S4 ON THE CULTURE OF CALCEOLARIAS AS GREENHOUSE PLANTS. 



in December. Several eminent floriculturists came from town to 

 see the plants when in bloom, and they declared that they had not 

 seen such a sight before, nor was there any thing likely to compete 

 against the display of bloom and plants, in the neighbourhood of 

 London. Early in May, a quantity of plants are plunged out in 

 the open border, where they are fully exposed to the sun, and 

 plentifully supplied with liquid manure, so as to get the shoots 

 strong by the middle of September ; the greater part of the shoots 

 will have by that time shown flower-buds ; these shoots are bent 

 down, and laid into pots called " small forty-eights" ; they very 

 soon begin to emit a number of roots at the part laid in the pot. 

 As soon as the roots have got a little established, the plants are 

 disengaged from the parent; afterwards they are tied up and 

 watered, and removed into frames or pits, where they are plenti- 

 fully supplied with air and water, so as to enable the plants to 

 perfect their flowering. The plants will soon establish themselves, 

 and begin to expand their bloom, when they are removed into the 

 greenhouse. 



Plants raised in this manner are from a foot to eighteen inches 

 high, and clothed with foliage from the pot up to the flowers- 

 Should more than six buds be formed on each plant, they are taken 

 off; consequently, those remaining attain to a larger size, and a 

 superior shape and colour, than plants flowered in the ordinary 

 manner. 



The compost I use is a rich yellow loam, with a little peat and 

 sand added. 



George Harrison. 



Downham Nursery, Feb. \&th, 1834. 



ARTICLE V. — On the Culture of Calceolarias as Green- 

 house Plants. By Mr. John Menzies, Gardener 

 to Christ. Rawson, Esq., Hope House, Halifax. 



The numerous species and varieties of the above beautiful tribe 

 of plants, with their singularly shaped corollas, almost of every 

 colour, render them superior to any other for the decoration of 

 the greenhouse during the summer months. In winter, the Cal- 

 ceolarias are of course in j ots, according to the size of the plants', 



