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Arborescent forms of H. helix. 



29. Arborescens. — -The fruiting 

 form of the species. It forms a beau- 

 tiful shrub, either grafted or on its 

 own roots ; berries black. 



30. Arborescens aureum. — An ele- 

 gantly variegated form of 29, the 

 leaves being deeply margined with 

 bright orange. This forms a beauti- 

 ful shrub, and is quite hardy. 



31. Arborescens alba lutescens. — 

 Similar to 3J, but with the leaf bolted 

 ■with white. This and the preceding 

 are the most picturesquely marked 

 of all the arborescent forms of H. 

 helix. 



32. Arborescens aurea maculata. — 

 The leaves are clouded, and splashed 

 with broad masses of bright sulphur 



yellow ; a very handsome and fast- 

 growing variety. 



33. Arborescens baccifera lutea.— 

 This is the fruiting form of 14 ; ifc 

 makes a pretty bush, and is very 

 fruitful ; berries greenish-yellow. 



34. Arborescens marginata argen- 

 tea. — Leaves slightly lobed, ovate, 

 acumiaate, uniformly margined with 

 creamy white. 



35. Arborescens minor lutea, — 

 Small, regularly ovate entire leaves, 

 deeply margined with sulphur-yellow. 



36. Arborescens chrysocarpa. — ■ 

 The fruiting form of 15, and the most 

 beautiful of all fruiting ivies when 

 covered with its golden berries. It 

 requires a dry soil and free exposure 

 to sunshine to render it proline of 

 berries. 



THE GAEDEN" GUIDE EOE MAECH. 



Kitchen Gakdfn. — This is one of the 

 busiest months of tho whole year, and 

 great exertion will be necessary in order 

 to keep pace with the work, which will now 

 multiply so rapidly that there will be con- 

 siderable danger of allowing some things 

 to get behind. Those who have paid at- 

 tention to our directions lor last month 

 will be well forward and able to devote 

 themselves exclusively to the real work of 

 the season. 



Artichokes. — This is the time to make 

 new plantations and dress up old ones. 

 Plant the suckers in clumps of three, a 

 foot apart in the clumps, and the clumps 

 four feet apart ; dress the surface of the 

 quarter with line coal or wood ashes. 



Asparagus and Sealcale. — This is the 

 best time in the whole year to sow, and 

 the best beds are raised from seed, with- 

 out any transplanting. The ground should 

 have been prepared long since, and be now 

 in a friable mellow condition. Dress aspa- 

 ragus beds with manure, and make all 

 ready for the crop of the season. Seakale 

 that has been forced should now be allowed 

 to grow, to gather strength for next season. 

 Remove all the coverings from the stools, 

 lightly fork between the rows, and dress 

 ■with strong manure. Asparagus beds to 

 be forked over, and sprinkled with salt. 



Means and Peas.— Sow for succession 

 as required. The marrow peas are the 

 kinds which answer best for present sow- 

 ing.. If any accidents have happened to 

 early sowings, get in a few rows of Early 

 Emperors and Dillistones at once ; these 



will come in usefully between the first 

 earlies and the marrows. Dress the roots 

 of peas and beans with wood-ashes or 

 soot before moulding up. Earth up as 

 needful. If slugs abound, strew wood- 

 ashes or soot along the rows. Knight's 

 Dwarf Marrow and Taylor's Long Pod 

 beans are good sorts for a late supply. 



Brocoli for autumn use to be sown 

 in small quantities this week and next. 

 Early White, Walcheren, and Purple 

 Sprouting will give a good succession. 



Cabbage crops of all kin is to be cleared 

 off the ground as soon as possible to make 

 room for spring produce. Broccolis, Brus- 

 sels sprouts, Scotch kale, etc., etc., now 

 begin to cumber the ground. If there is 

 any fear of the supply running short before 

 round spinach and other early vegetables 

 come in, plant the best of the old stumps 

 in a quarter by themselves, and they will 

 furnish a few good gatherings. Otherwise 

 consign them to the muck-pit to rot into 

 manure. Sow at once lvuseite Colewort, 

 Early York, and Shilling's Queen and 

 Grange's White and Purple Brocoli, and 

 London Market Broccoli. 



Cauliflowers will be growing now that 

 the weather is milder. Give air by tilting 

 the lights, and let them have warm showers, 

 but cover up at night in case of frost. 



Celery sown early will now require to 

 be pricked out into boxes on a slight hot- 

 bed. The plan we have followed many 

 years with the first crop is to pot them 

 separate^ in 60-sized pots, which they 

 completely fill with roots by the time the 

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