THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



APRIL 1st, 1833. 

 PART I. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



ARTICLE l.—On the Culiure of the Rammculm. By 

 Mr. C. R. Carr. 



Seeing by your lutrocliictory Remarks in No. I. of the Florist's Ma- 

 gazine, that it is your anxious wish to obtain and spread tlic knowledge 

 of any successful results in the culture and management of Flowers, I 

 herewith send you the details of my mode of treating that most lovely 

 plant, the Ranunculus asiaticus, or Garden Ranunculus, which I cul- 

 tivate to the extent of many thousand roots. The plan I here detail is 

 what I have practised for some years ; it has never failed of affording 

 me an exhibition of vigorous, fine headed flowers; and to view my beds 

 when blossoms are in perfection, displays in miniature the closeness and 

 evenness of a fine field of corn, with all the varied brilliancy of colours 

 which comprise my stock of thousands of flowers out at the same time. 



It is a widely circulated, and an old entertained opinion, that the 

 flowers will become exhausted in a few years, if planted in the same sort 

 of soil ; but I hesitate not to say, if treated as stated below, that they 

 will progressively improve. 



Tlie piece of ground I choose in which to plant my roots is nearly level ; 

 this I choose for the purpose ofrcceiving and retaining a regularity of mois- 

 ture which very sloping ground does not admit. The soil is from eighteen 

 inches to two feet deep, it is a strong loam upon a dry sub-soil. About 

 the middle of October I form my bed, making it about three feet broadi 

 when much wider it is dilficult to reach lo flowers near the middle of 

 the bed; having trenched it over, and levelled tlie surface, f take night 



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