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Marcli, they are cavcrully taken out and re potted in fresli mould, &c, viz, 

 one part turf loam, two parts leaf soil, one part sand. The pots 1 use for the 

 fn-st are only a little larger than the bulb, coveiing each about an inch deep. 

 Having potted them, I place them in the Stove, avoiding the hot flue, till I 

 see the roots have bepua to strike. I then plunge the pots up to the rim in a 

 bark bed; they soon push shoots and grow very vigorously. I train the 

 plants to a trelles fixed upon the back of the bark pit wall, as soon as I judge 

 that the pots arc lilled with roots. I re-pot the plants into larger pots, using 

 the same kind of compost, with a tolerable addition of well rotted manure 

 mixed with it. The plants afterwards require a free supply of water. I 

 always use water which is about the temperature of the house ; this is obtained 

 by placing some upon the warm flue. The fine splendid orange-coloured 

 blossoms, with the very singular mo4e of growing, give the plant a most im- 

 ])osing a])pearance. 



Should Priscili-a adopt the same mode of treatment as I do, I am confi- 

 dent his wishes in this respect will be obtained. 



May 24, 1833. J. Bradley. 



I hope yon will pause before you fill three supplementary numbers with 

 accounts of Floricultural and Horticultural Meetings ; however, if the accounts 

 are confined to the supplements, those who do not wish for lists of names of 

 successful candidates and flowers, need not buy them. You could, in half a 

 page of your regular number, advert to such new flowers as may have made 

 their appearance, and extract such information as may be valuable. One of 

 your contempoiaries has often a sheet or more of these meetings which might 

 be as well omitted. 



9lh May. C. M. W. 



I am much pleased with your publication, which I have commenced taking, 

 and shall continue so to do, if I find that Snov^duop's hint in your second 

 number, " that all the promises in the Prospectus will be kept," is properly 

 attended to. I should, however, hope, that his after recommendation " not to 

 give any plans of Greenhouses, &c." will meet with less attention. We are, I 

 think in general, very deficient in cheap and well arranged edifices for the 

 protection of flowers, and I should much like to see a few good plans occa- 

 sionally appear in your publication, which may be done without " overwhelm- 

 ing us." Your correspondent T. 13. must forgive my stating, that his receipt 

 for the destruction of \^'oodlice is not effective ; I tried it last year in two 

 frames, without at all diminishing the numbers. A couple of toads placed in 

 another frame, similarly situated, thinned them very fierceptibly. My Dahlias 

 are planted in beds by themselves; — will any of your correspondents have 

 the kindness to inform me what flowers (except Crocuses and 'J'ulips) I could 

 previously put in these beds, so as to get them off in time to plant my Dahlias ; 

 and I am sure it would be gratifying to many of your readers, if you would 

 give directions, so to arrange a garden laid out according to the present 

 fashion, in beds, as to have a constant succession of flowers in blossom — [ 

 mean all the details. C. A. 



QcERV. — I am a novice in the art of Gardtning, and have several friends 

 around me who are so likewise, but yet highly desirous of attaining to some 

 degree of skill in it. In Floricultural works, I find frequent directions as to 

 the soils most suited to the growth of particular plauts, but am quite at a loss 

 to understand what sandy loam, loam, sandy peat, &.c. imply. Do pray 

 enlighten your subscribers on this subject in one of the early numbers of your 

 FloricnUvrid Cuhinet. Any instructions as to the preparation of diflerent 

 sorts of soils, will also be highly useful to your country readers. Practical 

 hints as lo the best mode and times of mixing soils would be much appre- 

 ciated. We should also be glad to know how to detect the various kinds. I 

 have never been able, with .all my efl'orls, to produce a fine compact (yet not 

 hard and clogged) soil, such as that which I get with flowers in pots from 



