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such tilings as Tom Thumb and other 

 geraniums, calceolarias, primulas, and a 

 number of things that like to be near 

 the glass. It would also be a first-rate 

 position in which to bring on a few 

 strawberries in pots, if desired. If the 

 usual inhabitants of the greenhouse are 

 cultivated, the back of the house would 

 [_be best occupied with a rising stags of 



A, Door ; B, Shelf; C, Stage ; D, Pit. 



•wood, the shelves to he inch yellow deal 

 and'the supoorts two-inch quartering, the 

 bottom shelf to be on a level with the 

 front shelf, so that the light may plaj- 

 freely upon the plants that stand upon 

 it. It would be an acquisition to devote 

 a portion of the space at the back, say 

 ten feet, to a brick pit, to contain tan or 

 other fermenting material, in which 

 specimen fuchsias, vines in pots, or any 

 other plants, might be plunged. 

 Set of Beds, Herbaceous Pl.vxts for 

 Exhibition, etc. — Lobelia. — No. 1 on 

 your planting violates a rule which we 

 liold to very sternly, and to obviate 

 the juxtaposition of yellow and red, we 

 should plant the bed thu-s : — Cineraria 

 maritima, PerilLa, or Amaranthus me- 

 lancholicus ruber, calceolaria, and cen- 

 tre line of Punch, repeating again on 

 the other side. This throws out the 

 ageratum. No. 2, use blue lobelia in- 

 stead of the anagallis, and the effect 

 ■will be richer. No. 3, Stachys lanata 

 will make a better front line to Tom 

 Thumb than to Calceolaria aurea ; say 

 stachys, Tom Thumb, Calceolaria aurea 

 and ageratum for the centre, and the 

 same the other side repeated. In this 

 bed a scarlet or yellow centre will be 

 objectionable, as it will draw the eye 

 away fi-ora the other two beds, and we 

 would put scarlet and orange in juxta- 

 position for the sake of a sober centre 

 line of ageratam. But your planting is 

 good according to prevailing fashions, 

 though not precisely such as we should 

 adopt. The plant you inclose is Gaza- 



nia splendens. The following are twelve 

 fTood herbaceous plants for exhibition, 

 all blooming abont the same time : — 

 Alstraemeria pelegrina, Statice pube- 

 rula, Statice pseudo-armeria. Campa- 

 nula nobile alba, Campanula rotundi- 

 folia alba, (Enothera Fraseri, ^nothera 

 speciosa, CEnothera macrocarpa, Ascle- 

 pias tuberosa, Erigeron pliiladelphicum, 

 Lotus corniculata pleno, Melitta melis- 

 sophylla. 

 Sowing Peas. — How am I to sow peas ? 

 You say in your second volume, p. 154, 

 " stretch the line, and sow regularlv," 

 etc. Now, should there b3 but one line 

 of peas in the drill, or should the seed 

 be sown the whole breadth of the drill ? 

 — T. Holroijd. [Some peas, such as 

 Early Warwick, Emperor, Auvergne, and 

 others of similar habit, should be sonn 

 thickly, but evenly, in the drill, thus : — 



If sown in a single line,'the crop would 

 amount to nothing. Others, such as 

 Scimetar, Veitch's Perfection, British 

 Queen, and all the strong-growing 

 marrows, should be sown in double rows 

 in the drill, an inch apart, thus : — 



These are of branching habit, and need 

 more room than the early peas. The 

 more you dig and manure, the more 

 peas you will get. "We remind our 

 readers generally that when the land is 

 ready for sowing, a dressincr of the sur- 

 face with unslacked lime does wonders 

 for them.] 

 Fruit Trees on a L^wn. — I have just 

 planted some pyramidal fruit-trees on my 

 lawn, will it be right to lay the turf close 

 up to their stems? Witli regard to protect- 

 ing them, I don't want to drive heavy 

 stakes in the grass, I thought of four strips 

 of deal about one nnd a quarter inch 

 square, and seven feet long, put together, 

 and meeting at the top, thus, ^. with tif- 

 fany over them. Will this answer ? — 

 J. I)., Clapton. [If the soil is properly 

 prepared, and the trees properly plan ted, 

 turfing close to them will do tliem no 

 harm. We have in these pages objected 

 to turfing close to trees intendecl to ^rou- 

 large, and especially to turfing close to 

 standard roses, because turfing tends to 

 starve them. But as a little starving 

 favours a fruitful hnbir, the roots of your 

 trees may be turfed over. If they are 

 merely planted in holes in soil not pre- 



