ON BLOOMING THE LARGK WHiTK DATURA. 211 



giving to the flower a pleasing variety of colour ; and nivaticum, a 

 good wliite. Of Azaleas, vescocepliala is a good white ; pontica 

 transparens, a fine j'ellow ; punicea, beautiful orange ; pontica grandi- 

 flora, a fine large flowered variety ; p. imperialis, orange red ; p. con- 

 spicua, yelloAv, flowers large and fine ; and Ne Plus Ultra, orange red, 

 with yellow upper petals, a very profuse bloomer. These are a few 

 and only a very few of the many excellent varieties collected together 

 here ; and for a better selection we would at once refer all who are 

 within reach to inspect the collection itself, which we may add is now 

 in all its beauty. 



ON BLOOMING THE LARGE WHITE DATURA (BRUG- 

 MANSIA SUAVEOLENS) IN A VERY DWARF MANNER. 



By LUCY. 



By the following mode of culture, I grow the noble fragrant-flowered 

 Datura, as a very dwarf plant, and forward the particulars for insertion 

 in the Cabinet. Early in February, cuttings of the young wood, 

 about three inches long, having an eye in each, are taken and potted in 

 sixty-sized pots, placed in a hotbed frame of good temperature ; they 

 soon take root, which is easily ascertained by the roots protruding 

 through the holes at the bottom of the pot. When this is discovered 

 they are repotted into twenty-fours, using a compost of well-enriched 

 loamy soil, one-half being leaf mould and rotten dung. The plants 

 are kept in the frame for a few weeks, during which period they are 

 supplied freely with liquid manure water. When the pot is pretty 

 well filled M'ith routs, the plants are repotted into those three sizes 

 larger. At whatever height it is desired to have the plants, the top is 

 pinched off", and laterals are produced. When in the frame a good 

 moist heat is kept up by sprinkling and watering ; this is necessary to 

 prevent an attack of the red spider. Wlien the plants cannot be kept 

 longer, for height, in the frame, they are removed into the greenhouse 

 and repotted when requisite, freely supplied with liquid manure, and 

 syringed every evening with water, particularly at the under side cf the 

 foliage. The lateral shoots will produce a profusion of flowers at the 

 heiglit the lead was stopped, and continue in bloom for a long time. 



By the above simple process I have plants from two to three feet 

 high, having thirty or more fine flowers upon each ; and certainly 

 nothing can exceed their loveliness, and be more ornamental for the 

 greenhouse or conservatory throughout the summer. 



THE CULTURE OF POINSETTIA PULCHERRIMA. 



BY MR. THORNE, GARDENER, FAIRFORD PARK, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 



According to Loudon's " Ilortus Britannicus," this plant was intro- 

 duced into this country from Mexico in 1834; consequently it has 

 been an inhabitant of our stoves for more than ten years. It is not so 

 much cultivated as it deserves ; it ought to be in every collection. It 

 forms a valuable plant during the dull months of winter and early 

 spring, at which time tiie plant unfokls its scarlet-like leaves, form- 



