By this time the greater part of Gloxinias will be going to rest, and thus little remains to be done in their cultivation this year. The object of the grower will now be to pay such attention as their dormant state requires. It is not at all conducive to the future welfare of the plants to allow them to get into such a dry state as to induce the bulbs to shrivel, for it often causes many of them to decay at the time when they should be excited in spring. During rest, too much care can not be taken to prevent the access of frost to the bulbs; they are very sensitive of its influence, showing the sad effect of it upon them when they are again to be brought into active vegetation; for if the least degree of frost have reached them, many will be entirely killed, and should any of them escape destruction, they will flower in a very weak, unhealthy state, and probably die during summer. In fact, they never ought to be exposed to a temperature under 40° Fahr. The back shelf of a stove is an excellent dormitory for them; but where that cannot be had, a warm dry press in a dwelling-house will be found a good place to store them away during winter.

Having got them safely through their season of rest, then active cultivation may commence, and where a succession of these beauteous and elegant flowers is required, they may be excited into growth at different periods, beginning about the first week of February. They are of the easiest culture, and within the reach of any person wishing to have such lovely additions to their summer flowers. Indeed, considering their easy management, it seems strange that plants possessing; as they do, such attractiong are not greater favorites; as no class of plants can be more useful, during the long period in which they remain in perfection, for the decoration of the stove, the green-house, the drawing-room, and they are even well suited for window culture. In starting the Gloxinia into new life in the spring, the pots containing the bulbs are to be taken from their winter quarters, and placed in bottom-heat of between 60° and 70°. The stove, a warm pit, and where these can not be had, a common hot-bed under frames will suit them very well; and so extensively might these beauteous flowers be cultivated, that even the cottager, with his frame heated with any fermenting material, could command a fine bloom of the Gloxinia. When in flower the plants must be shaded from the midday sun, and, if possible, bees must be carefully excluded from them, as they seem particularly fond of their beautiful bells, and in their search for honey scratching the soft delicate epidermis of the flower, and scattering it all over with the white pollen it contains; thus tarnishing the color, and depriving the bloom of that freshness which all flowers when grown in perfection ought to have.

When the season of flowering is past, the plants must be gradually dried off, and then be returned to their winter quarters. The increase of this lovely tribe is of the easiest management, as a single leaf, with or without a bud at its base, cuttings of shoots, or detached offsets from the bulb, stuck firmly into damp sand, and placed under a hand-glass in bottom-heat, will root in a short time; and where a larger increase is required, a leaf eut into many portions, and treated as above mentioned, will produce plants, but the most interesting way of obtaining plants is from hybridized seed, which, if sown in early spring, will give an abundant crop, most of them flowering the same summer, and as their opening blooms expand it will be most interesting to watch the many hues of colors the seedlings will display. - Scottish Florist.