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in my greenhouse, and after blooming, to place them in a sunny shel- 

 tered situation. Last summer I was instructed to pursue a different 

 treatment, and having attended to it, I am glad to say the result is 

 satisfacto^\^ I liave saved all my last year's blooming kinds, and now^ 

 (March 6) I have a fine stock of very healtliy plants. The plan I 

 adopted in summer to keep my plants, especially after blooming-, in tlie 

 sun. was very injurious. The pots became healed, and the roots 

 perished. Instead of that exposure, I now have my plants placed in 

 tiie shade, even in the greenhouse by a covering, and the pots placed 

 inside another mucii larger, and the space between is filled witii moss, 

 which is always kept damp. By tiiis means the roots are kept cool, 

 which is essential to success, and the same attention is given to the 

 plants when placed out of doors. Tiiey are best where shaded, and tlie 

 roots kept cool by moist moss. Tlie compost I use— turfy loam, peat, 

 old rotten dung, and leaf mould, in equal parts. In February I pot 

 off my cuttings, into tiie proper sized pots, and re-pot when the roots 

 indicate the plant requires it. They require a free admission of air at 

 all times. I put off slips in autumn, this is the best time, and keep 

 them in winter in a cool but dry pit frame. Plenty of water is neces- 

 sary in their growing season. — Clericus. 



AcHiMENES.— Early in the last year's volume of this Magazine I 

 read an account of some very superb specimens of tiiis eharmino- tribe 

 of flowers, I immediately adopted the course of culture witli all my 

 vigorous growing kinds, and last summer I had splendid pots of them 

 in fine bloom. My tubers had been watered and the pots placed in a 

 liof-bed frame ; the plants were an inch or two long in March. I then 

 took them up carefully, and having procured some pans, about six 

 inches deep and twenty across, with holes around the bottom for 

 overplus water to escape, I filled them up with a compost of turfy- 

 chopped loam, whicii had been turned, &c., for nearly a year, turfy 

 peat, and well rotted leaf mould, adding a moderate sprinkling of 

 pieces of charcoal. The plants flourished amazingly. As the roots 

 do not run deep, I find these broad pans answer adniirably. I placed 

 the plants about six inches apart. In order to make the plants bushy, 

 I stopped the leads when the plants were six inches iiigh ; this induced 

 laterals, and in proportion the plants were in profuse bloom; but the 

 flowers not so large as those which were permitted to grow unmo- 

 lested. I have a bark pit in a plant stove, and I plunged the pans 

 half deep in tiie bark, and continued them so till the plants were nearly 

 coming into bloom, when I placed them in the greenhouse, &c. 

 I watered once a- week with liquid manure. A. grandiflora I had 

 plants three feet high ; also A. pedunculata four feet ; hirsuta and 

 longiflora similarly vigorous. The A. picta I have had in splendid 

 bloom during all winter, plants two feet and a half high. The Achi- 

 nienes coccinea, with most of the newer kinds of that habit, I grew in 

 similar pans with great success. I had a pan of a sort, and in some 

 cases I had a pan of eight or ten difl'erent kinds, which variety had a 

 very pretty appearance. All are- deserving every attention, and most 

 amply repay for it.— Clericus. 



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