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and many more fine subjects that I -will not weary the reader bv 

 enumerating, are thriving in a most satisfactory manner, and the 

 only peculiarity of their condition is that they stand in one inch 

 depth of water owing to the pots being placed in pans. 



It will be observed there is nothing new in this at all. And vet 

 it has been the rule to call for a river or a pond for the cultivation of 

 aquatic plants. As a matter of course, plants that require to be 

 submerged, such as the water lilies, could not be grown in this wav 

 but the system will suit for all waterside and marsh plants, and is 

 capable of considerable extension. For example, I have grown 

 Spircea palmata, Oenothera Fraseri,Lilmm giganteum,AstiIhe Japonica, 

 and many other moisture-loving plants in this way, and have been 

 rewarded with a wonderful development of their several ornamental 

 features, while if left to themselves in the common border, these 

 plants do not here attain to anything like perfection. 



So also the system may be developed in another direction. It 

 would cost but little to provide a few long troughs in the fashion of 

 those provided for horses at roadside houses, and with the aid of 

 these, the amateur who is not tied up to bedding plants might find 

 immense pleasure in the cultivation of hardy and half-hardy aquatics, 

 as, being all in pots, any of the plants could be wintered con- 

 veniently in a brick pit, or even in a shed, if allowed plenty of air 

 and light except in frosty weather. S. H. 



SHRUBBY VEEONICAS. 



BY W, BEADBUET. 



[HEUBBY VEEONICAS have been sufficiently recom- 

 mended in the Floral Woeld, and therefore I need 

 not begin by extolling them. But a few words on their 

 cultivation may be useful now, and especially to those 

 Londoners and others who are likely to visit Worthing, 

 Ventnor, and other places where tbe shrubby veronicas may be seen 

 in the highest perfection. Where they can be grown in the open 

 ground, as in the "kind climates " just mentioned, there is no need 

 for advice about their management, for they manage themselves, 

 but in places where severe winters kill them out they must be grown 

 in pots, and then a little management is required. I shall be very 

 brief in my remarks, but I hope quite to the purpose. 



The shrubby veronicas will grow in any fairly good soil ; but to 

 do them well they should have a compost of equal parts turfy loam 

 and rotten hot-bed manure, with some coarse grit added to prevent 

 the soil caking into cement. The amateur must bear in mind that 

 they are hungry and thirsty plants, and should be potted on as fast 

 as they fill the pots with roots, and every spring be shaken out and 

 pruned back and potted in smallish pots to start again for the 

 season's growing. Plenty of water must be given all through the 



August. 



