ON THE CULTIVATION OF THE SOLANDHA GHANDllLORA. 83 



When the blossom expands in June, I then take the covering from 

 the Tulip bed, (the Ranunculus bed being of the same dimensions) 

 and cover them, so that I have an opportunity of viewing them 

 sheltered from the intense heat of the sun, which if suflered to 

 shine on them, would injure and destroy the colours, particularly 

 the fine purples and blacks. In about a month or six weeks after 

 the bloom is over, I take up my roots in a fine day, each sort in a 

 brown paper bag, with the corresponding number of the t<ally in 

 the border, and place them in a room where there is plenty of air 

 to drv gradually. After they are once thoroughly dry, they must 

 be kept so, as the least damp would mould them ; there they re- 

 main till next season, and are then planted in the same border 

 prepared exactly as described above, and I have never failed to 

 ha\e a good bloom. ]\Iany persons who grow Ranunculuses are 

 fond of i)Ianling in a fme light loam, but nothing is more injurious 

 to the roots, and especially if they aie planted late (say March ;) 

 the dry weather comes on them immediately, and they have no 

 time to strike deep in the soil, and if they had, it is too light to 

 hold them ; they love a rich, firm, and heavy soil ; and wherever 

 you see the Gilt Cup (Ranunculus ficaria, &c.) grow luxuriantly, 

 that soil is the fittest to mix with dung for the purpose of growing 

 them. Should these remarks, which have been the result of 20 

 years' experience, prove ncceptable to your respectable correspon- 

 dents, at some future time you may hear from mc on the culture 

 of Tulip, Carnation, and raising the Ranuculus from seed.* 

 Hilperlon, near TrowbriJife, Wills, \ James Milks. 



^pril 13, 1833. ) 



N.B. Please to hiform your correspondent, Mr. T. J. Risby, 

 that J. M. can supply him with Polyanthuses, Carnations, Ranun- 

 culuses, Pinks, and Tulips, by a letter addressed as above, all 

 under namc« 



• The jiromiscd communications frum Mr. Miles will be very acc»?ptable, 

 auU MTU bliall be much obliged by receiving them. 



ARTICLE III.— On the Cultivation of the Soldndra 

 (jrandijlora. liy W. K. 

 Having two Niuabcr-i of the FlorivuUural C'ohlncl put into my 



