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ia always in the centre of each division of the frame, as at {>,) which 

 keeps it very steady. By the ridge being formed of separate 

 pieces, the frame is much easier removed than if in one piece, and 

 is capable of being placed to beds of different lengths. The same 

 kind of sockets are affixed along my Ranunculus bed as well as 

 the Tulip bed. I have, therefore, no more trouble thim merely 

 taking off the ridge pieces, then each piece of the roof, and lastly 

 the uprights, which I insert into the sockets of the Ranunculus 

 bed. The removal and affixing does not occupy more than a 

 quarter of an hoiu'. If you judge the above descrijition of my 

 awning, &c. worthy a place in your Cabinet, I shall feel obliged 

 by its insertion. 



A well-wisher to j'our undertaking. W. B. P. 



Hull. 



ARTICLE Y.—On the Gulf are of the Tuberose. By Mr. 

 F. F. AsHFORD, Gardener. 



I herewith send you for insertion in the pages of the Floricul- 

 iural Cabinet, the following method of cultivating the Tuberose, 

 by which means I have succeeded in bringing this beautiful Exotic 

 to great perfection, and whicli will, after a fair trial, be found to 

 answer every expectation. For the infonnation of your juvenile 

 readers, I have added a short Botanical account of the plant, &c. 



Polianthes tuberosa, or common white Tuberose, is a native of 

 Italy and the East Indies, first imported into Great Britain in the 

 year 1829, and is now become a great traffic between Dutch and 

 English nurserymen. The generic name was given it by Lin- 

 naeus, taken from polys many, anthos a (lower, owing to the abun- 

 dance of blossoms it produces. The specific, by Wildenow, taken 

 from the root (Radix) being tuberous, that is, the root consisting 

 of fleshy bodies connected by slender fibres. It belongs to the 

 Gth class and 1st order. Hexandria (hex fi, ancr a man, or male 

 organ.) Monogynia (nionos 1 ; gyni, a woman, or female organ ) 

 of the Linncan classification, and to the order Hemerocallidca in 

 the Jussicucan, or luitural anangement of plants. Its continental 

 names aie La Tubcreuse, Fr. ; Die Tuberose, Ger. ; Tuberoos, 

 Dutch ; und Tuberos, Swedish. There are two :^])cties and one 



