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sion of bulbs. It will, however, be a difficult matter to have them 

 good after the end of September without a stove. Well-grown 

 Gloxinias have a beautiful appearance on the table ; the erect flower- 

 ing varieties are preferable. "When they are used by daylight the 

 following list may be selected from ad lib.; but only the white and 

 various shades of crimson ought to be employed at other times. 

 Acton Green, purple, white throat; Constance, crimson-purple; Diony- 

 sius, white, crimson belt ; Henri Husson, white, rose lips ; Lady 

 Cecilia Molyneux, crimson, white margin ; Louise Vallerand, white, 

 carmine, and rose ; Madame Blot, white, purplish-crimson lips ; 

 Marie Vallerand, white tube and margin, bright rose lips ; Minas 

 Geraes, carmine, with violet shade ; Pegase, vermilion ; Princess 

 Alice, reddish crimson ; Thomas Lobb, blue ; Vulcan, white throat, 

 with rosy pink margin. In dealing with these care must be taken 

 to prevent their drawing, by keeping the plants near the glass, and 

 properly supplied with air ; otherwise the flowers will fall about 

 and have an unsightly appearance, instead of standing up stiff and 

 erect. 



Ornamental-leaved Begonias are rather too stiff in foliage and 

 habit to make fibst-class table plants. Small well-grown specimens 

 have, however, a very good appearance. They are easily grown if 

 treated the same as advised for the Achimenes. They do well in an 

 ordinary greenhouse through the summer, and if kept dry, can also 

 be wintered there. A brisk growing temperature is, however, 

 required to give them a start. Charles Wagner, Comte Alfred de 

 Limminglie, Queen Victoria, Sex, Secretaire Morren, and Subpeltata 

 nigra punctata, are all good. The latter has a shrubby habit, and 

 flowers freely through the winter if kept in a little warmth, and is 

 handsome both in flower and foliage. 



Solanum capiscastrum and WeatherilVs Hybrids are grand for the 

 table, when they have justice done them. The last are much the 

 best, as they require no sticks or supports of any kind. The seed 

 should be sown thinly in pans early in March, and potted singly 

 into 60's directly they are large enough to handle. Use good turfy 

 loam and rotten dung, and keep the plants in the frame until the 

 beginning of May, and then harden off. A fortnight's stay in the 

 greenhouse, and a week or ten days' exposure to the open air, with 

 protection at night if necessary, will iusure their being in proper 

 order for planting out. I always plant my Solanums out on a warm 

 border, and I can get much better and healthier plants than is 

 possible when they ere kept in the pots throughout the summer. 

 The plants come up with better balls in the autumn, if a liberal 

 quantity of leaf-mould is worked into the border. A few good 

 soakings of water will be required to help them on in dry weather; 

 or the growth will be slow, and few beiries produced until it is too 

 late to ripen them. Weatherill's Hybrids have a bushy habit, and 

 require very little stopping ; but after sufficient berries are set, the 

 growing points ought to be nipped out to throw the vigour of the 

 plant into them. The plants also have a brighter appearance, as the 

 berries can be seen better than when they have several inches of 

 growth above them. Any time in September will do for taking up 



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