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XXXV. Notes on the Cultivation of Chlidanthus fragrans. In 

 a letter to the Secretary ; by The Rev. F. Belfield, F. H. S. 



Read September 5, 1837. 



H aving been very successful in flowering Chlidanthus fragrans, 

 this spring, and that too under three different modes of treatment ; 

 it has occurred to me that you might like to be made acquainted 

 with it. 



In December last, my friend Mr. Nugent, gave me, for 

 the purpose of trying experiments, nine middle sized roots, which 

 for the two preceding years had been growing in the open ground 

 protected only by a frame in winter. On receiving them, they 

 were put into dry earth and placed in the hottest part of the stove 

 and kept perfectly dry, till the latter end of the month of March, 

 when three roots were potted, watered, and kept in the hothouse, 

 of these two very shortly shewed their blossom buds, but only 

 one came to perfection, and did not seed. 



In the end of April the six remaining roots were planted in front 

 of the Pine pit, and in the following month three of them flowered in 

 the greatest perfection but did not shew any disposition to form a 

 seed pod. 



In the same border, I have another bulb, which has been growing 

 there two years, quite unprotected in winter. This in the month 

 of June surprised me by not only throwing up a noble flowering 

 stem, far exceeding any of the others, but also by perfecting its seed 

 pod, and that without any artificial impregnation. As this may be 

 a novelty, I have much pleasure in sending it to you, possibly its 

 produce may be even hardier than the parent bulb. 



