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with flowers. Those of the favourite old Double White could have 

 beeu gathered by the hundred from each plant. One of the most 

 remarkable of the specimens in the conservatory was a pyramid 

 about twenty feet in height of Cbandleri elegans, quite solid with 

 the bloom, and the majority of the flowers measuring six and seven 

 inches across. Of course there are not many amateurs who could 

 grow camellias on so large a scale as at High Leigh, but where there 

 is a small house aud a liberal supply of camellias required, the plan 

 recommended by Mr. Trussler is undoubtedly the best that could 

 be adopted. An abundance of camellias may be grown in the open, 

 or at least against a wad, anywhere south of London, because the 

 camellia is quite hardy enough to bear exposure to winters such as 

 that through which we have just passed without injury. At the 

 present time tbere is, in the gardens of Baron Schroder at Englefield 

 Green, a plant of the old Double White that covers a wall twenty 

 feet in length, and is upwards of fourteen feet in height. The 

 growth has been allowed to grow out from the wall, and it now 

 extends to a distance of six feet, and the foliage and bloom as 

 dense as they possibly can be. During the early part of this spring 

 it has been really magnificent ; for from top to bottom throughout 

 its whole length it has been sheeted with bloom of the most snowy 

 w hiteness. The only protection it receives is a few lights placed 

 over the top when in bloom, to prevent the rain injuring the flowers. 

 It has flowered in the same manner for many years past. G. (Jr. 



NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Fern House. — I have a small glass annexed outside my dining-room window, 

 and should feel obliged by your opinion as to what to grow in it. It faces north- 

 west, the sun getting on it about two o'clock. I have just had the pleasure of 

 reading your book ("Fern Garden"), and the simple practical advice you have 

 there given induces me to make the above request. — J. R. Oarside, Leeds. [The 

 structure is best adapted for the cultivation of ferns, and we should recommend 

 their beino- grown. The "Fern Garden " will supply you with all the necessary 

 information respecting the selection of the best kinds, preparation of the soil, potting, 

 and other details connected with their management. — En. F. W.] 



Rose-buds Decaying. — If time permits, will you in the next number of the 

 Floral World tell me why the buds of a ro.-e, one of which I enclose, have all 

 rotted without opening. It is a standard in a large pot in the greenhouse, and had 

 twenty-seven promising buds, of which only one expanded. — A Constant Sub- 

 scriber. [The bud sent tells the story in detail. Your pot rose made a good 

 growth last summer, aud ripened a fine lot of wood ; since it began to grow again 

 t lie roots have been too cold and too wet. It is too late, of course, to save the 

 flowers, but there is time to put the plant to rights, and the first step will be to 

 have it carefully repotted, for in all likelihood the drainage is stopped and the 

 soil is sour, and if the roots are not promptly attended to the. rose-tree will die. — 

 Ed. F. W.] 



Woodlice in Cold Frames. — J. 31. would be glad to know if there is anyway 

 of destroying wood bobs in irames ; the writer's melons have been much injured 

 for two or three seasons by these insects, and he can find no effectual remedy. 

 [For directions for trapping these pests, see the answer to "W. S.," page 32 of 

 tiie Floral World for last January. — Ed. F. W.] 



G. H. — Six late-flowering Phloxes : Aurantiaca superba, Madame Quil- 



