THE PANSY. 
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GLENNY ON THE PANSY OR HEARTSEASE. 
Much has been written upon the subject of 
this favourite flower; many different modes of 
treating it are adopted by different culti- 
vators, and they nevertheless succeed. For 
our own part simplicity has great charms; and 
the less complicated the plan of doing every 
thing the better we are pleased with it. From 
the period at which the father of the fancy 
made the grand start with the new family of 
heartsease, we have felt an interest in it; and 
although the public give credit to several dif- 
ferent growers for varieties, which in their 
turn had admirers, we owe the best varieties 
that were raised for years by Brown, Mount- 
joy, and many others round town, to Mr. 
Thompson, whose unbloomed and bloomed 
Seedlings these people purchased, and in due 
time named as their own. The principal ob- 
ject to be attained in the growth of all Florists' 
flowers is to prevent a check in their progress, 
cither by very cold winds, very hard frosts, 
or very long droughts. Nor are we to forget 
a mistake made by hundreds, which does cheek 
the growth, and that is the watering them in 
the hottest months with the coldest water. 
This is so common an error, and withal, it is 
so difficult to make people believe there is any 
mischief in pump water, that we have been 
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smiled at for our caution, when we have pro- 
tested against the use of water that has not 
been exposed to the atmosphere. The soil on 
which the Pansy will succeed, almost if not 
quite better than any other, is that from rotted 
turves, with one-third well decomposed dung. 
If the loam be clean, that is to say, free from 
the rotted vegetable, the mixture should be 
one-third the pure loam, one-third leaf mould, 
and one-third dung rotted into mould. But if 
the ground of the garden be already good, 
about three inches of the leaf mould, lurked 
into six inches of the ordinary soil, will be 
found nearly enough. The situation should be 
open; the plants should be put in the beds six 
inches apart one ivaj, and nine from row to 
row : the beds should be four feet wide, and 
will consequently hold seven in a row across 
the bed. The Tansy never blooms so well as 
when the plant is small and well rooted ; as it 
grows large the bloom is more abundant but 
smaller ; therefore, when size of bloom and 
fine character are desired, as for exhibitions, 
the collection must be kept up by a constant 
succession of cuttings, to be struck and planted 
in similar beds. This renders constant atten- 
tion necessary and forethought indispensable. 
The procuring of proper varieties. — For a list 
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