ON THE PROPAGATION AND CULTIVATION OP PLANTS. 22-5 



Hor.r, (Supplement, p. 33) will, I hope, be useful ; knowing, as 

 I do from experience, that they are quite correct. 



Snowdrop. 

 " In the sale of dry bulbs, winch frequently take place by pub- 

 lie auction, there is always great risk and uncertainty in buying; 

 and let the deception practised be ever so barefaced and roguish, 

 there is no redress bv law ; for the auctioneer makes it one of the 

 conditions of sale, • that they are to be paid for, and taken away 

 immediately after, with all faults and errors of description,' so that 

 neither he nor his employers are responsible. I have been de- 

 ceived, or, more properly speaking, I have been cheated alike in 

 Hyacinths, Tulips, Ranunculuses, Dahlias, and Carnations. If, 

 unawares, you attend a mock auction, and Feel inclined to purchase 

 any articles of furniture, you trust to your eye-sight and judgment ; 

 but, in the sale of flower roots, you have nothing to guide you — 

 nothing to Iru^t to, but the supposed good faith and probity of the 

 render: if they are found to be correct when they (lower, it is all 

 very well ; and if they are not so, it is useless to complain, because 

 there is no remedy. The idea of buying cheap, I suppose, is the 

 inducement with many ; but what is the use of buying cheap, 

 n arc dissatisfied with your bargain afterwards. Very few 

 yonng florists are able to detect impositions of this sort; therefore 

 the complaint is not so loud and general as it otherwise would be : 

 and when they arc detected, many are ashamed to confess that 

 the) have been duped and taken in. Mv observations here apply 

 more particularly to the dry bulbs of Tulips and Ranunculuses." 



ARTICLE VII.— On the Propagation and Cultivation 

 of Plants. No. If. By Mr. F. P. Anhford, Gav- 

 'l-ii.'i to II. Maim in, Esq., Colston Hall, Bingham, 



Notts. 



(knitted in No. I. — Burtonia, so named by Robert Brown, in 

 « Of l>r. Hi -itT.iN, a collector of plants for K'cw hardens. 



Genera 6. Cyclopia. C. lo, or. 1, gp. 3. This is a yerj 

 Brett) '•■ hii . raised by cuttings thai are ver) young, being placed 

 '"' I 1 '' "'I under a bell-glass, which ""'<" occasionally be 



"'l*' - ' 1 - •" •'•• the cuttings will be liable to damp off. An equal 



Vot. II. 2 a 



