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&e. When the pots are filled with roots, the plants must be re-potted 
into 48’s or 82’s, according to necessary requirements, and have a 
compost of leaf-mould, old well-rotted cow-dung, and good loam, in 
equal portions. The pots should be well drained. The compost must 
not be sifted. The plants may be removed from the shady situation 
to the greenhouse, sitting-room, &c., as desired for blooming, so that 
all are taken into shelter before frost. They delight in having shade, 
whether they be out of doors or in the greenhouse; and they require 
no higher temperature than the greenhouse. By sowing seed thinly, 
and at different periods, duly potting off and re-potting, a continuous 
bloom may be had, and will amply repay for any care bestowed. 
Myosoris rauustris, Tue Marsu Forcet-Me-not.—This lovely 
British plant, when grown in spongy loam, and kept duly moist, blooms 
beautifully through autumn, winter, and spring. The plants should 
be potted off in April, and be planted in a ditch similar to what they 
usally grow in. They must not be allowed to bloom at the early 
period of the season; but the flower heads be ‘pinched off at an early 
stage. The plants may be taken from the ditch to the greenhouse, or 
frame, as required; and by due attention will amply repay by its 
modest beauty for every care. 
QurysaAntHemMums.—This charming tribe of flowers, of almost 
evéry colour and form, scarcely need be recommended. They fill up 
a vacuum in the flower-garden and greenhouse that no other tribe can 
equal ; and each successive season presents additional beauties to pre- 
vious ones. Several excellent articles on their culture have appeared 
in this Magazine, and to which I refer your readers. The principal 
points to be realized are to have vigorous bushy plants. This is to be 
obtained by stopping the leading shoots about June or July, in order 
to |induce the production of side shoots, a due proportion of which 
should be kept, stripping off the extra ones ; and by growing the plants 
in equal portions cf loam, well-rotted manure, and a portion of sand ; 
also giving liquid manure occasionally. When the flower-buds are 
too numerous they should be thinned, so that the flowers may be free 
and vigorous. A collection of the best kinds when in bloom, with a 
due mixture of colours, is one of the loveliest sights that adorn the 
greenhouse. Dwarf plants are readily obtained by Jayering the shoots, 
as directed by a writer in the last volume of this Magazine, 
GARDENING IN INDIA. 
Tue establishment of public gardens in a country like India, with its 
population, and abounding in tracts of land of the most fertile character, 
cannot fail to be of much practical value, not only in diffusing a taste 
for the most healthy employments, and affording valuable lessons to 
those about to form private gardens of their own, but as a model dis- 
persing knowledge of the more suitable plants for cultivation, and the 
true method whereby the process of gardening is improved. We have 
read with no small degree of pleasure some extracts from private letters 
of Dr. Hooker in the Journal of Botany, giving an account of the 
