224 ON TH5 TREATMENT Or TRIVBRANIA COCCINfiA. 



I am presumptuous enough to conclude, that I can bloom it in 

 such a state of perfection as cannot bo excelled. The following 

 particulars include my mode of treatment. 



After the plants have ceased blooming, wateiing of them is gra- 

 dually lessened until the tops die down ; the roots are tlien pre- 

 served in the same pots the plants have been grown in, in a state 

 of rest, until the beginning of February, at wliich time tJie pots 

 are earthed over with some fine-sifted soil, then watered freely 

 with the rose, and afterwards placed iu a hot-bed frame kept at 

 from 70 to 80 degrees of heat. When the shoots ore two inches 

 high, they are carefully raised up, and cut off within the surface of 

 the soil, and planted singly out into 60-sized pots. Afterwards 

 the plants will require I'epotting, which I always do when I per- 

 ceive the pots in which they are gi'owing is full of roots. The 

 last sized pots I use is twenty-fours, and when the plants are esta- 

 blished in these, they are removed tcr the conservatory to flower ; 

 and during the months of September and October, they make a 

 most splendid and imposing appearance. The soil I use is a 

 light rich loam, with one fourth part of peat earth well mixed witJi 

 it. The plants will require a free supply of water occasionally. 

 I give manure water, which invigorates the plants, and the blos- 

 soms are increased both in size and number. 



Sept. 23rd, 1833. Floraxegus. 



N.B. I had dravm up the above remarks before I received the 

 October Number of the Cabinet, in which Number I find the very 

 excellent article on the Triverania coccinea, by Mr. Applebt. 

 ISIy method, however, being different in some respects from his, 

 and in its practical results afforded me the highest satisfaction, as 

 well as other persons who have tried my mode of management, I 

 could not withhold transmitting it for insertion in the Cabinet, 

 hoping to contribute a Uttle to the gratification of the cultivators of 

 flowering plants. 



Oct. Itth, 1833. F. 



