OBSERVATIONS ON WATERING I'LANTS IN POTS. 51 



I had between (wo and three hundred seedlings of the same year's 

 growth, the seed saved from equally good flowers, hut in the com- 

 mon way, and not one of them worth keeping ; this will at once 

 show the uncertainty of getting good flowers from the old sorts 

 without cross impregnation. The remarks apply, as far as getting 

 good seed, with equal force to the Auricula, By following this 

 plan, wc shall no longer hear of the impossibility of keeping them 

 healthy and flourishing in pots. 



Innovator, 



ARTICLE II. — A few Observations on the Proper Mode 

 of Wittering Plants in Pots. No. I. By B. M, 



I have been a constant reader of your little work from its com- 

 mencement, and if you think the following remarks, on that part 

 of the cultivation of flowers which I consider the most difficult 

 to young florists, viz., the proper mode of watering plants in 

 pots, worth your attention, they are, as the result of my observa- 

 tions as an Amateur, much at your service. 



In the first jilace, I would caution general cultivators against 

 the instructions of the florist from whom they purchase on this 

 point. Not that I mean that they intentionally mislead; but the 

 system of watering adopted (with respect to greenhouse plants,) 

 by those whose object is to force them for sale, and who have con- 

 sequently frames and houses heated for that purpose, is by no 

 means proper, when adopted by the Amateur, who has seldom 

 accommodations. 



In watering plants, they require to be treated according to the 

 following divisions : — 



1st. "Evergreens, and of these such as are succulent, as Pelar- 

 goniums, Geraniums, &c. Such as are ligneous, as Camellias, 

 fie. 



"2nd. Deciduous, as fuchsias, &c. 



3rd. Herbaceous, as Auriculas, Carnations, &c. 



Itli. liii/hous-roofed Plants. 



flth. Aquallcs. 



I sl,:ili first make ;i few observations which must he borne in 

 »>** ' '-' "' '•'' principles applicable to the suhject ; and then give 

 my ideas under the above divisions. 



