THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



JULY 1st, 1834. 



PART I. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



ARTICLE I. — On the Culture of the Ranunculus. By 

 Innovator. 



As you have already given your readers two Articles on the 

 cultivation of the Ranunculus, perhaps you may consider any 

 more superfluous ; but as my mode of treating this beautiful 

 flower is so widely different from what is generally practised, I 

 send it you, leaving it to your judgment whether you will give it 

 a place in your valuable Magazine. I can assure you it is supe- 

 rior to any other plan I have seen tried ; and the next to it is that 

 of Mr. Carr. 



I prepare my bed, which is three feet wide, in October ; but 

 any time between this and the day of planting will answer. I 

 remove all the natural soil to the depth of a foot. Having pro- 

 cured a sufficient quantity of fresh-cut flag from a heavy-land 

 pasture, three inches thick and twelve wide, I place it in the tench 

 a» even as possible, with the grass side down, taking care to fill up 

 firmly all the seams with mould. It will take lour layers of flag 

 to fill the tench. When full, I tread it down as even as possible, 

 and let it lay till the time of planting, about the middle of Febru- 

 ary ; when I lightly rake over the surface, and place my roots 

 upon it in six rows ; these I cover with a little white sand, and 

 then cover the whole an inch dee)) with line rich heavy loam. If 

 severe host or heavy rains set in before they are well up, I cover 

 tbero with straw mats. When they are throwing up their flower 



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