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But where a succession of bloom is desired, we would recommend 
that a stock of young plants, reared from cuttings—which are always 
preferable to the divisions of the old plants—be kept in pots, and 
planted out at various seasons ; say October, March, and June. 
For the first planting choose a warm sheltered border ; for the 
second, a free open space ; and, for the June planting, select a 
shady border, where the plants, without being under the drip of 
trees, will be shaded by their foliage from the intense and burning 
rays of the sun. 
If the circumstances of soil and situation are thus favourable, 
the pansy may be retained in bloom during eight months in every 
twelve, and will produce its beautiful flowers with a very mo¬ 
derate share of attention. In conclusion, I may, perhaps, as a 
cultivator of the pansy, be excused, if I briefly state the reasons 
which induce me to think that, of all the florist flowers, excepting 
perhaps the geranium which is a greenhouse plant, the pansy 
merits the most extensive patronage. And, first, it is easy of 
cultivation; secondly, its blooming season is greatly prolonged. 
The tulip, ranunculus, pink, carnation, &c. are difficult of culture 
and very uncertain, often disappointing the most assiduous care; 
and when brought to perfection, we are scarcely aware of their 
presence before they prepare to depart. And even the dahlia, 
whose constitution fits it for a prolonged season of blooming, is so 
susceptible of cold, that in our climate it is often cut down ere it 
has arrived at its full perfection. Far different is it with the 
pansy, which amply repays the comparatively small amount of care 
and expense bestowed upon it, by a long-continued succession and 
redundant profusion of its beautiful flowers. 
ON THE CULTURE OF STANHOPEA. 
BY MR. DON. 
This is one of the most natural and interesting of orchideous 
genera, and singular in the formation of its flowers. I say natural, 
because the greater portion of the genera of orchidea are a mass of 
confusion, as they are at present constituted. Unless botanists 
pay more attention to the outward forms of orchideous plants, and 
