THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



JANUARY 1st, 1840. 



PART I. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



ARTICLE I. 



ON A SUCCESSFUL METHOD OF BLOOMING THE TROPvEOLUM 

 TUBEROSUM, AND IPOM^A H^iDERICIFOLIA. 



BY A FLORICULTURIST. 



Having seen, in your useful periodical of December, a query respect- 

 ing the culture of the Tropseolum Tuberosum, I trust tbe following 

 remarks will not prove unserviceable to your subscriber, W. R., of 

 Liverpool. In the spring of 1837 I purchased two plants of the 

 Tropseolum Tuberosum, which I kept in pots for about six weeks 

 after I had them in the conservatory ; but finding they did not get on 

 as well as I could wish, I was determined to see how they would do 

 out of doors : accordingly in the month of June I planted one of 

 them in a very sheltered south border against a wall ; in a very short 

 time it began to grow vigorously, and soon covered the 'portion of 

 wall allotted for it, but with all its strength it showed not the least 

 symptoms of blooming. It therefore struck me that if I checked its 

 growth partially, it might perhaps throw it into bloom earlier than 

 it might otherwise ; consequently about the end of August I dug a 

 small trench about two feet around the stalk of the plant, and placed 

 therein a quantity of lime and other rubbish ; by my doing this, I found 

 it had the desired effect, for in less than three weeks I had the plea- 

 sure of finding the plant had commenced forming flower buds, and 

 about the middle of September it was most magnificently in flower, 

 and continued so till the middle of October, when it was cut down 

 with the frost. About the end of November I took up the produce 

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