50 Method of Blooming the Triverania Coccinca. 
support from the Vine; and the result is, as I have l)efore stated, a 
much increased size of the fruit. 
It is a general remark, that in order to have the Tokay Grape to 
set well, a much greater degi’ee of heat is required than with any other 
kind:—under a different mode of treatment from mine it may he ne- 
cessary, but in my method of culture it is not requisite; 70 degrees of 
Fahrenheit, being the highest heat I allow the house to arrive at. 
The pruning of the Vine, both in summer and winter, is after the 
same mode of treatment I practise with any other sort of Grape. 
I am. Gentlemen, &c., &c. 
May 26th, 1831. Charles Parkin. 
Article II .—On a Successful Method of Blooming the 
Triverania Coccinea. (Cyrilla Pulchella) By an Ama¬ 
teur. 
Gentlemen, 
This most charming plant having never failed with me of 
annually blooming a profusion of large petalled brilliant flowers, 
whilst those cultivated by my neighbours, though growing freely, seldom 
bloom, and even then very meagre, I judge that my mode of treat¬ 
ment has something in it of merit, and deserving a trial; and through 
the medium of your new publication, I shall feel pleasure in convey¬ 
ing the mode of treatment to those who are, 'with myself, admirers of 
the plant in question. 
The mode of freatment I pursue is, as soon as the plants have done 
blooming I begin to be sparing of watering, gi'adually lessening the 
quantit)% so that in a month or six weeks, at the utmost, I desist en¬ 
tirely. The pots of plants are then placed in a dry and cool part of 
a gi'een-hoiise or back shade, where the frost will not touch them. I 
allow them to remain there till the end of March; I then cut off the 
the tops and turn out each pot of roots, these I very carefully divide 
with a sharp knife into four portions, keeping each part as entire as 
possible. The size of the pots I use are 24s. 
The retaining of these portions of roots entire is quite indispensible, 
in order to succeed in flowering the plants; I have tried them several 
times when the roots have been separated, but never could flowTrthem, 
w'hilst on the other hand I never failed; and I am of opinion that the 
failures in those I have seen at other places, have been either through 
separating the roots, or by keeping the whole pot of roots entire and 
re-potting without any dividing of the ball,—in both cases there w^as 
%e same OAnl. The soil T use is a rich sandy one. 
