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COLLECTIONS AND RECOLLECTIONS. 
COLLECTIONS AND RECOLLECTIONS. 
ARTCLE XVI. 
Culture of Erythrina Crista Galli. —As soon as the plants 
have done growing, which will he by the latter encl of August, cut 
them clown, and set them in a cool green-house, keep them quite dry 
till about the end of November, then pot in fresh loam, mixed with 
a third of sandy peat, and a sixth of road grit, the size of the pot 
must he according to the size of the plant. I ne’ier find that they 
require a larger sized pot than a 16; water and set them in a house 
where the heat is about 60 degrees. I have always had them flower 
in perfection with this treatment in March, and if cut down as soon 
as they have done flowering, they will flower a second time in July; 
and young plants struck in the autumn, flowering the following 
spring, when not more than a foot high. S. A. 
On the culture of the Polyanthes tuberosa. —This is a 
bulbous rooted plant, with light green linear leaves, four or five feet 
high, terminating in a spike of white or yellow flowers of great fra¬ 
grance. It is a frame or greenhouse plant, but will thrive and flower 
well in the open air. The tubers are annually imported from Italy, 
and the warm parts of America, hut R. A. Salisbury has proved, they 
they can he produced in our own country equally fit for flowering. 
Roots of the white variety may he obtained of the Nurserymen at 
about four shillings per dozen. There are two species and one variety 
cultivated, viz.—P. tuberosa, with single white flowers introduced 
from the East Indies, in 1629. P. tuberosa jiore plena, a double 
variety of the above, introduced shortly afterwards. P. gracilis, a 
pale yellow flowering species, introduced from Brazil in 1822; this 
is the most tender and valuable kind in cultivation. Plant the tubers 
in rich loam, in number 24 sized pots about the beginning of March, 
and plunge them in a hot-bed or pine pit; shift them into larger 
pots as their roots grow, until you have eventually placed them in 
number 12’s, in which size they should be allowed to flower. But if 
they are wanted to flower in the open air, keep them in number 24’s 
until the flower stalks appear, then plant them out without disturbing 
their balls, and place a hell or hand glass over them, and by this 
method they may he made to grow six or eight feet high and flower 
very beautifully. T. K. S. 
