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vided the pans are properly drained, so that the water can pass 

 quickly away. 



During severe frost, I cover the pans with sheaves of clean dry 

 straw, but I allow the plants to have all the moisture of the winter 

 season, when the weather is mild. 



By pursuing the treatment as above described for a number of 

 years, this class of plants will be kept in health and vigour, and 

 will annually increase in size. I had this season one root of C. 

 pubescens, which produced fifteen flowering stems, and another 

 root of C Calceolus, with thirteen blossoms, — both of which have 

 been growii from very small plants. I have also been most suc- 

 cessful with C. spectabile. 



For a very suitable mode of treatment with the tender species 

 of Cypripediums, I refer you to your justly esteemed and respec- 

 table coiTcspondent, JNIr. IMexzies, who is much more conversant 

 with their Ueatment than I am. 



October 17th, 1833. Edward Leeds. 



[Note. — The cultivation of this singularly handsome genus of plants, in the 

 very successful manner which attends the practice of the above gentleman, 

 is to us a matter of much interest and value, and we hope it will be no 

 less so to many of our readers. We feel highly obliged by Mr. Leeds's 

 attention to our request, and thus enabling us to give iu our Magazine 

 the detailed practice of growing the plants with certainty and such signal 

 success, from year to year. We now appeal to the generous reference 

 which Mr. Leeds has directed us to, and we hope Mr, Menzies will 

 again oblige us. — Conductor.] 



ARTICLE II. — On the Treatment of Green Jiouse Plants 

 in Rooms. By Mr. JoHX Plant, Gardener to T. 

 Andkews Esq., Harpurhey, near Manchester. 



Being an aihnircr of the prevailing practice of cultivating Grccn- 

 hou.se plants in rooms, and having had numerous solicitations for 

 advice a.s to their management, I am induced to draw up the ac- 

 companying remarks, judging that they may be in some dcgi-ce 

 u.sef»l, to a portion at lca.st, of the readers of the Floricultural Ca- 

 binet. If llie hints are th(jught deserving a place therein, they are 

 at your service. 1 do not wish it to be understood that I think 

 plants can be gi-own a.s vigorous, or blossom an freely in rooms, Jis 

 those cidtivaU'd in well-constructed greenhouses, but I do not 



