.381 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION, March 3, 1857. 
very weak, with eleven leaf-stalks, and no sign of bloom, it 
was removed from the vessel, and weighed forty-two grains 
five-tenths. From the plan of the glass pot it will be seen 
that the distilled water, after its passage through the pot, 
could be examined as to any alteration in its quality. It 
was so tested, and with 
Litmus. No reaction. 
BrazilWood. None. 
Prussiate of Potash . None. 
Muriate of Baryte. None. 
Nitrate of Silver. Very slight. 
In one of the same glass pots filled with peat and loam 
three Lupine seeds of the same weight were planted and 
watered with cistern-water each day, and on the twentieth 
day from planting broke ground; only one was suffered to 
grow, which was strong and healthy, and on the fortieth 
day from its breaking ground had twelve leaf-stalks, with 
six to seven leaves each. Twenty days after it showed for 
flower, and being taken up weighed 192 grains five-tenths. 
April ‘28th, 1843.—Planted three Lupine seeds, two grains 
weight each, in the pure earths; watered them with a 
solution of guano (one ounce to twenty ounces of water) ; 
continued the watering to the 14th of June without any ap¬ 
pearance of the plants, examiued the earths and found the 
shells of the Lupine seeds, the whole of the pulp in the 
interior having disappeared. 
June 30th, 1843.—Planted twenty Mustard seeds in the 
pure earths, watered them with distilled water, and on the 
Oth of July two of the seeds broke ground very weakly; 
continued the watering, and on the 7th two more appeared ; 
continued tire process until they gradually decayed, which 
took place in a few days. 
October Oth, 1843.—Planted three Lupines in the pure 
earths as before described, watered them with solution of 
sub-carbonate of ammonia (half an ounce to one quart of 
water) ; continued tire watering with the same solution for 
thirty days without any appearance of the plants, examined 
the earths, and found the Lupine shells. 
October Oth, 1843.—Planted three Lupines in the pure 
earths, watered them with a solution of muriate of ammonia 
(half an ounce to one quart of water); the plants not ap¬ 
pearing after thirty days, examined the earths, and found the 
shells of the Lupine seed. 
April, 1844.—Planted three Lupines, two grains each, in 
the pure earths, in which thirty grains of guano had been 
well mixed, watered them, and continued to do so every 
other day, and on the fourteenth day one Lupine broke 
ground, and on the sixteenth day the other two appeared ; 
continued the supply of water when required, and on the 
11th of June, as some of the leaves were faded, gave 
twenty grains more of guano as a top dressing; in the 
course of three or four days it was evident that the top 
dressing had improved the leaves, except the faded ones, 
which never regained their colour; continued the regular 
watering, and on the 15th of July they began to show for 
flower; on the 25th they were removed from their glass 
pots, and the roots shaken out from the adhering earth. 
The three plants weighed together 200 grains. 
A, 
B, 
0 , 
103) 
49 
48 
r 200 
April, 1844.—Planted three yellow Lupines (two grains 
weight each) in the pure earths, in which thirty grains of 
Daniell’s Manure had been well mixed, watered them, and 
continued so to do every other day. On the 19th of April 
one broke ground ; kept up the supply of water, and on the 
10th of June gave a top dressing of twenty grains more of 
Daniell’s Manure, as the plant had always been of a stunted 
growth. On the 21st of July, as it had not improved, it 
was taken up; it weighed fourteen grains. 
April, 1844.—Planted three Lupines, two grains each, in 
the pure earths, well mixed with thirty grains of soot; 
watered them, continuing the supply until the 14th of 
April, when the whole three broke ground and grew well. 
On the 10th of June gave twenty grains more soot as a top 
dressing; though the soot remained, without apparently 
mixing with the earths, yet the plants improved by this 
treatment, and on the 25th of July showed for flower. 
Upon removing them and shaking out the earth from the 
roots, the three weighed 215 grains. 
A, 98) 
B, GO 
C, 57. 
215 
April, 1844.—Planted three Lupines, two grains weight each* 
in the pure earths, well mixed with thirty grains of nitrate 
of potash ; watered, and the supply kept up until the 10th 
of June; no appearance of a plant; the earths then ex¬ 
amined, and the shell or covering of the seeds found empty. 
The same experiment as the last, only thirty grains of 
nitrate of ammonia mixed with the earths, the same result 
followed. The shells or covers of the seed left weighed 
one grain five-tenths .—(Horticultural Society's Journal.) 
LIMNANTHES ROSEA. 
Raised from seeds brought home by Mr. Hartweg in 
1848, and said to be found in swampy places in the Sacra¬ 
mento Valley, California. 
A prostrate succulent plant, with all the habit of Lira- 
nanthes Douglasii. The leaves are extremely narrow, and 
sometimes have no side lobes; in other cases they are 
pinnate or even somewhat bipinnate. The flowers are a pale 
dirty rose colour, and stand on stalks much longer than the 
leaves. Each petal has its base bordered with long hairs. 
It is a hardy annual, and requires the same treatment as 
Collinsias and Nemophila insignis. If sown in the autumn, 
it flowers in May; if sown in the spring, it flowers during 
the summer. 
| It is tolerably pretty, but of less interest than L. Douylasii. 
