SO ON BLOOMING TROP .SOLUM TUBEROSUM IN POTS. 



ARTICLE VII. 



OX BLOOMING TROP.EOLUM TUBEROSUM IN POTS. 



BX MR. GEORGE FIELDER, GARDENER TO W. BRISCOE, ESQ., BOHEMIA, NEAR 



HASTINGS, IN SUSSEX. 



Having been a subscriber to the Floricultural Cabinet from its com- 

 mencement, and baving derived considerable benefit in reading the 

 many interesting and useful articles therein, I feel it a debt I owe to 

 contribute, in return, any information calculated to interest and 

 benefit its readers. 



I have observed several articles inserted in recent numbers on the 

 treatment of the Tropieolum Tuberosum, but not one on blooming 

 the plant when grown in a pot. Having flowered it in pots with 

 very great success, I transmit for insertion in an early number the 

 mode of treatment I have pursued. 



In May, 1839, I bought a plant of Mr. Knight, North Trade 

 Nursery, Battle; it was in a thirty-two sized pot. In June I re- 

 potted it into an eight sized pot, in a mixture of old mortar and moss. 

 I trained it to a pillar in a cool greenhouse. In September it had 

 reached the top of the pillar, which was fourteen feet high, and 



was most profusely and beautifully in bloom, having very near five 



hundred flowers upon it. 



I had grown the plant in 1837 and 1838, in a good loamy soil, 



but could not get it to flower, aud it appeared to contribute only to 



the production of stems and foliage. 



I have grown several other kinds of shy flowering plants in old 



mortar and moss, and found them to bloom quite freely. 



I will prepare a list of such plants as have succeeded so well in old 



mortar and moss, and with a very sincere desire to add my mite of 



information in your useful little Cabinet. I will forward the list at an 



early opportunity for insertion therein. 



[We shall be much obliged by our respected correspondent for- 

 warding the same at an early opportunity, so that our readers may 

 avail themselves of growing the plant this season. — Conductor.] 



