and value as a Forcing variety. 333 



cultivating them by thousands, can the next winter leave 

 a part, in an exposed situation, unprotected, and prove the 

 thing, sending you the result for publication. It may be 

 that the protection afforded by houses in the city may be 

 sufficient, and the plant be killed in the open field. 



They also force well. I tried a few pots of them in the 

 greenhouse, last winter, with different treatment. The re- 

 sult was in favor of those grown in the greatest heat, with 

 a dry atmosphere, and watered with carbonate of ammo- 

 nia, in the proportion of three hundred parts water to one 

 of ammonia; next, those watered with liquid manure; and 

 last, those watered, simply, which were nearly a total fail- 

 ure, the frait not swelling off". They were taken up with 

 a ball of earth, before severe frost, and all put in same 

 sized pots, with as much rich soil as could be added. 



Yours truly, A. 



Salem, August, 1843. 



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 35, 6d colored. 



Paxton^s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering 

 Plants. Each number containing four colored plates. 

 Monthly, 25. M. each. Edited by J. Paxton, gardener to 

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