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stowed on them, and the shed should be uncovered in fine weather, 

 and constantly covered in wet, otherwise the beauty of the flowers 

 would be much diminished. In hot weather also, they should be 

 screened from the heat of the sun, for this will hasten their decay. 

 With these precautions the flowers will exhibit their beauties for 

 near a month, after which they gradually decay. "When the 

 flowers are past, the pots should resume their former place, where 

 thev may stand all the winter, observing to cover them in great 

 rains or hard frosts ; and this management will be better than 

 placing them in the greenhouse, or under hotbed frames, which 

 always weakens the roots, and renders them less capable of flower- 

 ing strong. The operation must be repeated next year ; about the 

 beginning of July the top earth should be taken out of the pots, 

 and fresh compost put in its room. In October more flowers than 

 in the preceding year will probably appear ; and this work should 

 be repeated for about four years, when the roots must be entirely 

 taken up and divided, and planted again in fresh mould ; a parti- 

 cular spot should be assigned for the offsets, which need not be 

 planted in pots, but in bed* made of the same compost, at about 

 four inehea asunder. These offsets may be expected to flower in 

 about three years ; and by this time such plenty of flowering roots 

 will be obtained, that a general blow of these delightful flowers 

 mav be every year exhibited. — Southampton. 



ARTICLE V. — Directions for Raising the Eccremocar- 

 pus scaler from Seed. By Mr. F. F. Ashford. 



Observing that a Carmarthenshire reader, signed An Avowed 

 Admirer of Floka, (p. 21,) requests a little information respect- 

 ing raising plants of the Eccremocarpus scaber (Calempelis scaler 

 of modern authors), I am induced to oiler the following brief re- 

 marks on the subject. 



In the spring of 1834, seeds were placed under my care, saved 

 in tin years 1831 and 1833. I sowed them in shallow pans of 

 li^ht rich soil, covered about half an inch thick, and placed theni 

 in a working Cucumber frame in the month of April, watering 

 them Imt sparingly till thev vegetated, which was in about three 

 ■ from til- time of Bowing. The Beeds saved in 1833 came 

 up the best, not only as to number.-, but the plants were much 

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