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Art. XII. On the Cultivation of the Genus Lobelia. 

 By G. Fielder. 



Having been very successful in the cultivation of this peculiarly 

 interesting family of plants, and thinking my method of growing 

 them may be of service to some of the readers of the Gardener's 

 Magazme, I forward it. you for insertion in that useful and 

 interesting publication, if you consider it worthy a place there. 



About the last week in February, or the first in March, I 

 take off as many suckers from the old stools as I require for 

 bedding out in the summer, and pot them in a mixture of loam, 

 peat, and sand, in 60-sized pots ; I then place them in a heat of 

 65°. When the pots are filled with roots, I pot them in 48-sized, 

 and replace them in the same temperature. In a little time they 

 require to be shifted into 32-sized pots, and should then be placed 

 in a greenhouse for a week or ten days ; and afterwards in a cold 

 frame to harden off, where they are to remain till they are 

 turned out in beds in the flower-garden, which are prepared in 

 the following manner. In the beginning of May, the soil is to 

 be taken out to the depth of 1 ft., and the bottom loosened up ; 

 the bed is then filled to within 2 in. of the top with one half loam, 

 rather stiff than light, and one half good rotten dung from a 

 cucumber or melon bed ; it is afterwards filled up with some of the 

 soil that was taken out, and as soon as settled, the plants are 

 turned out at about 1 ft. apart, the highest in the centre. 



The species I have thus cultivated are cardinalis, splendens, 

 propinqua, and syphilitica. Plants thus grown begin to flower 

 early in July, and continue to do so through the autumn, in a 

 manner that well repays the extra trouble of this mode of cul- 

 tivation ; as a proof of which, I exhibited a specimen of pro- 

 pinqua, last September, at the Battle and Hastings Horticultural 

 Show, for which I was awarded the first prize for hardy plants : 

 it measured 6 in. in circumference at the base of the stem, and 

 the height of the centre spike was 5 ft.; it attracted the universal 

 admiration of the company present. 



Bohemia Park Gardens, January, 184-2. 



Art. XIII. On cutting out and naming Labels for French Roses. 

 By I. Twigg. 



I send an economical mode of cutting and naming labels for rose 

 trees for the Gardeners' Magazine, if you deem it worthy of a 

 place there. 



3d Ser.— 1842. II.' i 



