CULTURE OF GENERIA ZEBRINA. 
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White Edged. 
Hughes’ Pillar of Beauty. 
Clegg’s Crucifix. 
Popplewell’s Conqueror. 
Pott’s Regulator. 
Taylor’s Favorite. 
Glory. 
Incomparable. 
Wood’s Delight. 
Selfs. 
Netherwoocl’s Othello. 
Smith’s Mrs. Smith. 
Schole’s Cardinal de Fleury. 
Ned Lud. 
Dickson’s Apollo. 
ON THE CULTURE OF GESNERIA ZEBRINA. 
Sir, —As this lovely plant is likely to be in the hands of 
many for the first time this season, a few observations on its 
cultivation may not be unacceptable. The general manage¬ 
ment of it does not materially differ from that of other Gesneras, 
except that I would recommend a rather stronger soil; a com¬ 
post of turfy loam of a free texture, well-rotted leaf-mould, and 
light fibry peat, in equal quantities, with sufficient sand to keep 
the whole open, that the roots and water may freely percolate 
through it, is most proper. In potting these plants, it is too 
frequently the practice to retain a considerable portion of the 
old earth in which the plant has been kept through the winter, 
merely rubbing off the outside of the ball; this is decidedly 
wrong, because the earth, after having supported the plant for 
six months, and after that being thoroughly dried, in order to 
preserve the roots while resting, cannot reasonably be supposed 
to retain any nourishment. Yet it is into this the first-formed roots 
of the season will have to make way, and on it to depend for 
their first supply of food, before they can reach the outer stratum 
of new earth; meanwhile they are starving. I would theiefoie 
advise that the whole of the old earth, in which the plant has 
been kept through the winter, be removed when it is repotted 
for starting; and it is always preferable to put them into the 
pots they are intended to bloom in at the first shifting, as the 
roots are frequently injured by removal from one pot to another; 
