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Garden- Walks (Inquirer). — Six barrow-loads of rough material and one of 

 fresh lime would cover a considerable space when laid out 3£ inches in thick- 

 ness, but we cannot say exactly how many square yards it would cover. See the 

 article headed "Gardening on the Thames Embankment" for another capital 

 mod^of constructing paths. 



Double Glazing (W. N.) — We have no experience of double glazing as ap- 

 plied to Pine-houses ; but you might make an experiment by having another set 

 of lights made to put over the others in winter and be withdrawn in summer. 

 Have you a proper boiler — one large enough to do its work well ? A small boiler 

 that does its work imperfectly is much more expensive than a larger one of more 

 power and fitness. The consumption of fuel would not be so great actually in the 

 case of the larger one. 



Fuchsias (L. A. G.) — The following selection will suit you very well, being 

 fine and varied, and plants could be obtained next spring at a reasonable cost : 

 Avalanche, a fine pure white double-corolla'd variety, tube and sepals brilliant 

 carmine scarlet ; Enchantress, another very fine double white, one of the best 

 grown ; Herald, tube and sepals bright rose, corolla bright blue, changing to 

 violet pink, good habit and very free ; Lizzie Hexham, scarlet sepals, large rich 

 plum- coloured corolla, a fine exhibition variety ; Lustre, a lovely light variety, 

 with a vivid crimson vermilion corolla; Marvel, bright carmine sepals, and a 

 dark lavender-blue corolla, very good ; Killiecrankie, crimson tube and sepals, 

 rich dark plum-coloured corolla, extra fine ; Heather Bell, white tube and sepals, 

 lovely carmine i^ed corolla, very pretty ; Starlight, waxy- white tube and sepals, 

 clear lake corolla, a charming variety ; Catherine Parr, white tube and sepals, rich 

 scarlet rose corolla, old, but very good ; Giant, bright rose sepals, and immense 

 double purple corolla, good habit, and very free; Taglioni, a charming light 

 variety ; Tinted Venus, a very novel and beautiful Fuchsia, the tube and sepals 

 bright rose, the corolla white, tinted and feathered with violet rose ; Venus de 

 Medici, an old but extremely useful light variety ; and Wave of Life, red tube 

 and sepals, magenta corolla, shaded with purple, very good and showy. Some 

 of the foregoing are new of the last year or two, others older. Our advice to all 

 exhibitors of the Fuchsia is to strike cuttings yeai'ly in August and September, 

 and grow on the plants for exhibition the following summer. Much depends on 

 the place to keep them in during winter, but treated in this way splendid young 

 specimens 4 feet in height can be obtained, against which many of the old 

 plants one usually sees at horticultural exhibitions stand no chance if intelligent 

 judges (not always the case) are selected to make the awards. 



Name of Plant (A Reader). — The specimen sent was so thoroughly shrivelled 

 that we could make nothing of it. There must have been some delay in posting 

 the box. 



Premier Runner Bean. — I cannot but think that this new and distinct 

 variety will prove to be a valuable acquisition to our list of Runner Beans. 

 Whilst thoroughly differing in its character from the old Scarlet Runner, it 

 differs also materially from the rest of other well-known Runners, inasmuch as it 

 partakes more of the nature of a good dwarf Bean in appearance, being medium - 

 sized in the pod and straight in shape. The flower of it is nearly white, and 

 enjoys the faculty of being a good setter. In this respect it has proved during 

 the past exceedingly dry summer a much more reliable friend to the gardener 

 than even the Scarlet Runner, as in the case of the first the supply of pods was 

 continual, whilst the latter suffered so much from the heat that the greatest pro- 



