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SARRACENIAS, AND THEIR CULTURE. 
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into another tree, but this tree not being so forward, the buds have not yet 
moved, though they seem all right. On the 4th of February I put into 
other trees buds of Rivers’ Beatrice, Early Rivers’, and Comet, and on late 
trees in the same house I purpose budding Lord Palmerston and Princess of 
"Wales. I hope in this way to extend the season of ripe Peaches at least a 
month from the early house, as well as gaining a greater variety of fruit 
Some of your readers may not be aware of the great facility with which 
the naked stems of old Peach trees may be filled with buds at the time the 
sap is flowing, and how easy it is in this way to secure better trees and 
a greater variety of fruit. The trees now operated on are planted out, and 
trained under the roof of the house. I may add that some years ago, trees 
on an open wall, operated on in this way, gave very satisfactory results. 
Studley Hoy at. John Clark. 
ON SARRACENIAS, AND THEIR CULTURE. 
iLTHOUGrH not having the gorgeous colours which many of the more 
fashionable plants usually met with in the stove or greenhouse 
possess, nevertheless there are few plants in cultivation more worthy 
of place than the Sarracenias, for unquestionably they are amongst 
the most curious of Nature’s vegetable productions; and when well 
grown possess a beauty of their own, which has the recommendation 
of lasting throughout the year. 
Having been tolerably successful in growing them, I propose to give a 
few hints on their general cultivation. As they are found indigenous in 
Florida and the adjacent regions of Temperate America, it is *at once 
obvious that they do not require, nor will they long exist in, that excessive 
heat, especially in the winter, to which we often see them subjected. 
Through the months of September, October, November, December, and 
January, I find that a temperature by night of 45° to 50°, and by day 50° 
to 55°, to suit them best. About the middle of February they show signs of 
growth; then I pot them, and increase the temperature about 5° day and 
night. By the middle of April I give them 5° more. Through May, June, 
and July I give them 65° at night, with a rise of 10° by day : of course in 
very hot weather the temperature will run higher, but they get plenty of 
air day and night. They are kept near the glass, and a thin shade is used 
in sunny weather. 
The mode of propagation is by division of the crowns with a sharp 
knife. The compost I pot in is good fibrous peat, broken about the size of 
pigeons’ eggs, to which are added one-sixth of chopped sphagnum, and 
sufficient silver sand and crocks, broken to the size of horse beans, to 
keep the soil quite open. On no account are the plants allowed to remain 
more than twelve months in the same soil, however fresh it may appear; 
