'0 Reviews and Extracts. 
(hey were sown in. The bed is well forked up, one foot deep, every four or fiye 
days, and watered with water of the same temperature as the heat in the frame, 
in order to keep the dung' in a strong moist heat, the pots being constantly kept 
plung-ed up to the rims, until the plants attain their full g-rowth. They require 
but little water, which is always given over the heads with a fine rose watering- 
pot. In the middle of the day, when the sun is out, the lig'hts are closed for 
about a quarter of an hour, and the plants thinly shaded ; observing at all times 
to admit double the quantity of air, for about a qiuirter of an hour previous to wa- 
tering. The heads of the plants are kept near the glass, and the temperature of 
the frame to 75 degrees. 
As soon as the plants have rooted sufficiently, and before the roots get matted 
together, they are put into full sized 60 pots, using the same sort of compost as 
before, they are to remain in these pots until they have formed their heads, when 
the strongest plants and best shaped combs are selected, and potted in 48-sized 
pots, using for the Jinf ittne the prepared compost of turf, &c. After the comb is 
formed, he never allows the roots of the plants to get entwined, but when they are 
sufficiently rooted be removes them into 32&, and lastly into 24s, where they com- 
plete their growth, and will retain their heads perfect for several months, by 
receiving a diminished quantity of water, and being removed into the green-house 
or conservatory. 
Page 304. — Art. 16. — A Mode of grmv>n<:; Balsams to great Perfect ion, hy Mr; 
James Reid, Bridgewater Nursery. 
The writer informs us, he collects the seed from the finest and most double flowers ; 
he then selects the smallest or middle-sized seeds, and rejects all the large ones, 
baving found that they generally produce plants bearing single and scjii-double 
flowers. About the 20th of February make up a hot-bed of well prepared hot 
dung about tlirce feet high, for a small single-light frame. After the ranknessof the 
<hmg has passed off, the frame is to be filled with good rich mould, to within about 
six inches of the glass; and about the first of March the seeds are sown, covering 
them about a quarter of an inch. When they are up they should not be allowed 
to stand nearer to each other than three or four inches, giving them abundance of 
air when the weather permits, and keeping a good growing heat in the bed. Co- 
ver at night with double mats, leaving on a little air when the steam is any way 
rank. As soon as the seed is sown, he makes up another bed to hold a frame pro- 
portionate to the quantity of plants grown. — When the rank steam of this bed is 
worked off, three or four inches of coal ashes or sand is laid on, for the plants to 
stand upon when potted, he then pots them in 60-sized pots, which he considers 
quite large enough for tlie first potting, taking care to keep them watered and 
shaded when requisite, as also covering up at night as before ; when grown suffi- 
cient to remove into larger pots, he makes up a third bed, and places them in this, 
treating them as before. After the plants have grown to as large a size as the 
third frame will admit of, thej are then finally potted in pots of from ten to twelve 
inches in diameter at top, and set in the pine stove or green-house for flowering, 
giving abundance of water in warm weather, twice a day; by this management, 
Mr. Reid says he has grown them from five, to five and a half feet high, completely 
feathered down to the pot, and with most beautiful double flowers. 
Page 30.5. — Art. 17. — ObsenHtfions on the Cult n re of American or Jiog- Plants, 
and the Orchid.cw, with some Hints on Acclimatising Exotics. By Mb. Thomas 
Applebv, Horsfortb Hall. 
The writer says, " The care of a gentleman's garden in this neighbourhood, 
devolved upon nie some years ago, in which was a large bed of American plants 
