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rough pieces of tnrfy loam to prevent the soil from being carried throngh the slierda ; after 

 ill!-*, take o<iuul proportions of lonni and nilver tatid, mix together, and hll within a (jiiurler 

 of an ineh of the rini, tlien eoniplete by filling vip with silver Band. Tree Carnations will thrive 

 hixuriantlv in a good maiden soil or loam mixed with a little silver sand, to whieh may be added 

 a ."light s[irinkling of leaf-mold ; the same soil may be used throughout the se.ison, except when 

 the idiints are first shifted from the store pot, when a little more silver sand should boused In 

 spring the plants should be removed from the frame, and placed upon an open border, in any 

 favorable situation; but first prepare it by sj)reading a thin layer of aslies, which will jjrevent 

 worms from entering the pots. If at this time the [ilants require potting, a shift should be given 

 them, but care must be taken not to over-pot them. I find that many varieties thrive better 

 if gradually shifted into their blooming pots, say from 3-inch into a G-ineh jiot, and so on in 

 proportion. The plants are comparatively no trouble during summer ; they merely want water- 

 ing, and sometimes stirring up the surface soil ; but as they grow, care must be taken to 

 secure the stems nicely with some neat sticks. The princijial insects that attack them are green 

 flv; which is easily removed bj' sprinkling with a little tobacco-water. If the weather and 

 situation prove excessively hot in the summer, the plants may be removed with advantage to a 

 border that is slightly shaded from the mi<l-day sun. If the above mode of treatment is follow- 

 ed, by the autumn the plants will have thrown up from three to eight stems each, and be laden 

 with a profusion of buds, which, if the plants are removed to a greenhouse as soon as the 

 Weather is beginning to get damp and cold, will expand, and afford a continuance of blossoms 

 throughout the winter. These Carnations are not only valuable for their disjilay in the green- 

 house, but are, I may saj', unequalled as a winter flower for the boquet and other purposes to 

 which cut flowers are applied. The following are the names and colors of 12 of the best and 

 most distinct varieties: — Attila, scarlet and white flake; Belle Zora, salmon pink, striped and 

 mottled with crimson ; Cassandra, bright cerise ; Gertrude, lavender, mottled with white ; In- 

 comparable, deep rose, striped with crimson ; La Serini, blush white, mottled with rose ; La 

 Vedale, scarlet self; Le Zephir, purple; Madonna, blush, striped, and mottled with crimson; 

 Froserpinr, large dark crimson ; The Baron, white, mottled with rose on the edge ; Union, 

 crimson mottled with white. — W. B., in Gardenerii Chronicle. 



Spik.e.\ c.vllosa, Thunherg, alicB S. Fortunei. Pla.vciion. — Under this name a very pretty red 

 flowered thrub is becoming common in collections, having been introduced from China by 5Ir. 

 Fortune. With us it is too apt to form leaves rather than flowers, but the rich ruby tints of such 

 as do appear resemble clusters of gems set in green foliage; in a hot summer we have no doubt 

 the blossoms would be abundant. Such, indeed, would seem to be the case on the continent, if 

 we may trust a figure in the Flore des Bcrres, where M. Planciion has changed the name to S. 

 Fortunei. It is there represented a? bearing great corymbose panicles of a blood red color, pro- 

 ducing a far more striking effect than anything we have seen in England. M. Plaxcuon thinks 

 that this is not the S. callo^^a of Thuxberg, ami, therefore, changes its name, and we say very 

 needlessly. His reasoning upon the subject would be admissable, had Tuunberg been a botanist 

 upon the exactness of whose descriptions any reliance could be placed ; but as he was just the 

 contrary, his plants, whei-e authentic specimens are unattainable, as is the ca?e here, are so many 

 puzzles, to be identified by probability, rather than by what he says or omits to say. JS'o one, 

 we suppose, can doubt that his plant was some common red flowered Japanese Spirtca ; that the 

 present plant undoubtedly is; and it answers to his words as well as plants u.suallj do. M. 

 Planciion has no evidence that the plant was not S. callosa, there is a fair probability that it was ; 

 and we cannot perceive the wisdom of perplexing the world with yet another alias, when the 

 only reason assignable for doing so is mere conjecture. In the absence of direct proof, one con- 

 jecture is as much entitled to attention as another. But the mania for changing names seems in- 

 curable, and we shall now have nurserymen selling Sp. Fortunei as a fine new Japanese shrub to 

 the very persons who already have it growing in their shrubberies under the name of S. callosa. 

 Gardeners' Chronicle. 



