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house, and no trellis to support the stems, 

 which at most do not exceed a foot in 

 length, and are clothed with long, slender, 

 grass-like leaves. These leares are three 

 or four inches loug, narrow, and having 

 waved margins ; the corolla is very large, 

 of a line rose colour ; the tuba slightly 

 enlarged upwards, and expanding into the 

 broad, spreading limb. After flowering 

 the stem dies down. 



In the chapter on Orchises the follow- 

 ing European and American species are 

 enumerated as suited for culture in cool 

 houses, viz. : — O. longicornis, bifolia, sam- 

 bucina, spectabilis, morio, papilonacea, co- 

 nopsea, odoratissima, andfoliosa. Of Cy- 

 pripediums the following are also suited 

 for houses where there is but a moderate 

 amount of heat: — C. barbatum, insigne, 

 Irapeanum, venustum, Lowii, album, eau- 

 datura, arietinum, humile, spectabile, pu- 

 bescens, guttatuin, and ventricosum ; the 

 remaining divisions of the family have 

 each a section, in which the best species 

 arc enumerated, with accompanying hints 

 on their culture. 



The " Garden Botany" comprises all 

 the interesting hardy plants, native and 

 foreign, which lend their attractions to 

 beds and borders out of doors ; and the 

 subjects selected for illustration are such 

 as must tend considerably to revive a 

 love for some of the old favourites that 

 have been kicked aside iu the general rush 



after novelties. Here is the old Fuchsia 

 coccinea, true to the life ; the beautiful 

 Linum Sibericum, with its pale blue eyes ; 

 the gaudy Tritonia aurea, with its deep 

 orange tassels ; the gay Cistus ladanife- 

 rus, and Helianthemum variabile, Clema- 

 tis viticella, exquisitely drawn ; Magnolia 

 grandillora, not so good ; Dielytra specta- 

 bilis, Impatiens hortensis, and Calandriua 

 grandiflora, true to the life. The best of 

 the portraits is Passiflora cterulea. The 

 twenty plates in this work comprise 

 nearly a hundred examples, and it will be 

 as agreeable at this season to look them 

 over by the fireside, and so enjoy a second 

 summer, as in a few months it will be to 

 see the flowers themselves rejoicing in life 

 and beauty. 



The plan of each of these works is 

 botanical ; the plants are arranged in their 

 classes, according to Lindley's "Vegetable 

 Kingdom," and to each the LinnEcan class 

 and order are assigned. We know of no 

 more acceptable works to teach botany 

 by means of the examples furnished from 

 the Greenhouse and the Garden, which 

 together may be made to represent almost 

 every grade of life in the vegetable king- 

 dom. It should be added, that the text 

 of these works is written in familiar lan- 

 guage, and that all technicalities are 

 explained as they occur. They pos- 

 sess the additional merit of copious 

 indexes. 



CULTURE OP THE CIXERARIA. 



In a former number of the Floral 

 World (June, 1859), I proposed to give 

 the treatment of young stock of the Ci- 

 neraria. That promise I now redeem. 

 The Cineraria is an herbaceous plant ; in 

 its natural growth it comes to the stage 

 of blooming, perfects its flowers, ripens its 

 seeds, and the flower-stem gradually dies 

 down. It then apparently undergoes a 

 short season of rest. At this state of the 

 plant great care is required, in avoiding the 

 extremes of damp or dryness ; experience 

 has taught me to exercise great caution 

 in this particular, having, to my disap- 

 pointment, lost the best seedling that ever 

 came under my care, from want of proper 

 attention after blooming. When, there- 

 fore, the Cineraria has done blooming and 

 the flower-stem is dead, or nearly so, by 

 no means cut it off until a young growth 

 makes its appearance, otherwise it will be 

 a chance if the plant survives, particularly 



if it be a seedling. At this stage, a mode- 

 rate shift should be given to encourage an 

 extra action in the fibres, not by potting 

 deeper, or by top-dressing, but by such a 

 change as from 48 to 32-size pots ; every 

 prudent grower will have several plants of 

 the best kinds in that size pot, from which 

 to insure a choiceof healthy, vigorous stock 

 to start with. The season of preparation 

 will depend upon the time at which it is in- 

 tended they should bloom, and upon the 

 nature of the plant, whether it be of the 

 late or early flowering kinds ; from the 

 middle of April to the latter end of May, 

 the best bloom maybe obtained; after 

 which time, the flower becomes small and 

 unsightly. The best place for their re- 

 ception after blooming is, if in April, a 

 cold frame ; and if in the middle or lat- 

 ter end of May, at the back of a south 

 wall upon a bed of coal ashes or slates, 

 or any other bottom that will prevent 



