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ornamental plant, yielding thousinds of lovely, cinstering 

 rosettes of a bright glaucous hue, tinged with pink. Nothing 

 can be finer than a carpet of it dotted with Eoheveriaa, Aloes, or 

 the pretty Kleiuia repens. 



5, Kcli'i-veriit. seciinda glaiica. — An indispensable plant, too 

 well known to need description. 



6, Kleinia repens. — The colour of this may be termed a bluish- 

 grey. It has round tapering leaves, which by their peculiarly 

 stiff and erect growth impart the singular and distinct appear- 

 ance which renders it so valuable. 



7, Sempervivum ynontanum, the Mountain Houseleek, is 

 notable for the exquisite form of its compact rosettes. It forma 

 a capital edging, as well as fine clumps for carpet beds. 



8, Sempervivum tahulo'forme is a singular plant, very suit- 

 able for an edging to beds of large plants. It grows to immense 

 size ; and the leaves lying perfectly flat upon each other, impart 

 the table-like appearance which gave rise to its name. 



There are so many other distinct succulent forms worthy of 

 culture, that one hardly knows which to select. Those which 

 I have described are, perhaps, the most useful. To those who 

 desire a more extensive collection I may name Echeveria 

 glauca-metallica, E. pumila, E. atropurpurea ; Aloe attenuata, 

 A. mitrieformis, A. cymbiformis, A. distans, A. fruteseens, and 

 A. pilifera ; Sempervivum canarieuse, S. ciliare, S. repens, 

 S. arachnoideum ; Cotyledon pulverulenta, C. alata ; and Saxi- 

 fraga nepalensis. 



Turning now to other plants we find a decided acquisition in 

 Leucophyton Brownii. To the passing glance each plant of it 

 appears to consist of a host of slender branches without leaves, 

 bnt a closer inspection shows that its beautiful silvery-grey 

 hue is imparted by the minute narrow leaves which thickly 

 clothe the branches ; it grows freely, but may be kept very 

 dwarf by frequent pruning, which it bears with impunity. Of 

 other grey-leaved plants. Cineraria maritima compacta is very 

 good, as also is Achillea umbellata. Santolina incana is still 

 unsurpassed as the best dwarf plant of its class. Lobelia 

 Omen, of a pleasing lilac colour, with a dense spreading growth, 

 is a very pretty, distinct, and effective kind that is calculated to 

 become as popular as speciosa. A row of it looks well next 

 Leucophyton Brownii. It is also good in Hyde Park. Of 

 Fuchsia Sunray I have already said enough to show its value. 

 It is a lovely vai'iety, and appears to retain its foliage and colour 

 perfectly well. Coprosma Baueriana variegata is another 

 really splendid bedding plant. — Edwakd LnciuiuEsi. 



GLAZING WITH PUTTY. 



I CANNOT understand why such an outcry is raised against 

 pntty. I venture to say that nothing yet discovered answers 

 the purpose so well if used in the right place, and here is the 

 gist of the matter. Putty, as now made, is worse than useless 

 in any position fully exposed to the sun and rain, for there, in 

 the course of a year or two, it cracks and cakes off, and if 

 renewed the same process takes place again and again, conse- 

 quently the roof is never watertight. 



As I said above, nothing answers so well as putty, but only 

 for bedding in, and really this is all that is required of it. For 

 some years I have adopted the following plan in glazing new 

 houses, of which I have erected several. My roofs are all 

 fixed, rafters or sash-bars 20 inches apart, and all the glass 

 12 by 20 ; this I find a most convenient size, and the advantage 

 of having all one size enables you to keep some in store to 

 repair breakages. The bars are placed so as to allow about an 

 eighth of an inch, or scarcely bo much, play ; this is quite 

 sufficient for any expansion of glass or wood. The glass is 

 bedded in putty in the usual way, and as the work proceeds a 

 small broad- headed tack is driven in at the lower corner of 

 each pane, and this, if properly done, will both keep the pane 

 tightly down and prevent it from slipping downwards. The putty 

 on the outside is then smoothed oij fair with the pane of glass, 

 and the operation is complete. Thus done it has a neat and 

 light appearance, and a couple of coats of paint (I use Carson's 

 anti-corrosion) renders the roof perfectly watertight, and I 

 venture to say that with a coat of paint every alternate year 

 the roof will be as good after fifty years as when first glazed. 



On a house I erected some ten years ago, and glazed in the 

 old-fashioned way with sloping putty on the outside, I remove 

 all loose putty each year, and it is now pretty nearly all off ; 

 but I do not put any more on, but simply paint over where the 

 removal has taken place. 



I am anxious to impress upon all putting up new glass the 

 advantages of the above mode of glazing, on account of its 

 simplicity; indiarubber strips, lead clamps, &o., I look upon 



as cumbersome, expensive, and ineffectual. Not the least good 

 quality of my mode of glazing is the ease with which repairs 

 can be done, for by simply drawing the tacks and passing the 

 knife down each side of the glass the broken pane will rise 

 easily, and the new one be as easily put in and fastened down. 

 It may be supposed that the tacks interfere with the free running- 

 down of water, hut this in reality does not occur in the least. 

 — W. WiNDEBANK, Bcvois Mouiit Numenj, SoutJiainpton. 



DEATH OF MR. ALDERMAN MASTERS. 

 It is with great regret that we have to announce the death 

 of Mr. Alderman Masters of Canterbury, which took place on 

 the 26th ult., at the ripe old age of seventy-eight. Mr. 

 Masters was one of those rare instances of men in business 

 who found time to cultivate intellectual pursuits, and who 

 bring to bear the refinement which such pursuits produce on 

 the everyday work of their calling. As a nurseryman long 

 and well known he stood in the foremost rank, and the valu- 

 able collection of all kinds of trees, shrubs, tender and hardy 

 plants which he formed in the Canterbury nursery, can only 

 be judged of by a reference to the " Hortus Canterburiensis " 

 which he published. The collection was in fact, when the 

 writer of this first visited it more than thirty years ago, far 

 superior to that of many of the botanical gardens of the Con- 

 tinent. Of late years, however, these rich collections have, in 

 consequence of Mr. Masters' declining health, been allowed to 

 go down ; and as all his sons, with the exception of the 

 accomplished editor of the Gardeners' Chronicle, long pre- 

 deceased him, there was little inducement for him to continue 

 them. Alderman Masters will be long remembered in the city 

 of Canterbury as an active magistrate and a respected citizen ; 

 and as a patron of early genius, to the encouragement of which 

 he lent his best efforts. There are many men eminent in art 

 and in science who, when youths in the ancient city, can now 

 testify to the stimulus they received in their upward course 

 by the patronage of him whose loss they now lament. 



SEEDLING BRIARS. 



Last autumn I obtained a few hundreds of seedling Briars, 

 strong plants, for budding this season. They were planted in 

 rich ground and grew freely, but I cannot say that they have 

 proved a very satisfactory investment so far. Perhaps those 

 who have grown them on a larger scale will be able to tell me 

 whether it is usual for them to have such a very short crooked 

 space between the roots and the collar of the plant as mine 

 have. It is with the greatest difficulty that room has been 

 found to insert a bud at all in the main stock ; and when this 

 is done, so crooked and knotty is the stem, that many of the 

 buds have failed to unite on account of the uneven surface on 

 which the plate of the bud rests. Altogether it seems to me 

 to be a troublesome and fidgetty stock to bud compared with 

 the Manetti ; and unless the future growth of the bud makes 

 up in a marked manner for the extra trouble in budding, I 

 shall most certainly stick to the Manetti for dwarf Roses, even 

 if seedling Briars can be obtained at Is. 6d. a hundred. — 

 R. W. Beachey. 



[The Editors have forwarded the above to me. Not having 

 had sufficient experience, and the question being one of great 

 interest to Rose-growers, I should be glad to elicit replies 

 fom others. "D., DeiJ,"his spoken most favourably of 

 Mr. Prince's seedling Briars, and I have no doubt that under 

 proper conditions they will succeed. Perhaps the lasting 

 powers of the blooms may have as much to do with the 

 quality of the soil as the stock. A good staple of soil con- 

 verted into a Rose garden from an ordinary arable wheat field 

 would most likely prove a first-rate soil for exhibition. 



From Mr. Beachey's description I should fancy the seed- 

 ling Briars were not sufficiently pruned or planted deep enough. 

 The question in my own mind is, whether the real value of 

 the seedling Briar is not really the fact of its being a seedling, 

 and not that of being a Briar. Some plants I got from Mr. 

 Prince of new sorts of Roses on the seedUng Briar, which 

 were put in alongside Manettis, are much the same in growth, 

 &a. There is, in short, little apparent difference, and I do 

 not see that the system of budding on the seedling Briars 

 will prevent the root-suckers which are so obnoxious in Briars. 

 No doubt some persons will make the same objections to 

 Manetti suckers, but they are easily preventible, and everyone 

 or anyone at all conversant with Rose-culture can easily pre- 

 vent suckers from Manettis ; but no precautions can prevent 



