ON RAISING PLANTS FROM SEEDS. 239 



ae before. Both plants had grown so much alike that it was hardly 

 possible to say which was best; and thus it appeared that, good as 

 bone-dust is, it is equalled by charcoal in the treatment of Fuchsias 

 for specimen plants. 



August 12th, 1844. 



ARTICLE VI. 



OBSERVATIONS ON RAISING PLANTS FROM SEEDS FORWARDED 

 TO THIS COUNTRY FROM THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE AND 

 NEW HOLLAND. 



BY THE FOHEMAN OK A LONDON NURSERY. 



Aware of the circumstance that numerous packets of seeds are sent 

 from the Cape of Good Hope and New Holland to friends in this 

 country, and having had several years' experience in sowing the 

 seeds, raising plants, &c, of many importations to the establishment 

 in which I am employed, I presume that a few particulars relative to 

 the practice I have adopted, &c, will be serviceable to a portion at 

 least of the readers of the Floricultural Cabinet, and therefore 

 forward them for insertion. 



Seeds of the Cape species of Acacia, and other South African 

 Leguminosee, I find succeed better by having water heated to 200°, 

 of Fahrenheit's thermometer, poured over them, leaving them to 

 Bteep and the water to cool for twenty-four hours. Where there is a 

 numerous collection, and the quantity small, of each [species, they 

 remain in the papers. 



The soil in which to sow leguminous seeds in general, should be 

 one part sandy loam, and three parts thoroughly decayed leaves. The 

 common, or wide-mouth, 48-sized pots are the best for sowing the 

 seeds in, as they allow sufficient room for draining, and contain 

 enough earth for the short time, that may expire before planting out, 

 and the soil in them maintains a more equal degree of moisture than 

 in pots of a larger or smaller size : an essential circumstance to the 

 growth of seeds of every description. 



The Cape species of Leguminosse may be sown at any time of the 

 year they may arrive in Europe : if this should happen to be in the 



