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pact bushes of them. This should be done at once ; and, directly the buds start, 

 and the young shoots are about half an inch long, take them up carefully, and trim 

 the roots a little. When this operation is performed, pot them in five-inch pots, 

 and use a compost of fibry loam, with the addition of a little rotten manure or leaf- 

 mould. Place the pots in a frame, and keep rather close fur a few days, and after- 

 wards give plenty of air. Keep them in a dry, airy place through the winter, 

 where they wii] get i)lenty of light. The greenhouse shelf is the best place. Early 

 in March, shift into eiglit-inch pots. Use good loam and rotten manure, in the 

 proportion of four piirts of the former to one of the latter. Give plenty of water 

 ■when they get into full growth. By attention to stopping [i.e., nipping out the 

 points of the shoots), and training, and other minor matters which will suggest 

 themselves to your notice, we have not the slightest doubt but you will succeed in 

 growing this chiss of plants in the most satisfactory manner. 



Amateur, Lee. — The best work on the Vine is one by Mr. W. Thomson, called, 

 " A Practical Treatise on the Grape Vine," published by Blackwood, price 5s. 



Stephanotis. — Tlie fern is without fruit, and cannot be named. Where Hoya 

 does well, Stephanotis ought to do well. 



Grouxd Vjneries.— In your present number a correspondent complains of the 

 failure of his ground vinery. I presume my experience on the same subject may 

 be acceptable. When your recommendation appeared, being a tolerable amateur 

 carpenter. 1 sent to the saw-mills for 14ft. \\-m. plank, with which I made two 7ft, 

 lengths 40-in. span, 28-in. slope, 20-in. high (outside measurement), under which I 

 placed two black Bumburgh grapes, one of which last year produced several bunches, 

 but, fancying ihere wus some appearance of oidium, I dusted the bunches with, black 

 sulphur. Tlie result was, they shrivelled up and withered in the autumn, I took 

 up the other vine to refilace one in greenhouse, putting in a white one. In the 

 ■winter I took the vinery to cover some ash-leaved potatoes, by which I had two or 

 three weeks' earlier consumption than my neighbours. After that I replaced the 

 vinery, and the black Hamburgh has under the first 7ft. length, to which it was cut 

 back, 27 bunches, a d has shot out ten feet of fresh wood. From an accident to my 

 foot my garden has been somewhat neglected, the bunches have not been thinned, etc., 

 as they ought to have been. I now propose, as soon as I am able, to make four more 

 7ft. lengtlis for potiJtoes, etc., in the winter, then bringing them back to their old 

 berth in tiie spring for the vines, and also for bedding plants, of wliicn I had this 

 spring a considerable number. With a difficulty to shelter them, 1 ought to say 

 that the vines merely lay on slates pegged down at intervals. I have never rubbed 

 out any buds, but curting back to one or two eyes. — T. R. J., Eltham. 



Yucca glohtosa after Flowerixg. — A Subscriber. — You had better remove 

 the old flower-srem as soon as the beauty of the flowers is past. If the suv^kers are 

 a fair size, remove them, and throw away the old stool. If small, leave them untU. 

 they are large enough to plant out singly. Nine inches or a foot in length may be 

 considered a fair size for planting out. Wlien we have had old plants in prominent 

 positions, with tuckers not large enough to take off, we have removed them to the 

 reserve ground, to perfect the growth of the suckers, instead of leaving them where 

 they look unsightly\ 



Potatoes making Second Gro-wth. — ^. W. A. G., W. B., Ten Years' Sub' 

 scriber, and several others.— Tak.Q them up at once, and spread them out rather 

 thinly under cover (or a {e\i: days before clamping them or pitting them. This will 

 harden the skin, which is not so ripe and tough as when they are left until the haulm 

 dies quite down. There is no necessity to let them get green, for they will not 

 require to be s^-read out long, and a few sacks or mats thrown over them will break 

 the lifrht. 



Name of Vi.kst.— Alice, Liverpool.— The flower bracts enclosed are those of 

 the beautiful Hougainvillea glabra, the freest bloomer of all the Bougainvilleas. It 

 requires a stove temperature to grow and flower it well. 



Grapes ix Gueenhouhe.— ?F. F. F., /SaZ/brrf.— The length and breadth of your 

 proposed border will do, but a foot in depth is not sufficient. It would always be 

 either too wet or too dry. You ought to have it at least three feet deep. If you 

 cannot maiage it in.side, make the border entirely outside. Perhaps thjit would be 

 the best in either case, and then there would not be much fear of its sufl'ering from 

 drought through neglect and forgetfulness. Plant the vine in October or November. 

 We should not interfere with the floor in the other compartment. 



