50 Method of Blooming the Tricerania Coccinea. 
su}»port from the Vine ; and the result is, as I have before stated, a 
much increased size of the fruit. 
It is a general remark, that in order to ha^'e the Tokay Grape to 
set well, a much greater degree of heat is required than with any other 
kind: — under a different mode of treatment from mine it may be ne- 
cessary, but in my method of culture it is not requisite; 70 degrees of 
Fahrenheit, being the highest heat I allow the house to arrive at. 
The pruning of the Vine, both in summer and winter, is after the 
same mode of treatment I practise with any other sort of Grape. 
I am, Gentlemeri, &c., &c. 
May 26th, 1831. Charles Parkix. 
Article II. — On a Successful Method of Blooming tlie 
Triverania Coccinea. (Cyiilla Pulchella) By an Ama- 
teur. 
Gentlemen, 
This most charming plant having never failed with me of 
annually blooming a profusion of large petalled brilliant flowers, 
whilst those cultivated by my neighbours, though growing freely, seldom 
bloom, and even then very meagre, 1 judge that my mode of treat- 
ment has sometliing in it of merit, and deserving a ti'ial ; and through 
the medium of your new puljlication, I shall feel pleasure in convey- 
ing the mode of treatment to those Avho are, with myself, admirers of 
the plant in question. 
The mode of treatment I pursue is, as soon as the plants have done 
blooming I begin to be spanng of A\'atering, gradually lessening the 
quantitv, so that in a month or six weeks, at the utmost, I desist en- 
tirely. The pots of plants are then placed in a dry and cool part of 
a green-house or back shade, where the fi'ost will not touch them. I 
allow them to remain there till the end of March ; I then cut off the 
the tops and turn out each pot of roots, these I very carefully divide 
with a sharp knife into four portions, keeping each part as entire as 
possible. The size of the pots I use are 24s. 
The retaining of these portions of roots entire is quite indispensible, 
in order to succeed in flowering the plants ; I have tiied them several 
times when the roots have been separated, but never could flower them, 
whilst on the other hand I never failed ; and I am of opinion that the 
failures In those I have seen at other places, ha^'e been either tlirough 
separating the roots, or by keeping the whole pot of roots entire and 
re-pbtting without any dividing of the ball, — in both cases there ^^'as 
^he same evil. The soil I use is a rich sandy one. 
