THE LADIES’ MAGAZINE OF GARDENING. 
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in the morning and to gather mushrooms for breakfast, with their own 
hands. It is also productive of good, in as far as it frequently leads 
to a morning walk, and consequently an increased appetite for breakfast. 
Thus, most beneficial results may arise from a few mushrooms being seen 
from the dressing-room window, growing on the lawn. 
Respecting this method, I may observe, the success depends chiefly on 
the season, as, if that should be very wet and cold, few mushrooms may 
be expected; on the contrary, should it be mild, with occasional warm 
showers, a plentiful crop is the general result. 
Sussex, 
January 13 th, 1841. 
ON THE CULTURE OF TREVIRANA COCCINEA. 
BY A LOVER OF GARDENING. 
In my present communication I would wish to draw the attention of 
your readers to that splendid, yet neglected plant, Trevirana coccinea , for¬ 
merly Cyrilla pulchelia. I say neglected, because I rarely see it where 
it ought to hold a conspicuous place, as one of the most beautiful of 
summer flowers ; I mean in the greenhouse. Possibly the reason may be, 
many persons believe it can only be grown and flowered in the stove : so 
those who have no such place, never attempt to grow it. Thus it is with 
many of our beautiful old plants; they are comparative strangers to our 
gardens, because we hear they are difficult to grow and manage, unless 
they receive some peculiar treatment, or be grown in some situation or 
soil which is beyond our reach. If any of your readers meet with a 
beautiful stove plant, and would wish to grow it, let me advise them to 
try it, although they may only possess a greenhouse; for I have proved 
that many plants generally grown in a stove, by proper management may 
be made to grow and flower well in the greenhouse, and some, I have 
good reason to believe, in the open air;—but more of this in some future 
letter. 
To return to the plant under consideration. I have had it flower 
beautifully in the greenhouse by the following treatment; and its splendid 
appearance has amply repaid me for what little trouble I have taken 
with it. 
In the beginning of March place a pot with the roots of last year’s 
plants just as they were dried off in a hotbed, previously giving them 
some water to moisten the dry soil; when the plants have grown an inch 
or more high, turn them out of the pot, shake all the old soil from their 
