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easily apprehended, and what is advanced is generally within the means of the 

 cottager class. In this respect they present a marked contrast to one at least 

 of the Essays on Window Gardening that was highly commended by the 

 judges. It was so technically and painfully elaborate, that to apply the arrange- 

 ments and suggestions recommended in it would not only require the whole of the 

 windows in Grosvenor Square to give effect to them, but also a considerable deal 

 of the resources belonging to the denizens of that aristocratic quarter. Clergy- 

 men and others, as well as country Horticultural Societies, would do well to 

 obtain copies for gratuitous distribution. 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



The Gardener's Magazine for May; also The Food Journal for May — both 

 as full of interesting details as heretofore. 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



Erratum. — In May number, page 237, line 1, for " Lassianthu3 Russelliana," 

 read " Lisianthus Russellianus." 



Nicotiana Wigandioides. — I have just seen some flowering specimens of this 

 fine Tobacco, and can recommend it as a good conservatory plant. The plants 

 had been taken from the open ground in the autumn, and placed in large pots, 

 and they are now bearing huge branching panicles of pale cream-coloured 

 flowers of considerable value as decorative agents. Apart, therefore, from the 

 value of this fine Tobacco as a foliaged plant in subtropical gardens, it can also 

 be estimated for its flowers, which it will produce in a cool conservatory during 

 the months of March, April, and May. B. C. 



Saunders' Dark Wallflower. — I am much disappointed with this reputed 

 fine strain of Wallflowers. The flowers are not dark, but of a brownish orange 

 hue, and not near so dense in colour as common strains of the Wallflower grow- 

 ing in the same garden. A small packet of it cost me one shilling — a price large 

 enough to have insured something good. Y. S., Leicester. 



[Has the cold dry weather affected the colour of the flowers ? — Eds.] 



The Council of the Royal Horticultural Society have elected Lord H. Gordon 

 Lennox, M.P., to serve on the Council in place of the late Gen. Hon. C. Grey, 

 and His Grace the President has nominated his lordship one of the Yice-presi- 

 dents of the Society for the current year. 



Tobacco - cloth (R. B.) — By Tobacco - cloth we understand rags steeped in 

 Tobacco-juice : this will do as well as anything else for fumigating, but as it is 

 generally stronger (and dearer) than the ordinary Tobacco -paper, some care must 

 be exercised in using it. 



Spirea Palmata (Inquirer). — Mr Charles Noble, Nurseryman, Bagshot, 

 Surrey, is distributing it, but you may obtain it through any nurseryman. 



Name of Plants (A Forester).— The double-white grove Anemone (Anemone 

 nemorosa flore pleno). 



Phlox Verna. — I have a large batch of this in full bloom at the present mo- 

 ment, and am much pleased with it. Though said to be old, yet I have only 



