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nice little plants. To save seed, a few plants should be turned out 

 in a clump in the Idfcchen-gardeu, for those in the beds ought to 

 have the iiower-stalks nipped out directly they make their appear- 

 ance, or the effect will be spoilt. The common double white Pyre- 

 thrum makes fine beds, and is a capital substitute for white 

 verbenas in the north, where the latter do but little jrood. 



Messrs. E. Gr. Henderson and Son, St. John's Wood, did good 

 service in introducing another first-rate golden bedder, namely, 

 Fuchsia Golden Fleece. This will require shelter in much the same 

 way as the other bedders. It is a grand thing for first and second 

 rows, as it has a fine dwarf branching habit, of about six or nine 

 inches in height. Amateurs and others who have a fair knowledge 

 of propagating plants (and there are very few people that have any- 

 thing at ail to do with garden work that cannot manage to strike a 

 fuchsia) will find it the cheapest plan to get a few plants at once. 

 A stock of this, for bedding out in the spring, can then be secured 

 without much expense. Supposing half-a-dozen were purchased 

 now, almost any quantity could be struck for bedding out in spring, 

 and there is this advantage — the true plants can be had stronger 

 now ; for the nurserymen are bouad to force some things within an 

 inch of their lives, to get up stock sufficient to meet the demand. 

 A better time than the present cannot be chosen for getting in a 

 stock of this. If the plants should be pot-bound when they come 

 to hand, shift them at once into larger pots, using the ordinary 

 fuchsia compost, which should consist of two parts good turfy loam 

 and one part each of decayed manure and leaf-mould. After the 

 roots begin to extend themselves into the fresh soil, if there are any 

 side-shoots, take them off, as well as the tops, and insert in pots 

 filled with loam and leaf-mould in equal proportions, and a liberal 

 sprinkling of silver-sand, with a layer of the latter over the surface. 

 Through the winter, keep the plants rather dry at the roots ; and, 

 about February or March, if the assistance of a little heat, such as 

 is aflTorded by an early vinery, cucumber-house, or stove, can be 

 had, place the old plants in it, and gradually increase the supply of 

 water ; and, as fast as the young shoots are made, take them off and 

 insert them in pots as before. But as they will be much more 

 tender and delicate, it will be well to cover the pots with bell- 

 glasses, or place them under a handlight until they are rooted. 

 Guard against keeping the glass over them too close, or very pro- 

 bably a large proportion will damp off. Pot off as fast as they root, 

 and take a crop of cuttings of these directly they are grown suffi- 

 ciently ; but bear in mind that nothing will be gained by cutting 

 the young plants up too much. If the soil is very poor where 

 they are to be planted out, fork in a little rotten dung, for fuchsias 

 do little good in poor, hungry soil. 



I never had any very great partiality for Lolelia Paxtoniana. 

 The colour is not sufficiently distinct, when seen from a distance. 

 The large white eye blends with the ground colour, and gives the 

 flowers a greyish blue colour that is anything but satisfactory when 

 used as an edging plant next the grass. But we have some grand 

 self-coloured varieties now amongst the new ones, or with but small 



