THE 



FLORTCULTURAL CABINET, 



SEPTEMBER 1st, 183-5. 



PART I. 



ORIGINAL COiniUN'ICATIO N S. 



ARTICLE I.— On the Cultivation of Erythrohena con- 

 spicua. By B. 



I am induced to reply to your correspondent S. A. H., Vicarage, 

 near Arundel, Sussex, respecting the Erythrolcena conspicua, 

 taring succeeded in the cultivation of it, and I may say, I feel a 

 pride in being able to add my humble mite to your very valuable 

 work, from having derived from it a taste for Floriculture, which 

 ia a great source of enjoyment and recreation in the neighbourhood 

 of the large commercial town near which I dwell. 



I saved seeds of Erythrolopna conspicua last year from plants 

 grown in my own garden : it qercr flowers, I believe, before the 

 second year, but the above plants did not flower before the third 

 year from the seeds being sown late in the first year ; they were 

 kept under glass the first winter in the pots in which they were 

 sown, and the second winter they were exposed to rather severe 

 frost in the open border, which very likely hardened them and 

 prepared them for a move vigorous start the succeeding season; 

 (bey grew to the size of six or eight feet, and were covered with 

 Sowers. As it does not flower before the second year, it will be 



D that it is necessary, in order to keep up the succession, t.» 



every year. One flower produces a great number of seeds 



and consequently, the crop is very great from one plant. I 



i mine in September last, and kept them in a dry place. 



lii'-v were sown in pod in March last, in mould, competed of 



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