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THE FLORAL WORLD A:7D GARDEN GUIDE, i 



shady part of the house, will in time 

 throw out roots, and may then be potted. 

 After pottinr; keep warm and shaded, and 

 give very little water Tintil growth has 

 fairly commenced. Cattleyas for specimen 

 culture should now be operated upon to 

 produce " back breaks." The process 

 consists in cutting the plant in two be- 

 tween the bulbs, that is to say, there is to 

 be an incision made, but not to separate 

 the parts cut. After making the cut, let 

 them remain in the same place, be careful 

 that no water lodges in the cut, but supply 

 plenty of atmospheric moisture with a 

 rise of the temoerature. This will secure 

 the formation of several flowering bulbs 

 the next season. 



Orchids that may he in bloom in January. 

 — Angrecura eburneum, eburneum super- 

 bum, and eburneum virens ; Arpiio- 

 phvlkim spicatum; Barkeria elegans, and 

 Skinneri; Bletia Shepherdii ; Brassavola 

 Digbyana; Bui'lingtonia amoena; Cahinthe 

 vestita rubra oculata; Cattleya Warsce- 

 wiczii dclicata; Ccelogyne Gardneriana, 

 and media ; Cymbidium giganteura and 

 Mastersii ; Cypripedium insigne, insigne 

 Manlei, and purpuratum ; JJendrobium 

 album and chrysotoxum. 



Orchids newly received are not to be 

 pushed into growth too quickly. Epi- 

 phytes should be attached to their blocks 

 at once, and hehmg head doivnwards. When 

 they begin to grow, reverse them. 



TO COIIEE 



Catalogues. — • " Catalogues of British 

 Ferns, by Stansheld and Sons, Vale 

 Nurseries, Todmorden," is full and ac- 

 curate, and contains many of the rarest 

 in cultivation, as well as the better 

 known and cheapest kinds. Messrs. 

 Staiisfield announce the publication of 

 a general fern list for 1863, to comprise 

 stove, greenhouse, and hardv ferns. — 

 " Carey Tyso, Wallingford, IJerks, De- 

 scriptive Catalogue of Flower Roots, 

 Plants," etc., is specially rich in ane- 

 mones, ranunculuses, carnations, and 

 picotees, and for the first two is the fullest 

 list published. — "Thomas Rivers and 

 Son, Sawbridgeworth, Catalogue of 

 Fruit Trees," newly arranged in classes, 

 and in every page scraps of original in- 

 formation, which gives quite a new in- 

 terest to the perusal of a catalogue. — 

 " Catalogue of Strawberries," also re- 

 arranged so as to allow of the classifi- 

 cation of the varieties as early, dessert, 

 culinary, and aiitumnal. 



Books Received. — " The Miniature Fruit 

 Garden, by Tliomas Rivers, Sawbridge- 

 nortli. Eleventli edition. Longmans." 

 This charming little book has been much 

 improved and added to, though it seemed 

 as near perfection as possible previously. 

 No amateur fruit grower should be 

 without it. Mr. Rivers has improved 

 the plan of the "ground vineries, '^ and 

 has incorporated in the work some useful 

 notes on the cuhure of pears and apples 

 in town gardens. — ''Rambles in Search 

 of Wild Flowers, and how to Distinguish 

 them. By Margaret Plues. Published 

 at 162, Fleet Street." An inti resting 

 gossipy hook which the young botanist 

 will find invaluable. It is, perhaps, 

 rather too gossipy, but it is, nevertheless, 

 full of information, accurate, and libe- 

 rally illustrated with coloured pictures. 



SPONDENTS. 



We take note, also, that it has a good 

 index, by which a work of this sort is 

 doubled in value. — "Tiie Garden Oracle, 

 for 1863," has been reprinted, and the 

 new issue is now ready. — The volume of 

 the Floual World for 1862 is now 

 ready, bound in cloth, price 6?. Com- 

 plete sets may be had in cloth fir 30s., 

 in numbers, 20*. As the stock is limited 

 persons desirous to complete their sets 

 should order them of their booksellers 

 at once. 



Raising a Stock of Evebgkeens. — Brix- 

 tvnian. — It is not long since Mr. How- 

 lett wrote on the propagation of ever- 

 green shrubs, and if you look for an 

 article entitled " Always be Sticking in 

 Something," you will see that the subject 

 iias had some attention besides the 

 notices in the monthly calendar of work. 

 It will be quite a mistake to set a Wal- 

 tonian case to work at this time of the 

 year to get up a stock of shrubs. We 

 do sometimes pi-opagate Portugal laurel, 

 lauristinus, and euonymus in heat in 

 spring, but we should never recom- 

 mend amateurs to go to work that way. 

 The season to put in cuttings of these 

 things is from the middle of July to 

 the end of August, and the open ground 

 is then the best hot-bed for them. Your 

 proposal to propagate chrysanthemums 

 from old flower-stems in the way vines 

 are done, is almost as untenable as that 

 respecting the evergreens. Just do 

 them in the usual way, and you will 

 have no trouble and be sure of good 

 plants. 



Lawn Foul -with Daisies. — B.M. — We 

 know of a lawn which, some years ago, 

 was like j'-ours, one mass of daisies. 

 The proprietor made it a rule to take out 

 one with a spud every morning all the 

 year round, and leave a pinch of grass 



