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The Floricultural Cabinet and Florist's Magazine J . / If/l/ff/r/ />l n ~/l '/'//// / ' the floricul: CABINET FLORISTS' MAGAZINE. JANUARY TO DECEMBER, 1843. VOLUME XI. CONDUCTED BY JOSEPH HARRISON, DOWNHAM NURSERY, NORFOLK. LONDON: WHITTAKER AND CO., AVE MARIA LANE. 1843. LONDON: Printed by William Clowes Mid Sons, Stamford Street, PREFAC E. In our annual address to the readers of the Floiucultural Cabinet, we are aware it is expected of us to point out in the volume completed the accomplishment of past promises, and state our purposes as to the future ; also to express our gratitude for the unceasing encourage- ment which has heen afforded us, and mention the sources we rely upon for perpetuating and extending the countenance with which we have been through another year so extensively and liberally favoured. By referring to the prefatory remarks of last volume, our readers will find the recorded promises we made, and in glancing over the pages of the present one, they will obtain a truer opinion of their fulfilment than we can allow ourselves here to express. We hesitate not however to say, that the present volume is equal in every point to any previous one, and that, as a Floral publication, our work not only stands on an eminence far beyond any other in point of cir- culation, but in the subjects introduced into its pages as to their real utility. To attain this elevated position, we are deeply sensible that it has been by the generous aid of a Floral Public; and in order to retain this advancement, we look especially to them, and most respectfully solicit a continuance of their aid. For the past, we beg again to record our grateful sense of obligation to them, and our utmost exertions shall be directed to render each successive Number worthy of their continued confidence and support by adopting every available means for maintaining, what has heretofore been our aim, viz., increasing interest and usefulness. The repeated kindness of our correspondents and readers encourages our hopes for future assistance, and thus supported we know will lay us under additional obligations to be grateful ; we pledge to give the proof by our exertions. Downham, December 22nd, 1843. THE FLORICULTURAL CABINET, JANUARY 1st, 1843. PART I. EMBELLISHMENTS. ARTICLE I. TROP.EOLUM AZUREU.U. (Blue-flowered In Han Cress.) TllOPJEOLEiE. OcTANDIUA MoNOGXNlA. The existence of a blue-flowered Nasturtium was first communicated to this country by Mr. Miers, in the account given of his travels in Chili. A few years ago the existence of a blue Nasturtium was con- sidered impossible, from the fact of its being asserted, and the generally-received opinion, that any genus of plants having in it a pure yellow flower, no blue-flowered one could, by any possibility, be produced ; and on the opposite, where a blue flower existed in a genus there could not be a pure yellow. It is very uncommon that a genus, that has bright-red, or orange-coloured flowers, has one with blue. Leschenaultia was for some years only known in this country with the fine scarlet flowers of L. formosa. At length, however, Mr. Drummond discovered, in the Swan River settlement, the beau- tiful blue-flowering L. biloba, which is now so deservedly esteemed, and deserves a place in every greenhouse. In Nasturtium we have long had flowers of the purest yellow, and now those of as fine a blue as the Siberian Larkspur. We may now indulge the expectation of having a blue flowered Dahlia or Ranunculus, or a yellow Pelar- gonium, &c. The present interesting blue-flowered Tropaeolum was discovered by Mr. William Lobb, a collector employed by Messrs. Vcitchs, nurserymen, of Exeter, at a place called Cucsta Dormeda, about sixteen leagues from Valparaiso, in February, 1842, who sent tubers Vol. XL No. 119. b ; 2 ON FORMING WAX MODELS OF FLOWERS. to Messrs. Veitchs, which arrived in Jane ; and a blooming plant was exhibited at the meeting of the London Horticultural Society, on October 4, for which the Society's large silver medal was awarded to Messrs. Veitch and Son. We recently received beautiful flowering specimens from our respected friend, Mr. Low, of the Clapton nursery. The plant appears to nourish under the same treatment as T. tubers to a tricolorum ; flower as abundantly. In order to get the fine size, they must, for a year or two, be placed on the soil, so that one-half is exposed, which causes them to swell rapidly ; but when of a sufficient size to push vigorously, they should be wholly covered about an inch deep, which causes the shoots to push much stronger than would be produced if the tubers were half exposed. Care must always be taken to have a small pot, and, as we noticed in a former number, it must be cased by another, filling up the space between with damp sand or moss. A compost of rich sandy loam, turfy peat, (only chopped,) and leafy mould, with some pieces of broken pot or stone scattered among it, suits it admirably. A free bottom drainage is most essential. The tubers usually begin to push by September they should be potted therefore at the end of August, then be placed in an open, sheltered, warm situation in the open air, where they will grow far more robust than if placed in a greenhouse. When the cold of autumn arrives, they must be removed to a dry, light and airy situation in the greenhouse, where they will come into bloom early in spring and be ornamental till July. In order to have others to come into bloom when these are over, tubers should be kept dormant till spring and then be potted, and the plants will bloom to the end of the season. The plants bloom best when the tubers rest in summer. It is readily increased, like T. tricolorum, &c, by cuttings taken off before the plant begins to flower. It deserves a place in every greenhouse. ARTICLE II. ON FORMING WAX MODELS OF FLOWERS. BY A LONDON PRACTITIONER. Observing a correspondent in the Cabinet ask for information on the method of taking wax models of flowers, I forward the particulars ; ON FORMING WAX MODELS OF FLOWERS. 3 of that which I have most successfully adopted with numerous kinds of the finest flowers. It is requisite to have a piece of wire about three inches long pointed at one end, and with a round knob of sealing wax, about a quarter of an inch diameter, at the other, so that it resembles a very large pin ; and three or four small smooth rods of wood of different sizes ; these with a penknife or scissors are the only tools ; have also some very thin tin or brass to cut up into patterns, some wire of different sizes covered with silk for stems, and some sheets of wax of requisite colours ; thus furnished, set to work. Take a natural flower, as, for example, a primrose, which consists of a green cup or calyx, inside which are five petals, or straw-coloured flower leaves, and in the centre five stamens. Pluck the flower to pieces, and after flatten- ing each part either by putting it between the leaves of a book, or under a warm flat iron, cut out of the thin tin patterns exactly similar to the calyx (allowing here a little to fold over when bent afterwards to the proper shape) and one of the petals. Then laying those upon the wax lengthwise of the sheets, cut out the calyx and the five petals. Take a piece of proper-sized wire for the stalk, and cut five narrow thread-like strips of dark yellow wax for the centre, which fix on the top of the wire by the hard pressure of the thumb and finger; these being on regular and firm, fasten on one of the petals in the same manner by pressure ; then a second petal, a third, fourth, and fifth, putting them regularly round and bending each where it joins the stem outwards, so that when completed the flower shall be flat. If the wax should be brittle, hold it in the palm of the hand for a minute the warmth of this will render it so pliant as to yield readily to any pressure given to it. The petals being fixed, warm the calyx by the hand, and form it into a proper shape on the end of one of the little round and smooth rods of wood before mentioned ; slip it on by the lower end of the stalk, and when in its proper position, pinch it tightly round the end, which will fix the whole together, and the flower will be complete, except a few touches of a darker yellow, near the centre, oil colours or water- on the petals ; this may be done either with colours mixed with ox-gall. flowers that require no more All this is easy ; and there are many care than this, such, for example, as the violet, the snowdrop, the crocus, the polyanthus, the narcissus, the hyacinth, the tulip, the b2 4 OX FORMING WAX MODELS OF FLOWERS. laburnum flower, the pink, &c. In some of these, however, there are several florets ; each must be made separately, and the thin wires of each tied together by green silk. The petals of the ranunculus and tulip are hollow, so they are in the rose, and usually in the crocus ; their shape is given to them easily by the finger thus—hold the wax petal in the hand till it is pliable, then roll the central part of it with the sealing-wax end of the wire pin, which will, of course, expand it somewhat, then press it with the point of the fingers into the hollow of the hand, which will make it of the requisite concave form.
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