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mount with Delphinium formosum were ma- 

 na.ijed in a way which may be imitated in any 

 private garden. Between the Delphiniums 

 scarlet geraniums were planted, and the Del- 

 phiniums trained down. Then as the blue 

 flowers vanish, the scarlets take their place 

 without loss of colour a single day. This is on 

 the plan of chameleon planting proposed by 

 Mr. Hewlett in the Flobal World, 1860, 

 p. 253. 



Sagina PEOcuMBiiifs.— J". J?. — This certainly 

 makes a good turf, but it ia very inferior to Ihe 

 spergulas, owing to its coarse, gray appearance 

 when in bloom, and its dull green hue at all 

 times. Instead of sowing seed, we should 

 recommend you to uso tufts. Spergula sagi- 

 noides is in Messrs. Carter's hands, and at 

 their nursery at Forest Hill they have about 

 an acre of it. The geranium came smashed 

 and dried, and utterly beyond identitication, 

 ■which we regret. Send, as you propose, a 

 cutting with a head of bloom on it, with a cut- 

 ting of Sir Robert Peel fuchsia, and take our 

 thanks beforehand. Why your fuchsias drop 

 their blooms we cannot imagine, as you say 

 they are well drained and have not wanted 

 water. Perhaps you turned them out when 

 pot-bound, and with bloom-buds on them. 

 The ettbrt of working into new soil will some- 

 times cause the blooms to fall, just as newly 

 planted evergreens sh;ike their leaves oif as 

 soon as they begin to work. For the other 

 notes thanks. 



Greenhouse.— J", i?.— The temperature must 

 depend on what the greenhouse contains ; but 

 for such mixed collections as are generally 

 brought together, an average of 45' should be 

 secured. Say, during the severest frost, not to 

 go below 'do^. During bright sunny days, 

 plenty of air to be given, and no fire, unless 

 the weather is frosty, and then, with sun, the 

 temperature may rise to 50°. 



Fumigating Pastilks.— 5. ^ S. /S.— These are 

 perfectly safe and very elTectual. We should 

 think two would be enough for your hous?, 

 twenty-two feet by ten feet. They are manu- 

 factured by J. Keale, of Birmingham, and sold 

 by all the leading seedsmen. The appearance of 

 maggots in mushroom beds is ofteu tbe result 

 of gathering the crop by cutting, by which the 

 stumps are left in the soil, and undergo decay. 

 They should be gathered by a twist completely 

 to the root, and a knife never employed. You 

 had better destroy the old bed, and begin 

 again, there is really no means of eradicating 

 maggots, the other matter shall have at- 

 tention. 



TEnvs.—J. A. CMtferis.—Adhintwm affine, 

 under a glass shade, vnW require to be kept 

 moderately moist and aired two or three times 

 a week ; every day, if convenient, all winter. 

 Vr'e do not know Paimatia, it cannot be cor- 

 rectly named. Your " Ideanthum" we take to 

 be the above. 



Names of Plants.— iV. P.— Your plant is Bud- 

 lea Klobosa, a very nice shrub, which will pro- 

 bably bloom next year. The holly is Maderi- 

 cnav.— G. B. — The petunia was shrivelled up, 

 but we could determine it to be of no special 

 value, no better than hundreds of unnamed 

 seedhngs.— r. H. P.— The variegated plant is 

 the viiriegated Salvia pratcnsis ; the blue 

 ilower is Aster amelloides, or Cape aster. 



"TuE Garden Okacle" for ISGi will be ready 

 in the course of October, and will, as usual, 

 contain a description of new plants introduced 

 during 1881, and of novelties to be sent out in 

 1862. It will also contain lists of the winning 

 flowers of the past year, and selections of the 

 best flowers, fruits, "and ve,>eta!)les for decora, 

 tion, exhibition, and general use. In addition, 

 several novel subjects will be treated in a prac- 



tical manner, so to furnish the reader with a 

 faithful picture of the progress of horticulture, 

 and of its prospects at home and abroad. 



"Brambles and Bat Leaves." — The new edi- 

 tion of this work is in the press ; subscribers 

 will receive their copies ou the day of publica- 

 tioD, and subscriptions may be forwarded either 

 to the publishers, Messrs. Groumbridge and 

 Sons, or to the author. 



*^* A few rei^lies to letters received at the last 

 moment, wei'e unavoidably postponed. Our cor- 

 respondence increases so fast, that we must beg 

 our friends to write early. 



Pbeseeving Tom Thumb Geraniums. — A. T., 

 Slack-pool. — Tn the tirst volume of the Floral 

 World, p. 199, Mr. Hibberd gave an accoimt 

 of the way in which he preserved a collection of 

 geraniums, without the assistance of glass 

 structures, while waiting for their erection in a 

 new habitation, just after his removal to New- 

 ington. As that number (September, 1838) can 

 be purchased for fourpence, it would be as well 

 for you to obtain it, as the particulars of 

 management are given at length, and it would 

 be unfair to possessors of the whole of the work 

 to repeat them. Many persons keep their 

 geraniums in pots in windows very successfully, 

 and some turn them out of the jjots or beds and 

 tie them in bundles, and hang them head down- 

 wards in a dry room, where they only require 

 to be looked over occasionally, to remove any 

 miliiewed portions, and may be potted in 

 March, and placed in the windows. But a 

 better method is that of packing them in pots 

 and baskets, with sand about their roots as de- 

 scribed in the article named above. This keeps 

 the roots in better condition, and x'revents too 

 great a shrivelling of the stem. Many who 

 practise these methods lose a good many 

 plants through neglect of a simple precaution 

 and that is, to remove the whole of the leaves 

 from the plants first. 



Obituary. — We deeply regret to announce the 

 death of our respected friend and neighbour, 

 Mr. Alfred Kendnll, florist, of Queen Elizabeth's 

 Wallc, Stoke Is'ewington, one of the most suc- 

 cessfnl market growers in the neighbourhood 

 of London. Mr. Kendall died ou the 11th, at 

 the age of 65, and the circumstances of his 

 death demand mention as a warning to gar- 

 deners. While occupied in his business ho 

 wounded a thumb of one hand, and allowed 

 the wound to take its course. In a few days 

 he began to feel, what he thought symptoms of 

 a cold,, and Mr. 11. H. Cooke, one of the most 

 skilful surgeons of the district, was sent for. 

 Mr. Kendall then complained of cold in the 

 chest and sore throat, but Mr. Gooke happened 

 to discover that he had a thumb tied up, and on 

 examining it, he saw at once that his patient 

 was not suffering from cold at all, but was in 

 the fir.st stage of tetanus. He sought the co- 

 operation of Dr. Hutchinson, and the thumb 

 was amputated, being then in a dangerous 

 state. The patient, in the meantime, sunk 

 rapidly, and died a few days afterwards of lock- 

 jaw. Had he sought advice in the first 

 instance, the trifling injury to the thumb would, 

 probably, have caused him neither pain nor 

 danger ; the neglect of it was the cause of his 

 death. As a further remark on a subject of 

 vast importance to gardeners, we saw an 

 instance only a few weeks since, of a gardener, 

 who, in splitting some laths, m:uiea deep gash 

 in the top of the thumb of his left hand, so as to 

 cut downwards to the depth of oue-lhird of the 

 thumb-nail. He left his work and hurried to a 

 surgeon. The wound was skUfullv dressed, and 

 healed in less than a week. How small a 

 mutter may sulHce to determine our relations to 

 time, and strike the balance between life and 

 death ! 



