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Nina, Device, Delicata, Mrs. Norman, 

 Diadem, Excellent, Beauty of Bath, 

 Maria, Harlequin, Picturata, Cristabel, 

 New Criterion. 



HOILYHOCKS FOR EXHIBITION. R. B. 8. 



C. — The following are the best twelve, 

 and they will cost you five to seven 

 shillings a plant : Aeteon, rosy-buff ; 

 Countess of Craven, soft rosy-peach ; 

 Glory, rosy-red ; Lord Rokeb y, glowing 

 magenta; Mrs. M. Binning, deep rose; 

 Neatness, deep crimson; The Queen, 

 blush white; Alexander Shearer, deep 

 red-crimson; Countess of Stradbrooke, 

 canary and cream; David Foulis, rosy- 

 lilac; Golden Fleece, gold-yellow; Lilac 

 Perfection, lilac shaded with chocolate; 

 Primrose Gem, clear primrose. The 

 following are a superb twelve, which 

 will average three shillings each : Arna- 

 hilis, purplish-crimson; Annie Elphin- 

 stone, white; Cherub, cerise-salmon ; 

 Countess Russell, rosy-peach; Empress 

 Eugenie, French white; Euphrosine, 

 hlush and rose; Garibaldi, fiery- crim- 

 son ; George Keith, rosy crimson ; 

 Lord Loughborough, ruby; Prince Im- 

 perial, mulberry ; Queen of the Yel- 

 lows, yellow; Miss Nightingale Im- 

 proved, light sulphur. The following 

 twenty-four may be had at a shilling or 

 eighteen-pence each; they are all fine 

 exhibition flowers, though, as a whole, 

 not equal to the preceding: Advancer, 

 white and chocolate ; Amandine, pur- 

 plish-crimson ; Black Knight, maroon- 

 black; Beauty of Cheshunt, light rose ; 

 Beauty of Walden, rosy-carmine; Dulcis, 

 French white ; Flora Macdonald, prim- 

 rose; Flower of the Forest, shaded 

 lilac; Gipsy Queen, tinted blush; Hon. 

 K. Neville, pure white ; Hon. Mrs. 

 Ashley, lilac ; Illuminator, scarlet-car- 

 mine; John M. Lindsay, crimson; Le- 

 viathan, bluish-purple ; Optima, pale 

 straw; Pourpre de Tyre, purple; Walden 

 Masterpiece, orange-salmon ; William 

 Dean, rosy-salmon; Solfaterre Improved, 

 pale yellow; Queen of the Whites, 

 white; Purple Perfection, purple; Prince 

 Charlie, shaded purple ; Perfection, 

 deep blush, silvery edges; Ossian, bright 

 crimson. There is a good selection of 

 the best fifty in the "Garden Oracle" 

 for 1865. 

 Cineraria maritima and Cerastium, — 

 Codex. — Cineraria maritima is a hardy 

 plant, and on elevated positions, where 

 the soil is chalky, it will survive the 

 winter. But in gardens it is generally 

 taken up and potted, with liberal drain- 

 age, and may be wintered in a frame or 

 pit. It may be propagated either by 



seeds or cuttings. The cuttings do not 

 root quickly, but if a thousand were put 

 in there would not be the loss of one, if 

 in three parts sand, and only kept 

 moderately moist. We propagate it all 

 seasons without bottom-heat, but in 

 April is the best time for novices. 

 Cerastium tomentosum may remain out 

 all winter, and be taken up in the spring 

 and divided. If wanted in quantities, 

 the young tops may be struck either 

 with or without the help of heat. 



Fuchsia fulgeks. — Z. Z. — This fine old 

 fuchsia, the parent of some highly- valued 

 varieties, is not half so much grown as 

 it ought to be. In these days of foliage 

 decoration it ought to come into a good 

 place, for the sake of its fine leaves. It 

 is one of the easiest of things to grow. 

 There can be no better way of managing 

 it than to plant out young well-rooted 

 plants in a moist bed, enriched with a 

 good deal of leaf-mould and well-rotted 

 cow-dung. There let them grow and 

 bloom as they like, and in a dry season 

 give plenty of water ; it can hardly have 

 too much if the drainage is good. At 

 the end of October take them up, cut 

 them close over to the crown, and stow 

 their roots in boxes with some poor 

 sandy soil shook well amongst them, and 

 keep just moist enough to prevent 

 shrivelling. Put the box on the top of 

 a flue as soon after Christmas as you 

 like, and keep it there till the roots 

 throw up new growths, from which take 

 as many cuttings as you want, and strike 

 with a pretty good bottom-heat. These 

 will make fine pot plants, which are 

 to have good shifts as they require it, 

 and a saucer to each for water after the 

 middle of May. The roots from which 

 the cuttings have been taken may be 

 potted, and got hard by May to be planted 

 out again. Clumps of four or five 

 plants together in the front of a mixed 

 border look fine. For all other purposes 

 it may be grown the same as any other 

 fuchsia. 



Oleander and Daphne. — It. Tolling. — 

 Oleanders rarely do well unless started 

 in a moderate heat in spring. The best 

 time for pruning is after they have 

 finished their summer bloom. Perhaps 

 the plants suffer for want of water, with- 

 out plenty of which they are sure to 

 decline. All the Nerium tribe bloom on 

 shoots of the previous year ; therefore, if 

 cut back now, you will lose the blooms 

 of this season. Close pruning is the 

 only remedy for a " straggling appeai - - 

 ance." Your daphnes ought not to be 

 turning yellow — surely there must be 



