98 ON THE CULTURE OF EUTTERWORT. 



saiuly loam and one half rich rotten clung, well incovporatocl, to 

 which I added a handful of salt. In ten days, when the bed had 

 settled, I planted the bulbs five inches deep. About the beginning 

 of December I top-dressed with a coating of three inches thick of 

 good strong dung. The result of this method more than answered 

 my expectations. The bulbs were left in the earth, and this year 

 they have been proportionably fine. I was led to adopt this mode 

 of treatment by the success which attended a single experiment. 

 I planted a wasted old bulb, of a double white variety, about five 

 inches deej) in common garden soil ; in the following Spring it 

 threw out four bells. I - left it in the ground during the winter, 

 merely laying some dung over it for protection from frost ; in the 

 second Spring it threw out 14 fine bells. I consider that the 

 bulbs should not be removed oftener than once in four years. A 

 friend of mine has this year some very fine bloom from bulbs 

 which he has had 15 years, and which are equal to most of the 

 best bulbs imported ; but in two or three instances they surpass 

 any I ever beheld. I am decidedly of opinion, and experience 

 bears me out, that bulbous flowei's which are recpiired to bloorii 

 well, should never be allowed to perfect their seed, but as soon as 

 possible after the flower decays it should be nipped off close to the 

 stem, but no part of the stem itself. 



Chelsea, May 3, 1833. Snowdrop. 



ARTICLE II. — On the Culiure of Buttcnvort and other 

 Bog Plants. By Mr. O. Jewitt. 



I am induced, from your having inserted a figure of the Pin- 

 guicula vulgaris in your last number, to send you a few observa- 

 tions on its cultivation, as well as that of several other bog-plants' 

 which are found in the same localities, and hope they may be 

 found interesting to some of your botanical readers. 



I have grown these plants two or three j-ears, and the place I 

 would reconnnend is the following : — Procure a stone trough of 

 any convenient size, but not less than five or six inches deej) ; 

 there should be a tap or something of the kind in one comer, for 

 letting ofl' the water if necessary. Fill the trough for about three 

 inches in df])th with broken stones, &e. so as to let the water 



