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7. Heroine, double yellow. 8. Boquet d'Orange, double vellow. 

 9. Passetout, double yellow. 10. Sultan Achmet, double white. 

 II. Grand Sultan, double blue. 12. Anna Maria, double white. 

 13. Dido, double red. 



Narcissuses. — 1. Grand Primo, white. 2. Grand Monarque, 

 white. 3. Double Roman, white. 4. Soliel d'Or, yellow. 5. 

 Bazelman Major, white. 6. Bazelrnan Minor, white. 7. States 

 General, white. 8. Juno, yellow. 



Tulips. — 1. Due van Thol. 2. Florentine. 3. Marriage de 

 ma Fille. 4. Perfecta Parrot. Persian Irises, Jonquils and Cro- 

 cuses of every colour, single and double. 



Mr. Denton's other requests shall be answered next month, 

 and any other he chooses to propose. 



F. F. Ashford 



Somerford Booths, January 7 th, 1834. 



ARTICLE V. — On the Cultivation of Gloxinia speciosa, 

 G. caulescens, and G. maculata. By Mr. W. 



MOUNTFOED. 



The Gloxinias are plants that possess considerable beauty, and 

 are particularly deserving of cultivation. The following is my 

 practice. Some time during the summer, I take a quantity of 

 leaves from each sort I wish to propagate, cutting them close off 

 at the surface from the parent plant. I then prepare a quantity 

 of pots, sixties, with a compost of loam, leaf mould, and peat soil, 

 in equal parts, adding as much fine sand as will keep it perfectly 

 open. I then insert a cutting (a leaf) jn each pot, half an 

 inch deep, pressing the soil pretty firm. After the whole 

 is finished, I give a gentle watering from a fine syringe, and 

 place them in a hot-bed frame, if I have one at work, or a stove, 

 which is nearly as well. Water must now be given with great 

 caution, for too much moisture would cause them to rot. I let 

 than remain in the same pots, after the bulb is formed, until the 

 period arrives for rest, which is easily known by the leaf gradually 

 dyin^' away. I then remove them to a dry cool place, taking care 

 tli.it iliev do not get much moisture during the winter. In the 

 fetter end of February, or beginning of March, I take all the pots 

 of roots, and carefully shake all the mould from them, and then 

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