On the Culhire of the Calceolaria. 31 



with only straw next the sides of the boats, and on the top ; 

 and, when the ice breaks up in the spring, they are thus 

 taken, without being disturbed, to New Orleans, where, on 

 opening them, they come out as fresh and sound as the day 

 they were gathered. The trees are very productive. In the 

 nursery, their growth is slender ; but, in the orchard, they 

 form fine large trees, with thrifty bushy heads. There are 

 as many as four varieties of this name with which I am 

 acquainted — distinct, yet diifering but little from each other 

 — of which the one above described is the best. The Cart- 

 house, or Gilpin, is said to be synonymous with one of them ; 

 and, in some nurseries, has been confounded with this, or 

 rather, this has been propagated for it. The gray Romanite, 

 which is a rather richer fruit, yellower in the flesh, not so 

 well covered with red, more distinctly striped upon a pale 

 yellow ground, more oblong in form, and narrowing slightly 

 to the eye, more warty, and not quite so good a keeper, may 

 possibly be identical with the Gilpin. 

 Coshocton^ November 20ih, 1848. 



Art. V. On the Culture of the Calceolaria. By James 

 Kennedy, Gardener to S. T. Jones, Esq., Staten Island, N. Y. 



{Contimied {rom\o\. XIV., p. 494.) 



As my remarks of last month, (on raising seedling calceola- 

 rias,) seems to have merited a place in your Magazine, I now 

 continue the subject, and come to the 



Propagation by Cuttings. 



The herbaceous species and varieties should be placed, 

 early in February, in a mild heat, say from 60° to 65°, to 

 start them into growth, and, when advanced four or five 

 leaves, take a sharp knife and separate each shoot carefully ; 

 trim off the two lower leaves, and insert them singly in thumb 

 pots, well drained, and filled with fine light sandy soil ; plunge 

 the pots, up to the rims, in sawdust, or some such material. 



