ON THE TREATMENT OF A PLANT OF PASSIFLORA EDULIS. 27 



After tlie flowers have decayed, no water is given, but the roots arc' 

 allowed gradually to mature. When the foliage is nearly withered, I 

 take up the roots, retaining; a little soil to eaeh, this prevents them drying 

 too rapidly. I place them in a warm airy room till the soil adhering is 

 (luite dry. 1 then pick them clean, and separate the offsets from the 

 parent roots, and keep them in an open drawer, with rilibed bottom and 

 sides, Laving the drawer kcj>t wjicrc frost or damp cannot afTeet the 

 roots. C R. Carr. 



March 2nd, 1 833. 



ARTICLE II. — Observations upon the Treatment of a 

 Plant of Passijlora edidis, Sfc. with an Account of its 

 Produce ofFniil, S^c. By Mr. Sharman, Syston 

 Park, near Grantham. 



In April, 1830, I planted out a small seedling j'hmt of Passiflora 

 edidis in a border at the back wall of a plant stove. The border is two 

 feet six inches wide, and the same depth, and is continued the length of 

 the stove. The soil is equal parts of loam, leaf mould, and earth from 

 decayed vegetables, the refuse of the kitchen garden. The plaut grew 

 very rapidly, and produced seven hundred and eighty-four fine fruit the 

 first summer, the last fruit was gathered iu December. 1 then desisted 

 from giving the plant any water for about a month. After that time 

 I cut the shoots well in, and gave the plant a great supply of water, it 

 then made very vigourous shoots, which covered the back wall, both 

 ends of the stove, and nearly met along the fiont. It was also trained 

 under the glass .so as to cover the back wall, the shoots hanging pendant 

 for lour or five feet. It had a very singular and highly beautiful effect 

 when loaded with its fine brown fruit, the size of au egg. This af- 

 forded a supply for dessert for about five months. 



Being desirous of giving the plant a greater .space for its growth, and 

 thus afford us a longer succession of fruit, I therefore took a square out 

 of the partition, and trained a shoot into the greenhouse, which has now 

 nearly covered the back wall, and has there produced upwards ol three 

 hundred fruit, some of which are now quite ripe. Tlie plant has this 

 bcason produced more than one thousand fruit. It now covers a space 

 on the back wall of seventy feet long by fourteen I'cet high, in addition 

 to the ends of the ttove, &c., as before stated, and has thus extended 

 itself in less than three years. 



'I'o insure a good crop of fiuit, the first flowers which appear in April 

 thould be )i)i]>i( gnatcd. 'i'lie plant is jcmajkaMy clciin, never Jiaving 



