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them into shallow pans, filled to within an inch of the rim with rotten 

 cocoa-nut fibre, and over that an inch of sand. Place over them bell- 

 glasses, and keep moist, warm, and shaded. When rooted, remove the 

 bell-glasses, and keep them in the greenhouse till the wood is somewhat 

 hardened, then pot singly, and grow on by regular shifting as required. 

 The choice varieties are generally grafted, and A. phoenicia is the stock 

 usually employed. Side or saddle grafting are the best modes, and the best 

 time is early in the spring, as they can be helped with a moist bottom-heat, 

 and have before them a long growing ^season after the junction has been 

 efiected. 



A SELECTIOX OF AZALEAS. 



Best TwENTY-ForK Old Varieties. — Admiration (Ivery), white, with 

 large flakes of carmine, fine form. Barclayana (Ivery), white, striped 

 and flaked with rosy purple ; one of the best. Beauty of Reigate (Ivery), 

 white, deeply spotted with carmine, splendid form. Chelsonii (Knight 

 and Perry), shaded orange scarlet, free bloomer. Crispiflora (Standish 

 and Noble), rich rosy lake, very distinct ; a tine late variety. Criterion 

 (Ivery), splendid large salmon pink, edged with white; one of the finest 

 and most distinct in cultivation. Distinction (Ivery), rich salmon, mar- 

 gined with white, upper petals spotted with crimson ; great substance. 

 Due de Nassau (ilardner), rosy purple. Flower of the Day (Ivery). 

 Gem (Ivery), very deep rich salmon, splendid form and substance; one 

 of the very best. Holfordiana, rich rosy purple, large and fine. Iveryana 

 (Ivery), fine large white, striped with rose ; one of the very best. Juliana 

 (Knight and Perry), orange scarlet, deeply spotted, fine form; one of the 

 best when well grown. Magnificans (Ivery), large white, fine shape. 

 Miltonii (Frost), rosy lilac, fine form, large. Model, bright rose, fine. 

 Perryana (Knight and Pei-ry), orange scarlet, fine form; one of the best. 

 Eosy Circle (Ivery), deep rose, fine form and substance, a perpetual kind ; 

 one of the very best. Sir Charles JSTapier (Kinghorn), pink, large and 

 fine. Stanleyana (Davies), rose scarlet, fine form. Standard of Perfec- 

 tion (Epps), rose, fine form. Trotteriana, brilliant reddish purple; one 

 of the best. Yariegata, salmon pink, with white margin, distinct and 

 fine. Variegata superba (Ivery), an improved Variegata. 



Best OF 1861. — Flag of Truce (Todman), white, semi-double, large. 

 Alha delecta (Verschaffelt), white, streaked with purple. Dieudonni Spae 

 (F. Spae), salmon ground, margined white, upper petals spotted dark 

 crimson, large. Duo d'Aremherg (Verschaffelt), centre carmine, petals 

 blotched and mar^ned with white. Lord Elgin (Todman), deep bright 

 rose, spotted on upper petals, very showy. Madame Amhroise Versclwffelt, 

 violet rose, bordered with white, flaked and striped with rich carmine, 

 upper petals spotted with maroon and crimson. 



Best of \%Q>2.— Souvenir dii Prime Albert (Verschaffelt), deep salmon 

 rose, with broad white margin, semi-double, distinct and splendid as to 

 flowering, but not well formed. 



Bride of Ahydos (W. Barnes), white, flaked with rose, most beautiful 

 in clearness of colour and delicacy of marking, but somewhat deficient in 

 form. This will probably prove a most valuable variety for the amateur, 

 on account of its comparative hardiness, free blooming, and vigorous habit ; 

 though on the exhibition table we doubt if it will ever attain a leading 

 position. 



