238 THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



The "best of the hardy or Ghent Azaleas are : — Amoena, 

 Aniens, Aurantia major, Bessie Holdaway, ■ Calendulacea eximia, 

 Coccinea major, Coccinea speciosa, Cuprea, Guprea splendens, Elector, 

 Elegans, Florentine, Fulgida, Gloria Mundi, Inviclissima, Maria 

 Dorothe, Maria Verschaffelt, Mirabilis, Nancy Waterer, Prince 

 Frederick, Speciosa atrosanguinea, Straminea, Sulphurea, Van 

 Houtte, Viscocephala. Few people are aware of the brilliant effect 

 these plants are capable of producing, when planted in masses, in 

 prominent positions in the pleasure grounds and shrubbery gardens. 



For belts and marginal lines round the outside of beds filled 

 with azaleas and rhododendrons, the following selection of dwarf- 

 growing plants will be useful : — Andromeda fioribunda, A. formosa, 

 A. pulverulenta, Dap/me cneorum majus, Erica cinerea alba grandi- 

 flora, E. c. atropurpurea, E. c. coccinea, E. c. rubra, E. herbacea 

 carnea, E. vagans carnea, E. v. rubra, E. v. alba, Menziesia poli- 

 folia alba, 31. p. atropurpurea, Kalmia angustifolia glauca, K. 

 a. ruba, K. glauca, K. g. svperba, K. latifolia major splendens, K. I. 

 inyrtifolia, Ledum buxifolmm, L. thymifolium, Perneltya mucronata, 

 Folygala chamcebuxus, Vaccinium frondosum venustum, V. ligustri- 

 folium. 



To render the American garden bright and cheerful at all 

 seasons of the year, a few clumps of the choicer kinds of Liliums 

 and the showier Gladioli should be intermixed with the other plants. 

 From four to eight bulbs should be planted in each clump. 



THE BEGINNER IN GRAPE- GEO WING.— No. VI. 



BY WILLIAM COLE, 



Head Gardener, Ealing Park, Middlesex. 



THE MANAGEMENT OE TOT VINES. 



HE management of vines grown and fruited in pots 

 requires more skill and attention than those planted 

 out in a properly- prepared border; yet, where early 

 grapes are in request and the space available for grape 

 growing limited, they are most valuable, because with 

 their aid a supply of early grapes may be had without starting the 

 permanent vines, in the house from which the main crop is obtained 

 very early in the season. 'Vines in pots are also most valuable for 

 table and sideboard decoration, and a considerable number are 

 grown here for these purposes. 



Until after they are put in pots larger than six inches in diameter, 

 the directions given lor the management of young vines grown ex- 

 pressly for planting out, when speaking of their propagation, applies 

 with equal force to those intended for pot culture. Therefore, 

 to avoid repetition, we will commence with their management, 



