ON PROPAGATING TlIE TROP/EOLUM TR1COLORUM. 211 



ARTICLE VI. 



ON RAISING THE SOLLYA HETEROPHYLLA FROM SEEDS. 



BY REV. W. PROCTOR, EI.VINGTON RECTORY, NEAR YORK. 



Among the queries of one of the recent Numbers of your very useful 

 publication, the " Floricultiiral Cabinet," I find one. requesting 

 information as to the mode of raising the seeds of the Sollya Hetero- 

 phylla. I have a plant, which flowered profusely in a pot in 183S, 

 and produced a great number of seed-pods : these remained on the 

 plant during the winter, kept in a cold frame. They ripened the 

 following summer ; and I sowed them about April in the present 

 year in a compost of leaf-mould, peat, and rotten dung. For a long 

 time there appeared no sign of vegetation, though I kept the pot in 

 which the seeds were sown in a cucumber-frame. In the latter end 

 of June I perceived some plants appearing, in form like the seed- 

 leaves of the carrot ; but they did not seem to thrive, and several of 

 them died off. I removed the pot into the open air, and in a few 

 days after the plants came up, and grew very vigorously. I trans- 

 planted them into small pots, when they had grown about one or two 

 inches high, and they are in a healthy, thriving state. My old plant 

 produced seed-pods again last year, which ripened this spring. I 

 preserve the seed in the pod until I purpose sowing it. The Clianthus 

 Puniceus has seeded with me under the same treatment, and the 

 seeds have grown very freely. 



ARTICLE VII. 



ON PROPAGATING THE TROP^OLUM TRICOLORUM. 



BY A COTTAGER. 



Should a few remarks on the propagation of Tropreolum Tricolorum 

 from seed be of service to the very numerous readers of the " Flori- 

 cultural Cabinet," I here send to you; and should you think them 

 worthy of a place in your valuable Cabinet, you are quite at liberty 

 to place them there, having been very successful in raising plants 

 from seeds. The following is the method to be adopted : — 



