CULTURE OF HYACINTHS. 
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So much for llie culture of this gem, which is the more valuable as 
it well endures the heat of 70 to 90 in the stove, or the changeable 
climate of a room. As to the propagation, I deem it a matter of al¬ 
most no concern, much less of trouble. Take a 48 sized pot, place 
moss or chip draining an inch deep in the bottom, fill the pot nearly 
with a soil of equal parts, heath-mould, sandy-loam, and decayed 
vegetable soil; equal parts of these. With a little cylindrical stick, 
make as many holes, 2 inches deep in the soil, as there are cuttings 
to be planted. Take off these cuttings at and across a joint, say the 
third from the top, where the wood is firmish : remove the lowest 
pair of leaves at the bottom, but retain all the others, and, as a gen¬ 
eral principle, never remove a leaf that is, or can be left above ground. 
Things being thus prepared, pour as much silver sand into each hole 
as will let the cutting go down, till the next pair of leaves touch the 
surface ; then fdl the hole with the same sand; moisten the surface 
to fix the cuttings, and arrange them by gentle pressure, to admit of 
their being covered with a tumbler glass. Press the rim of this glass 
the tenth part of an inch into the soil, and then, if possible, plunge 
thr pot into a leaf or tan bed of 75 to 80 degrees. 
I never knew a cutting to flag, or a leaf to drop till it had done ils 
office, nor a plant to fail. I have dwelt at large on this simple sub¬ 
ject, speaking much more of minutiae than I have ever attended to 
in practice, because I wish ever to lay open the causes of all the na¬ 
tural effects that I am describing. A young beginner had always 
better be too precise than otherwise, since he then will become self- 
taught, and acquire definite ideas, while he attains certainty in prac¬ 
tice. From these motives the worthy conductor, Nanto and other 
readers, will I trust excuse the prolixity of this detail. 
ARTICLE VII. 
ON THE CULTURE OF HYACINTHS, 
BY E. ESBURY. 
As I have not vet observed in the pages o( the Horticultural 
Register, any detailed method of cultivating the Hyacinth, I send 
you an abbreviation of a paper on the subject, by the Honorable and 
Reverend William Herbert, (from the 4th volume of the Horticul¬ 
tural Transactions) which, as it contains an account of the Dutch 
method of management, and as the author is known to be a skilful 
cultivator of bulbous rooted plants, may be considered fully sufficient 
for the successful cultivation of these beautiful flowers in England. 
