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pot, thus giving eighteen blooms. In the case of the Japanese varieties, 

 I would not advise this number to be exceeded ; but in the large-flower- 

 ing (incurved) section, free-blooming varieties, such as Mrs G. Eundle, 

 Aurea multiflora, Eotundiflora, Sec, a greater quantity may be left on 

 without deterioration of flower-quality. 



It were mere folly to advise the training of plants for general 

 purposes as if for exhibition — the time would be wanting in the 

 great majority of cases for such work ; however, it takes but little 

 time to go over them at regular intervals, training them in the 

 shape most suitable, which will be that which is the most natural. I 

 may inform Mr Hind that, according to Mr Castle (see ' Journal of 

 Horticulture' for January 1871), the time of potting has little to do 

 with the time of flowering in this genus, but the time of pinching has 

 everything to do with it. Well-grown shapely plants and beautiful 

 flowers can be grown with a minimum amount of trouble and labour. 

 Allow me to advise those who require small plants to try the plan 

 advised by M. T. — strike or layer shoots or branches from June till 

 August (the Pompon section is meant) ; be very kind to them, and they 

 will repay the extra attention paid to them. Teetotaller. 



KEVIEWS. 



The Orchid-Grower's Manual. By Benjamin Samuel "Williams, Victoria 

 Nurseries, Upper HoUoway, London. Fourth Edition, Enlarged and Re- 

 vised, with Illustrations. 

 We welcome Mr B. S. Williams in this fourth edition of his valuable Orchid 

 Manual, The character of this work has been determined by its object — namely, 

 to be especially useful to amateurs. The author is known as a very able man 

 among Orchids, and he has here given select lists of this noble family of plants, 

 with cultural notes couched in a plain and sensible style ; popular, and free from 

 all that is not thoroughly practical. To all who want to know not only how to 

 grow, but what sorts of Orchids to select, the work canot fail to prove of great 

 value; and there are few cultivators, however experienced, who will not find this 

 handsomely-got-up volume instructive and useful. It has the rare merit of giv- 

 ing all the cream of the subject of which it treats, without compelling the reader 

 to wade through pages of words in search of it. 



An Illustrated Natural History op British Butterflies. By Edward 

 Newman, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 

 This is a handsomely-got-up volume, with most beautiful illustrations of all 

 the butterflies of Britain. The author seems deeply in love with his subject, 

 and treats it with an enthusiasm and an amount of cheerfulness that, apart from 

 its value as a work on Entomology, must render it pleasant reading to the most 

 apathetic ; while nothing connected with the life-histories of the different but- 

 terflies appears to be forgotten. The illustrations, as we have said already, are 

 exquisitely got up. 



