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have the advantage of bearing transplanting without injury at any season 
of the year, though the best time is after they have done flowering. If 
I can but inspire others with the same enthusiasm that I feel myself, 
I am sure some most beautiful plants might be raised. 
April 28 th, 1841. 
REMARKS ON THE CULTIVATION OF THE RHODANTHE MANGLESII. 
BY MR. C. RICHTER. 
This comparatively new and extremely ornamental and beautiful plant 
is always classed among those that require particular care in their culti¬ 
vation, and the repeated trials that have been made of it confirm the 
assertion. 
The treatment, however, which I have adopted with this beautiful plant, 
proves that it is not by nature so particularly delicate. Allow me, there¬ 
fore, to give you some account of my method of raising it, which for three 
years has been attended with the utmost success. 
In order to prolong the enjoyment of seeing the Rhodanthe in flower 
longer than usual, I generally sow it three times a year; the first in the 
beginning of March, and afterwards in the middle of April, and in May. 
I sow the seeds in shallow, moderately-sized pots, about an inch and a half 
high, two, three, or four inches broad, and filled with an equal proportion 
of sandy peat and leaf-mould. I put in the seeds about an inch apart 
from each other in a circle round the pot, and not far from the margin. 
I then cover them with very sandy peat about a line in thickness, or 
with river or white pit sand; and I next give them a gentle watering with a 
watering-pot that has a fine rose, so that the mould may become set and 
be sufficiently moist. I put the pots containing the two first sowings in tan 
in a hotbed, or, what is better, in fir sawdust. This is not so necessary 
with the last sowing, and the pots may then be placed in a hotbed that has 
been already used. The seed will germinate in ten or fourteen days, when 
they should be kept in the shade and moderately watered; and after the 
cotyledons appear, which require some time till they are perfectly formed, 
the watering should be continued, the pot always being in the shade; and 
when the weather is mild, fresh air should be admitted every day, as it 
greatly contributes to strengthen the plants. 
As soon as one or two leaves have been unfolded above the cotyledons 
(according to the strengtli or weakness of the individual), these small plants 
should be removed with the greatest care to other pots filled with the 
