

THE 



FLORTCULTURAL CABINET, 



DECEMBER 1st, 1834. 

 PART I. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



ARTICLE I.— On the Cultivation of Ten-week Stocks. 

 By A. E. 



Having cultivated, for my own amusement, with great success, 

 for several years past, the Ten-week Stock, (i. e. the scarlet, the 

 purple, and the white,) I am induced to inform you of the method 

 I pursue, in order to have a fine bloom of them in the spring. 

 The last wick in October, I remove the frame from a cucumber 

 bed, situated in a full south aspect, raking all the old mould from 

 the surface, until I come to the old dung. I then replace the 

 frame, and spread on the top of the dung about three inches thick 

 of good loamy soil, raking it even, on which I sow the seed pretty 

 thick (of course keeping each colour separate by a mark). I give 

 it a good sprinkling of water, and shut the lights down close until 

 the plants appear ; after which, I open the frame every day through 

 the winter, except in wet or frosty weather ; but from the time of 

 -owing until the middle of March, I never let them have a drop 

 of water ; in that particular, depends their flourishing through the 

 winter, for if they once get wet, they are sure to shank oil*. By 

 exposing then to the cold, I make them hardy, so that I can plant 

 them in the middle of March, which I always prefer doing when 

 the weather is dry ; and though at that season the wind is gene- 

 rally harsh and liusiy, I do not iind it affect the plants Ji\" 

 planting in dry weather, the plants get hold of the earth before the 

 worms can drag them out. 1 prefer planting cuch sort in a bed 

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