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but if boiled well, the preserve will keep for years. Some vinegar 

 might be boiled witb it, if you cboose it. The above simple way of 

 making tomato sauce does not cost much, and, as it should be, the 

 apple predominates in flavour. No sauce in hot summer or anytime 

 entices other food down like it. JSTothing improves a dilapidated 

 stomach so much. It is a general favourite with the wealthy ; but 

 it is for the middle and labouring classes that I have thus been so 

 particular in my description of the love apple. 



TEITOMA UVAEIA 



(the EED-HOT POKEB PLA.5fT). 



'LTHOUGrH this is such an old-fashioned inhabitant of the 

 garden, so far from being likely to be shelved among the 

 things that were, in order to make room for younger 

 favourites, it seems to be acquiring a more extended popu- 

 larity every year. There are few persons who do not admire 

 their upright racemes of fiery-looking flowers, which, from their height 

 and the vividness of their colouring, render them particularly ap- 

 plicable for using in the centres of beds, etc. And there is scarcely 

 a single drawback to its imiversal adoption by lovers of flowers, 

 whether they have time, space, and means for the cultivation of a 

 small garden only, or have plenty of money and land at their com- 

 mand ; for they are now to be had so cheap that every one may be 

 possessed of a few specimens, and those to whom money is no 

 object may make gi'and efi'ects by planting them in great clumps, 

 where they will bloom to perfection and enchant everybody, as the 

 fine beds of them at the Crystal Palace, Ivew, and elsewhere did the 

 visitors during the past month of August. Then, again, they are so 

 nearly hardy that the only protection required by them in ordinary 

 winters is a good thick layer of coal-ashes, which is a sufliciently 

 warm great-coat to prevent them from being injured by moderate 

 frosts. Their culture and management is very easy, and may be 

 undertaken by any one with a fair prospect of success, if he will 

 only pay attention to a few plain and simple instructions. 



Tritoma uvaria from Seed. — The best way of raising them from 

 seed is to sow on a warm bed about the beginning of March, or as 

 late as tlie month of April if found most convenient. They should 

 not be sown on a hot-bed, as too much heat is not good for them, but 

 a nice warm bed, say one that is nearly spent, will exactly suit all 

 their requirements. At the end of June, take out the seedlings with 

 a ball, and plant them in the open ground, and leave them to their 

 fate until autumn, when they must be taken up, balls and all, and 

 kept in a half dry state all through the winter in a place where the 

 frost cannot get at them. In the following spring divide them and 

 plant them out separately, where they may be left to take care of 

 themselves for the remainder of their natural lives, the only protection 



