26 ON BLOOMING THE TIIOP/EOLUM TUBEROSUM. 



very promising buds put in in 1838 and 1839 ; time will show what 

 they will turn out. I live within four miles of St. Paul's, and it is 

 said to be impossible even to keep the plant alive so near the London 

 smoke ; it may be so on its own root, but budded I have little fear 

 of its succeeding. It is the most beautiful of all flowers, and the 

 most rare ; and as a proof of this, when the gentleman who exhibited 

 them at the Horticultural meeting went to claim his flowers, they 

 had all been carried off. 



tempora ! O mores ! Forty years ago (so you see I am no 

 chicken), a nobleman's gardener in Gloucestershire used to send 

 them up weekly to London as perfect as the common rose, but when 

 that gardener died they ceased with him. All I could learn from 

 one of the family was, that they grew against a wall out of doors, 

 and that the gardener was in the habit of smoking them, no doubt to 

 destroy the insect that so infests them. 



1 tried planting chamomile near them, which I had been told 

 would make them bloom, but it killed both the plants it grew near. 

 In the " Bon Jardinier," the direction is, " les sols les plus arides 

 lui conviennent," whereas it was on a chalky soil those grew that 

 were exhibited and so much admired as above referred to. I believe 

 also, like the rosa Banksia, it must be of some age before it will 

 show for bloom. 



Should I be alive and have any success with those buds, which 

 my gardener assures me look very promising, I will not fail to let 

 F. C. P. know it through your Magazine. 



January 2, 1840. 



ARTICLE II. 



ON BLOOMING THE TROP^EOLUM TUBEROSUM. 



BY A DEVONIAN. 



Having seen in the present month's Cabinet, a request that any of 

 its readers, who have bloomed Tropseolum Tuberosum, would detail 

 the method they used to ensure ^success, I beg to state, for the 

 information of my fellow florists, the plan I have pursued. In 1837 

 I first saw the plant in the magnificent collection of Messrs. Luc- 

 combe and Pince, of the Exeter Nursery ; it was growing in a pot, 



