350 Successful Method of graving the Cockscomb Amaranth. 



instance, in Mr, Jenkins's nursery in the Regent's Park, by- 

 printing the numbers on the ends of bricks, and placing a brick 

 at the beginning of each short row across a border. In this 

 way one number serves for five plants, the situation of each 

 of which is easily found by the order of the names after the 

 number in the list. Thus, supposing the first short row to 

 contain five plants of as many different species of Ohrxhiia 

 they would stand in the list as under : — 



1. Obrien/« caerulea 2. Obrienm Beaumontz 



Obrienm caelestina Obrien/a dentata 



Obrien/a suav^olens &c. &c. 



Obrienm pulcherrima 

 Obrienm nobilis. 



Or the same names may be written in the same order on a 

 large cast-iron tally, to be used at the beginning of each short 

 row, instead of the brick. The latter mode, and indeed any 

 mode in which the names are given instead of the numbers, 

 is, in all cases, both in private gardens and nurseries, greatly to 

 be preferred. It saves time in referring to books, has a ten- 

 dency to prevent deception, mistake, or mystery, and forms a 

 standing lesson by which every spectator or workman, if he 

 has a taste for it, may acquire a little botany. If nurserymen 

 would name all their fruit trees and roses, instead of number- 

 ing them, gardeners in time would come to know them by 

 their wood and leaves, and it would not be half so easy to 

 substitute one sort for another, either wilfully or by mistake. 

 In short, in all practicable cases, names should be given and 

 not numbers, on the general principle of diffusing a knowledge 

 of the things designated, instead of merely establishing a more 

 remote means of knowing them. — Coiid, 



Art. XIV. A successfid Method of gro-mng the CocJcscomh 

 Amaranth {Celbsia cristdta) to a large Size. By Mr. Robert 

 Errington, Gardener at Oulton Park, Cheshire. 



The soil I make use of consists of three parts of leaf mould, 

 and one part of bright sand ; the pot or pots must be well 

 drained, and the seeds covered but lightly. I sow generally 

 in the first week of March, and place the pots in a sweet moist 

 heat of at least 75°. When the plants are up, and beginning 

 to expand their leaves, I pot them singly into No. 60 pots, 

 adding to the compost a little mellow loam, and placing the 

 pots in a close moist heat with full exposure to the light at all 



