614 EXTRACTS — FLORICULTURE. 
LIST OF NEW AND BEAUTIFUL PLANTS FLOWERING THIS MONTH, 
AT MESSRS. RONALDS AND SONS, BRENTFORD. 
Salpiglossis integrifolia Pontica tricolor 
Sedum azureum Flamicolor 
Azaleas Splendida 
Pontica alba Speciosissima 
- globosa Coccinata 
■ odorata Amaenissima 
• nivaKs Gloria mundi 
caerulea Splendens 
revoliita Lepida 
maxima Pulchella 
erecta Exquisita 
lut^a caerulea Insignis 
cruenta Rubra aurfese 
multiflora Guillielmus primus 
compacta Formosa 
aurantiaca Maratima incarnata 
pallida Venustissima 
calendulacea Mixta triumphans 
laxa 
Treatment of the Verb^ena, &c. — As the plants of Verbena Melindrcs 
(Chamaedryfblia, Sweet,) seldom survive our winters even if taken up from the 
borders and potted. We have found it the safest waj' to take off a number of 
young rooted plants from the old stools and plant them in small pots in a 
mixture of about equal parts of loam, peat, and sand ; the pots are set in a cold 
frame placed in an airy sitiiation facing the south, having a floor of sand about 
four inches thick for the pots to stand upon, and by allowing plenty of air, and 
keeping them moderately moist, they seldom appear sickly, and rarely die. 
We potted about one thousand last autumn, and scarcely a dozen have perished. 
The Maxjra'ndia Barclayuna should be sheltered in a greenhouse or con- 
servatory during winter, potted in light loam and peat, and kept regularly 
moist, if cut quite down, it seldom breaks strong again, and consequently rarely 
or ever looks healthy afterwards ; the most approved method is to raise young 
ones from seed, which is ripened in abundance, as the old plants scarcely ever 
thrive well longer than two or three years. 
The Cob^^a sca'ndens will do very well if placed in a pit or frame during 
winter, and kept moderately moist ; it is better not to cut it down in winter, if 
it is even necessary to cut it in, let the operation be performed in the beginning 
of spring, let some young plants be raised annually from seed. — Conductors. 
On Raising Annual Flower Seeds. — After sowing the patch of seeds and 
covering it with fine moist soil, place a garden-pot inversely over it : this remains 
till the seeds have struck root, when the pot must be raised two or three inches ; 
keep it thus supported for a few days, and then remove it entirely. The pot not 
only tends to keep the soil moist, bnt the sun heating the pot, the seeds come 
up much more quickly than otherwise they would do, in consequence of which 
