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nature in any one species must be ascertained by observing its 
progress under different modes of treatment, and following out 
that mode which is found to answer the best. 
We have made these remarks quite general, and expressed 
them as plainly as possible ; but when the bloom of the year is 
over, we shall in all probability take up a few of them, and treat 
them more at length. In the meantime we continue to invite all 
“ Tyros” to question us as much and as often as they please, for 
though we may not be able to solve their difficulties, we shall get 
some of our cooperators to do it efficiently. 
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EXPERIMENT ON THE GLOXINIA. 
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
Sir,—I beg to call the attention of your readers to the fol¬ 
lowing experiment on the Gloxinia, which fully proves that 
though certain stated rules may be good under general circum¬ 
stances, yet we may be sometimes justified in departing from 
those rules, however generally approved ; and also how thoroughly 
necessary it is that every cultivator should exercise his own 
judgment and abilities, not only towards the maintenance but 
the improvement of his charge. 
The Gloxinia, in the natural arrangement, occupies a place in 
the order Angiospermia; and in the Linnean, Didynamia Gym- 
nospermia. The treatment usually applied to this plant is the 
same as that of other bulbous-rooted stove plants, namely, a 
season of growth and a season of rest: this rule, though good in 
a general sense, may, in this instance, be safely laid aside. The 
method by which I have been enabled to grow this beautiful 
plant to great perfection is this : as soon as the plant has completed 
its summer’s growth, which is usually about August, instead of 
the old method of drying it off, I immediately repot it in very 
sandy peat, with a good drainage ; place it in a warm part of the 
stove, keeping it moderately watered all winter, by which means 
I gain an additional season of growth ; in fact, the plant continues 
to grow the whole year through, and this without weakening or 
causing any injury to the plant. In February I repot it again, 
