ON THB TKiJATMKNT 01 NICOTIANA LONGIILOIU. 527 



tliey should bo transplanted into pots, and repotted as they rofpiire 

 it during the year. The spring following they should be put into 

 pots sufliciently large to give full scope to their roots, when they 

 will be iu flower about July. , 



The suckers should be taken otF every autumn ; for, if this is 

 neglected, the plant will very likely be lost, as the stem will die 

 down and rot ; thereby weakening, if not destroying, the gi'owing 

 plants. 



Willi the little trouble in culture above described, these plants 



will be one of the greatest ornaments in the flower garden. I 



have them frequently four feet high. 



Ax Ardent Amateur. 



Sloke, near Bristol, Kov. \st, 1833. 



[Note. — The requests of our Correspoudeut at the close of the article sent, 

 will meet with our atteutiou — Conductou.] 



ARTICLE VI. — On the Treatment of Nicotiana longi- 

 Jlora, long Jlowered Tobacco. By Amicus Fjdo. 



In August, 1832, seeds of the Nicotiana longiflora were given 

 me by a friend ; they were the produce of the same season. With 

 the seeds, I received a description of the plant and flower. It 

 was described to me as a very handsome flowering plant, meriting 

 a situation in any flower garden. Immediately on getting the 

 seeds, I sowed one half in a pot of light rich finely-sifted soil, just 

 covered the seeds, and placed the pots in a hotbed frame. When 

 the plants were strong enough to transplant, I potted them off" 

 into 60-sized pots, using a rich soil ; I then placed them in the 

 greenhouse, and kept tliem there till spring. The first week in 

 May I tunied out six plants into the open border, under a south 

 aspected wall ; the soil of the border is annually enriched during 

 winter or spring with leaf mould and well rotted cow dung. The 

 ])lants soon took the advanUigc of the new situation, and by the 

 end of .July each was four feet high, and sjjrcad proportionably, 

 producing hundreds of ])ure white blossoms at the san.e time 

 They are slightly fragrant ; when the sun is powerful the blossoms 

 close up for almost three hours, about the middle of the day; but, 

 during the other pari, arc fidly expanded; and towards evening the 

 I'lanl has a most licautiful ;i|)pi'arancc. 



