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showing at the autumn exhibitions. The late-flowering sorts are use- 

 ful for decorating the conservatory late in autumn. The succeeding 

 year the same plants may be grown on still in pots, shifting them 

 finally into 9-inch pots, and bringing on three to five shoots for flower- 

 ing. These make handsome objects where the conservatory is a large 

 one. Or the plants may be kept over winter in the pots, and early 

 the succeeding spring planted out into beds prepared as previously ad- 

 vised for divided pieces. Spikes cut for exhibition very generally flag 

 or droop shortly after staging. To obviate this to as great a degree as 

 psssible, insert as much of the stem, with leaves attached, as at all con- 

 venient in water. By this means an infinitely greater amount of water 

 is absorbed then when the end of the stem merely is inserted in the 

 water. Some of the finer kinds for exhibition, as well as for ordinary 

 decorative purposes, in both sections, are the following : Bryan Wynne, 

 Lothair, Chanzy, Amabilis, Coccinea, Queen of Whites, Venus, Mrs 

 Laing, Miss Macrae, Lady Napier, Duchess of Athole, Lilacina, A. 

 M'Keith, M. Dunn, Princess Louise, Boi des Roses, Vierge Marie, 

 Madame Moisset, Resplendens Coccinea. These are all strong-grow- 

 ing and fine varieties, and will form the nucleus of a collection to 

 any one who wishes to "go in" for the culture of the Phlox. 



R. P. Broth erston. 



ON THE SUMMER MANAGEMENT OF FORCING- 

 HOUSES. 



The management of forcing-houses in winter and spring has been 

 treated of so often and so well by several correspondents of ' The 

 Gardener,' that it would be difficult to write much that is new upon 

 the subject, viewing the matter merely from a practical standpoint. 

 I think, however, that the summer management of forcing-houses is 

 somewhat overlooked, from the fact of the assistance rendered by 

 the natural agencies of warmth and light. These agencies are not 

 under-estimated by us : on the contrary, we recognise their fullest 

 value in forcing at all seasons ; but there should be practical co-opera- 

 tion working along with these influences in due season. 



We have heard it remarked before now that there is a good deal of 

 repetition in the writings of the present day upon practical horticul- 

 tural subjects. We think it is well that this should be so, as long as 

 the matter is of a sound and practical nature, and will bear analysing. 

 It is good for amateurs ; it is good for those who are enlarging 

 their horticultural sphere by plodding steps, and who gather much 

 information from the practical writings of experienced cultivators ; 

 and it is especially good for young men for whom the horticultural 

 press has done so much, and is likely to do a good deal more. It 



