THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 43 



page 146 of last year's volume is an excellent'practical essay on the 

 cultivation of this plant for exhibition. To what is there said I only 

 need add, that to raise the plant from seed, and to plant it out in 

 the garden, are feats attended with no difficulty. The soil of the 

 bed should be rich and substantial, the plant should have abundance 

 of water all through June, July, and August, and be taken up for 

 the winter, and kept rather dry in the greenhouse. To start the 

 seeds a good heat is needed. 



E. crista-gcdli- — This plant branches freely, attaining a height of 

 six to ten feet ; the branches and leaf-stalks are armed with spines ; 

 the flowers are scarlet, and produced in plenty. There are several 

 varieties, one of the best of which is Marie Bellanger, which does 

 well in the open ground. 



E. Jaurifolia. — This grows very freely, but does not flower so 

 abundantly as the last. 



CASSIA. 



All the species of Cassia may be raised from seed with facility, 

 and there are very many in cultivation. I shall name only two, 

 because the object of these papers is to select from amongst thou- 

 sands of plants those few very best that will be sure to delight the 

 amateur, and will be pretty sure also not to perplex him. The 

 readers of the Floral World, I presume, would rather have their 

 attention directed to the most select and useful plants for private 

 gardens, than be bewildered with mere lists of names. Therefore I 

 trust to be excused naming only two species of Cassia ; those who 

 want more will find their wish gratified by referring to any good 

 seed catalogue. 



C. coryinbosa. — A freely-brancliing, neat-lookiug shrub, which 

 grows five to eight feet high, and flowers freely in the latter part of 

 the summer. The flowers are yellow. If planted in a sheltered 

 border, it will live through a mild winter, being very nearly hardy. 



C.Jlorihunda. — Very handsome, with elegant pinnated leaves and 

 coronals of orange-yellow flowers. 



The soil requisite for these should be light and rich, consisting 

 chiefly of turfy loam and leaf-mould. AVhen taken up for the 

 winter, they may be freely cut back. Common greenhouse pro- 

 tection is all they require. To raise them from cuttings is a very 

 easy task. 



acacia. 



A. lopTiantha is of great use in the sub- tropical garden, on account 

 of its most elegant foliage; but, generally speaking, Acacias are not 

 of much account for the purpose w'e are considering. When only a 

 few plants of this species are required, they may be purchased at a 

 low price at any good nursery ; but if any of our readers should 

 design to plant out a considerable number, the plants for the purpose 

 may be raised from seed without difficulty. I have found it advisable 

 to steep the seeds in water at 150' to 200' for twelve hours previous 

 to sowing them ; I place them in a pan, and put the pan on a flue 

 or tank. The plants should be grown in a sandy soil, in which there 

 is some proportion of peat, until planted out, and then any good 



