814 BRIEF REMARKS, 
Tue BienontAs.—I am afraid you will think me troubling you too 
much, concerning the cultivation of plants; but your Magazine is so 
entertaining, and has created such a .zeal for flowers in me, that I 
cannot resist requiring it. Would some of your correspondents favour 
me with the best manner of cultivating that beautiful class of flowers, 
the Bignonias ? 
In the management of Bignonia grandiflora as a greenhouse climber, 
it ought to be kept in a light house, and if trained from the bottom to 
the top, the pot or tub in which it is placed should stand as high as 
the front stage for pots, and not be shaded or smothered up with other 
plants. By this means, the roots will be relieved from the danger of 
becoming saturated by an over supply of water, and the plant will 
soon be finely ornamented with a liberal profusion of bloom. Al- 
though a climbing plant it may readily be grown as a greenhouse 
shrub. Planted in a pot or tub of moderate size, and by judicious 
winter pruning, it will readily produce lateral branches when only 
three or four feet high, and each to bear a large panicle of blossom. 
To bring it to such a condition, dryness in autumn and winter, proper 
pruning, free access of light, and the removal toa slight distance of 
all plants that would prevent the solar rays from reaching the recep- 
tacle to which it is confined, are the essential pre-requisites. ach 
composed of ten or twelve of its spacious pendulous flowers, of which 
three or more expand simultaneously on every cluster, and remain open 
several weeks, must present a fine appearance. 
It is occasionally grown out of doors trained against a south wall, 
&e., but the flowers are always of a dingy colour, so very different 
to rich coloured ones borne in a greenhouse conservatory. 
On Biooming AMARYLLIS JACOBER.—On flowering the splendid 
rich flowered Amaryllis Jacobez, or (which I take to be the same) the 
Sperkalia formosissima of Sweet’s British Flower Garden, he recom- 
mends planting it in the open border, which I have practised with 
success in the following manner:—In May, I plant my bulbs in a 
border of sandy peat and loam, in a sheltered situation, in which place 
they remain until September. I then take them up and dry them, 
taking care not to injure the roots. When in bloom, the flowers must 
be sheltered from rain or rough winds. I keep the bulbs in a dry 
room until the returning season for planting.— Capensis. 
CuLTURE OF THE CACTUS AND OTHER SuccuLENTs—During the 
past summer I visited, on several occasions, the most celebrated gardens 
in this country, and was surprised to see this interesting tribe of plants, 
especially the Epiphyllums, Opuntias, Pereskias, &c., of a dull 
brownish-green colour, instead of a full deep verdant green. I felt 
satisfied that the soil in which they were grown, a hungry poor yellow 
loam, was improper; for in a compost of the following nature, I have 
grown the same tribes for years in most vigorous health. I therefore 
gladly communicate it. Take equal quantities of very old blackish- 
coloured manure, and of lime-rubbish from old walls, to which add an 
equal part of good unctuous loam. A good drainage is given, the soil 
is pressed firmly around the stem at the time of potting, and is after- 
wards kept so. By proper attention to good watering at the growing 
