455 Culture ofErythrina Crtsta-gdlli, 



The plant was out of doors. Height of the plant, exclusive 

 of the flower-stem, 4 ft. 7 -iV in* Total height, from the top 

 of the t ub in which it grew, 1 8 ft. 6 in.* 



In the year 1821, a third Agave flowered in the handsome 

 garden of Henry Pratt, Esq., on the river Schuylkill. The 

 age of the plant is not known. From May 28. to June 4. 

 the flower-stem grew from 4 to 6J in. daily, and the total 

 growth was 3 ft. On the 5th and 6th of June, it grew 9 in. 

 each day; then to the 17th of June, from 2 to 6 in. daily: 

 total growth 8 ft. 2 in. The height of the flower-stem on 

 the 17th of June was 8 ft. 11 in. From the 18th to the 21st 

 of June, it grew 3 or 3j in. daily, or \^ ft. The total height 

 of the flower-stem 10 ft. 3 in. The flowers were not counted, 

 but they were as numerous as possible. On the 4th of June, 

 Mr. Pratt had the plant taken to the vicinity of the Asylum 

 for Orphans and Indigent Widows, and exhibited for a trifle. 

 The produce (a considerable sum) was given to that establish- 

 ment. J. M. 



Philadelphia, Ma?/ 13. 1829. 



Art- X. On the Ctdtin-e and Propagation of the Eri/thrina Crista- 

 gdlli, Erythrina \aurifblia, and Chri/santkemum sinense. By 

 Mr. J. Elles. 



Sir, 



If you think the following observations on the culture and 

 propagation of the Erythrina Crista-galli, E. /aurifolia, and 

 the Chrysanthemum sinense, are worthy of insertion in the 

 Magazine, they are very much at your service. 



Few ornamental plants equal in splendour the Erythrinae 

 and, as it is well known that they can be cultivated in the 

 same manner as georginas, nothing more seems wanting to 

 enable us to stock our flower-gardens with a profusion of 

 them, than an easy, expeditious, and sure method of propa- 

 gation. That there is such a method, and that they can be 

 increased with as much facility as the georginas, the following 

 will, I think, clearly show : — As soon as the plants have 

 done flowering (or even plants that have not flowered at 

 all, but which have ripened their wood tolerably well, will 

 answer the same purpose) cut them down, and make as many 

 cuttings of the stems as there are buds, preserving, if possible, 

 the leaf, or rather the three leaves, to each bud ; and if the 

 buds are opposite each other, as is sometimes the case, the 



* Coxe's Miisciim, vol. i. 



