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On the Cultivation of the Ranunculus. 
uiiiverir'al favf)ritea as window })lants, any mode of preserving them 
fioni entire destruction by the winter, must, 1 should think, be ge- 
nerallv interestins-. 
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I remain. Gentlemen, 
> * Yours, &c., 
Duffield-Bankf October dth, 1831. O. Jewitt. 
Article IV .—On Preserving the Roots of the Geranium^ 
through the Winter, By A Practical Gardener. 
Gentlemen, 
The following method of preserving through the winter, 
the more gross and succulent sorts of Geraniums, such as the Large 
Scarlet, &;c. is, I believe, but little known. 
On the approach of frost, take them out of the ground; in doing 
wiiich, carefully avoid injuring the roots, wash off all the earth, and 
hang them up to the ceiling of a good under-ground cellar, with the 
roots uppermost. In the spring, they will have made some yellowish- 
green unhealthy-looking shoots. When the frosts are over, they are 
to be re-planted, and protected at night, and from cold winds, by 
mats, or by turning a basket over them, until they have resumed their 
w'onted healthy appearance. 
The above method, must prove particularly advantageous to the 
numerous persons who have not the use of a conservatory; and wiio 
hap])en, like myself, to think that Geraniums never appear so orna¬ 
mental as when growing in the open ground;—and certainly much 
more beautiful and natural, than those long-legged sickly exotics, that 
w^e frequently see drawm-up in straight lines, in a hot-house. 
I am. Gentlemen, yours, &c. 
A Practical Gardener. 
J^ewport, Isle-of-Wighti Sept, othy 1831. 
Article Y. — 0?i the Cultivation of the Ranunculus. By 
An Admirer of the Ranunculus. 
Gentlemen, 
Seeing in your Register, for September, that you wish for 
some information in growing and flowering the Ranunculus,—and ob¬ 
serving in how few places, that beautiful flower succeeds,—rl send you 
the details of the method I took, about tw'elve years since, in making 
my beds:—my flowers, have, w ithout any attention except what wall 
