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are. I trast some of your correspondents will attend to the hint of the old 

 grower iibovemeiUioned, and st;ite if they believe such to be the case, and 

 make it known through your pagey, with the treatmeut and culture the Tulip 

 require. Tulipa. 



Query. — You would particularly oblige one of your readers it you would 

 communicate any information concerning the cultivation of that beautiful 

 plant the " d'euliana acaulis," or " (jentianclla." as owing either to some 

 peculiarity of soil, or treatment, it neveryet has flowered in profusion with your 



Constant Reader. 

 QtJERY. — Can yon, or any of your readers or correspondents, inform me of 

 whom 1 can obtain the best varieties of Auriculas, and at a moderate cost. 



Pail Prv. 

 Before I proceed to my subject, allow me to premise that I am not vain 

 enough to sup))ose I can instruct men whose business it is to cultivate tho 

 vegetable kingdom, and who have all the necessary apparatus at hand to 

 assist them in jiropagatiou, forcing, &c. ; my view is simply to communicate, 

 through your pages, to such of your readers who, like myself, are obliged to 

 resort to many contrivances to supply their deficiency in such respects, the 

 result of my practiee and observation. I now beg to observe to your corres- 

 pondent Daifodil, that my reason for recommending stock plants to have a 

 portion of the tubers of last year's formation attached, was to avoid the 

 contingency he mentious, being fully aware that plants raised by cuttings are 

 by no means uufrequently blind, a circumstance which has never occurred to 

 me with plants of the former description. He misunderstood me when he 

 supposed that I recommended cutting the Dahlia shoot in two. As the 

 suffering them to grow sufficiently large for tliat purpose would only retard 

 the backward eyes in growth, and much time would be lost, I merely stated 

 the circumstance to prove that they rojted sooner when the fibres were slightly 

 hardened, against a common opinion th.at they cannot be taken too young. 

 The truth is, I have pursuits infinitely more important to me than Floricul- 

 ture, and the shoots frequeutly overgrow me, iu which case I resort to dividing 

 them. Take them off by all means when three joints at most have attained 

 any length, as near the crown as possible, (near which several joints are always 

 crowded together as it were in one knot,) avoiding cutting so low as to injure 

 the numerous eyes, which, if propagation be the object, must defeat it. ]\Iy 

 practice is to cut as long as the shoots rise freely, and when the parent roots 

 shew signs of exhaustion, to divide, taking care to preserve a portion of newly 

 formed fibre to each if possible ; putting them into small pots, at least 60's or 

 48's, for the convenience of winter stowage, in a compost three parts of which 

 is rotten dung, which I consider necessary for potted plants, being careful to 

 cover the old crown well, otherwise they become so callous by exposure, that 

 the eyes do not appear to have strength to burst the wrinkled bark, or cuticle, 

 the following spring. ^'ERTUMNDS. 



London, May Ctlh, 1833. 



P.S. — When the cuttings have a pair of leax'es at the extremity, I do not 

 dress them off; as no benefit arises from such a practice, and as they essen- 

 tially serve to protect the buds at their insertion. 



MONTHLY FLOraCULTURAL CALENDAR. 



Annuals, see pages 43, 72. 



Auriculas may now be potted in a compost of two parts of good loamy 

 soil, with river sand, one of peat soil and old ants' nests, and one of well-rotted 

 cow-dung, two years old, see page 47. 



Carnations should be top dressed, by removing an inch deep of the old 

 soil, and replacing it with some very rich, see page 53. 



Chrysanthemums (Indianl: Cuttings or oti'sets may now be struck in heat, 

 or otherwise under a hand glass, see pages 73, 74, and 81. 



Dahlias, see pages 3, 22, 06, 93. 



TuLirs, see page 24. 



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