THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
532 [N° 38, 
degree of cae Png il yee rays. 0 of |e the same state of perfection. The second specimen was | for a small stove, owing to its large and handsome fronds 
ill be fo treated as in fg. 2 2, and hangs in the front part of the | drooping over the pot, - in fe 4. It was therefore 
i 4 ‘dheos Ai is freely exposed to the sun, both leaves | 
Se most sim simple way png a mat Fig. 2. and roots. It is 
over the frame. ee ae x now and has 
that both these things—the surrounding the cuttings with all along in 
moisture, : from the sun—may be over- growing _ 
done; in the one case the cuttings will off, in the Above it is sus- 
other the leaves will not decompose carbonic acid, and of pendedan inverted 
course ) n of will be retarded. The indi- bell-glass of water, 
vidual who would be a successful propagator, therefore, from which a fe 
must fully understand principles, and hold the ba- plies of wo 
lance most carefully in his hands; for on this. depends thread are employ- 
much ox eg In practice, he will find it neces- ed on the principle 
sary to frequently, owing to the con- of a on, to 
densation which is continually taking place upon them ; to bring a constant 
give all the he possibly can if he propagates during supply of 
the winter months ; to shade well in the middle of the upon the plant. The 
sunny days of summer, and to et early in : worsted thread is 
poh maga that the cuttings may enjoy the morni tr rolled gentlyround 
and evening ray b the stem to allow 
Many plants will not strike root without a high tempe- \ themoisturet 
rature and bottom-heat, and hence the use of tbhed { ‘, = it over the 
and . These are principally plants which are indi- ( Notwith- 
genous to the tropical and warmer pa. rid ; but \ standing cn the 
by far the ter number, whether of fae is class roots are fre | 
whi » Strike 
pont ng There are 
ae a 
the Capea pedtice Nex Hold which do not require it, ag ag 
which it 
tail before the gba of the Chronicle, in its quotations 
rom. Waves ¢ on. ore botany, and in the letters of cor- 
acliees Mie gee 2s 3 
OBSERVATIONS RELATIVE TO THE GROWING 
OF CERTAIN PLANTS IN WAYS DIFFERENT 
_ FROM THE ORDINARY METHODS OF TREAT- 
(Read before Pre ainatgga Society of Edinburgh, by Mr. 
J. Macxas, Jun., April 8, 1841.) ~~ 
reltice 
Ho world is 
I at leave to submit he result 
aad ss Design = 
exist ‘or “the eg three yen under 
yery different from what are seenin Nature, 
roughly — treated 
a = of the 
men was 
the’ hottest dass 
The third speci 
had it the least ap- 
pearance of producing any, being merely a straight stem, 
terminated with a tuft of leaves. y the first winter 
more | 
necessary that it feng! stand close to a path, to allow the 
own. In consequence of the de- 
Fern Poy cultivation has its sori, or frutification, rang 
| and conspicuous as Polypodium aureum, The 
rather om pp Pye: ca ie 
surface of the pot, a d are, above all thi 
the time mit ed I took the ns oto 
as * 
lated joint 
are of 1838 fou four pets * se i began 
- iw 
ards ; 
pak x gh Oy belo: (Fig. 5 
ag 9 sori We aintaptians 
fate in its inverted state.) . 
e 
n 
ever quite evident 
quite 
had the. - stem b 
in ep cide te 
ip HE 
rH 
te pig of 1830, the shook in th 
a 
ars 
7 
eat 
it is impossible to 
the | the root 
spite of 
healthy, | can be done, and 
ppg gael 
top will ascend and 
descend, in 
all that 
in 
t this is decidedly the best 
tg plant ee 
I am of opinion tha 
of growing the Hare’ oghr Fern. 
raacel 
trig Plenrothallis prolifera, Dendrobium pulebsy 
lum, and such like. The Orchidacee flower uncommonly 
freely in this situation. 
which I have found to assume a very Pe 
nded from the roof of 
