288 THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



Gladioli in Pots. — R. K., Kensington. — Gladioli in pots should be kept 

 growing in the open air until their leaves begin to wither, and then it is well to lay 

 the pots on their sides near a wall or fence facing south, to ripen off the bulbs. If 

 treated in this way they will bloom finely next year, but if the leaves are prernaturply 

 destroyed, or the bulbs are kept too wet when they ought to be ripening, they will, 

 perhaps, perish next year, instead of blooming Treat Watsouias in the same way. 



Amateur. — The Floral World for 1862 and 1863 is not to be had at present 

 bound together in one volume, but can be supplied bound in two distinct volumes. 

 A few copies of the volumes for 1867 and 1868 are still to be had, price 7s. 6d. 

 each, but the numbers for January and February, 1866, being quite out of piint, 

 the publishers are unable to complete a volume for that year. Ail the remaining 

 numbers are procurable. 



Show Pelargoniums. — A Young Gardener. — August and September are two 

 good months in which to purchase show pelargoniums, and the under-mentioned 

 are the most desirable of the older kinds '.—Large-flowering Varieties. — Alba 

 Formosa Alabama, Archbishop, Attraction, Emperor, Bonnie Charlie, Beacon, 

 Charles Turner, Claribel, Corsair, Harold, Hebe, Hermit, Heroine, King Arthur, 

 Lady of the Lake, Luna, Lord Clyde, Lord Napier, Maid of Honour, Milton, Mary 

 Hoyle, Mr. Rassam, Nonpareil, Nabob, Olivia, Orange Spot, Peleus, Prince of 

 Denmark, Progress, Queen of Roses, Rustic, Shakespeare, Troubidour, Victoria, 

 William Hoyle Fancy Varieties. — Agrippa, Belle of the Season, Brightness, 

 Helen Beck, Miss-in -her-teens, Arabella Goddard, Leotard, Delicatum, East Lynne, 

 Excelsior, Fanny Gair, Silver Mantle, Miss Dorling, Cloth-of-Silver, Duchess of 

 Buccleuch, Formosa, Marmion, Madame Sainton-Dolby, Andromeda, Lady 

 Carrington, Mrs. Mendal, Mrs. A. Wigan, Lady Dorothy Neville, Princtss of Teck, 

 Undine. 



Best Thirty Verbenas for Pot Culture. — S., Sussex. — Ace of Trumps, 

 Ada Ring, Anatole Leroy, Annie, Annie Keynes, Achievement, Beauty of Kent, 

 Conspicua, Duke of Edinburgh, Florence Fiddian, G. P. Tye, Geant des Batailles, Isa 

 Key, King of the Verbenas, Lotty Eckford, Lord Leigb, Lady Langlesbury, Mrs. S. 

 P. Hole, Mauve Queen, Miss Wimsett, Mrs. Eckford, Mrs. Pochin, Master Jacobs, 

 Mons. Wood, Nemesis, Out and- Outer, Polly Perkins, Princess of Wales, R. H. 

 Vertegans, Reine des Roses, Shakespeare, Shirley Hibberd, Spot, Thomas Lawdon, 

 Violet Perfection. 



Propagation of Clematis. — Amateur. — The best way to propagate Clematis 

 ccerulea is to select at once a vigorous shoot and lay it down. Let it spring up 

 again, and then nick with a sharp knife the back of every joint, and peg each joint 

 into a pot filled with a good potting compost, and plunge each pot to the rim. 

 Every joint will thus make a plant, and every such plant will be better than those 

 from layers made in the ordinary manner. 



Mtosotis dh-sitiflora. — TV. H. — The best way to bloom this gem in February 

 would be to take cuttings now, and grow them into good sized plants in a cool frame. 

 Use very rich soil after they have made good roots, and give plenty of water till 

 the middle of September; then give them no mote than will just keep them green 

 and fresh. In December bring a fnw into a house kept at about SO 3 , and in January 

 bring in a few more, and they will bloom on all points of their new growth. 



A. Belt for a Fountain. — _K. — Nothing better for the vicinity of a fountain 

 than Pampas grass, Elvmus glauca, Tritoma uvaria, Hydrangeas, Fuchsias, 

 Lysimachia thyrsiflora, CEnothera Fraseri, Calla Ethiopica, Osmunda regalis, 

 Athyrium Filix-fcemina, Arundo donax, and other such plants of graceful habit 

 and fond of moisture. You cannot have anything grand to flower in winter, but 

 you may plant the banks with winter aconite, Christmas rose, and primroses. 



Propagating Pelargonium. — Lady Plymouth. — The best place in the world, 

 because the surest, to strike the whole of the variegated pelargoniums, including 

 the gold and silver zonals, at this season, is a nice warm border facing the south. 

 We have struck thousands this way, and it is seldom one goes off. If you put 

 in this way the few cuttings of Lady Plymouth which you mention, you will 

 experience no difficulty in rooting them, and you can calculate upon having nineteen 

 plants for every twenty cuttings. Prick up the soil, and then make the surface firm ; 

 and after putting in the cuttings, water moderately, and then leave them alone until 

 they have roots half an inch long, when they may be taken up and potted. 



