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calcareous loam, even where lime is present to a very limited extent. This I once 

 discovered after having much injured a collection of plants, to that extenb, indeed, 

 that a few of them never recovered. This I note as a caution, lest some persons 

 may commit the same fatal mistake. Our plants have, many years ago, covered 

 the entire wall-surface, rather more than eleven feet high, and are annually cut 

 back, to keep them within proper limits. 



The Camellia will not submit to hard forcing ; gentle means must be used, or 

 it will certainly drop its ilower-buds. There are some varieties that will bear a 

 little more heat than others, yet none will bear much without suffering some damage. 

 Fire-heat should not exceed the temperature of the peach-house, which I have 

 never found to inflict any injury. When early flowers are required, early kinds 

 should be chosen, and kept constantly on the move, till finally put to rest, so that 

 they may come into bloom early during winter or spring, without putting on any 

 pressure. — -Alexander Cbamb, Tortworth Court. 



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C^HOSE who feel disposed to adopt the extension system of Vine-growing, as 

 \^ it is termed, may be encouraged by the extraordinary progress made by a 

 %p\ Blade Hamburg Vine., in Kay's Nursery, at Finchley. This vine has been 

 W planted 17 years, and has now a stem measuring 18 inches in girth where 

 it outers tho long low honso -which is dovotod to it, and which it has complotoly filled for 

 aomo years past. Tho pit is span-roofod, with an unequal span, and tho vino ontors about 

 tho contro, and is carried across to tho other side, following tho slopes of the roof ; five pairs 

 of branches, three on the longer, two on tho shorter side, are taken right and loft to the oud 

 of the house, where they have long since been arrested for want of further space, so that tho 

 whole area from end to end is equally covered. This vine, in 1862, when but six years old, 

 filled the house, which is somo 89 ft. or 90 ft. in length, and 16 ft. or more in width ; it then 

 bore a prodigioua crop of fruit for its age. In 1866, being then ton years old, it carried 300 

 bunches of from 21b. to 5 lb. weight each. In the i^resent year, 1873, being now 17 years 

 old, it has borne a remarkably heavy and most beautifully finished crop, which consisted of 

 500 bunches, yielding a total of over 7 cwt. of high-class grapes. No doubt the soil of that 

 part of Middlesex is good, and favourable to Vine-growing, and that tho roots have, of lato 

 years at least, been well cared for ; but there was no special provision made for it at the time 

 of planting, and in any case, the progress of tho vine, and its annual produce, have boon 

 something extraordinary. 



^HB following notes on some of the New Tea Roses, as grown in pots 



under glass in a cold -house, from the pen of a well-known rosarian, and recently 

 published in the Gardeners^ Chronicle., will doubtless be read with interest : — 

 rrrh de Lyon : a splendid flower, colour deep yellow ; large and woU cropped ; wood strong 

 but short-jointed ; A 1. — Amia OlUvicr : one of tho best ; medium to largo, long pointed bud ; 

 petals dark rose at base, shading off to white at edge ; a fine novelty. — Madame C. Kvxfer : 

 white outside, tho contro petals light bright yellow, fair size, full, promising ; n continuous 

 bloomor. — Madame Docieur Juttc : rather small and with few petals ; colour orange-buff 

 strongly suffused with pink when just opening; very pretty, and very distinct in colour. — 

 Madame Armand : long pointed bud, outside petals creamy-yellow, inside bright 5'ollow ; 

 something like Amazon, but more like Niphetos in shape ; may be described as a yellow 

 Niphetos. — Madame F. Janin : small, colour fine orange-yellow, first-rate for buttonhole 

 work. — M. Bennett : small, colour of early blooms pink, suffused with bright yellow ; very 

 pretty and distinct, but not large enough ; first-rate for buttonholes ; the later blooms camo 

 clear bright yellow — in fact, this Rose varies in colour in the same way as Christophle. — 

 Amazon: long pointed bud, large, opens woll ; light yellow, deeper in centre; a fine new 

 Rose. — Belle Fleur d'Anjou : bud bearing some rosomblance to both President and Rubens ; 



