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every stage of their growth, and an entire shade from the scorching 

 effect of the midday sun during the summer months, are points that 

 require the greatest attention in order to their successful cultivation. 

 They must not be suffered to get too dry, nor must they be watered to 

 saturation ; these matters are easily regulated by daily attention and 

 a good drainage. In the latter shifting I pot deep, as I find there is 

 a tendency in the plant to raise itself above the mould. 



Under ordinary treatment, this plant is sufficiently attractive to be 

 known and valued by every lover of ornamental flowers ; but if its 

 capability be tested by the above suggestions, it may be made to 

 expand its foliage far over a pot ten inches in diameter, when, with 

 its five or six stems, thickly studded with truly elegant flowers, it will 

 exhibit a pyramid of pictorial beauty. 



ARTICLE III. 



ON THE GROUPING AND PLANTING OF FLOWERS. 



BY T. W., OF WALTON NURSERY, LIVERPOOL. 



Agreeable to promise, I here send you a method of planting and 

 grouping flowers which I have successfully practised, hoping it may 

 meet with approbation from those who, like myself, are devotedly 

 attached to floriculture. At the same time, I trust that your valuable 

 pages will not be wasted by the insertion of the remarks, to the ex- 

 clusion of worthier matter. 



Having had to contend with a very bleak and exposed situation in 

 the cultivation of flowers, and being totally unable to grow many 

 beautiful climbing plants (which ought to form no inconsiderable 

 share of every fine flower garden) in the ordinary way, I have adopted 

 the following method with other flowers grown in masses on lawns, 

 parterres, &c. 



I first plant my beds (which, for the following method, are generally 

 of some regular form) with some choice and beautiful flower ; in the 

 centre of the bed I fix a pin, either of iron or strong wood; this pin 

 is firmly fixed in the soil the exact height to which the flowers that 

 form the mass are expected to grow. Round the margin of the bed, 

 about six inches from the verge, I place other pins at equal distances 

 according to the size of the bed and the flowers intended to be planted, 



