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/jios in pols. — III May, when the leaves are dead, I turn all my bulbs out 

 of the pots ill which tliey have grown, and clean the bulbs. 1 then place 

 them in partitioned drawers until October. I then repot them, putting four 

 bulbs in each small pot ; I use 30's. The soil I use is a mixture of equal 

 parts of loam and peat. I place them in a cold frame until the foliage 

 appears; then remove them into the greenhouse. As the plants advance in 

 growth, and the roots appear through the bottoms of the pots, I remove them 

 into larger sized pots, repeating it if required until the blossoms appear. I 

 use liqHid manure water, at all times, to the plants. — Antholyzas, Watsonias, 

 Lacheualias, Sparaxises, and Tritouias, flourish under the same mode of cul 

 tivation. 



I observe, in page 68, a correspondent requests information about the cul- 

 ture o( Amaryllis Saniiensis (Guernsey Lilies), I beg to inform him of the 

 method I have successfully pursued with that plant. The blossoms of this 

 plant appearing late in autumn, and the foliage comiug under the disadvan- 

 tage of a declining sun, is the reason why the same bulb so seldom blooms 

 for successive seasons, in this country. Having tried the method recpm- 

 meiided by T. A. Knigut, Esq., President of the London Horticultural Soci- 

 ety, aud found it to answer well, I now send, for your correspondent Mr. 

 Price, an extract from the .Article published, of .Mr. Knight's mode of cul- 

 ture: — " Karly in the summer of I81G, a bulb which had blossomed in the 

 preceding autumn was subjected to such a degree of artificial heat, as occa- 

 sioned it to vegetate six weeks sooner than it otherwise would have done. It 

 did not, of course, produce any blossoms, but in the following season it flow- 

 ered early, and produced two offsets. These were potted in the spring of 

 1818, each pot cnutaining one eighth of a square foot of mould, and were fed 

 with manure water, and their period of vegetation again accelerated by arti- 

 ficial heat Their leaves turned yellow with maturity, early in the present 

 spring (1819). I entertained no doubt but that both the bulbs would aftbrd 

 blossoms, but I was very much gratified by the appearance of the blossoms iu 

 the first week of July." 1 have tried the above method, and found it to an- 

 swer every expectation; but at the same time I think the trouble is more cost 

 than the ]mrchase of fresh -imported bulbs would be. 



Iflartin Hall, August IGl/i, 1833. T. K. Short. 



We have made in(|uiry about a collection of Auriculas, and beg to inform 

 our correspondent Paui- Pry (|>age 96,) that a most select collection is grown 

 by Mr. JosEi'ii Waterhouse, Florist's Lodge, Lady's Walk, Slitflield, and 

 every sort in general cultivation can be obtained of him at a moderate cost, 

 and true to their kinds. We inserted a plate in our June Supplementary 

 Mumber, of a most splendid seedling named Waterhouse's Conqueror of 

 Europe. Our draftsman had only a slight opportunity of taking a drawing 

 of it, which Mr. Wateuuousb states does nut give the perfectness of the 

 flower. We saw the Jilaiit iu bloom at the Sheflield Horticultural exhibition, 

 and it is in our opinion very superior to every other .-iuricula we ever saw. 

 We have grown for a number of years 120 sorts, included in which was all 

 the best kiuds iu general cultivation, but none of ours was any thing like 

 equal to it Conductor. 



REMARKS. 



Carnations arc divided by Florists into the three following classes : — 



1. liizarres, or such as have two colours on a white ground. 



2. Flakes, or such as have one colour on a white ground. 



3. Picotees, have a white or yellow ground, spotted or pounced with scarlet, 

 red, purple, or other colours, aud are further distinguished by the serrated 

 margins of their {letils. 



'I'he following arc what Floristn call the good and requisite properties of a 

 Carnation : — 



1. The stem of the flower should be strong and .strnighl, not less than 30, 

 nor more than i't iiirlies high, and able to siip|M>rt the weight of the flower 

 u ithuiit hanging down, which lluwtr bhould ut least be three inches in diameter. 



2. The petalii '.diould be Jong, broad, .ind subslaiilial, partieulail) those of 



