42 HISTORY OF BEITISH MOSSES. 



species it is desired to grow, and putting in a medium-sized 

 flower-pot. A greater proportion of drainage should be 

 given than for other plants, and the tuft should be placed 

 in immediate connection with such material as most nearly 

 resembles that on which the moss grows naturally. If a 

 trial be made of such as grow on rocks, shores, or branches 

 of trees, and some of these succeed very well, they should be 

 for a time secured to these by a piece of string or some other 

 contrivance. Those which like moisture, such as Bartramia 

 foiitana, Ilypnum cordifolmm, and Dicranum squarrosum, 

 should have the pots placed in saucers filled constantly with 

 water, by which means they are supplied regularly with 

 moisture. A cold frame, or shaded sheK of a cool ffreen- 

 house, does very well for them to stand in while in a grow- 

 ing state, and at this season such should each day have 

 a watering with a fine-rosed pan, regulating the supply 

 according to the degree of moisture in the surrounding 

 atmosphere. During summer, which is a period of repose 

 to most species, and when they are cast into the shade by 

 the more brilliant tints of flowering plants, the pots may 

 be placed under any shaded wall, taking the weatlier as it 

 comes. The only precaution necessary at this time is to 

 cover the assemblage of pots with some garden-netting, to 



