tide of an approaching summer, described by Bish- 
op Mant, in his British Months: — 
“As when the rising flood’s at hand. 
To one who loiters on the strand, 
’Tis pleasant by the ocean’s side 
To muse and mark the incoming tide. 
And count the billows of the deep 
As onward step by step they creep, 
Till one broad convex shield o’erlay 
With silver all the brimming bay : 
Ev’n so ’tis sweet, this vernal time. 
To mark the still advancing prime, 
How in her calm and creeping course 
Boon nature’s vegetative force 
Steals onward with resistless flow ; 
As promising erelong to throw 
A broad and bloom-embroidered robe 
Of verdure o’er the shining globe.” 
When the Houstonia caerulea is cultivated in pots, 
the proper soil is peat, or peat and loam, with one 
third part of sharp sand, and a good supply of drain- 
ers at the bottom of each pot. It requires to be di- 
vided in spring; and should then be put into pots 
of small size, and be removed into others of larger 
size for flowering, which may be expected to be lux- 
uriant in June. Some of the strongest plants may 
again be divided in august, and they will continue 
flowering till winter. The plants in pots should 
have frame protection, during the severe weather. 
The only care demanded by those plants which have 
been put out on rock-work, or peat beds, is occa- 
sional division, and a little attention to prevent their 
being lifted out of the soil by successive frosts. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 1, 235. 
