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For the benefit of our friends Mr. Abbott has obligingiy favoured’ us 
with the particulars of his management, and we may thank him in the 
name of the Flas for liberally making known the results of his 
experience. He says “ The plant which I sent you in November was 
raised from seed ficdival from Jamaica, only i in the month of J anuary 
preceding. The seed was sown in a moderate hot-bed, and the plant 
flowered in nine months. I mention this fact from a conviction that 
this splendid plant has been discarded from several collections because 
it did not flower. The soil I used was sandy loam, peat, and about a 
sixth part of bone dust; taking care to re-pot the plant as often as it 
was required. I have every reason to believe that it was solely owing 
to the bone dust that it thrived as it did; a proof of which is, that two 
other plants, taken out of the same seed-pot, and treated in the com- 
mon way, are not half so strong, and show no signs of flowering. 
The Poinciana will strike freely enough from cuttings, put into a pot 
of sand, and covered with a propagating glass. It will accelerate their 
striking if the pot be plunged in a tan-pit. I have tried bone dust 
with most of my stove plants, and you would be surprised to see the 
difference it has made to them. I have plants of the Ixora coccinea 
growing most luxuriantly, with the foliage nearly twice its natural size, 
of a fine dark healthy green, while those from the same cutting pot, 
without bone dust, are looking as Ixora pont generally do, but 
po so healthy, nor one half the size of the o 
m the experiments I have made, I am fally convinced of the - 
utility of bone-dust as a manure for stove and other potted plants. It 
has Jong been in use among our best cultivators of Geraniums and 
Calceolarias, and with singular success.’ 
from the West Indies. These vegetate freely, but to grow the young 
plants successfully they should be placed in a strong humid stove 
heat, and allowed plenty of room for their roots, with the addition, as 
will be gathered from the preceding ob ervations, of bone dust or 
some equally stimulating manure. 
DERIVATION OF THE Nam 
CasaLPinia, named after inet physician to Poe Clement the Eighth. 
PuLcHEeRRIMA very beaut 
SYNONYMEs. 
Magee PULCHERRIMA. Swartz: Observations, p. 1 
Potnciana PuLCHERRIMA. Liimneus: Species Spesiiuins p- 554. - Botanical 
Magazine, t. 995. 
