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60-sized pot ; or they may stand in the -cutting-pots until the 
first week in March, to be then potted off, and in these last 
pots they may remain until the first week in May, when they 
may be planted out in clumps or on the borders, as may be 
required. If specimens are desired in pots for adorning the 
greenhouse or conservatory during summer and autumn, they 
should be shifted the first week in March, from the 60-sized 
pot into 32’s; adding more loam and a portion of well-rotted 
dung. These will again require shifting in May into 12-sized 
pots, and in these they may be left to bloom. They will 
require, while growing, an abundant supply of water, and occa¬ 
sionally some liquid manure. 
If plants are to be raised from seed, it should be sown the 
last week in February or the first week in March, in pots or 
pans of very light soil, and placed in gentle heat where it will 
soon germinate. When all up, they should be taken out of 
heat, and placed under a cold frame, or on a greenhouse shelf 
to harden a little before potting off. Their treatment may 
then be in all respects the same as that recommended for 
cuttings. 
If these observations should, in the smallest degree, be the 
means of bringing this charming tribe of plants into more 
general cultivation, with a view to their improvement, the 
object of the writer will be gained. 
South Lambeth. 
ON THE NORTH-INDIAN SPECIES OF IMPATIENS 
AS BORDER PLANTS. 
There are scarcely any plants of recent introduction which 
can at all compare with many of the Indian Balsams for floricul- 
tural purposes, when they are placed in appropriate situations. 
Added to a very considerable degree of gaiety, and a floral 
structure of no ordinary curiosity, they possess a form and 
habitude which, I think, may be regarded as at once pleasing 
and majestic; the whole forming a coup-d'ceil of imposing 
beauty. Nor is the curious property of irritability possessed 
by the seed-vessels to be regarded as unworthy of notice; it is, 
