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ON THE TREATMENT OF A FEW GREENHOUSE PLANTS. 
pestrts, the eyes of which were budded on healthy young- trees, and every one pro- 
duced a long hanging- shoot. According to this observation, it would be very easy to 
procure a large collection of drooping, or weeping, trees. Our gardeners, however, 
multiply no species so numerously as the Fraxinus excelsior, var. pendula ; which 
variety often retains its hanging character when raised from seeds. We possess 
several such trees, of about ten feet in height, which were raised from seed of the 
original tree, obtained in 1780 from a nurseryman, who found it a few years 
previously to that in the neighbourhood of Newmarket, in Cambridgeshire. 
HINTS ON THE TREATMENT NECESSARY FOR A FEW 
VALUABLE GREENHOUSE PLANTS. 
LucuLiA GRATissiMA is a Very handsome plant when in flower, and therefore 
much attention should be paid to the cultivation of it. It is a greenhouse plant, 
and will flower about August or September if properly managed. Give it a great 
deal of light and air, water it with caution at the roots, and occasionally a little 
may be appHed over the stems and leaves. In potting, use good light rich soil, and 
drain well previously. Cuttings are diflicult to strike ; these should be carefully 
prepared from the half-ripened wood, put in a pot of good sand under a handglass 
without heat, but in a close corner of the greenhouse, and sparingly watered. 
Chorizema ilicifolia, C. nana, C. rJiomhea, C, Baxtei'i, C. Henchmanni. A 
particularly interesting genus of little greenhouse plants, that require to be steadily 
treated, or they will not grow or flower to perfection. They delight in an abundance 
of air and light, and should be potted in a mixture of sand and peat, sparingly yet 
attentively watered at all times. Be careful not to over pot any of them, as they 
seem not to like any unnecessary soil about their roots. Seeds sown early in the 
spring, potted ofl" when strong enough and judiciously managed, will make hand- 
some plants. 
Tropceolum pentaphyllum and T. tricolorum. These elegant plants are so 
well suited for training up long stakes, columns, or any favourable part of the 
greenhouse, that their neat foliage, and ear-drop-like blossoms, cannot, under any other 
mode, be properly seen. They should, particularly the former, have plenty of soil 
allowed them, which should consist of open loam, a greater quantity of peat, and a 
little sand ; if planted in a little prepared border they will do well. Copiously 
water them when growing. Place a good sized pot in an inverted position over 
them in the winter, to keep off water, &c. ; gather the seed if ripened in the 
autumn, and sow it early in the spring in very light open soil. Cuttings strike 
with little trouble in sand, and, if encouraged, will flower beautifully the same season. 
Kennedia hracteata, K. sericea, K. coccinea, K. Comjitoniana, K. mono- 
phylla, K. ovata. These, like the preceding, are in no place so advantageously 
seen as when trained up a column six or seven feet high ; they are greenhouse 
plants of the first character, for beauty of foliage and flowers ; all of them grow 
well in strongish soil^ composed of two parts peat to one of loam, except K. coccinea, 
which, being more delicate, requires a rather lighter soil, composed of sand and peat. 
