THE 



F LOR [CULTURAL CABINET, 



NOVEMBER 1st, 1833. 



PART I. 

 ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



ARTICLE I. — On the Culture of the Gardenia Jlorida. 

 By Aristides. 



I have purchased and perused the different Numbers of your 

 Floriciillural Cabinet, and Florist's Mafjazine, with groat satisfac- 

 tion ; and if I have not received instructions from them, it is not 

 the fault of your correspondents, or yourself. But being anxious 

 to encourage your Magazine, as well as to assist in the diffusion 

 of infonnation, as far as my experience and ability will permit, 

 induces me to pen the following detail of my method of cultivating 

 those very fragrant exotics, the Gardenia florida and radicans, 

 which, on your reception, should you judge worthy a place in the 

 Cabinet, I shall feel highly flattered by its insertion therein. 



The compost I prefer is a mixture of the following ingredients : 

 two parts turfy peat, two ditto leaf mould, one ditto turfy loam, 

 and one ditto pit or river sand, free from oxide of iron — well 

 chopped and incorjjoratcd togctlicr before using, but not sifted. 



Proputjation. — About the end of March I take as many cuttings 

 of the young and half-ripened wood as I want young plants, at 

 from an inch to an inch and half long, and prepare them by dress- 

 ing off a few leaves at the bottom cml, and cutting a section close 

 under the lowermost joint, with a sharp knife. 1 then take a pot 

 of a size suitable to the <piantity of cuttings, and fill it to within 



tlircc inches of the top with broken jiots. Over these I place a thin 



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