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should never enter the ground among 

 raspberries, except it be for the ex- 

 press purpose of rendering them 

 barren the ensuing season. The soil 

 in which they thrive best is a deep, 

 fat, retentive, and damp loam. In 

 the first instance, the soil should be 

 well manured, and in tbe month of 

 February in every succeeding year a 

 thick coat of half-rotten dung should 



be spread over the ground, but it 

 must not be forked in. Strong- 

 growing kinds are usually planted in 

 groups of three canes, each four feet 

 apart. I prefer to put in single canes, 

 and allow them to form good stools, 

 each complete in itself. A crop of 

 cauliflower may be taken off the first 

 season, and after that there should be 

 no more super-cropping of the ground. 



A SELECTION OF BULBS FOR THE PRESENT SEASON. 



hyacinths. Twelve Best Cheap Varieties, for 



Pots, Glasses, or Heels (costing 6d. 

 to 9d. each). — White : La Tour 

 d'Auvergne, Victoria Eegina. Eed : 

 Waterloo, Amy, Mons. Feasch, Eo- 

 bert Steiger. Blue : Blocksberg, 

 Prins Yan Saxe Weimar, Bleu Mou- 

 rant, Nimrod. Black : Prince Albert. 

 Yellow : Koning Van Holland. 



Hyacinths should be potted early ; 

 the soil for pot culture should be 

 one-half thoroughly decayed hot-bed 

 manure, a quarter part leaf-mould, 

 and a quarter part sandy loam. Pot 

 them with about a third of the bulb 

 above the soil, which increases the 

 amount of root room. The best of 

 all methods is to put fine bulbs singly 

 in 48-sized pots, and allow only one 

 spike to rise. Market growers put 

 three small bulbs in a 48, in order to 

 have a good bunch of bloom. In 

 32-sized pots, two or three good bulbs 

 may be placed. One good crock or 

 oyster-shell is enough for drainage. 

 Bury them all under four inches of 

 cocoa-nut dust or coal ashes as soon 

 as potted, and there let them remain 

 till wanted for forcing, or if not to be 

 forced, take them all out on the 1st 

 of February, and place in pit, frame, 

 or greenhouse. Any potted bulbs 

 kept in the plunge-bed after the 1st 

 of February will be likely to become 

 weakened through making free growth 

 in the dark. 



EAELT TULIPS. 



Eed : Cramoisie, Vermilion Bril- 

 liant, Couleur Cardinal, Monument, 

 Feu d'Anvers, Zongloed, Yan Thol. 

 Yellow : Marquis de Nesselrode, 

 Yellow Prince, Yellow Turnesol, 

 Yellow Eose, Grenadier. White : 



(s, single ; d, double.) 



Fifty °f Me Finest for Pot Cul- 

 ture (costing 6d. to 2s. 6d. each, 

 the majority averaging Is.) — White: 

 Bridal Bouquet, s ; Grand Vainqueur, 

 s ; La Candeur, s ; Madame Yan der 

 Hoop, s ; Prince of Waterloo, d ; 

 Eeine Blanche, s. Blush and Shaded 

 White: Bouquet Eoyal, d; Elfrida, 

 s ; Grandeur a Merveille, s ; Lord 

 Wellington,^; Norma, s ; Tubifiora, 

 s ; Yoltaire, s. Dark Eed and Crim- 

 son : Fireball, s ; Herstel de Yrede 

 (Paix d'Amiens) s ; L'Ami du Cour, 

 s ; Mademoiselle Bachel, s ; Milton, 

 d ; Mrs. Beecher Stowe, s ; Eobert 

 Steiger, s ; Sir Joseph Paxton, d ; 

 Von Schiller, s. Pink and Eose : 

 Alida Catherina, d ; Belle Quirinee, s ; 

 Chapeau de Cardinal, s ; Frederick 

 the Great, d ; II Pastor Fido, d ; La 

 Lame du Lac, s ; Lord Wellington, 

 s; Monsieur de Feasch, s; Queen 

 Victoria, s. Yellow : Anna Carolina, 

 s ; Alida Jacobea, s. Porcelain and 

 Light Blue : Blocksberg, d ; Cou- 

 ronne de Celle, s ; Grand Lilas, s ; 

 Porcelain Sceptre, s; Van Spejk, d. 

 Blue Shades : Madame Marmont, d; 

 Argus, s; Baron Von Tuy 11, s; Charles 

 Dickens, s ; Keizer Ferdinand, s ; 

 Orondates, s. Purple and Black : 

 Keizer Alexander, d; Mimosa, s ; 

 Othello, s ; Prince Albert, s. 



Twelve Finest New and Scarce 

 Varieties (costing 3s. to 7s. 6d. each). 

 — Florence Nightingale, s; Cavaig- 

 nac, s ; Howard, s ; Lie Prophete, s ; 

 Macaulay, s ; Princess Clothilde, s ; 

 Paix de l'Europe, s ; Bleu Aimable, s ; 

 Marie, s ; General Havelock, s ; Ida, 

 s ; Eembrandt, d. 



