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42. Observations on the Cultivation of Stove Plants. By Sir 



Edward Poore, Bart. F.H.S. Read July 17. 1828. 



Disliking plants in pots, the writer formed a conservatory 

 for stove plants, 32 ft. by 20 ft. and 13^ ft. high, with a span 

 roof. In a pit the size of the house (except the space 

 necessary for the flues and walk), 4 ft. deep, and filled with 

 turfy loam, peat, and sand, with a stratum of leaves at 

 the bottom, he turned out all his stove plants, which throve 

 beyond his most sanguine expectations. The average heat 

 was 75° in the shade, " falling at night sometimes as low as 

 50°; the atmosphere has been saturated with moisture by 

 keeping the walks and flues flooded with water; steaming 

 was employed as long as fires were used, and syringing at all 

 times." 



43. On a Method of obtaining late Flotvers of Ranunculuses. By 

 Mr. Henry Groom, F.H.S. Read September 16. 1828. 



The beds are prepared in the usual manner, but the 

 surface is kept as low as the path, in order to retain 

 moisture ; the roots are dibbled in about the usual depth, and 

 the ground immediately afterwards well watered with lime- 

 water, not only because the ranunculus delights in moisture, 

 but to destroy the worms, which are otherwise apt to draw the 

 roots from their places. Afterwards the bed is kept well 

 watered with clear cow-dung water, until the foliage makes its 

 appearance. The beds are then kept shaded, from nine in the 

 morning till five or six in the evening, till the bloom is over. 

 For a bloom in September or October, plant about the 

 middle of July. For a bloom all the season commence in 

 February, and plant every fortnight or three weeks ; in Sep- 

 tember plant in a frame, and you will have a bloom about 

 January or February. [In the Royal Gardens at Munich, a 

 bloom of ranunculus and of other plants is kept up all the 

 year, by the above and similar practices.] During last autumn, 

 Mr. Groom exhibited his ranunculuses from time to time to 

 the Horticultural Society ; and, we believe, he has received a 

 medal for them. 



44. On the proper Management of Plants, during their Voyage 

 Jrom China to England. By Mr. John Damper Parks, F.H.S., 



Gardener to the Earl of Arran, F.H.S., at Bognor, Sussex. 



The case used is that recommended by Mr. Lindley. 

 {Encj/c. of Gard., § 1405.) The plants being planted, the 

 soil is covered with moss to keep it moist and in its place ; 

 this moss is crossed with laths, which are nailed tightly tlown. 

 Place them in the poop, or some other part of the ship, where 



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