ON THE TREATMENT OF THE CRASSULA COCCINEA, &:C. 129 



the same have been a stimulus to their purchasing many plants. T 

 frequently find both Ladies and Gentlemen pai-ticuliu-ly attached 

 to Floriculture, and who have not the means of employing a prac- 

 tical gai-dener, have many plants perishing for want of proper 

 treatment ; this is certainly a great damp upon tlieir future suc- 

 cess, but this disappointment will in a great measure be obviated 

 through the usefulness of the Florist's Magazinei Being a great 

 admirer of the Crassula coccinea and Crassula versicolor, and often 

 meeting with plants totally destitute of bloom, induces me to send 

 tliis paper for your insertion, which I hope will prove of some 

 benefit to those persons who are growers of these plants. 



In propagating these plants, I take off cuttings in March. I 

 find it very essential to dry them a little previous to planting, 

 OS being succulent the)'- are apt to damp off; each is cut off close 

 under a joint, and about five inches in length. The jJots I use are 

 32's ; I place at the bottom of each pot about two inches deep of 

 potsherd, broken small ; upon these one inch deep of mould, then 

 two inches of white sand, in which the cuttings are inserted ) six 

 or eight may be planted in one pot ; the pot is filled up with 

 mould, which is pressed close round each cutting. The pots 

 are plunged into a hot-bed frame at from 70 to 80, which 

 fioon causes the cuttings to strike root ; I give no water until the 

 cuttings begin to grow, when a little is given with caution. As 

 soon as they have got well rooted, I pot them ofl'into 48 sized pots, 

 one in each pot. The comjjost I use is of equal quantity of rich 

 loam and peat earth, with one-sixth part added of lime rubbish, 

 broken fine, I have repeatedly used vai'ious other composts, but 

 always found the plants to succeed the best in the above. I re- 

 plunge the pots into the frame, and admit at all times as much air 

 and water as the season will admit of. Should any of the cuttings 

 not throw out more than one shoot, the end is pinched oil", 

 which will cause the emission of a number of shoots for blooming 

 the following year. The plants are kept in a humid temperature 

 until October, when a little water and heat will be required until 

 IVIarrh following, when as many plants as are intended to bloom 

 curly are plunged into a brisk heat, either in a hot-bed frame 

 or pine )iit, which soon causes the i)rodnctiou of a inimber of 

 corymbs of blooms ; as soon as these appear, the plants are re- 

 potted into 32 sized pots, with their balls as entire a.s possible ; 



