one bloomed 

 in the border, by accident a plant which had not been repotted was placed 

 in a warm situation upon a stratum of four inches of coal ashes and gravel, the 

 roots had descended into the substratum, and the plant pushed vigorous flower 

 stems and there bloomed very freely. It struck me that I had erred by using so 

 rich a compost and allowing too much root room. The following season I 

 planted some in the open border, which had a prepared substratum of brickbats 

 and coal ashes mixed with gravel four inches deep, upon this I had eight inches 

 of poor soil and then supplied water as circumstances pointed out to he neces- 

 sary, the plants bloomed most beautifully. I grew some in pots, had n free 

 drainage and a poor soil, giving due attention to watering, &c, and nothing 

 could be more satisfactory than their bloom in the greenhouse from July tu 

 October. 



Isle of Wight, November 3, 1843. T. Paunkli.. 



To protect tender Plants in Winter. — Noticing in the last Number of the 

 Cabinet some remarks on protecting tender plants through winter with furze 

 branches, &c, I am desirous that my successful mode of treatment with the tender 

 kinds of tea-scented Roses may be inserted. I have several beds of them on my 

 lawn. I stuck in the ground around each plant some fuize branches, and also 

 a close row round the edge of the bed. This being completed, I had a quantity 

 of dry leaves scattered between the furze twigs, filling up as high as the tops of 

 the Roses which, being dwarf, was about a foot. To prevent the leaves being 

 blown away, I laid a number of furze branches over them. By this mode of 

 protection I have for several winters preseived the plants from being injured in 

 the least degree, and by the twigs keeping the plants open from the leaves, air 

 is admitted which, while it is tempered so as not to injure them, it prevents 

 damage arising from being entirely overhead, and air thus much excluded. 

 Early in the spring I take away gradually the covering, leaves, &e. My plants 

 have grown vigorously and bloomed profusely every season. Before- 1 put to 

 the winter protection, I just point in a portion of well-rotted cow-dung, and prune 

 the plants as required. Rosa. 



FLORICULTURAL CALENDAR FOR JANUARY. 



Greenhouse, — This department should have good attendance during this 

 mouth. 



The herbaceous kinds of plants will require occasional waterings, but less 

 frequent and in less quantities than the woody kinds. Succulents, as Aloes, 

 Scdums, &c, should he watered very sparingly, and only when the soil is very 

 dry. When water is given it should be as much as will moisten am, the soil, 

 where water is only given to moisten the soil an inch or two at ihe top and the 

 other kept quite dry, the result is generally certain, namely, the death of the 

 plant. The plan to be attended to is, water only when necessary, but a full 

 lUj ply when it is done. Air should be admitted at all times when the wiatlu r 



