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autumn according to circumstances, and will continue for months in a 

 temperature of 45° to 50" according to the external temperature. 



The double varieties supersede the single ones for cutting purposes ; 

 and for bouquet-making they are admirably adapted, and last a long 

 time in a cut state. Wm. Baedney. 



LUCULIA PINCEANA. 



This is one of the finest of all choice winter-blooming shrubs, and as 

 it does not require a high winter temperature — indeed does best in a 

 comparatively cool and moist house (40° at night will do it no barm) — 

 it deserves to be seen more often than is now the case. In the cul- 

 ture of this plant there is a little secret. Never be tempted to repot it 

 on any account, a remark which applies to L. gratissima with equal 

 force. The finest plant I ever saw was purchased from a nursery in a 

 6-inch pot. After growing in the same pot for some years and doing 

 well, it was decided to plant it out in a border in a warm conservatory. 

 In performing the operation the plant was not turned out of the pot, 

 but the drainage-hole was enlarged without injury to the roots, and 

 the pot was plunged in the prepared border at the foot of a pillar, 

 where it is now a picture worth going miles to see, each growth being 

 terminated by a cluster of fragrant pink blossoms or buds. I know of 

 several people who have lost L. gratissima simply owing to the opera- 

 tion of repotting ; and I advise every one who may intend to grow these 

 plants to plunge the pot and allow the roots to find their own way out 

 of the pot, rather than risk the plant by turning it out and repotting in 

 the usual way. These plants are so sweet and welcome in mid-winter, 

 that all having a warm greenhouse should grow them ; and if the above 

 advice is followed, I am vain enough to think that they will not vanish 

 from collections so mysteriously as is now sometimes the case. Both 

 species may be increased by careful layering, each branchlet separately 

 in a 6-inch pot. They are by no means easy to increase, hence the 

 rather long price in the catalogues of the few trade-growers who have 

 them to offer. F. W. B. 



EUCHARIS AMAZONICA. 



Though much has been written about this beautiful plant, I feel con- 

 strained to bring it once more before the notice of your readers. 

 I may not be able, perhaps, to impart anything new concerning it ; 

 but if I can draw the attention of your readers to its merits, especially 

 at this season of the year, so that it may be more extensively culti- 

 vated, and receive the attention it so well deserves, my object will be 

 fully attained. 



Perhaps there are few plants more easy of cultivation than this, if 

 the conditions under which it is cultivated approximate to the climate 



