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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



Hoses. — A grand display was made 

 by Messrs. Wm. Paul, Francis, Lane 

 and Son, and Terry. Tliey were pot 

 plants, generally trained pyramid 

 fashion, and were Madame St. Joseph, 

 Paul Ricaut, Paul Perras, Senateur 

 Vaisse, Charles Lawson, Coupe 

 d'Hebe, Lord Raglan, Triomphe de 

 Paris, Souvenir d'un Ami, Compte de 

 Nanteuil, Gen. Jacqueminot, La 

 Eeine, Madame Willermoz, Madame 

 Hector Jacquin, Jules Margottin, 

 Baronnc Prevost, Blairii, and Chene- 

 dole. 



Orchids were shown in consider- 

 able^numbers, and filled a long bank 

 down one side of the tent. The best 

 lot was a superb collection of twenty 



from Mr. G. Baker, gardener to A. 

 Basset, Esq., Stamford Hill, which, 

 contained the best Cattleya Mossiaj in 

 the show, witli healthy foliage and 

 flue blooms ; Oncidium crispum, Sac- 

 colabium curvifolium, retusutn, and 

 ampuUaceum ; Oncidium crispum and 

 ampliatum majus ; Dendrobium pri- 

 muliuura, and Dalhousiaua ; Cypripe- 

 diutn Lowii, Barbatum superbens, 

 Calanthe veratrifolia, Vanda insignis, 

 iErides odorata, and others. Mr. 

 BuUen, gardener to A. Turner, Esq., 

 Leicester, also showed a beautiful set 

 of twenty, and the other exhibitors 

 were Messrs. Peed, WooUey, Page, 

 Wheeler, Smith, Green, and Wig- 

 gins. 



ABOUT BEDDING. 



A GOOD deal has been said in the 

 Floral World on the subject of 

 keeping gardens always gay, or, at 

 all events, always sightly, and the 

 toughest part of that matter has been 

 to deal with the period between the 

 blooming of the first spring flowers, 

 and the general eruption of fiery co- 

 lours in the beds appropriated to ge- 

 raniums, verbenas, etc., etc. I should 

 not dwell so much on my own practice 

 in these papers did I not observe that 

 of all the records of my own move- 

 ments they create more interest than 

 any articles of the treatise type, how- 

 ever carefully done or adapted to the 

 season and the fashion. Therefore I 

 shall begin by tolling you that, as in 

 1862, I put out all my stock of gera- 

 niums on the 26th of April, and they 

 did remarkable well ; in 1863 I waited 

 tin the 14th of May, and should not 

 have turned them out so early as that 

 except they were all as hard as iron, 

 having never tasted fire-heat all 

 through the past mild winter. Per- 

 haps this may meet the eye of some 

 who have not yet began ; if so, I 

 wish to assure them that tliey have 

 lost nothing by delay, for the sharp 

 east winds which have prevailed 

 during the latter part of May have 

 taken all the colour out of the leaves 

 of nursery plants, and would have 

 taken the colour out of the bloom too, 



had they had any to be injured. 

 There is nothing gained as to efiect 

 by bedding out early ; generally 

 speaking, there is much gained by 

 waiting ; the ground gets warm, and 

 the plants get strong, and when put 

 out with care, they begin to bloom at 

 once, instead of turning yellow for a 

 fortnight, and requiring another fort- 

 night to recover from the shock. Of 

 course there are exceptions to allrules, 

 and in some warm sheltered places, 

 people may do almost anything ex- 

 cept put the plants upside down, and 

 all will come right. 



JSFow, as to this seasonal hiatus, so 

 commonly observed in private gar- 

 dens, I must tell you I know nothing 

 of it. When my windows were cleared 

 of what we call " spring llowers," 

 such as hyacinths, crocusses, doroni- 

 cums, pansies, and other things that 

 carry the season forward nearly to 

 the brink of summer, they were all 

 filled with that charming, hardy, yel- 

 low ilowering shrub Alyssum saxatile, 

 which made a splendid bloom, the 

 plants being in 4S-size pots, and all 

 from seed sown at the end of June 

 last year. These made an end of their 

 course before the end of May, but just 

 in time to make room for common 

 China and hybrid perpetual roses in 

 pots, which had been brought into 

 bloom without heat in a comfortable 



