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found the young wood will have died back a portion ; prune it to 

 where you perceive it making new growth ; nail in the wood as it 

 grows, and proceed thus till the space is filled that you mean to 

 allow it. The only after-treatment required will be, when th.3 

 danger of frost is over, to spur in the whole of last year's wood as 

 we do a full-grown currant tree. This will cause the plant to 

 throw out a vast quantity of young wood, which should grow at will 

 all the summer. The shrub will grow twelve feet high. 



LONICEEA BEACTEATA. 



Some years ago I found in a small garden a deliciously-scented, 

 very early-flowered honeysuckle, flowering at least six weeks' 

 earlier than any other honeysuckle I know of, blooming sometimes 

 in the end of April. This I have lately found to be L. bracteata. 

 It has something of the habit of L. caprifolium, but neater. The 

 flowers are pale yellow, produced in terminal whorls, with a perfoliate 

 leaf or bract between every whorl. These green bracts intervening 

 between the whorls of flowers, show the latter off to much 

 advantage. It is a most abundant bloomer, and will flower when 

 only a foot high. This habit renders it a fine thing for pot culture 

 for indoor decoration, as it is the most highly-perfumed of all the 

 honeysuckles. 



SALIX BOSHAEINIFOLIA. 



A very neat and little-known willow, growing from four to five 

 feet high, with reddish-coloured twigs, of a compact shrubby habit. 

 It is, perhaps, the handsomest osier known. The leaves are of a 

 very deep green, long and linear, reticulated ; and as like a rose- 

 mary leaf as possible, but much longer. I met with this as a 

 discarded, valueless plant, in a small nursery, the owner of which 

 knew nothing nor cared anything about it. I have often wondered 

 why it has never been brought into notice. It has that beauty and 

 distinctness about it that at once render it conspicuous among the 

 most select collection of willows. 



ELOWERS FOR THE NEW TEAE. 



BY WILLIAM COLE, 



Head Gardener, Ealing Park, Middlesex. 



|T is not my intention to weary the readers of the Eloeal 

 "World with a long dissertation upon forcing flowers, 

 although the subject is by no means threadbare, and if 

 we take into consideration the way flowering plants are 

 forced in many gardens, it will not be difficult to admit 

 that there is plenty of room for improvement. A few practical 

 suggestions for forcing hardy and half hardy plants and shrubs 

 may, however, be useful, and it will be well to omit mention of 



