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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



means were at hand, by taking it up in a ball, 

 putting a piece of canvas round the roots, re- 

 moving all the leaves, and then slinging it up in 

 some dry place. Or we would keep it in a pot 

 out of doors all the winter long in a sheltered 

 place, except during heavy rains and frosts, and 

 at such times it would not perish if put in a 

 cellar for a week or so at a time. We can sym- 

 pathize with your desire to keep it, but we can- 

 not advise you to do other than adopt one of 

 these three plan*. 



Camellias for Windows.— J". P.— Here are a 

 few that will suit you, and you must treat them 

 as recommended for greenhouse culture, with, 

 of course, such modifications as window ma- 

 nagement will compel. You must take care to 

 sponge the leaves frequently with tepid water, 

 and to syringe them once a-day at least, when 

 they begin to grow after flowering. When you 

 buy them, let the nurseryman understand that 

 they are for window culture, and ho will (or 

 should) let you have plants that will not need 

 repotting for a couple of years. Aitoni, Alex- 

 ina, Beali, Conmata alba, Double Bed, Exiruia, 

 Imbricata, Jeffersonii, Montironi, Nitida, Op- 

 tima, Saccoi. The value of varnished cotton as 

 a protector all depends on the skill with which 

 it is used. Some people can keep geraniums 

 and other bedders as if by magic, withtho most 

 flimsy contrivances imaginable. As you are a 

 beginner, we advise you to trust only to glass, 

 with thatched hurdles to go over during frost v 

 weather. 



Damp Ward tan Cases.— /. Z.— Your ferns ought 

 to bear the opening of the case, and if they 

 are accustomed to have air they will yet used to 

 it and cease to turn mouldy". Mould never 

 appears among well kept plants unless the air is 

 stagnant. There ought to be a ventilating slip 

 of perforated zinc, or something of the same 

 kind all round the top of every fern case. You 

 cannot have read the Floral World with much 

 attention to be able to strike no more than one 

 in twelve of cuttings, and no choice geraniums. 

 There is no need of Wardian cases at all to 

 strike cuttings of ordinary bedding plants, and 

 by keeping yours at so high a temperature you 

 half cook them before they can make roots. 

 Strike geraniums during summer in the full sun 

 out of doors, and fancy ones in shallow pans 

 filled with sandy stulf on a top shelf of a green- 

 house. We strike dandy and all the miffy fancies 

 that Way, and let them stand in the cutting pans 

 all winter. You must give more air and less 

 water, and all will come right. 



Siliceous Stone. — Lady D.— Mr. Bansome's 

 address is, Patent Stone Works, Ipswich. The 

 London offices and show-rooms, are at Cannon 

 Row, Westminster, and there any information 

 respecting the imperishable stone cau be ob- 

 tained. 



Variegated Alyssum, etc.— A.B.— Plants from 

 cuttings struck in spring are better than those 

 struck now, and grow quite fast enough for 

 bedding. Small plants of rhododendrons to be 

 planted in masses should have about a six-inch 

 space between the circumferences of their leaves. 

 This space they will cover in the next year's 

 growth, and the sun will thus be screened from 

 their roots and they will flourish. In gun- 

 barrel budding the incision is made on the stem 

 instead of on a branch of the stock, and the 

 stem being stouter will take a larger shield, 

 and hence buds for this sort of work must be cut 

 from plump shoots. You are mistaken in sup- 

 posing there should be an additional cut such as 

 those at the bottom and top of the letter I, the 

 incisions should be in the style of this sort of 

 T, that is, no cross cut below. 



Orange-tree.— S. J. C— The leaves you send 

 are in no way injured, but they indieatc a 



state of poverty in the trees. The soil had 

 better be removed from the top of the tubs, as 

 far down as it can be loosened away without 

 harm to the roots, though if a few surface fibres 

 are cut away it will be no matter. Fill in with a 

 mixture of turfy loam and old cow-manure, 

 rammed in hard, and the new soil will soon be 

 filled with fibrous roots, and the trees will re- 

 new their health. The fine fruit you have now 

 is the result of the strength they acquired 

 under your gardener's management. I'oten- 

 tilla has a calyx of five lobes, a rose-shaped 

 corolla of five petals, tube of the calyx not en- 

 circling the fruit, the drupes arranged upon a 

 common receptacle — Linn., 12 Icosandria, 3-Tri- 

 gynia. 

 "Wall Plants. — Sob. — Greenhouse: Tacsonia 

 mollissima, Passiflora Loudoni, Ipomcea ficifolia, 

 the larger flowered Clematis azurea, Campto- 

 sema spleudens, Kennedya Marryattse, Har- 

 deubergia macrophylla, Mandevilla suaveolens, 

 and Doliehos lignosus. Hardy : The Pyraca- 

 tha, Clematis montana and Hendersoni, Capri- 

 folium sempervirens, gratum, and flexuosum, 

 Chimonanthu* fragrans and grandiflorus, 

 Glycine sinenis, Bignonia radicaus, Passiflora 

 cserulea, jasmines and magnolias. Of climb- 

 ing roses, Boursault, Bose de Lisle, Bougain- 

 ville, Jaune Desprez, Buga, Blairii, and the 

 Ayrshire roses, will answer your purpose. 

 Greenhouse-heating. — Original Subscriber — Tho 

 best method for your house is by using a 21-inch 

 saddle boiler, and connecting 4-inch iron pipes 

 with it to circulate quite round the house, and 

 as there is plenty ot room to sink the furnace, 

 we advise it being sunk sufficiently to allow of 

 the pipes being inserted in a groove, and covered 

 with an iron grating even with the floor of the 

 house. Connect two pipes with the flow from 

 the boiler by means of a syphon bend, carried 

 past the door into the garden along the 

 front, round by the door leading from the 

 drawing-room, and then along the back into 

 the boiler by means of a sypbon bend con- 

 nected with the return pipe. This plan will 

 be the cheapest and best for the inhabitants of 

 the drawing-room as well as the inhabitants of 

 the greenhouse. We have marked on the plan 

 the course of the pipes, and will forward it if 

 you like to send a directed envelope. 

 Various. — P. It. Q. — Thanks, a sketch would 

 oblige. — II. S., Larkfield. — Your asplenium is 

 triehomanes, and you missed it in the book be- 

 cause the figure at page 182 shows it in the 

 crenated form, but yours has the pinnae entire. 

 The triangular frond is Polypodium dryopteris, 

 the lanceolate frond is Polystichium angulare, 

 var. subtripinnatum. Glad to hear of your suc- 

 cess in rooting buds of roses. A great many of 

 our readers send similar reports. In a hot 

 season they will root much quicker than they 

 have done this. — A. W. — The practice of plant- 

 ing orchard-trees in the border is a good one, 

 provided the trees are lifted every year in 

 November to prevent rank growth and promote 

 the formation of fruit spurs. That cats run 

 over tifl'any-houses is horrible, most horrible, 

 and makes our hair stand on end. Well, we 

 must use some sort of chevaux de frize, or 

 reduce the feline population. — Zebra. — Wc 

 answered each of your inquiries. We cannot refer 

 to your letter, because we destroy all that have 

 not real names as soon as they have been at- 

 tended to.— Postmaster.— The "lateral bulk is 

 the test of value, not the height. Pay for it at 

 the rate of five shillings per foot, measured 

 through the base. Best moved iu March, but 

 may be moved now, and must be in a dry po- 

 sition, and no maunre till beginning to grow in 

 the spring. 



