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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



taken straight up without stop- 

 ping, and every bud should be re- 

 moved as soon as sufficiently pro- 

 duced to be got at with the point 

 of a small knife. In removing 

 the side buds, be careful not to 

 injure the bark of the stem, and 

 let all the haves remain. When 

 sufficiently high, let three or four 

 of the top buds remain and pinch 

 out the leading bud, and from 

 the side shoots thrown out pro- 

 ceed to form the head by succes- 

 sive stopping and tying out. The 

 first figure is a portrait of Mr. 

 Hutt's Cedo Nulli, which was ex- 

 hibited at East London, and other 

 shows last autumn, and reported 

 on in our monthly notes. We 

 have by us the dried plant of Bob 

 which was shown with it. In its 

 present dried state it measures 

 three feet four inches; when shown 

 it was about four feet over. Cedo 

 Nulli was photographed after 

 having appeared at some half- 

 dozen exhibitions, and of course 

 past its best. Our figure is a 

 faithful copy of the photograph. 

 This style of growth was in- 

 troduced by our esteemed con- 

 tributor Mr. Holland, in 1857, 

 and it is the most effective style 

 for the exhibition stage, or for 

 the conservatory in a low posi- 

 tion, as the plant presents its 

 whole circumference of bloom 

 to the eye at one time. Great 

 credit is due to Mr. Hutt for 

 the example he has set by his 

 indefatigable exertions and great 

 taste. 





Staudard, Mr. Astie. 



THE AMATEUR FLORISTS' GUIDE.* 



Mr. Slater, of Cheetham Hill, near 

 Manchester, has done the State some ser- 

 vice by the publication of the compact 

 little book bearing the above title. Mr. 

 Slater is an experienced cultivator and a 

 good judge, and a not wearisome, but 

 most agreeable and explicit writer. Above 

 and beyond the plain and practical in- 

 structions on the culture of all the favourite 

 florists' flowers, this work has an interest 

 of another aud a higher kind, arising out 

 of Mr. Slater's occasional speculations as 

 to the origin of varieties, hybridizing, 



and the relative values of certain strains 

 As the verbena is just now an important 

 candidate for attention, we subjoin Mr. 

 Slater's essay and list of best varieties. 



CULTURE OF THE VERBENA TOR BEDDING 

 AND EXHIBITION. 



The verbena was introduced from North 

 America in 1774, and it is truly remark- 

 able what great improvements have been 

 made in it within the last few years. Who- 

 ever has seen in our botanical works, the 

 first introductions, would be led to believe 



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