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to pass a copper or lead wire through to 

 fasten the label to the tree with ; then with 

 a narrow chisel or screw-drivei punch 

 deep enough to be legible, thus IV. for 4, 

 XV. for 15, and so on, then by keeping 

 a list of names numbered to correspond, 

 plants, etc., so labelled may be known at 

 an}' time ; if required, each class may be 

 distinguished by some particular mark, 

 as [] for apple, f pear, [ plum, etc., but 

 if small steel punches can be had cheap, 

 1 to 9 and inclusive, a gardener could 

 punch any number ; but the chisel or 

 screw-driver would do for most mode- 

 rate-sized gardens. I beg to suggest 

 the above plan because I think the mate- 

 rial cheap, easily made, and lasting. — 

 Polly. 



Datura Floribunda.— R. T. P. If you 

 had given us the exact name of the 

 plant, you should have been replied to 

 last month. We suppose your query to 

 refer to Datura Jloribunda, which is 

 nearly hardy, and requires no particular 

 skill to flower it. Your best course 

 of procedure is to shift the plant to a 

 pot one size larger, as soon as it has 

 quite filled with roots tiie pot it is now 

 in, and proceed then till it is in a twelve- 

 inch pot, and then wait patiently for 

 bloom. The soil should be equal parts 

 fibry peat and loam, no dung and no 

 liquid manure: grown in this way in an 

 airy greenhouse it will bloom abundantly 

 some day, but it never blooms in a small 

 state. If you have not greenhouse 

 room for it, you may plunge the pot in 

 a sheltered border from the end of May 

 till the end of September, and then re- 

 move the plant to a pit for the winter. 



Herbaceous Plants for Exhibition. 

 — G. D — We do not understand your 

 request for names of six herbaceous 

 plants for exhibition in August. It 

 would have been better if you had given 

 us a copy of the clause in the schedule 

 of the exhibition they intended for. 

 The following are fine subjects which 

 bloom in August : Inula glandulosa, 

 Agathyrsus Sibiricus, Sabbatia campes- 

 tris, PentstemonJaffrayanum, Diantlius 

 serotinus, Phygelius capensis. These 

 will group very well, hut a collection of 

 Florists' Pentstemous, Phloxes, or Lobe- 

 lias would quite eclipse them. 



Various. — W. B. — Any old frames and 

 lights can be used for hardening bedding 

 plants; the merest shelter at night is 

 sufficient after the first week of April. 

 There is no need anywhere to build 

 houses for the purpose. There is no 

 such a thing as a book on bedding 

 plants. The stock of Antennaria was all 



disposed of a year ago; we have not an 

 inch left. — A. Cathcart. — Your queries 

 open a broid question, and we must defer 

 replies till next month for want of space. 

 — J. W., Maidstone. — The blue hearts- 

 ease vanished within a week of the offer 

 being made. The subject named shall 

 have attention. — A. B.— The primulus 

 you name are garden varieties, and their 

 names are supposed to be descriptive of 

 their colours, cuprea meaning coppery, 

 and cornea flesh-colour. Such a ques- 

 tion as you ask can only be settled by a 

 comparison of the varieties, many of 

 which are local, and have never had a 

 place in books. We have not seen Mr. 

 Fleming's book, and have no particular 

 wish to see it. The best book for you is 

 the Eev. J. S. Henslow's " Dictionary of 

 Botanical Terms," published by Messrs. 

 Groombridge, price 4*. 9d. — JE. M. H. — 

 Your tender ivy-like plant is Senecio 

 Mikanice, which you will [find described 

 in the Floral World, vol. ii., p. 131. — 

 A. G., Surrey. — We do not know the 

 stove you name. We kept a large col- 

 lection of rather tender herbaceous plants 

 through the last winter by the aid of one 

 of Joyce's patent stoves. How do you 

 manage to bloom Deutzia gracilis all the 

 year? — J. B. — We prefer in every case 

 that our friends should apply to the book- 

 sellers. —J. C. L. — We have explained 

 at least a dozen times how to make the 

 lamp burn. Have a wick of proper size, 

 and trim it neatly about three-quarters 

 of an inch long, and you will get over 

 that difficulty. — Polly. — Give more air, 

 and you will escape all your present 

 troubles. Any of the large London 

 houses can supply Magpie pansy. — H. S., 

 Redland. — For raising ferns from spore*, 

 see Floral World, vol. v., p. 36. Your 

 Pleroma wants repottina; ; it is starving 

 to death. Do it at once, removing a por- 

 tion of the old roots, and using equal 

 parts peat and loam full of fibre. Assist 

 it to make a new start by means of bot- 

 tom heat. Treat the Polygala the same, 

 but add a fourth part chalk to the soil. — 

 Spa Hill. — The flax will flower this sea- 

 son. Convolvulus Maurifrmicus is called 

 a hardy plant, because it can be grown 

 out of doors during the summer; it re- 

 quires protection during winter. It will 

 flower this season if sown at once and 

 grown on under glass. — Subscriber. — 

 You will require two pipes for bottom 

 heat and two for top heat. You need 

 not screen off the portion intended for 

 cucumbers; as if grown at the warmest 

 end the temperature would just suit for 

 winter-blooming stove-plants. 



