96 THE FLORIST. 



and then, or green-fly is very apt to attack the tips of the shoots. 

 For its destruction I use snufF and sulphur in equal parts mixed to- 

 gether, dusting the shoots with it when quite dry. I often dust 

 them with this mixture, even if 1 see no signs of the enemy, as pre- 

 vention is better than cure. 



By selecting bulbs all of one size, i. e. bulbs that will throw up 

 three or four stems each, I secure specimens possessing from fifteen 

 to twenty stems ; and by treating them as above, I get from twelve 

 to eighteen blooms on each shoot, thereby producing from two to 

 three hundred blooms on each plant, which is not more than three 

 feet high, with fine large foliage down to the pot. I remove them 

 to the greenhouse about the end of August, when they keep in bloom 

 all the autumn months; and as they go out of flower, I place them 

 under the stage of the greenhouse, laying the pots on their sides ; 

 but I do not cut off^ the stems until the end of December, when I 

 remove all the surface-mould down to the crowns of the bulbs. I then 

 twist out the old shoots, turn out the ball, and remove all the old 

 mould to within an inch or so of the base of the bulb, repotting in 

 the same-sized pot, and placing the crowns about half an inch above 

 the rim, as before directed. 



The bulbs require to be separated only every second year ; but 

 by doing a few every year, you have always plenty of specimen-pots, 

 without having to separate all your pots at one time. 



By the above treatment I get splendid specimens, the bloom of 

 the outside shoots being nearly as low as the pot. By the stems 

 being tied down as they grow, they are kept very dwarf; they re- 

 quire no sticks to support them, and the Httle extra trouble is well 

 repaid in the blooming season. 



Cleiver Manor, near Windsor. John Black. 



ROYAL SOUTH-LONDON FLORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



(horns tavern, kennington.) 



April 1 5th (evening meeting), for seedlings. Cinerarias and Pansies 

 were the principal subjects produced. A first-class certificate was 

 awarded to Turner's Pansy Sir J. Cathcart : eight blooms of this 

 variety were exhibited ; it is very true, and decidedly the best yellow- 

 ground variety. 



^ April 22</.-- This was the first of the Society's public exhi- 

 bitions for 1852, and is held thus early in order to patronise the 

 Auricula and Polyanthus ; but the latter is now but little grown in the 

 south. Auriculas were shewn rather numerously, but the coldness of 

 the season has been much against them ; the pips, instead of being flat, 

 were in many instances rough and irregular. In the Amateurs' class, 

 for four varieties, Mr. Miller was first, with Maclean's Unique, Duke 

 of Wellington, Matilda, Champion ; 2d, W. S. Ginger, Esq. Nur- 

 serymen : 6 plants, 1st, Mr. C. Turner, Slough, with Ne-plus- ultra. 



