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tiful Leaved Plants, being a description of the 

 most beautiful ornamental foliaeed plants in 

 this country. By William Howard, F.H.S.,and 

 E. J. Lowe, Esq., P.R.A.S., etc., author of 

 'British and Exotic Ferns,' etc." The pro- 

 spectus announces the immediate publication, 

 in monthly parts at one shilling each, of a grand 

 work on foliage plants, profusely illustrated in 

 colours, and intended to form a companion to 

 the "British and Exotic Ferns." It will be 

 completed in about twenty parts, and we antici- 

 pate for it an immense sale. — " A Visit, and a 

 Plant ; or, Hints on the Cultivation of the China 

 Sugar-cane, by John N. Clarke, of Whittle - 

 sea." This is an inteiestijig pamphlet on the 

 history and uses of the JIolciis saccharatns, 

 which was described and figured in the first 

 volume of the "Floeal World," page 128. 

 The sugar-cane grass is found to be most valu- 

 able as a forage plant, and those who keep cows, 

 horses, etc., should at once make the experi- 

 ment of its culture and feeding properties. — 

 "The British W^orkman. Yearly P.irt, No. 4, 

 1858." This is a profusely -illustrated paper for 

 the " sons of toU," most cleverly edited, full of 

 entertainment, and a cheerful advocate of tem- 

 perance, thrift, good temper, morality, and re- 

 ligion. It is a Uterary missiouarj^, and shoidd 

 be subscinbed for, for distribution, liy all who 

 take an interest in the welfare of the working 

 classes.- — Received : " The Handbook of Villa 

 Gardening, by William Paul, author of the 

 ' Rose Garden.' " A work of great interest and 

 value, demanding more than a passing notice, 

 and hence will be dealt with at length next 

 month. — Ambrose VerschaS'elt's " Catalogue of 

 Plants grown at his Establishment, Rue du 

 Chaume, Ghent." It contains conservatory trees 

 and shrubs, fruit-trees, rhododendi'ons, azaleas, 

 camellias, conifers, stove plants, orchids, pelar- 

 goniums, bedding plants, etc. The estabUsh- 

 ment has a world-wide fame for camellias and 

 azaleas, and growers of those, as well as plant col- 

 lectors generally, should obtain this excellent 

 catalogue, in which the articles are all priced. 



Rose Moss. — Can any of our readers inform us 

 what is meant by "Rose Moss," which a corre- 

 spondent has received seed of from W^isconsin ; 

 described as covering the banks there, and pro- 

 ducing rose, yellow, and white flowers. 



Stkawberries, Doitble Camomile. — J. Sol- 

 royd. — The double camomile grows well in any 

 good garden soil, and is propagated by division 

 and cuttings. Your strawberries have suffered 

 for want of water after planting, and they will, 

 no doubt, come right with the spring rains. 

 Mulch them at once with dung, but do not dis- 

 tvirb their roots. 



AuTfTjALS FOB Bordkh of a Lawit. — C. O. — Do 



not attempt to grow many annuals in your 

 borders ; but such as you do have sow in large 

 clumps, and thin the clumps so that the plants 

 stand at least four inches apart; strong-growing 

 kinds sis or eight inches. For yellow have 

 Platystemon Californieum, Eschscholtzia Cali- 

 fornica, and Crocea ; Lupinus lutea (very sweet), 

 French and African marigolds, Bartonia aurea 

 (ugly foliage), J^Inothera Drummondii (very 

 beautiful), aimual golden Chrysanthemum, Chei- 

 rauthus Marshalh (a gem for bedding and rock- 

 work as well as borders). — Red and crimson: 

 Love-lies-bleeding, to drop its tassels over to- 

 wards the grass ; Tropseolum Tom Thumb (to 

 be had of Carter, High Holborn), Saponaria 

 calabrica (a close-growing pink beauty, smo- 

 thered with small flowers all the summer), 

 Salpiglossis (oraoge-red, very neat), Calandrina 

 discolor, Jacobiea (must be raised early in heat), 

 Malope graudiflora (bold and showy) , Collinsia 

 atro-rubens (very showy), Clarkia pulcheUa. — 



Blue and lilac : Nemophila insignis (very pretty 

 while it lasts, but of too briet duration to be 

 worthy of the popularity it enjoys), Leptosiphou 

 androsaceum (purplish-lilac); Purple Candytuft, 

 Convolvulus minor (lovely in the morning), 

 Eutoca viscida (usefid because a good blue, but 

 otherwise a shabby thing), Lupinus nanus, 

 Nolana atriplicifolia. Sweet Sultan. — White ; 

 Clarkia alba (weak in its efi'ect). White Candy- 

 tuft, EUchrysum inacranthum. Asters of all 

 colours except yellow. A few other good things 

 for your purpose, and better things than any 

 annuals, are White Alyssum, double Feverfew 

 (very shoWy white, and blooms all the summer). 

 Lupins of all sorts, Dielytra speotabUis (a lovely 

 spring flower, pink), Tritoma uvaria (one of 

 the grandest autumn flowers), double Canter- 

 biu-y-bells, scarlet Lyclmis, Stocks in variety, 

 Foxgloves in variety. Delphinium formosuin 

 (the finest blue-flowered perennial we have), 

 Hollyhocks for clumping, Gaillardias, Iberis, 

 !>empervivem (wliite), Ldium lancifolium in 

 variety. Choose from the above according to 

 coloiu-s, and the number of sorts you need — all 

 are good and easily obtained ; and prefer to make 

 large patches of lew sorts in preference to small 

 patches of many sorts. For your beds, Tom 

 Thumb TropEeolum and Convolvulus minor wiU 

 be first-rate in masses. White Candytuft or 

 Feverfew will also make good masses of white. 

 Another bed filled mth yeUow pansies would 

 also please you. 



Heating a Shall HorsE.— i. i. Xi.— If you 

 can place a little stove in an apartment or shed 

 adjoining the house, and carry a flue formed of 

 two-inch drain pipes along the back wall, you 

 win get the heat you require. In so small a 

 house there is hardly any occasion for hot water, 

 else a tank'.heatedby a Trotman's gas-stove fixed 

 in an adjoining apartment would be best, and 

 over the tank a bed in which to plunge the pots. 

 If the position of the house does not allow of a 

 stove being placed in another apartment, get a 

 bricklayer to construct a small furnace, and 

 carry a flue of three-inch drain pipes along the 

 back wall, end and front, and make the chimney 

 over the furnace; the joints to be stopped with 

 clay and cement. For an exhausted clay soil 

 use plenty of old mortar and fine coal ashes, with 

 the cinders sifted out, and as much wood ashes 

 and charred rubbish as you can get. Dress with 

 old dung according to the cropping. 



A Seceet.— Such is the heading under which an 

 esteemed li-iend sends us word that in his own 

 village he has succeeded in making known the 

 I' Floeal World' ' as "the best of aU the garden- 

 ing periodicals for amateurs." He says — "There 

 are twenty copies taken in here, and I hope 

 there will soon be a good many more. I was 

 the only one who first took it, aiid I ordered six 

 and left one at each of the bookseUers to place 

 in their windows ' till called for,' and that is how 

 the twenty subscribers were obtained." Friends 

 often ask how they can help us ; well here is at 

 least one method — see that the bookseUers have 

 the "Floral World." Individual efforts \vl11 do 

 more for us than the expenditure of thousands 

 in advertising, and we have not stinted of our 

 money in that way, for it is no use to do things 

 by halves. 



Lily op the Valley in Pots.— JBT. C. N. To 



make sure of bloom, the plants must be taken 

 fi-om a bed which has been undisturbed for at 

 least three years, and those with the roundest 

 and shortest buds be chosen for the purpose. 

 Pot them in 32's, a dozen in a pot, and use a 

 compost of rich loam, sUver-sand, and leaf 

 moidd, equal parts. Ffll the pots to within 

 three inches of the rim, then spread the roots 

 over, and cover with two inches of leaf mould 

 and sand ; water well and place them in a mois 



