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CULTURE OF THE HABROTHAMNUS FASCICULATUS 
AND CORYMBOSUS. 
These are elegant greenhouse plants, bearing panicles of flowers in profusion ; 
they are scarce in collections at present, but their great beauty entitles them to a 
first rank amongst cultivated plants. 
They are not difficult to cultivate if the following particulars be paid attention 
to ; otherwise they are very shy of flowering. Their general habits are not much 
unlike those of Brugmansia, but their foliage is smaller and hairy, and their mode 
of flowering different. 
In point of propagation, they strike freely from cuttings, which may be put in at 
any time from March to August, but those planted in spring are the most successful. 
Put three or four round the rim of a 60-sized pot of very light sandy soil, or sharp 
sand, either will equally answer; plunge these pots into a brisk bottom -heat, either 
in a cucumber-frame or a propagating.house, and shade them for a few days from 
the rays of the sun. 
When struck, pot them off in small pots filled with light rich soil, composed of 
one part very sandy loam, one part heath mould, one part very rotten leaf-mould, 
and one part rotten dung ; let these be all well beat and mixed together, but by no 
means be sifted, as this would separate the fibre, and allow of the soil becoming 
hard and close, which is always a disadvantage. In this soil they will grow with 
great rapidity, which should be as much as possible encouraged by a little heat and 
moist atmosphere. 
As they advance in growth and become good sized plants, gradually expose them 
to a cooler atmosphere ; and in all future pottings use a mixture of two parts sandy 
loam, one part heath-mould, and one part leaf-mould, leaving out the dung altogether, 
as this would tend to so encourage the growth, that few flowers would, at any time, 
be produced. 
In potting give plenty of room in the pots, and lay a considerable quantity of 
drainage in the bottom, for although these are plants which, in their growing season, 
require abundance of water, yet they soon perish if there is any stagnation of it 
about their roots. No stated times can be given for the operation of potting, but 
this must always be done when the roots have spread through the soil and begin to 
form a mat against the sides of the pot. 
If favourably grown, the young plants will, by the end of the summer, have 
become three feet, or more, high, and proportionably bushy and strong ; then begin 
gradually to diminish the quantity of water, and on the approach of winter set 
them in a coot, dry, and airy place in the greenhouse, where they will be quite secure 
from frost, and administer very little water until the return of spring. In March 
use the knife pretty freely in cutting back the branches ; this will make the plants 
