THE FLOEAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



the use of Cucro guano for liquid ma- 

 nure, in what proportion mixed with 

 water, and how often given to the 

 plants, etc. Will it do for roses, gera- 

 niums, and all greenhouse plants, also 

 for standard roses in the open ground? 

 This manure was strongly recommended 

 in the Floral Wohld in 1858. [We 

 remember that several correspondents 

 testified to the excellence of Cuero 

 guano in 1858, and since that time we 

 have heard nothing of it. Having 

 never used it ourselves, we cannot 

 give explicit instructions, or as to the 

 proportions in which it should be used 

 for liquid manure ; nor, indeed, can we 

 say, of our own knowledge, if it is of 

 any use at all. We hope some of our 

 correspondents who have given it a fair 

 trial will let us know something about 

 it. Meanwhile E. H. W. will probably 

 be quite safe in using it according to 

 the directions frequently published in 

 these pages for the use of Peruvian 

 guano, and had best not give it to 

 geraniums or hard-wooded greenhouse 



■' plants at all, until advised. Roses mid 

 fast-growing herbaceous plants will no 

 doubt take it kindly.] 



Fortune's Yellow 'Rose. — U. H. W. 

 has a plant of this rose now covered 

 with buds in the greenhouse, but the 

 leaves look curled and sickly. Last 

 year a largo expanse of roof was covered 

 with its magnificent flowers. Would 

 liquid manure, used now, help the 

 plant, and restore the leaves to their 

 former healthy tone? [The border in 

 which the roots are may have been too 

 dry during the winter, for many plants 

 under glass have suffered through the 

 drought they have been subjected to 

 during the long and wearisome winter 

 which has just ended (if it has ended). 

 Or the plant may have been lately 

 touched with frost, which would cause 



< the leaves to curl. In any ease, liquid 

 manure is more likely to do good than 

 harm, and we should prefer to put 

 fresh sheep or deer's droppings in a tub 

 of hot water and stir them about, and 

 draw off the clear liquid when cold, and 

 water the border with it liberally twice 

 a week. Fresh sheep, goat, or deer's 

 dung should be used in the proportion 

 of a peck to thirty pallons of water. 

 The dung of domestic poultry, one 

 part to ten of water, is an excellent re- 

 fresher for established roses.] 



Pteeis Teemula. — Farringdon. — Some 

 growers would like to know how to 



prevent the growth of this pretty fern, 

 for it has not long been in a stove or 

 greenhouse ere its seedlings spring up 

 everywhere, and become a pest in the 

 same way as its near relative, P. serru- 

 lata. It is nearly hardy, evergreen, and 

 requires no particular care. Your 

 window plant must be repotted every 

 season in March or April, in order to 

 remove some of the exhausted soil from 

 among the roots, and replace it with 

 good fresh turfy peat. It may be re- 

 potted into the same pot, or one a size 

 larger. Keep it in a shady window, 

 and never put it out of doors. A pair 

 of Lady Ferns would perhaps suit the 

 open flower-stand, but the proper way 

 to keep that flower-stand would be to 

 place on it plants in bloom, and remove 

 them and replace with others, for no 

 plants will live long in a room at any 

 distance from the windows. Saxifraga 

 pyramidalis must be potted in equal 

 parts, loam, leaf-mould, and thoroughly 

 decayed manure. Send to Mr. Stand- 

 ish, Ascot, for the noble Forget-me-not, 

 Myositidium nobile. 



Selection of Mosses. — Old Subscriber. 

 — The following are recommended for 

 cultivation in Stark's " Popular History 

 of British Mosses" (published by Rout- 

 ledge, 7s. 6rf.) Andraja rupestris, An- 

 ictaugium ciliatum, Anomodon viticulo- 

 sum, Bartiamia pomiformis, Bryum 

 punctatium, B. pyriforme, B. rostratura, 

 B. argenteum, Cinciidotus fontinaloides, 

 Dicarum bryoides, D. pellucidum, D. 

 squarrcsum, D. taxifolium, Didymodon 

 heteromalluin, D. trifarium, Encalypta 

 vulgaris, Grimmia apocarpa, G. leuco- 

 phasa, Gymnostomum fasciculare, G. 

 ovatum, G. pyriforme, G. truncatulum, 

 Hedwigia aistiva, Hookeria lucens, 

 Hypnum cordifolinm, H. cupressiforme, 

 H. dendroides, II. molluscum, H. plu- 

 niosum, H. trichomanoides, Ortholri- 

 chum anomalum, 0. Hutehinsias, 0. 

 rupincoln, Polytrichum alpinum, P.juni- 

 perinnm, P. un^ulatum, Tortilla enervis, 

 T. subulata, Trichostomum aciculare, T. 

 heterosticlmm, Weissia contraversa, W. 

 curvirostra. 



Camellias. — How soon shall I put camel- 

 lias in heat to grow 1 All the buds that 

 did not drop, flowered at Christmas. I 

 carefully read some directions for 

 flowering them, and cannot see any- 

 thing we failed to do, Vet almost all 

 the buds dropped off. — H. £. — There 

 is but one rule needful, and that is 

 to set camellias growing as soon as 

 the bloom is over ; no matter what 



