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Remarkable Cereus speciosissimus. 



growing sorts will root much sooner than others ; the compart- 

 ments, being entirely independent, admit of such being moved, 

 without in the least disturbing their more tardy neighbours. 

 Drainage to the depth of 5 in. is not actually necessary, but, 

 when the box is not used in propagating heaths, it may be filled 

 with any other class of plants, and reducing the drainage admits 

 those of taller habits. I consider that it might also be advan- 

 tageously employed in raising Australian or other seeds that 

 delight to germinate in a moist atmosphere. Altogether, I 

 think it preferable to a number of pots with bell-glasses. 

 Fol/cstone, Oct., 1834. 



Art. IV. Notice of a remarkable Specimen of Cereus speciosissimus, 

 grotving in the Stove of Thomas Holman, Esq., at Folkdone, in 

 Kent. By N. M. T. 



It has often struck me, when reading in the Gardener 's Maga* 

 zine accounts of remarkable specimens of trees or shrubs, that 

 it would be very desirable to have as many records of such spe- 

 cimens as possible. These records, while they encouraged some, 

 by showing them what might be done, would moderate the opi- 

 nion of others in respect to plants in their own possession, which 

 they would, probably, otherwise consider much finer specimens 

 than they really are. In this point of view, the exhibitions at 

 the Floral and Horticultural Societies have done, and continue 

 to do, much good to the gardener, who has, perhaps, little oppor- 

 tunity of seeing any garden but his own ; but I am forgetting 

 my Cereus speciosissimus. 



This plant, which is represented in Jig. 9., was planted in 

 the pit of the stove of Thomas Holman, Esq., at Folkstone, 



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and trained to small copper wires, stretched horizontally, 4 in. 

 apart, across a row of posts that separate the pit from the back 



