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may be potted into a sandy loam. Pots a size larger than those generally used for 
newly-struck plants will be needful ; the species being of such robust habits. A 
little shade will then be of service till they are firmly fixed in the new soil, and 
they may henceforth be kept in the greenhouse or a pit, near the glass. 
When they begin to grow, they will advance rapidly; and, as soon as the pots 
are filled with roots, the plants can be gradually or at once shifted into pots a foot 
or fourteen inches in diameter. If an immediate shift, without any gradations, be 
preferred, the soil should be of a very turfy nature, and have a good portion of 
broken stone mingled with it, to promote drainage, while it must likewise be watered 
with care. Any loamy earth, well filled with fibrous vegetable matter, (the latter 
in a decayed, not fresh state,) and mixed with a small quantity of leaf-mould, will 
be appropriate. The plant is one that commonly demands a very liberal adminis- 
tration of water while it is growing ; though this must of course be regulated by 
the weather and by appearances. 
At the time the roots, on examination, are found to have thoroughly gained the 
sides of the pots, they will have matted the entire mass of soil into a firm ball ; and 
the specimen should forthwith be taken out of the pot. Standing it erectly on 
the potting-bench, the ball, including the roots, should be nicely pared off all 
round to the breadth of from two to three inches, with a strong, sharp knife ; and 
the specimen should then be replaced in the same pot, filling up the vacant space 
with new soil. Probably, the same process will have to be gone through once 
again, when the fresh earth is refilled with roots ; and after that, the plant being 
now from eighteen inches to two feet or a little more in height, will flower most 
abundantly. By keeping one or two specimens through the winter for a supply 
of cuttings, a stock of young blooming plants, for the greenhouse or the drawing- 
room, may thus be maintained. 
We have witnessed the successful operation of the above system in a large 
metropolitan establishment, and have no doubt that the plan may be as propitiously 
followed on many other handsome plants of a like nature. 
FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW OR BEAUTIFUL PLANTS FIGURED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS 
FOR FEBRUARY AND MARCH. 
Androsa'ce lanuginosa. Writing of this plant, Sir W. J. Hooker remarks, " Seeds of this 
charming Alpine plant were communicated to our kind friend J. T. Mackay, Esq., from the 
Himalayan Mountains, by Dr. Royle, and they flowered in the open air in the Dublin Botanic 
Garden in August, 1842, when the plants promised to be hardy. The flowers are of a delicate 
rose-colour, with a yellow eye, while the foliage and branches and young portions of the stem are 
densely clothed with long silky hairs. Dr. Royle speaks of it as growing about Choon. Dr. Goven 
found it on the Sirmore Mountains ; and R. Blinkworth at Kamoon, where the variety also grows." 
The species grows five or six inches high, with slightly procumbent stems, and terminal umbels of 
small flowers. Bot. Mag. 4005. 
