Culture of Cktysdnthenmyn indicum and the Violet. 99 



should be divested of them, especially if they are inferior in 

 size and untimely in blowing. From one to three of the most 

 promising will suffice for every side branch ; and in most cases 

 one only may be enough, provided the buds are properly distri- 

 buted. This thinning ought particularly to be practised on 

 the Superb White, Two-coloured Red, Changeable Pale buff, 

 &c. ; but such as are cluster flowers should be thinned more 

 sparingly ; the Superb Cluster Yellow, for instance, which 

 flowers in a kind of raceme, should be allowed to show its 

 character. I am, Sir, &c. 



* Coioilands, Jan. 18. 1828. Wm. Mitchinson. 



Art. XI. Cultivation of the Qhrymnthemum indicum. 

 By T. S. S. N. 



Sir, 



To obtain a regular bush, and large flowers, I place my 

 old plants on a north border, in the month of July, at good 

 distances from each other ; round these I set 48-sized pots, 

 filled with proper compost ; I then lay the points of the shoots 

 one in a pot, giving each shoot a gentle twist, and fixing it 

 down firmly with a hook. In a month the layers will be suf- 

 ficiently rooted, when they may be taken off, and shifted into 

 larger-sized pots, there to remain to flower. 



The young plants, after being shifted, must be set in a 

 shady situation, and well supplied with water ; they will ad- 

 vance into fine form, and produce from six to fourteen flowers 

 each, of superior size and beauty. 



Bee. 1. 1827. T. S. S. N. 



Art. XII. Cultivation of the Garden Violet^ and Means of 

 obtaining a fine Succession of Flowers from the beginning of 

 November to the end of April. By E. of Roehampton. 



For the earliest crop the runners should be collected about 

 the end of May ; but to obtain them at that season as strong 

 as possible, it is necessary to sift over the old plants a small 

 quantity of well decayed vegetable mould, as soon as they 

 have done flowering. Water occasionally, to assist them in 

 striking root ; and, when sufficiently I'ooted, let them be care- 

 fully taken up, and pricked out in a bed of light garden mould 

 without manure of any kind, and in a completely open situ- 

 ation. Here they are to remain till they are planted out for 

 flowering and during this time occasionally watered and as 



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