8 OS BLOOMING DOUBLE STOCKS INFOTS. 



rounded garden-trowel, which I do without in the least disturbing 

 the root, taking up each with a good ball of earth attached. I 

 place one strong-looking plant in the centre of a 48-sized pot, 

 filling up the pot with a compost similar to that above described ; 

 or I place three plants triangularly in a 3G or 24 -sized pot, and 

 settle the plants moderately firm. I then place them in a shady 

 situation until well re-established. 



From this transplanting I keep the pots supplied with a regular 

 moisture, preferring evening watering, which revives the plants 

 after the exhaustion occasioned by the effect of the sun. They 

 succeed best when the season is moderately rainy. If the plants 

 are at any time suffered to droop for want of moisture, they will 

 never succeed, and the hopes of the cultivator will be blighted. 



By the foregoing method, which I have adopted with the utmost 

 success for several seasons, I have bloomed the scarlet and white 

 varieties in pots, in a degree of perfection and beauty which I 

 really have not been in the habit of observing elsewhere, and 

 which I feel confident can never be acquired by the simple methods 

 resorted to by persons generally, without the assistance of the 

 greenhouse ; and the Stocks which are sent out for sale in bloom 

 early in the season, having just emerged from the tender care and 

 skill of the most eminent nurserymen in the suburbs of Loudon, 

 will be sure to contain many single flowers ; and when purchased, 

 and their situation consecpiently changed, they are doomed but to 

 a transient existence. 



I have transplanted many hundreds in this manner, and have 

 rarely or ever had one die ; they seldom flag at all perceptibly, 

 and even then but for a few hours only. As such, I respectfully 

 beg to recommend the adoption of the plan, of course at the same 

 time strongly urging the necessity of a similar care and attention 

 to what I have here described. 



I have had them in bloom in May, and with their lateral shoots 

 throughout the summer. W. J. P. 



New Nor Ik Road. 



