The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-01-10 00:00:00

HORTIC'ULTURE.

STOVE,CONSERVITORt, &c..—Watering is always neces.
sary to growing plants, but the operation requires more
judgment than many persons suppose. Amateurs, espeei.
ally, oftener destroy favourite plants byoevr-kindness than
neglect, and many. a much-valued fuchsia or geranium has
been kept in beauty all the summer and autumn, only to
be lost in the winter, and the loss set down to frost, when
the real cause has been too much water, keeping the plant,
by its excitement, from the state of rest which is both
natural and necessary to it at this season. This is well
known to practical gardeners, but even they often forget
that those plants which are now naturally in active
growth, such as camellias, &c., require a regular but very
moderate supply of water, too much being more injurious
than too little ; this rule also applies to plants which are
now in perfection from having been forced.
FLOWERING OF NELUMBII73IB AT MONTPELLIER--
The Revue Horticole contains an article extracted from
the Gardener's Chronicle on the flowering of these two
species in Lancashire, and observations upon the same
subject by M. Martins. N. luteum flowered in water hav-
ing a temperature of 75°, whereas N. speciosum did not
develope its flowers till the temperature of the water was
raised to 86°. At Montpellier these two species flower
perfectly well every year in the open air, in wooden tubs
or stone troughs, the water in which is only heated by the
sun's rays ; but N. luteum generally flowers about the end
of June, whilst N. speciosum does not do so till the middle
of July. There is usually an interval of 20 days between
the flowering of the two species. This fact was furnished
by the intelligent gardener who has grown them since
1835. It supports what has been observed in Lancashire,
and proves that the Nelumbium from North America
requires less heat for flowering.thanthe one from India.
The temperature of the water in which these two species
flower never exceeds 77° in the day ; at night it always falls
9' or 10°. In winter the Nelumbiums are placed in three
different situations. Those which are planted in the stone
troughs remain in the open air ; the water is let off so that
the rhizomes are buried in a thin mud ; the water is re-
placed by leaves so as to fill the trough, which is then
surrounded with a heap of leaves. The other Nelumbiums
grow in the large wooden tubs are removed, some
into a greenhouse, and others into the orangery. In the
greenhouse, the temperature frequently falls to 46° in the
clear, cold, winter nights ; and in the orangery it is some-
times only 4or 5° above freezing ; but these compara-
tively low temperatures are of short duration. Still in
spring, when the tubs are again removed into the open
air, the Nelumbiums, which were kept in the greenhouse,
are observed to come into leaf before those which were
wintered in the orangery or out of doors. These species
would doubtless remain perfectly well all the year in the
open air, in the south and west of England.

Tna TOTAL CAPITAL of the banks of Scotland amounts
to £13,000,000, or about £5 per head of the population ;
while the capital of the Irish banks is only about
N 5,000,000, or 180.8 d. per head.

TIIEgbAY, JANUARY 10, 1854