502 General Notices. 



growing in an elevated situation, and in light loam —P. Butler, Woodstock, 



Sept. 21. Cryptomeria japonica appears to be a most valuable addition 



to our ornamental trees. I procured two plants of it in April, 1846, about 

 three inches high, but very weak. I repotted and kept them under glass, 

 until the 15th of June, when I planted them out, and they grew well ; the 

 largest being eighteen inches high in the autumn. The following winter 

 did not affect them any more than it did the common arbor vilaj, turning 

 their foliage brown in the same manner, and they stood last winter equally 

 well, without the least protection. The lowest temperature we have had 

 since they were planted out, has been 25 deg. below the freezing point 

 Fahrenheit. The largest plant is now five feet six inches high, and the 

 stem, just above the ground, me:.sures five inches in circumference ; its fo- 

 liage is a most beautiful green, and its habit very elegant. — Monto;omcry 

 Henderson, Coleor ton Hall, September llth, 1848. A small plant of Cryp- 

 tomeria japonica was received in a large sixty-pot and about six inches high, 

 the second week in Sept., 1845 ; it was immediately shifted in a large for- 

 ty-eight, and kept on the stage, in the greenhouse, through the winter ; it 

 was again shifted the beginning of February, into a large twenty-four, and 

 in the middle of June, into a large sixteen, still remaining in the greenhouse 

 until the 13th of August, 1846, when a bed was prepared for it in the grass, 

 8 feet wide, 18 inches deep, filled with a mixture of three-fourths sandy 

 loam, and one-fourth strong lonm ; it has grown upwards of 4 feet since it 

 was planted out, without any protection all last winter. The height of the 

 plant at this time, Sept. 20, is 7 feet 9 inches. — P.Bassett, Weslonbirt, Tet- 

 hury, Gloucestershire. 



We learn that two Cryptomerias were planted out in the garden of the 

 Horticultural Society, in spring, 1845. These were not more than 3 or 4 

 inches high, and were planted in strong clayey soil, where they have been 

 ever since. They are now beautiful bushy plants, growing vigorously. 

 Two others were planted in the summer of 1846, in a peaty soil, amongst 

 the American plants; and they are also growing rapidly. — {Gard. Jour., 

 1848, p. 243.) 



Propagation of Plants. — Some twenty years ago, when I first began cul- 

 tivation as an amusement, and with the view of benefiting my health,! grew 

 a few auriculas and tulips, but, being a novice, I did not grow them well, 

 and, on my expressing my dissatisfaction at their appearance, to the person 

 of whom I had bought several, and who is a well known grower, he only 

 laughed at me, and said I must give them something better to eat and drink, 

 but without telling me how to do it; this, you will say, was no encourage- 

 ment, but, being very fond of flowers, I persevered in my endeavors, and, by 

 experience, have learned at least to manage them pretty well. On another 

 occasion, when I was trying to strike some plants, a gardener told me " I 

 need not want to know how to increase any of them, for if I lost what I 

 had, he could easily supply me with more, and at a very reasonable ex- 

 pense." Now, what I contend for, is, that it is not to save the value of the 

 plants thus raised that an amateur studies their cultivation, but it is the 

 pleasure he derives in their culture, and the knowledge it conveys to his 



