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Roses for Towns, — F. £., Leeds. — Turfy soil and manure make a capital 

 compost for roses. Have them on tlit'ir own roots, and then if they are by the 

 severity of the weather killed to the ground, they will break up as strong as ever 

 in the spring. The following selection will do well in the neighbourhood of laro-e 



Doniage, Victor Verdier, Anna Alexieff, J'ise2:)hine Beauiiarnais, Lcelia, Madame E. 

 Appert, ]\[adarae Kiiorr, Maiiemoiselle ilarguerite Dombrain, Marcella, Madame 

 C. Wood, riant in November, and well mulch the beds with half-rotten stable 

 manure. 



SxAiLS IX Fi;iix-CASES. — S. W. iZ^.— The fronds appear to have been eaten by 

 slugs or snails, probably introduced in the soil or with the ferns when the case was 

 planted. To trap the vermin place scraps of fresh lettuce-leaf or slices of apple or 

 potato under pieces of tile, and by searcliing the case at night you may 

 catch the marauders at supper. But there is a very pretty way of exterminating 

 snails and slugs in fern-cases, and that is to put in a few glowworms. Tliey light 

 up the ferns at night with quite a fairy-like illumination, and tiiey hunt snails and 

 slugs as cats Imnt mice. 



H. T. — Ynnr pretty yellow flowering plant is Llplacus (jla/iiwi-u.t, one of the 

 mimulus family. 



Select Floiusts' Flower.s. — P. C. S., Leamingtun. — Tweli^e Pansies. — 

 Alexander McNab, Cherub, Locomotive, Andrew Smith, George Wilson, John 

 Currie, Joseph James, Alice Downie, Lady Lucy Dundas, Queen, iSirs. A. Buchanan, 

 Thomas H. Douglas. Twelve Antirrhinums.- — Delicatum, Glorious, Jessie Dean, 

 Monarch, Rosy Morn, Charming, Orange Boven, Fire Fly, George Gordon, Leopard, 

 Striped Unique, Yellow Gem. Twenty Dahlias. — Julia Wyatt, Annie Neville, 

 Harriet Tetterel, John Stfvndish, Mrs. Saunders, Bishop of Durham, James Cocker, 

 Miss Ht-nshaw, James Backhouse, Paradise Williams, Yellow Perfection, Lord 

 Derby, Sir Greville Smythe, Indian Chief, Mr. Dix, Yellow Standard, Maid of 

 Essex, Kate Haslam, Mrs. Boston, Juno, Lilac Queeu. 



Raising Seedling Cahnation.s. — G. ]I. — Your seed must be sown in March to 

 enable the young plants to get strong by winter. It is not such a difficult matter 

 as you suppose ; it is of no consequence whether you use the ordinary pots or seed- 

 pans ; but, if you have & considerable quantitj-, and therefore require a consider- 

 able space for its reception, the pans are decidedly the best. They are easier to 

 shift about, in proportion to their size, than the pots. Put plenty of drainage in 

 the bottom — half full is not too much — and then fill the remaining space with good 

 loam, full of fibre, and a liberal proportion of leaf-mould. Make the surface per- 

 fectly level for the reception of the seed, and after the seeds have been regularly 

 sown oyer the surface, cover thinly with fine soil. Place the pans in a house or a 

 pit where a mild heat is maintained. After the plants are up, shift them to a cold 

 pit, and pot off into si.'ities, or prick out into a bed of good, rich soil, directly the 

 young plants are large enough to handle conveniently. 



Plantixg Oct Chamjerops Fortunei and Humjlis. — A JSew Subscriber will 

 be obliged for a few hints upon managing these beautiful palms out of doors. 

 These palms are the hardiest of their tribe, and will do well planted out in a shel- 

 tered position; but it will not be advisable to plant them in the same exposed place 

 as a Pinus Austriaca would thrive in. They require rich, well-drained soil ; and if 

 your garden has a cold subsoil, dig out a good-sized pit, three feet six inches deep, 

 and, after putting a foot depth of broken brickbats in the bottom to form a drainage, 

 fill in with good sandy loam, mixed with a fair proportion of rotten dung and leaf- 

 mould. Plant firmly, and water when necessary, 



Pteris Tricolor. — Miss Harris. — It is a mistake to suppose that this beau- 

 tiful fern requires a large amount of heat; for it never does better than when 

 grown in a cool house from which the frost is kept. As the plant is in a bad state, 

 and infested with scale, cut away the brovvn and half-dead fronds, and remove the 

 scale from the others carefully. Repot in two-thirds peat, one-third light, fibry 

 loam, and a good proportion of silver-sand and a few crocks broken small, with 

 plenty of drainage, and try it in a house where no artificial heat is employed ex- 

 cepting to keep out the frost, or, say, to maintain the temperature at not lower than 

 forty degrees. 



Exotic Orchids for Exhibition. — Cotnpctitor does not give us any idea as to 



January. 



