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wards to form one of a purcliase of plants for a Continental exhibition in the 
ensuing season. 
Tlie second instance, a plant of Gloxinia ruhra^ was transferred in the spring 
of 1842 to a large 16 pot, the compost being nearly equal parts dry decomposed 
manure and peat. The same season it formed a luxuriant specimen, extending two 
feet in diameter. After blooming, the plant remained dormant in the same pot ; 
and in the present spring, it was replaced in the same material and pot, having 
been in a dry state nearly five months. At this time, it is still more exuberant in 
growth than in the previous season, extending three feet in diameter and nine feet 
in circumference. 
Such are a few of the features that characterize the most superior mode of 
cultivation yet known ; and, whatever may be the merit of other systems, which, 
by a skilful application of artificial means, may be productive of matured growth 
by protracted efi"orts, it may be confidently affirmed that the noblest productions 
have already been realized as the practical results of those principles which have 
been adverted to in the foregoing statements. 
In conclusion, the merits of each system are of peculiar value. The restrictive 
mode of cultivation is perfect in its application to the objects of commerce. 
The accumulative system is an approximation to that sphere of operations, which, 
as the manifestation of Creative power, is perfect in its parts and in its design. 
We owe the above, in connexion with a former article, to Mr. Wood, of Messrs. 
Henderson's nursery. Pine- Apple Place. The subject, now occasioning so much 
notice, having been first discussed in our pages, we judged it proper to give every 
desirable elucidation of it. Mr. Wood's comprehensive papers have, as will be 
seen, embraced several new points, and included some very peculiar and important 
details. And although in publishing them we are not to be regarded as subscribing 
to all their contents, we may observe that there is no practice enjoined in them 
which we do not consider of the greatest moment to the success of the general plan. 
We would, however, here caution all those who are not well versed in the routine 
of superior cultivation, to apply this system very carefully, and with the use of all 
the appliances that have been suggested. It will, we are certain, never succeed, 
except accidentally, in the hands of a novice. But this fact must not be distorted 
into a proof of its inefficiency. On the contrary, it may be taken as an evidence of its 
superiority, if, at the same time, it prove efficacious under the superintendence of 
the skilful ; for there is hardly any refined process in the arts which will not have 
its mechanism wholly disordered when taken up by the uninitiated. While, there- 
fore, we cannot advise those who do not understand the culture of plants, or whose 
circumstances are unfavourable to their high development, to adopt this system, 
we assuredly believe that the experienced culturist who has the means of afibrding 
every desirable condition, will find, in the employment of this plan, the realization 
of his very brightest hopes. 
