302 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Marshall P. Wilder, and first exhibited at the rooms of the Mas- 

 sachusetts Horticultural Society, February 14, 1846. 



The splendid condition of the jjlants was ample proof that the 

 best mode of cultivation had been adopted ; it is doubtful 

 whether another such collection can be found — certainly not in 

 this vicinity. A writer in the "Encyclopaedia Britannica," 

 whose name is not given, says : " To be seen in their full per- 

 fection Camellias should be planted out in borders of properly 

 prepared soil under glass, but these borders should be very effect- 

 ually drained, and of such a mechanical composition as never to 

 become soddened, for the plants require to be almost deluged 

 with water when making their growth and when developing their 

 blossoms. The borders, moreover, when the plants have become 

 well established and the soil full of roots, will require to be 

 assisted by top dressings and by applications of liquid manure. 

 They by no means require a heated structure, nor too much 

 sunlight, but when well established in a cool and somewhat 

 shaded conservatory, may become a source of infinite delight to 

 those who have a love for flowers." 



William Nicholson's House of Forced Tomatoes, at 

 Fkamingham. 



Mr. Nicholson writes : 



" In regard to my house of Tomatoes, they were sown in boxes in 

 October, afterwards transplanted into flats, and again transferred 

 into six-inch pots, and were planted on benches the middle of 

 December, after my chrysanthemums were all cut, in the same 

 loam that the chrysanthemums wei'e grown in, which was well 

 fertilized with Jeffard's animal fertilizer. We also top-dressed 

 them with it about once in two weeks when they began to bear, 

 and fed them with liquid manure. We began to pick the fruit in 

 March, and there was quite a crop on them when we pulled them 

 out on the 15th of July. We cut about four thousand pounds 

 from this house, fifteen by one hundred feet, and were troubled 

 very little by club-root this ^''ear. I think it is on account of 

 using a good quantity of lime. I find that limewater is a very 

 good thing for club-root in roses also." 



