J 72 ON THE CULTIVATION OF CAMPANULA PYRAMIDALIS. 



vanced, the water it received was gradually increased. It ulti- 

 mately produced eight beautiful ilowers. — By similarly treating it 

 last year, this plant now promises, by its appearance, to expand, 

 within the space of a week or ten days, eleven buds, which stand 

 prominently forward ; while the fellow plant remains as heretofore, 

 a barren specimen of the species. 



These few lines are, I must beg to say, particularly addressed 

 to those who, like myself, are amateur gardeners, and derive a 

 pleasure from the occupation, equally salutary to the mind as the 

 body, — and not to professors of the art, who may, by their closely 

 wrapt and well preserved knowledge, deem the foregoing words an 

 " essay of ignorance." 



I sincerely thank Messrs. Ashford and Appleby, for so kindly 

 elucidating the points I requested, and you lor so ably conducting 

 a work so congeuial to my taste. 



J. Bailey Denton. 



Barkway, Herts, May \Qth, 1834. 







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ARTICLE III. — On the Cultivation of Campanula 

 pyramidalls. By Mr. Laddy, Walworth. 



Seeing an account in your Cabinet on the cultivation of Cam- 

 panula pyramidalis, which advises slips to be taken off in the month 

 of April, and having cultivated those plants for several years by a 

 far different method, I thought I would trouble you with a few 

 remarks on the method I pursue. As soon as the plants have done 

 blooming, I immediately turn them out of their pots; the root I 

 then break into as many pieces as 1 want plants; I then put live 

 or six of the pieces into a 4b>-sized pot, which I about half till with 

 mould, then put in the pieces, and afterwards fill the pot with the 

 mould. If I have the convenience of a frame or hand-light, after 

 watering, I place it over them. In the spring, (about March,) I 

 pot them singly, and so let them remain during the summer in any 

 cool part of the garden, where they grow vigorously. On the fol- 

 lowing spring, I pot them into 24-sized pots. When I have (In- 

 convenience of a light in a frame, or spare room in a greenhouse. 

 1 place them there till they have done blooming. Last season I 

 cut a white one up this way, and I now have thirty-six strong, 



