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the best of the fancies, and by getting them established in their blooming pots early in 

 the autumn, and not stopping them after Christmas, you can have them in flower much 

 earlier than usual: — Acme, Ann Page, Countess Waldegrave, Godfrey Turner, Miss 

 Louisa Pyne, Mrs. Dorling, Silver Mantle, and Negro. The fine specimen of Cycla- 

 men persicum you have, reflects great credit upon your cultural skill ; without doubt 

 this subject will become one of the most popular winter and spring decorative plants 



■we have. 



Bedding-out Clematis. — Subscriber.— Uvbro violacea, Jackmanii rubella, and 

 the other one you name, will do well in a bed out of doors. Plant them at once, and 

 prune them moderately : they are quite hardy, and even were they to be cut back 

 in the winter like own-root roses, they would soon renew themselves from the 

 underground part of the stem. 



Azaleas and Camellias. — Ibid. — Something is wrong at the roots of the latter 

 to cause the flowers to drop directly they expand. If the soil in the pots is not sour 

 and a lar^e portion of roots dead, the plants have suffered some time back from being 

 allowed to get too dry, though not sufficiently so to cause the buds to drop off at the 

 time or before they open. Just as the plants begin to start into growth in the spring 

 is a "ood time for repotting both these subjects, or after they have finished the 

 season's orowfb. towards the end of the summer. We cannot tell you how often the 

 plants ought to be shifted, but as a rough guide we may say that when the plants are 

 pot-bound may be taken as a guide for their requiring a shift. Once a year will be 

 sufficient for young specimens, and once in every two years for older plants that have 

 attained a considerable size. 



Shrubs for Plunging.— IJ/rf.— Aucubas, Tree Box, green and variegated, 

 Ivies trained to trellises, Ehododendron ponticum, Berberis Darwini, Cotoneaster 

 microphylla, Euonymus, green and variegated varieties, and the Japanese Privet, 

 are all good for this purpose. Le Grande Boule d'Neige is a fine white bedding 

 verbena. 



Floral World. — Yours is too long a letter for us to read ; we have about twenty 

 such every week the whole year round : were we to read them and attempt to carry 

 out the suggestions they contain, we should need to be divided into a thousand 

 pieces, with head and hands to each, and perhaps find that we had in our quiet 

 labours actually anticipated a greater part of all the proposals made. From a hasty 

 glance at the first page of your letter of fourteen pages, we believe we have worked 

 out to the last letter the very subjects you purpose we should now begin ; but if 

 people will not read, what is that to us ? We cannot find them out and compel them 

 to follow in our ways. _ 



Plants for Greenhouse. — Well-wisher. — The following dozen are all distinct 

 and good : Acacia arinata, A. Drummondii, Azalea The Bride, A. Stella, Camellia 

 Alba'plena, C. imbricata, Chorozema cordatum splendens, Polygala oppositifolia, 

 Vallota purpurea, Pioemanthus coccineus, Lilium auratum, and Veronica Andersonii. 



Pyrethrum "Golden Feather." — W.W.— You will experience some difficulty 

 in getting cuttings taken from the open border to strike now. You had better invest 

 a shilling in a packet of seed and sow it at once. If kept in a warm corner of the 

 house it will soon be up and make nice little plants. The ivy-leaved pelargoniums do 

 well cither in pots or planted out as an edging to tall-growing subjects. In the first 

 case thev are trained to trellises in much the same way as climbing plants, and in 

 the latter they are pegged down. 



Subscriber, Castle-town. — The subjects you refer to will have attention ; in the 

 meantime we may remind you that the cultivation of the rose has received more 

 attention in the Floral World than in any other horticultural periodical, as may 

 be seen by reference to the series of papers commenced in July, 1860, which, en- 

 larged and rearranged, were afterwards embodied in the " Rose Book." 



Pelargoniums for Forcing. — T. S. — The best two varieties known are 

 Gauntlet and Alba floribunda ; the next best are Crimson King, Brilliant, Empress, 

 Dr. Andre, and Alma : after these you may select at random. Your Cyclamen, 

 ei<4it years old, is a credit to you, but what would you say now to plants twice as 

 large, and with three times as many flowers, grown in a year and a half according 

 to The prescription given in the " Garden Oracle" for 1863 ? _ The fact is, in the 

 cultivation of the Cyclamen time is nothing, and skill is everything. 



W. J. Lobelias struck in March may be treated the same as calceolarias. Those 



struck in February will flower in June ; those struck in March will flower in July. 

 Calceolarias may be stopped, but not later than the middle of April 



