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water, plenty of air, and plenty of sun, and nature will do the rest for ycu: If 

 transpliuited, it rart-ly comes to any good except in very expert hands. 



Belladonna Lily. — ilix.i S. — The beautiful .•iHiar^Z//.s- Belladonyia \\\\\ thrive 

 in any rieli, light, sandy soil well drained. Fiom this time, if in a i)Ot, leave it 

 alone till July, then repot it in a mixture of peat, leaf-mould, loam, and old cow- 

 dung, and give regular supplies of water till its leaves have bien matured, and 

 then it should be allowed to go rather dry, and be kept at rest till July again. 

 The best place for it is on a dry border, near a wall, where it will flourish for 

 years if preserved from injury, and in autumn produce its exquisitely-beautiful 

 amaryllis-like blooms. 



Plants i'gk Filling Caskets. — Lady Subscriler. — The following subjects are 

 all most useful for filling hanging baskets. Sencclo ilikanice does well to hang 

 down in festoons, but it will climb freely. A pretty thing called Pilygone suavis 

 is a good companion to the Senecio. It is a slender spare-leaved twiner, which not 

 only trains itself but throws out tendrils. The leaves are dark-green, ovate, and 

 serrated, and the flowers come in the axils of the leaves. They are creamy white, 

 small, and inconspicuous, and therefore this must not be adopted as at all striking 

 as an ornament. Trained down the sides of a lianging basket it is peculiarly grace- 

 ful, and its flowers emit such a sweet and powerful odour that a single plant is 

 sufficient to scent the atmosphere of a large conservatory. Trade.scantia zebrina 

 makes a beautiful object when grown on a block mossed over and trained down. 

 It is also a good plant to mix with light-foliaged creepers planted round th^ margin 

 of the baskets ; its leaves are dashed with crimson and purple lines on a dark green 

 ground, stems crimson, and flowers pink. Though a stove-plant, it does well in a 

 warm greenhouse, or conservatory. Thunhergia alata axii T. aurantiaca are charm- 

 ing things for dark-coloured baskets, producing abundance of their neat yellow 

 and orange blossoms all the summer, and if sown early come well from seed. For 

 planting out to run over a trellis or bank out of doors, {t\-^ things are more 

 elegant than the Chinese Yam, Dloscorea batatas, with its shiny heart-shaped 

 leaves, and pretty sweet-scented blossoms. Ipomea_ hederacca is another of the 

 good things to train round the sides of a large basket ; its fine ivy-shaped leaves 

 and profusion of blue flowers give it great distinctness of character, and if its 

 roots are confined it fiowers sufficiently without attaining to a raidi and unmanage- 

 able growth. Loasa aurantiaca may be entered as a desirable half-hardy annual 

 tg hang down in six-feet ringlets, with plenty of orange-coloured blossoms. For 

 the centres of large vases nothing can equal pyramidal Fuchsias, and indeed a set 

 of fuclisias of sizes suited to the vase, ranging from dwarfs at the edtje to a tall 

 pyramid in the centre, will often prove better planting than the most fanciful mix- 

 tures that can be devised. "What a splendid tiling for a vase is Farfugluni grande, 

 laying its hold blotched leaves over the soft rim of a stone vase, or filling a 

 basket of moss or hazel-rods ! Cineraria maritima, the silver-frosted plant, never 

 looks so well as when grown to a good size in a pot, and dropped into a wicker 

 or bark vase. 



Camellias n„t Blooming. — B. W. — As you have not furnished us with the 

 necessary details, it is impossible for us to advise you so clearly as we should 

 ■wish. Examine the plants and see if the roots are healthy, and have established 

 themselves in the soil you potted them in last year. If they are not well estab- 

 lished, we should advise you to take them out of the pots and remove the whole of 

 the loose soil, and repot in a mixture consisting of two parts good fibry loam and 

 one part peat, and a modera'te amount of silver sand ; use clean pots, keep them 

 close for a time, and syringe regularly overhead. Attend to the plants regularly 

 when they are placed out of doors for the summer, fur careful management is as 

 important during that period as when they are indoors. More camellias are ruined 

 every year from this cause than all others put together. 



Lawn. — F. Notts. — Nitrate of soda or pliospho-guano may be applied at the 

 rate of two to three pounds to every square rod of ground, or, say to every thirty 

 square yards. The nitrate of soda is cheap, and produces an effect imtnediately. 

 The dressing, to prevent its turning the gi'ass brown, should be spread with care 

 during rainv wejither, or when niin is expected. 



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