8 ON THE CULTURE OF AZALEA. 



If the summer be drouglity, I attend well to waleiiiig at the fools, 

 aud as I Lave abundance of manure water which drains from the farm- 

 yard, J occasionally give them copiously of that. 



In the autumn I cover the roots with old tanner's bark, or a mulchy 

 sort of manure, to the depth of six inches, covering the latter with a 

 little soil. 



During winter, if it happens to be severe, some of the plants suffer. 

 In the spring such require pruning, some cutting off to about four 

 inches from the ground, and the baik or other covering is taken away 

 and some well rotted hotbed dung just pointed in, or spread over the 

 roots, and bid by a slight covering of soil. Those plants that have not 

 received much injury only require their side shoots cutting off to about 

 two inches from the main stem. Trained up, and treated in other res- 

 pects as above described, the plants have a most beautiful effect. I 

 have some plants in sheltered warm situations which have grown seven, 

 and others eight feet high in one season ; during the last they were 

 almost a complete mass of flowers, and nothing could exceed their 

 pleasing appearance. 



The following sorts are what I have cultivated in the above manner ; 

 Fu'cHsiA, gra'cilis, Tene'lla, virga'ta, co'nica, cocci'nea, THYMt- 

 fo'lia, and microphy'lla. 



Near Leeds, Feb. 2d, 1833. S. I. 



ARTICLE lY. — On the Cultivation of Azalea i'ndica 

 and varieties, purpurea ple'na, ledifdlia phoeni'cea, 

 and hijhrida. By Mr. John Menzies, Gardener to 

 Christopher Rawson, Esq., HojDe House, near Halifax. 



, The Aza'Iea i'ndica was introduced from China in 1808, and admitted 

 with the above varieties by many persons, to be the finest plant in cul- 

 tivation. The means necessary to be used in order that they may be 

 made to flourish and flower in succession from September to March, ap- 

 pears to be but little known. Should you consider the following treat- 

 ment deserving a place in your " Floricultural Cabinet," it is at your 

 service. 



In September, the plants beisg potted, I take one of each kind into a 

 plant house, the temperature of which, at night, is kept from 60 to 65 

 degrees of Fahrenheit, the plants being from eighteen inches to two feet 

 high. This is done in order to make the plants push young shoots. 

 Being properly attended to in watering, and syringed about twice a 

 week, they grow amazingly. About the middle of November I take a 



