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fully hardened, they may be out of doors in May, and will make a fine 

 bloom in a shady border. 



O. Bowiei requires a brisk heat to start it into growth, when the 

 tubers are potted in spring. The soil to start them in should be loam 

 and peat, with a little sand. This may also be planted out after being 

 properly hardened ; but as it rarely blooms satisfactorily in the open air, 

 we adv-ise that it be always grown under glass. 



Stove Species of Oxalis are few in number, and require precisely the 

 same routine treatment as the greenhouse lands, with the exception that 

 they must have a higher temperature. Those which require the stove 

 are — 0. Flumieri, fruticosa, BarreUeri, and ehinensis . 



PiiOPAGATioN OP Oxalis. — All those which produce seed may be most 

 easily increased from seed, as it quickly germinates if sown in pans filled 

 with sandy soil, and placed on a moderate bottom-heat. The seedlings 

 must be pricked out as soon as large enough, and the comparatively 

 hardy species should be planted out in shady borders, and be taken up in 

 October. The best time to sow the seed is the end of February, as there 

 is then a good chance of flowering them all the same season. Bulbous 

 kinds will furnish abundance of offsets, which sliould be removed when 

 the bulbs are taken up. The shrubby kinds are easily propagated by 

 means of cuttings, which should be taken in spring, and have a brisk 

 bottom-heat to cause them to root quickly ; when rooted to be potted 

 off, and grown on as described above for the several groups and species. 



EECENT FLOWER SHOWS. 



The Biemingham Rose Show, 

 July IGth and 17th.— The annual 

 display of roses at the Tovrn-hall, 

 Birmingham, is always one of the 

 most important exhibitions of the 

 season, and the last one was upon a 

 scale which did honour to the queen 

 of flovrers. The blooms were gene- 

 rally excellent, although, of course, 

 among such a vast number there were 

 many which had not yet attained 

 their best, and many others which 

 were past it. The new roses of 1860- 

 ■61-62 were largely shown in the 

 classes devoted especially to them, 

 and formed a considerable proportion 

 of the other collections, which may be 

 taken as a great point in their favour. 

 In the . nurserymen's class for 

 iTinety-six varieties, one truss of each, 

 Mr. B. R. Cant of Colchester took 

 the first prize ; Mr. John Keynes of 

 Salisbury, second ; Messrs. Paul and 

 Son, Cheshunt, and Mr. W. Paul, 

 Waltham Cross, equal third. The 

 most perfect flowers among them 

 were Madame Vidot, Frangois Lach- 

 arme, Gioire de Dijon, President, and 



an immense bloom of La;lia in Mr. 

 Cant's lot ; Marechal Vaillant, Mdlle. 

 Bounaire, Madame Knorr, Comtesse 

 Ouvaroff, Alphonse Karr, Beauty of 

 Waltham, Triomphe de Rennes, 

 Madame Boll. Madame Hector Jac- 

 quin, Jules Margottin, Jean d'Arc, 

 Olivier Delhomme, -Gloire de San- 

 thenay, Souvenir de Comte Cavour, 

 General Jacqueminot, Gloire de Vitry, 

 Comte de I^anteuil, Baron Gonella, 

 and Senateur Vaisse, in Mr. Keyne's 

 lot ; and in the other collections La 

 Boule d'Or, Eugene Appert, Souve- 

 nir d'un Ami, Gloire de Santhenay, 

 Triomphe de Caen, Madame Charles 

 Wood, Prince Camille de Rohan, 

 Louise Magnan, Baron Gonella, Eu- 

 gene Desgaches, Comtesse Cecile de 

 Chabrillant, Jaune of Smith, Due de 

 Rohan, Madame Pierson, Niphetos, 

 Due de Cazes, and Louis XIV. 



First forforty-eight varieties, three 

 trusses of each, Mr. John Keynes of 

 Salisbury, with a stand of beautifully 

 fresh and fine flowers ; second, Messrs. 

 Paul and Son, Cheshunt; third, Mr. B. 

 R. Cant, Colchester. lu the class for 



