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The soil for their after-culture I should recommend to be rough, 
rich peat, made very sandy. If the peat is poor, a little light loam 
mixed with it will greatly benefit it. 3 he best time to shift them 
is the month of July. If the plants are not bushy, any shoots 
may be cut off at this time to make them so ; and, after shifting, 
they should be set out of doors in a similar situation to that 
which heaths, &c., would be set in ar this season of the year. The 
advantage of giving them a long period out of doors is so gieat, 
that I should be inclined to put them out before or by the middle 
of July, and an occasional watering with clear liquid manure about 
once a week during the spring and summer months will be found 
of great advantage to them. In winter, a dry and very airy part 
of the greenhouse should be chosen for them, as they are impa¬ 
tient of a confined atmosphere. Treated in this way, they begin 
to show colour by the end of January, and by March, are orna¬ 
mental enough to grace the conservatory, where they will be veiv 
beautiful till the season comes to remove them out of doors. 
“ J. Cattell.” 
. GLOXINIAS. 
§xu,—I wrote you last April on the success attendant on mj 
system of growing Thunbergia as a window ornament, and at this 
time I have one more luxuriant than at any time last season. 
I take this as an opportunity for naming the above; but my 
object is to state the success I have had in the growth of one of, 
as I conceive, the most beautiful, both in foliage as well as 
flowers, of our stove plants, viz. the Gloxinia; and, having 
an ungovernable desire to grow them, with the best accom¬ 
modation I could attain, I commenced with but a single light 
box, and bottom heat to start them with. I procured a bulb last 
autumn, and kept it in silver sand, in a cupboard in the house, of 
course free from frost and damp, until the last week in March, 
when I made a hotbed of about half a cart-load of stable dung, 
placing on my light, as is usual, and potted my bulb into a 
16-sized pot, in a compost principally of rough peat, or heath 
mould with silver sand, and a small quantity of old melon-bed 
