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them hanging for about three weeks, when they will begin to form 
callosities, I then cut them off and pot them out singly in small pots 
filled with light maiden mould, and one quarter of peat, placing 
them in a shady situation in the green-house, and giving them oc¬ 
casionally a little water. The reason I would prefer this mode is, 
that by striking a number of cuttings in one pot they make so very 
few fibres, and those so fleshy and brittle that they are liable to be 
lost in the potting. 
I beg also to add to Sage’s treatise on the Salvia splendens, page 
438, that I have them in flower the year round, by potting out 
the cutting singly into small pots, and treating them in every res¬ 
pect, as Mr. G. Harrison does his Pelargoniums, a system to be very 
much approved of; see page 102, except that the Salvia requires 
more heat. I also strike these cuttings very freely in water, along 
with the Nerium splendens, Asclepias (Hoya) carnosa. Lobelia 
dentata, with many others. 
I fully agree with Mr. Mearns’s ideas on the management of plum 
trees, as I partially follow the same treatment; the only precaution 
to be used is, not to thin the tree too much, least the shoots should 
grow too vigorous. 
Should these hints be deemed worthy of your notice, I shall feel 
pleasure in following them up, with such other observations of inter¬ 
est as may come before me. 
I wish your Register every success, and a more extended circula¬ 
tion among my brother gardeners, on this side the channel. 
Thos. Heary. 
Roebuck House, near Dublin, June 1832. 
ARTICLE IX. 
ON THE CULTURE OF THE BLE'TIA TANKERVILLLE. 
BY A GARDENER. 
Being possessed of a plant of the Bletia Tankervilliae which showed 
no inclination to flower, I concluded the soil in which it was potted, 
being of a very binding nature, was unsuitable for it; I therefore 
mixed some good rotten leaf-mould, with an equal part of peat earth, 
and after dividing the offsets, I put them in half peck pots; this was 
done a year ago last June, they flowered very fine last February and 
March. I covered the surface of the soil in which they grew with 
with moss, this is now very full of fine roots; the pots were well 
drained with broken potsherds, and were placed along the curb stones 
in the pinery and vinery. A Gardener. 
