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both indoors and out, I use common white tape, not too wide, or it 

 will not bind regularly. I simply damp and stretch it before using it ; 

 you can tie the plant together more easily, with no fear of breaking the 

 bandage, and it excludes the air better. You can use it over and over 

 again. I do nothing more to indoor plants than with my finger, cover 

 the tape over with a little clay, about the consistency of thick paste. 

 When I have a variety that I do not like, and it is a free grower, I 

 bottle graft it. I call it bottle grafting, as I do not know any other 

 term which would describe what I mean. The process is similar to 

 inarching, excepting that you cut the shoot off the plant, leaving it two 

 or three inches longer than where it is tied, which I put into a bottle, 

 kept full of water. Take away a portion of the head of the plant, and 

 gradually take it away altogether. If the piece that is to be united is 

 sufficiently strong, I prefer to tongue it together. 



The only advice I will offer to nurserymen is, when they publish 

 their Camellia lists, to be as explicit with regard to the colour, form, 

 and price as they are with the threepenny packets of annuals. 



Birkby, near Huddersfield. J. Kite. 



EXHIBITION OP HYACINTHS. 



Messrs. Cutbush & Son, of Highgate, have favoured the public for 

 the last fortnight with a charming display of the above much esteemed 

 flowers. They were finely grown, in the greatest variety, and most 

 effectively arranged, and have been gratuitously shown to a large 

 number of admirers. The following appeared to us very superior :— 



Jenny Lind, double red, large bells, good spike, and very pretty 



Napoleon III., double crimson, good spike, good 



Laurens Koster, double bright indigo, large bells and spike, fine 



Prins von Saxe Weimar, fine dark double blue, good bells, extra fine 



Sir Colin Campbell, double blue shaded, fine bells, extra fine 



Othello, very dark double black, large bells, very novel 



Amy, fine bright single red, large bells and spike, fine 



Cosmos, single pale pink, fine bells, large spike, pretty 



Florence Nightingale, single shaded pink, large bells, very fine 



Madame du Lac, single rosy pink, good bells, fine 



Mdlle. Rachel, fine deep single red, good bells and spike, very fine 



Robert Steiger, deep single crimson, large bells, good 



Solfaterre, brilliant orange scarlet, large bells, novel and good 



Prince of Wales, single lilac, new shade, fine 



Argus, fine dark single blue, large bells, very novel and fine 



Baron von Tuyll, single dark porcelain, large bells, good 



Couronne de Celle, fine pale single blue, large bells and spike 



Orondates, single porcelain blue, large bells, very fine 



General Havelock, deep single black, large bells, always fine, the best 



Anna Carolina, single pale straw, good bells and spike, fine and good 



The exhibition took place in a lean -to greenhouse, the pots and soil 

 being covered with moss ; the stage of the house was filled with 

 various interesting spring-flowering plants, and, altogether, the display 

 did great credit to the spirit and enterprise of the Messrs. Cutbush. 



