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4987.) A neat stove or warm greenhouse 

 evergreen shrub, remarkably free flowering ; 

 flowers pure white, deliciously scented, 

 numerous, in short clusters from the axils of 

 the leaves. Natal. Chelsea Botanic Gardens. 



Grevillea alpestris. (Bot. Mag., t. 5007.) 

 A pretty greenhouse evergreen shrub, bear- 

 ing copious showy bright red curved flowers, 

 merging into yellow in the upper half. 

 South Australia. Messrs. Rollisson. 



Grevillea Drnmmondi. A fine evergreen 

 greenhouse shrub, interesting and distinct- 

 looking, but not showy ; habit erect ; leaves 

 finely divided; flowers in racemes, cream 

 coloured. Swan Eiver. Messrs. Veitch 

 and Son. 



Hydrangea (japonlcd) aureo-varlegata 

 superba. A fine-looking vigorous green- 

 house shrub, bearing large foliage, with bold 

 straw-coloured variegations, quite distinct 

 from the white variegated kinds. A garden 

 variety. Mr. Salter. 



Monochietum ensiferum. (Must. Bouq., 

 t. 8.) A charming greenhouse soft-wooded 

 shrub, of remarkably neat bushy habit; 

 foliage small, cheerful ; flowers vivid rose 

 colour, like Chironia, the scarlet claw-like 

 stamens remaining gay after the patals 

 have fallen. Oaxaca, Mexico. Messrs. E. 

 G. Henderson and Son. 



Statice macrojitera. A handsome green- 

 house perennial, with the habit of S. 

 Halfordi, but with the leaves lobed at the 

 base ; the flower-stems very broadly winged ; 

 flowers violet and white. Probably a gar- 

 den variety between S. Halfordi and S. 

 imbricata. Mr. Glendinning. 



Veronica decussata Devoniana. (Must. 

 Bouq. t. 3.) A handsome compact grow- 

 ing evergreen greenhouse or half-hardy 

 shrub, the growth resembling a miniature 

 Crassula, the flowers in globose heads, pure 

 white. A garden variety. J. Luscombe, 

 Esq. 



CULTURE AND TRAINING OF THE RASPBERRY. 



This useful fruit is but too often 

 very carelessly grown, not by cottagers 

 only, but by gardeners of some pre- 

 tentions. Its luxuriant productive- 

 ness, even when the least care is 

 bestowed upon it. leads to its almost 

 total neglect in some places. It is 

 common enough to see the canes left 

 till spring impruned, and tied up in 

 close bundles to stakes, in which 

 position they get neither light nor 

 air sufficiently, and, for want of short- 

 ening in, the produce is far inferior 

 to what might be had if a little 

 cultural skill were exercised. 



In planting the raspberry, a damp 

 situation, in which many other things 

 would perish, may be chosen. It likes 

 a deep rich moist loam, and an 

 anuual dressing of half-rotten manure. 

 We have grown the raspberry with 

 much success in trenches, cut one 

 foot below the general level of the 

 ground, and which were speedily 

 rilled with water during heavy sum- 

 mer rains. In autumn, the end of 

 each trench was opened to carry off 

 the surface-water into the regular 

 drainage of the garden, and after the 

 canes came into leaf in spring, they 

 were closed up again to allow of the 

 trenches being filled with liquid ma- 



nure, and to give them the full benefit 

 of rains. On dry sandy soils, this 

 plan would obviate the difficulties 

 attendant on raspberry culture, be- 

 cause the trenches could be filled to a 

 depth of two feet with a compost of 

 loam, leaf-mould, and rotten dung, or 

 the top spit of a shallow soil could be 

 turned into trenches cut four feet 

 apart. 



The raspberry may be planted any 

 time from October to March, and as 

 it is one of the few things that may 

 be moved late with safety, we gene- 

 rally defer planting till the end of 

 February, when they do as w r ell as if 

 planted in autumn. In making a new 

 plantation, we prefer taking up the 

 old stools and removing the plumpest 

 suckers, rather than merely drawing 

 away suckers from stools still in the 

 ground. If planted three in a group, 

 each group four feet apart, and the 

 rows six feet asunder, there will he 

 plenty of room for a system of open 

 training, and if they enjoy plenty of 

 moisture all the growing season, the 

 fruit will be as fine as the sort grown, 

 and that particular soil are capable of 

 producing. 



Whatever mode of training be 

 adopted, it should be remembered 



