146 ON GROWING THE PINK. 



and May, arc re-i30tted, keeping the balls entire. I 2)Ut the plants 

 into pots of about nine inches diameter, using the same kind of soil 

 as before. After re-potting, the jilants are plunged into a bark pit, 

 or frame, having a brisk bottom heat. 



The jilants soon throw up very vigorous flower stems producing 

 spikes of flowers from three to four feet high, each spiko having 

 from eighteen to twenty four blossoms. After blooming, the plants 

 are kept for a supply of offsets the following spring. 



By having a considerable number of plants, and keeping some 

 in a cool situation, and introducing them into the frame or Pine 

 house, as circumstances recpiire; A succession of tliis very beau- 

 tiful flower may be had for several months, and its splendour will 

 amply repay for every attention to its cultivation. 



An Amateur Gardener. 



July 6th, 1833. 



ARTICLE II.— On growing the Pink. By Innovator. 



If you consider the following remarks upon growing the Pink 

 worth a jdace in your Magazine, they oi-e quite at your service. 



The beds, where convenient, should be raised to the height of a 

 foot, by boarding above the level of the paths, and four feet wide ; 

 in tlie bottom lay an inch thick of fresh lime, and upon it ram 

 down four inches of fresh horse droppings, and the remainder fill 

 up with the following compost, well mixed, and passed through a 

 coarse sieve. Take of good fresh substantial loam, 16 baiTOWS-fulI, 

 old hot bed 12 ditto, finely broken oil cake 4 ditto. Having filled 

 and made the bed perfectly level with the foregoing compost, put 

 in the plants in three rows, and fifteen inches distant every way ; 

 they should be planted as soon as they have struck, and here they 

 may remain without further care till the middle of Febmary, when 

 the bed ^vilI require a top dressing of finely sifted sandy earth. 

 This I prefer to any other, as dung, or such substances, by 

 their loose texture, only serve as a hiding place for earwigs, and j 

 however attentive yoit may be in destroying them, they will spoil 9 

 many blooms : neither is rotten dung necessary, as manured water 1 

 will answer better. I need not make any remarks upon tying j 

 them, &r., l)ut I should recommend that no plant be suflfercd to 



