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holes in the soil close to the side of the pot, and poured a little of the best white 
sand into the hole. The cutting- being- thrust into this prepared hole, and its 
lower extremity made tight and secure, the hole is filled with sand and the earth 
pressed around the plant as compactly as possible. Water is given directly, and 
subsequently from time to time ; and if a little bottom heat be applied, and the pot 
be covered with a striking- glass, roots will, in most instances, be produced in a 
month or six weeks. If only one cutting- be placed in a small sixty, enclosed in 
another deeper pot, a fiat piece of glass may be used to cover the top ; and as soon 
as roots are formed, and the plant begins to grow, it may be removed to a larg-er 
sixty, containing- a soil composed of two parts of the loam from couch-grass roots 
decayed, and one part of black heath or moor soil. In this mixed soil the plants 
grow and bloom freely, and may be cut back just before the period of growth in the 
following year. 
During winter, a heat of 45 degrees afifords ample security ; and the torpidity, or 
state of repose thus induced, tends to add vigour and beauty to the future develop- 
ment of foliage and flower. 
ON THE CULTURE OF THE CAMPANULA 
PYRAMIDALIS. 
This species of Campanula is deserving of the attention of every admirer of 
free flowering plants, and, if well grown, will amply repay, when in bloom, by the 
brilliancy of its colours and the long period it continues to display them, for all time 
and trouble spent upon it. The following directions, adduced from experience, if 
attended to, will not fail to realise the most sanguine expectations. In the spring of 
the year, ofi'sets or cuttings are taken off the large plants intended for flowering, 
and planted in any shady part of the garden till they have struck root ; they are 
then taken up and planted in rows in a very fine shady situation, where they should 
remain twelve months from the following March. Some are taken up in the first 
March after this planting, but are seldom strong enough to flower very large ; if 
they are not planted in a shady place, they generally flower the first year ; they are 
then taken up with good balls and put into pots from ten to twelve inches in 
diameter ; and those who have the advantage of a green-house, should occupy the 
coolest part of it with them, exposed, however, to as much light and air as possible ; 
but where there is not the convenience of a green-house, the windows of the 
dwelling-house would answer very well, or the most sheltered part of the garden, 
until the month of May, when the plants ought to be put under cover. The soil 
most suitable for them is good rich loam and rotten dung, well pulverised ; they are 
not only greatly aided in strength, but also in the brilliancy of their colours, by the 
richness of the compost they grow in. It is to be regretted that this plant has 
long been in a measure neglected ; by the above treatment it will commonly attain 
seven, and occasionally eight, feet high, and be equally strong in proportion. A 
leading stem eight feet high, with a mass of laterals, when in flower, forms a most 
beautiful pyramid, in some instances measuring twelve feet in circumference. 
