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good rich loam and rotten dung", well pulverized ; they are not only 
greatly aided in strength, but also in the briUiancy of their colours, 
by the richness of the compost they grow in. — I am induced to re- 
commend to your notice this plant, as being one that every lover of 
flowers may excel in, and I believe that in no part of the kingdom 
have their perfection been more conspicuous, as in the town of Buck- 
ingham. You may see in twenty different parts of the town, a single 
plant fill a window ; and in one particular, a plant in the possession 
of a tailor, had a leading stem eight feet high, producing a mass of 
laterals, forming a most beautiful pyramid of flowers, measuring in 
circumlerence twelve feet. — The flower gardener requested to pro- 
duce the best show of flowers, could not exhibit a more imposing and 
striking appearance than with the campanula treated as above, and 
turned out into clum2)s, mixed with an equal number of the Lobelia 
s])lendens and fulgens brought forward in the hot-house in pots. It 
is much to be regretted, that this plant has been so long neglected, 
by the common mode of culture, it seldom exceeds three feet high ; 
whereas, if treated as above, it will commonly attain seven and occa- 
sionally eight feet, and be equally strong in proportion. — It may be 
necessary to add, that the plant when growing, ought frequently to 
be supplied with dung water. 
James Brown, Jun. 
Slowc Gardem, Jtnic lUl/i, 1832. 
ARTICLE XI. 
CULTURE OF THE GLORIO^SA SUPE'RBA. 
BY RUSTICl S. 
I AM induced from the request of your correspondent. Sage, to 
send the following account of a method of treating the Gloriosa su- 
perba, to make it flower freely. About the middle of January, the 
roots should be potted two inches deep in upright forty-eight pots ; 
the soil used for the purpose should be composed of one-half of loam, 
one quarter of leaf mould, and one quarter of peat, plunge the pots 
of roots in a frame or bark bed, where they will receive about eighty 
degrees of heat, water them very sparingly, until the shoots have 
grown a little. In the beginning of March, they should be shifted 
into a size larger pots, being careful not to break the balls, using 
the same compost as before ; then plunge them in a bark bed or 
