The cultivation of the variegated palmate Violet 
re(juires hut little comment, for if due attention be 
given to shading it after transplanting, it may be 
divided at any time of the year, but 'when the cul- 
tivator has the choice of season, spring and autumn 
are of course to be ])referred. A cool situation and 
light soil suit it admirably. 
We may here, not inappropriately, add a few ob- 
servations on the Viola odorata. The plant known 
as the Neapolitan Violet, is a mere variety of the 
Viola odorata, or common sweet-scented Violet, and 
is superior to every other for forcing. It is double, 
but paler coloured than the common one. It is 
valuable, inasmuch as its flowers may be obtained 
in the winter season, by the following mode of cul- 
ture. In May take young plants from the runners ; 
or cuttings may be struck under a hand-glass a 
month earlier. Plant them on a nursery bed of 
light rich soil, six inches apart. At the end of July 
a bed should be prepared to correspond with the 
size of a spare cucumber or other frame which must 
be used for protecting the violets during winter. It 
should be composed, to the depth ol a foot, of fresh 
loam, decayed leaves, peat, old hot-bed manure, 
and sand; or of such of these as are convenient,so as 
to form a rich light compost. Adjust the frame to 
the bed; transplant the Violets, with balls of soil 
about their roots, six inches apart within the frame. 
If it be preferred the frame may be dispensed 
with till the end of September, when it should be 
fixed over the plants, and the lights used when cold 
nights ensue. Give air during fine weather, and 
protect securely against frost. 
Don’s Syst. Bot. v. 1, 321. 
