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succession, I flower them in various sized pots. Plants in small 
pots do not remain in flower so long as others in larger pots, but 
produce seed more freely. Their season of flowering can oe pro¬ 
longed by frequent applications of liquid manure. I generally 
had a succession sown, and treated as other tender annuals; but 
I found they never made the fine short-jointed tree-like plants as 
the others already mentioned, which is caused by the rapid growth 
they make, becoming long-jointed and unsightly. For the last 
succession, I sow Schizanthus Hookerii and S. Humilis. Humilis 
is best adapted to succeed Hookerii on account of its compact 
growth. These should be classed with biennuals, as they floveied 
with me the second year better than the first, io be kept rather 
dry and in the greenhouse during winter. When removed to the 
drawing-room, to be frequently turned round, to allow the genial 
influence of the sun to act in succession upon all sides of the plant. 
Edward Morse. 
Exotic Nursery, King’s-road, Chelsea, 
April 13, 1841. 
ON ERIC^E. 
BY MR. R. plant. ( Continued .) 
Tribe IV. Rhodoracea:. —In this tribe is placed that most 
splendid genus the Rhododendron , which may indeed be termed 
the Monarch of the Parterre, the King of the Conservatory; 
for whether we regard it when covered with its brilliant 
masses of splendid flowers, or when deprived of them by the 
envious finger of seasonal changes — it is the same noble¬ 
looking plant—it wears the same appearance of innate (if I 
may so speak) superiority—and in point of durability, it may- 
claim to rank with the Cedar of Lebanon and the Oak of 
Britain; in short, among Shrubs, in my humble opinion, (and in 
that I am not singular,) it certainly has no compeer. And what 
still more enhances its value is its equal applicability for both the 
conservatory and flower garden ; it is equally at home, either in 
the most rich and costly collections of plants, or when placed in the 
midst of the little plot devoted to flowers in the cottager’s garden. 
Among all the species, Arbor ea still stands proudly pre-eminent ; 
and although varieties are raised every season, yet none of them 
surpass, or even equal it. They do not, (I will not say cannot, 
