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the inside of the pot, giving no water till about a fortnight afterwards, 
i. e., according to circumstances, and maintaining the same steady 
bottom heat as previously deposed. The atmospheric temperature 
should always be kept a little in advance. When the plants begin to 
grow they should be encouraged by every available means, syringing 
often, and increasing the temperature as the necessity of the season 
demands, keeping the air about them in a perpetually moist state. They 
should be allowed to ramble at pleasure, always bearing in mind that 
much of the success in flowering depends upon the full allowance of 
natural freedom to the plant while growing, and when in this state 
liquid manure water made from cow-dung should be administered in a 
clear state, never suffering the plant to languish for want of moisture. 
By the middle of June the extremities of the shoots will be set with 
flower buds, at which season a trellis or other support should be 
applied, still keeping a brisk moist heat about it till expansion of the 
inflorescence takes place, when the plant may be removed to a stove, 
whose more reduced temperature will prolong its flowers. At this 
period a superabundance of moisture must be avoided, and as the plant’s 
development is attained so must water be gradually withheld, and 
altogether arrested when the stems begin to assume a yellow appear¬ 
ance and decay takes place. At this juncture a dry artificial heat, 
aided with abundance of air and sunlight, is indispensable to properly 
ripen the bulbs, which, when effected, should have a pan turned over 
the top of the pot, and stowed away upon a back shelf or similar place 
in a warm stove while dormant. 
If young plants are wanted, the only practicable way of getting them 
is to divide the tubers, taking care this is done lengthwise, severing the 
primary eyes situated at the end, as it is only from these incipient eyes 
that growth is attained, although upon inspection many indentations 
are visible: still they are abortive, nor do I think these pseudo eyes 
are capable of reproducing plants, or have the power of producing 
adventitious buds, even under the most advantageous circumstances. 
Northampton. J. R. T. 
NEGLECTED FLOWERS. 
Under this title, how many desirable old favourites might be 
included, which are well nigh doomed to extinction by the more popular 
varieties now claiming our all but exclusive attention. That this 
neglect is in many instances unmerited, may be illustrated—to 
commence—by the Marvel of Peru. 
To ask who now grows this is useless, not having succeeded in getting 
one affirmative reply to my many enquiries ; and a border of them 
grown by the writer appeared to the many who inspected them a 
a marvel indeed. With the hope of restoring it to favour, and to 
the many situations for which it seems so fitted, let us see of what good 
qualities it is possessed. To do this the more readily I will describe 
the plants jnst alluded to. The colours were crimson, red, white. 
