130 ON THE CULTIVATION 0¥ THE GENTIANA ACADLIS. 



I give a little water, and re-ijlunge them into the bed ; when the 

 blossoms are beginning to expand, the plants are removed into 

 the Greenhouse, and by being kept from the hot scorching sun, 

 they keep in bloom for several weeks. By removing a quantity 

 of plants every three or four weeks from the cool frame into the 

 the hot-bed or pine pit, I have been enabled to have fine blooming 

 plants from May to October following. Those plants which have 

 flowered in March following, may be turned out of their pots, 

 and the balls partly reduced, when they may be re-potted and 

 managed in every respect as before stated for blooming plants. 

 Plants raised from cuttings when from one to three years old, are 

 by far the best for blooming, and are far preferable to old plants 

 being cut down. I have for several years flowered from one to 

 two hundred of these plants every season, specimens of which 

 have been exhibited at different Floricultural meetings. In June, 

 1831, I turned out 36 large plants into a bed in the flower garden, 

 which was one complete mass of bloom for several weeks. 

 Doivnham, June 6, 1833. George Harrison. 



ARTICLE VI. — On the Cultivation of the Gentiana 

 acaulis, or Gentianella. By Mr. J. C. Hall, Jun. 

 of Wiseton. 



In your number of last June api^ears a query by " A Constant 

 Reader," requesthig to be informed how to cultivate the Gentia- 

 nella. As I have cultivated it with very great success, and as we 

 have not a flower bed scarcely in our garden that has not a border 

 of them, I think it will not be presumptuous on my part to lay 

 before you the method I adopt m their cultivation, and if you 

 deem my remarks worthy of a place in your Floricultural Cabinet, 

 you wotild much oblige me by inserting them in your next num- 

 ber. Having obtained a root of the Gentianella, I di\ide it into 

 as many plants as I can, (this I do in Autumn,) and plant them 

 round our flower beds so as to form a border. When those plants 

 get larger, I divide them again. They flourish with us in almost 

 any soil, but prefer peat. I divide the roots at all seasons, (per- 

 haps Autumn is the best,) and find that they require not the least 



