228 General Notices. 



cut flowers. It strikes freely from cuttings of the new shoots, cutting them 

 off with a small portion of the old wood — that is, as close to it as possible, 

 and insert them in silver-sand, sinking the pot in a medium hotbed, and 

 covered with a bell-glass. The readiest method to get blooming plants, is 

 to have a number of the common Daphne laureola, in pots, and graft the 

 D. indica rubra upon these stocks, doing it on the tongue system. The 

 pots should be placed in gentle bottom heat, and the union is soon effected. 

 The strong plants having bloomed, have all the shoots cut back to about 

 one-half their length, and then are placed in a gentle hotbed-frame, or 

 forcing-house, and when the new shoots are just beginning to push, the 

 plants are repotted, in equal parts of peat and leaf-mould, having a liberal 

 sprinkling of silver-sand. When the shoots have pushed a due length, the 

 ends are stopped, they push again and are stopped ; then they are removed 

 into the open air in a sheltered situation, open to the sun, to ripen their 

 wood, and then removed to a shady border till the end of September, when 

 they are taken into a greenhouse, and a portion forced successively as 

 wanted. — ( Floricultural Cabinet.) 



Preparing Pelargoniums for cutting-down. — This treat.nent is an 

 essential one in the proper cultivation of this admired flowering-tribe. To 

 do this aright is not generally known, and of course not practised. To con- 

 tinue watering them, as heretofore, up to the time of cutting-down is wrong, 

 and the stems left will rarely break freely, and the entire plant is much in- 

 jured, and often perishes. When the plants have done blooming, place 

 them in an open situation, but where rain will not fall upon them, and for a 

 fortnight, at least, do not give them any water, or lay them down on their 

 sides, which will answer too. This process tends to lessen the sap and 

 retard its motion, the perspiring and elaborating influences render the shoots 

 in proportion more firm, and the sap becomes duly organized. It is essen- 

 tial always to get the stems well ripened, and then the plants, and cuttings 

 too, will, under due treatment, answer every expectation. After this prep- 

 aration, cut in the shoots to as ^ew buds as you please, all will push shoots 

 = — but when the stems are unripe and fleshy, perhaps one bud might push, 

 and even such rarely grow well afterwards. \Vhen the ripe wood has been 

 shortened, do not give water for a few days after, then only a little, in four 

 or five days a little more, and the new shoots must break their buds before 

 a regular watering is given. When the shoots are an inch or so long, the 

 plants will require repotting, and the extra new shoots be taken away. — 

 [Id.) 



Culture or the Allamanda cathartica. — This fine blooming hot- 

 house climber derives its name from Dr. F. Allamand, formerly a Professor 

 at Leyden. It was introduced into England in 1785; and although it has 

 been so many years, yet it is not usually grown and bloomed as it is capa- 

 ble of, and its merits entitle it to. In my opinion, there is not another stove 

 pkint more easy of cultivation, and it has the additional excellence of not 

 being subject to the attacks of any kind of insect. I have had it growing 

 by the side of Stephanotiis floribnrida for some months, a plant which every 



