1873.] QUICK WAY OF FRUITING BANANAS. 41 



as an edging to beds in the same way as we use Echeveria secnnda glauca or 

 Sempervivum Californicum, or as any one has seen them used at Battersea or 

 Hyde Park by Mr Gibson ! only one row would do in place of two, as is generally 

 necessary in the case of the Echeveria and Sempervivum. I should feel obliged 

 if D. T. would let us know the quickest way to get a stock of it. I have used 

 S. cotyledon this season, which looks very pretty, but not nearly equal to 

 S. longifolia, J. Anderson. 



The Gardens, Hill Grove, Kidderminster. 



[Planted in rich light soil— loam, leaf- mould, and sand — it makes off^sets 

 freely. — Ed.] 



KEEN'S WIITTER-FIiOWERIlSrG CARNATIOlSr, 

 MISS JOLLIFFE. 



Having some time ago seen in a contemporary a 'glowing report of "Miss 

 JollifFe," winter-flowering Carnation, I was desirous of seeing it. Having been 

 gratified, I am able to indorse the high opinion of so many gardeners of dis- 

 tinction who have proved it to be of great value for winter work ; and those 

 who have a heavy demand for cut flowers at a season when they are scarce, will 

 find this a valuable acquisition. The flowers, which are produced in great 

 abundance, are of good substance, pale pink in colour, and have a strong but 

 very pleasant perfume. This novelty was raised by Mr Keen, gardener to 

 John G. Sheppard, Esq., of Campsey-ashe, "Wickham Market, Suftblk. 



His employer has kindly granted Mr Keen permission to do as he pleases 

 with it, and it is now being sent out direct from Campsey-ashe. 



Blenheim. jM. Temple. 



QUICK WAY OF FRUITIT^'a BAISTANAS. 



(musa cavendishii.) 

 Last April I had two very fine suckers of Bananas in 10-inch pots, and being 

 unwilling to throw them away, yet not knowing very well what to do with 

 them, being scarce of room, I resolved to act upon a hint I got from a gardener 

 of very high standing— viz., Mr Johnston of Glamis Castle Gardens. I planted 

 them in the back-bed of the Pine-pit, the height from top of bed to glass being 

 not more than 5 feet. They were turned out of the pots and planted into the 

 bed, made up of nothing else but leaves, on the 27th of April. The bed is 

 bottom -heated by two 4-inch pipes. The plants grew very rapidly and soon 

 got crushed up against the glass, the long half-opened leaves bending in a 

 number of curious ways, and some of them lifting a pane and bolting out alto- 

 gether. The evil, however, was easily cured by going up on a ladder and pushing 

 them in again and replacing the pane. They showed fruit on the 30th Septem- 

 ber, just five months after planting; and had the season been an ordinarily good 

 one, I have no doubt they would have fruited sooner. The clusters of fruit are 

 very good considering the material they were grown in, also the somewhat . 

 unnatural circumstances. I would, however, recommend planting two or three 

 months sooner, in order to get the fruit ripened the same season. When a 

 plant shows fruit late in the season, it seldom or never ripens through the 

 winter — at least that is my experience. The plants by being crushed up 

 against the glass go quickly into fruit. J- Heath. 



