ON THE CULTURE OF CALCEOLARIAS. 173 



allow of the soil being crumbled between the fingers without stick- 

 ing to them. 



One very material thing with reference to keeping the soil in a 

 pot in a regular state of moisture throughout, is to take care the 

 hole at the bottom of the pot is large enough. I always enlarge 

 it in every pot to about double the size it is made by the potter > 

 this is easily done by striking the bottom of the pot with the edge 

 of the potting trowel. B. M. 



Pentonvillcj May, 1835. 



ARTICLE II. — On the Culture of Calceolarias. By 

 Mr. Appleby, late Gardener to Sir RobeTvT Frank- 

 land, Bart., Thirkleby Park, near Thirsk. 



Having been requested by some of the readers of your interesting 

 ami pleasing miscellany, the Floricultural Cabinet, to write a few 

 bints on tbe cultivation of that beautiful and singularly interesting 

 liunily of plants, Calceolarias, and having now, in consequence of 

 being out of a situation, a considerable portion of unemployed 

 time, I propose giving you a few papers on the management o* 

 some of the most popular genera of plants, cultivated as both 

 greenhouse and flower garden plants, such as Calceolarias, Gera- 

 raniuins, Fuchsias, &c. Not that I conceive I am able to instruct 

 the experienced Gardener or Floriculturist, but I trust the obser- 

 vations made during a life enthusiastically devoted to the study 

 and improvement of that profession to which I belong, (and in 

 which I wish to be again fully employed in all its branches,) will 

 be received with candour, and will be found Uaeftil o the amateure 

 and young gardener. 



In the culture of Calceolarias, I would beg attention to the 

 following heads : — 



I'uopagation. Winter Management. 



*'»il. Summer Management. 



Propagation. — These plants naturally divide into two cla 

 Hi rbac< mi- perennials, and woody undershrabs ; the former class 

 hi' lily by division and seeds, and the latter by cuttings, 



and lomettmi dso. 



The HtlbtMOUl ipoCMI and varieties should be placed early iu 



