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THE FLOKAL WOEI.D AXD GAEDEX GUIDE. 



Delptinums and Sunflowers — all such 

 good things in their way, that the pity- 

 is that some people neglect them in 

 order to make more beds than they 

 can fill properly or plant with skill. 

 '.~ Bluk Heartsease. — Those who 

 wish to use this for a front line should 

 have sown a month ago. But sup- 

 posing that was not done, sow now in 



till they are pot bound, then plant 

 out four inches apart, and leave them 

 to take care of themselves. They 

 ■will soon be one mass of bloom. If 

 any show yellow blossoms root them 

 out and destroy them, and fill up the 

 gaps with reserve plants. When they 

 get inconveniently tall, cut them back 

 close to the ground, and they will 



TA.GETES SIGMATA CUUILA. 



pans and place in a frame or green- 

 house. As soon as large enough to 

 handle prick out in other pans or 

 boxes in rich light soil, and keep 

 under glass till the plants are tufty, 

 then put them in thumb pots, and be 

 careful to pot firm. Shut up for a 

 week, then place them out of doors 



start directly and bloom again. "When 

 you are going away from home for a 

 fortnight is the time to cut down any 

 ribbon-lines that have grown out of 

 bounds. You thus escape seeing them 

 at their worst, and by the time you 

 return "Richard is himself again." 

 Shieley Hibbebd. 



LAPAGEEIA EOSEA. 



A. F. writes as follows : — " Will you 

 please be good enough to inform me 

 in your Floral World next month, 

 if possible, how I am to treat my 

 Lapageria rosea ? I had a seedling 

 about a year ago, and it is scarcely 

 any bigger now than it was then, and 

 locks very spindly. I have now put 

 it in a forcing pit. Will this be too 

 hot for it? I use the pit for cucum- 

 bers, etc." 



We have received more letters on 

 the subject of this Lapageria than 



upon any other plant during the 

 whole course of our experience. This 

 proves that the best of climbers is 

 appreciated for its beauty, and, at the 

 same time, that the proper method of 

 its culture is as yet but little under- 

 stood. 



Our correspondent A. F. is not 

 the only cultivator who has seen this 

 plant die by inches ; there have been 

 thousands sold, of which there are 

 not hundreds living, and not dozens in 

 a flourishing andfiowering state. How 



