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COLLECTIONS AND RECOLLECTIONS. 
method of cultivation will be evident to all. Great care should be 
taken to raise the bulbs as soon as the flower-stalk and leaves begin 
to decay; and they should be kept in an airy situation, not too 
dry, until the time of planting .—Irish Farmers' and Gardeners' 
Magazine. 
Culture of the Pelargonium _When the object is to produce 
abundance of plants, or to cause the plants to grow in the greatest 
luxuriance, plant them in rich friable soil, in a sheltered sunny situ¬ 
ation, in the open ground, in the beginning of May ; they will soon 
push out shoots, which may be slipped off when two inches long, and 
each planted in a halfpenny pot, (thimble,) and placed in a moderate 
hotbed, and shaded, where they will strike directly. They should 
not have any air given to them for a week after they are put into 
the frame. 
The slips may also be planted in the open ground, in a shady 
border, in June, July, or August, where not one in a hundred will 
fail to be rooted in a month after they are put in ; they may then 
be potted in penny pots, (sixties,) and removed into the frames, 
green-house, or window of a dwelling-house. They must not be too 
much crowded, or they will lose their lower leaves and branches, and 
be “ drawn neither must they have much water ; a little may be 
occasionally given to such as appear dry, and abundance of air must 
be admitted every fine day. Pelargoniums are very impatient of 
frost; the frame must, therefore, be well secured by hay, straw, or 
mats. In March, let the plants be shifted into twopenny pots, 
(forty-eights,) using always the richest loanCwhich can be procured, 
and from this time forward supply them with abundance of air, light, 
and water, and the flowers will amply recompense the trouble. 
Preserving Pelargoniums through the Winter _Those 
who have no other way of preserving them during the winter, may 
take the plants out of the border at the approach of frost in Autumn, 
and having shaken the earth from the roots, hang them up, head 
downwards, in a cellar, or other darkroom, where they will be secure 
from frost. The leaves and shoots will become yellow and sickly; 
but on being planted out, the latter end of March, or as soon as the 
frost is over, will very soon recover their greatest luxuriance. 
Another Method of Preserving Pelargoniums _Take off 
slips in September, and plant them in a mixture of three parts clean 
sand, and one part light loam, in a large pot. The pot should be 
better than half filled with gravel, or broken bits of pot, before the 
compost is put in ; it may then be filled with slips or cuttings; and 
those at the margin of the pot, if not the whole of them, will readily 
