8 THE FLOEAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



crevices. A handful of peat or cocoa-nut fibre refuse pressed on a 

 projection an inch or two wide, and then a bit of the plant pressed 

 down on it, is all the planting required. They soon spread right 

 and left, and sometimes run a yard or two where there is no 

 soil at all, feeding on the moisture which the syringe supplies, 

 and adding most beautiful forms and colours to the scene. The 

 lovely S. ccssium would soon spread all over the house if allowed ; 

 and really if it did it would be scarcely fair to complain, for one can- 

 not have too much of its deliciously coloured growth, which so 

 nearly resembles the peculiar blue of salts of copper, and has a 

 metallic lustre very distinct from what is common amongst plants. 



The roof was covered outside with tiffany from the first, and the 

 covering has never been renewed. When it rots away a fresh cover- 

 ing will be made of the same material. In winter it helps to keep out 

 frost, and in summer it moderates the light ;' it is, in fact, essential. 



Abundance of water is supplied during the summer, the walls 

 being syringed daily during hot dry weather. In spring and autumn 

 watering twice a week is enough ; and at this time of year once in 

 two or three weeks suffices. It would not be well, however, to allow 

 any of the plants to get quite dry, even during winter ; though of 

 course while frost prevails watering is suspended. 



Shirley Hibbbed. 



NEW SERIES OE THE " ELOEAL WORLD." 



ijIME rolls his ceaseless course, and a periodical begun 

 in 1858 must enter upon its ninth year in 1866, if it 

 enters upon another year at all. Number nine is a 

 greater mystery than number seven, and works greater 

 wonders in arithmetic. If it is not required to work 

 wonders in this case, it may at least be allowed to inaugurate a 

 change, and as the Eloeal Woeld is older, it must appear wiser, and 

 the first essential thereto is to alter slightly its external and internal 

 aspects. Thus, of necessity, we begin with the first number of the 

 ninth volume a new series, and we ask our friends for an advance 

 of wages, having it in our intention to perform for the extra money 

 extra work. It was not until after the issue of the number for 

 December last, that the advisability of this course became apparent ; 

 otherwise, an announcement of the intention would then have been 

 made. It is to be hoped, however, that those who are surprised will 

 also be pleased ; that those who frown at first will smile at last ; and 

 that an old friend will be none the less welcome amongst its 

 thousands of supporters, by having a fresh face and a youthful 

 expression, and exhibiting a deeper purse than hitherto to put the 

 subscribers' money in. Any way the deed is done : if wrong, we ask 

 for forgiveness ; if right, we ask for a general and perpetual recom- 

 mendation, and shall consider the case fairly met if every sub- 

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