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from weeds, and this can be readily done by running the hoe between 

 the rows as the weeds spring up. 



When the seedlings are of a fair size for transplanting they can 

 be lifted, and put either in a nursery-bed, or in the borders, where 

 they are to remain. If the borders are filled with summer flowers, 

 it will be preferable to put them a few inches apart in nursery beds, 

 and wait until the autumn before planting permanently in the 

 border. The plants are likely to succeed better, as they cau receive 

 all the attention they may require in the way of watering and pro- 

 tection from snails, and they can be arranged better in the border 

 when it is not encumbered with the bedders. 



The arrangement of the plants can be very well left to the indi- 

 vidual taste, provided the tallest growing subjects are put at the back, 

 and the dwarfer things in the front. By planting asters, stocks, 

 marigolds, and zinnias, and sowing mignonette and showy spring and 

 summer-flowering annuals between the perennials, a very bright and 

 beautiful display of flowers may be had from the beginning of spring 

 until the end of the summer. 



The directions here given for raising biennials and perennials, 

 apply with equal force to the raising of stocks of the choicer 

 kinds of spring bedders. Silenes and saponarias must not be sown 

 until the end of June or the beginning of July ; but all the other 

 things will bloom more satisfactorily if raised according to the fore- 

 going directions. Wallflowers more especially require to be sown 

 early ; for to secure bushy plants they must be stopped once at'^least, 

 and the subsequent growth must have sufiicient time to become 

 firm before the cold weather checks it. There are now some fine 

 strains of wallflowers in cultivation. The blood-red, black-crimson, 

 and tall and dwarf golden yellow, are remarkably eflective for the 

 mixed border, and the best for masses in the beds. The sweet- 

 william has also undergone considerable improvement of late, and 

 seed saved from a good strain will produce plants bearing flowers 

 remarkable for size, richness of colouring, and clearly-defined 

 markings. 



CTPKIPEDIUM LONGirOLIUM. 



BY WILLIAM GEDNEY, 

 Head Gardener to J. C. Day, Esq., Tottenham. 



iHIS comparatively new and somewhat rare Lady's Slipper 

 is iinquestionably one of the best of the species at present 

 in cultivation, and is well deserving of the instant atten- 

 tion of the cultivator of orchidaceous plants. It is alike 

 remarkable for its beauty-, distinctiveness, and floriferous 

 character ; in the latter respect quite surpassing most of the best- 

 known cypripediums. It has also a somewhat stately habit, the 

 leafage being bold and handsome, and the stout scapes rise to a 

 height of upwards of two feet, and those of well-established plants 

 produce from twenty to thirty blooms during the season. It is 

 usually in perfection during the winter season, and as the flowers are 



