358 Floricultural and Botanical Notices. 



The single red camellia is the best for stocks to work upon ; 

 it is easily propagated by '^•uttings; and it produces a much 

 greater quantity of fibrous roots than any of the other sorts, 

 and, consequently, must be able to coii\^ey a greater quantity 

 of nutriment up into the system. The time to take off the 

 cuttings is about the middle of May, or when the wood has 

 become somewhat firm. They should be cut off in a hori- 

 zontal direction, close at the place where they pushed from 

 last, and smoothed off a little at the base with a sharp knife. 

 Well-drained pots, the same size recommended for seeds and 

 cuttings, will exactly suit. Let the pots be filled with equal 

 parts of loam and silver sand. After inserting them tightly 

 into the pots, give a little water to settle the soil, when they 

 should be put in a cool frame for a week or so, and kept 

 shaded when the sun is strong, after which they should be 

 plunged to the rims in bottom heat, and regularly watered 

 when necessary, and kept shaded, as above remarked. 



When they have struck root, which is generally indicated 

 by their pushing young shoots, they should be potted off 

 singly into small pots, well drained. A compost composed 

 of the following materials will be found suitable : — To 

 a barrowful of turfy loam, — not sifted, but chopped with the 

 spade, — add half a barrowful of well rotted cow manure ; half 

 a barrowful of peat and leaf mould ; and one fourth of a barrow- 

 ful of silver sand : by following this mode, the young propagator 

 will soon have an ample supply of stocks to practise upon. 



Staten Island^ July 28^/«, 1847. 



Art. VI. Floricultural and Botanical Notices of Neir and 

 Beautiful Plants figured in Foreign Periodicals ; uith De- 

 scriptions of those recently introduced to^ or originated in, 

 American Gardens. 



Calystegia pubescens. — This new and beautiful climber, 

 which we lately noticed, (p. 78), as one of Mr. Fortune's 

 acquisitions in China, is now beautifully in bloom in our col- 

 lection. Mr. Fortune sent it home as a double convolvulus. 



