name for this variety, bloomed for the first time in 
the seed-bed, in 1848, and has also bloomed finely 
in the two succeeding seasons. 
In reply to our enquiries of Mr. Tyso, respecting 
his methods of propagation and culture, he has 
obligingly stated to us, for the information of our 
readers, that he makes several sowings of Ranuncu- 
lus seed, during the months of October and Feb- 
ruary. The risk attendant on the autumn sowing 
is greater than the spring, as the young plants re- 
quire to be wintered in frames, but the advantage 
in the size and strength in the autumn-sown tubers 
over those of the February or March sowings, is so 
apparent that he continues to sow largely in au- 
tumn. The tubers are taken up in July, kept in 
dry sand during the period of rest, planted in Feb- 
ruary in the open beds, an inch and a half deep and 
five or six inches asunder, and here they flower 
abundantly in June, so that the period from sowing 
to flowering is ordinarily about a year and three 
quarters. Seedlings blossom so vigorously and pro- 
fusely that they amply reward the diligent and per- 
severing cultivator. 
On a former occasion we figured one of Mr. Tyso’s 
seedling Ranunculuses, and he then obligingly sent 
us a detail, not only of his method of cultivating 
this plant, for flowering, but also the necessary in- 
structions for raising seedlings, which will he found 
in the Auctarium, under the 194th section, and to 
this article we would especially refer our readers. 
At the same time we would call their attention to 
the explanation of Mr. Cole’s practice in obtaining 
Ranunculus seeds. It is stated under plant 1211. 
