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stove early in November, and commence to water freely, and in due 
course they will be thickly studded with flowers. 
Eucharis amazonica is a grand thing for the winter, when sub- 
jected to a course of management that will insure its flowering at 
that season. The plants must be grown on freely until the end of 
August, then rested for two months by being placed in a cool part 
of the stove, and kept rather dry at the roots. At the end of the 
resting season, remove to the warmest corner, and supply liberally 
with tepid water. Poinsettia pulcherrima, which we grow by thou- 
sands, is the brightest of all the January flowers, and a score or so 
of well-grown specimens will produce a telling effect in the amateur’s 
stove. As our system of culture was explained in the Frora 
Worztp of February last, it is not necessary to allude to it. 
Euphorbia jacquineflora is a scarlet-flowered plant that should have 
a piace in the smallest stove, for it is very neat, and the wreaths of 
flowers are well suited for head-dresses, when natural flowers are 
worn. 
From the forcing-pit, Hyacinths, Lily of the Valley, and Tulips 
will be coming in freely, and those who have been liberal in their 
purchases, and have potted early, and started a portion of the stock 
by placing it in the forcing-pit early in December, will have no diffi- 
culty in giving the conservatory a very bright appearance with these 
flowers alone. 
CHOICE FRUITS FOR THE NEW YEAR. 
BY JOHN SCOTT, 
Merriott Nurseries, Crewkerne. 
— _HE festivities of the New Year usually make a very 
Af, large demand upon the garden for fruits and flowers, 
and oftentimes the demand is more than the garden can 
meet. It is not, of course, possible to have in gardens 
of limited dimensions large supplies of grapes and pine- 
apples; for to have these, expensive structures and professional skill 
are alike required; but it is quite possible to have a fair supply of 
grapes, and an abundance of apples and pears throughout the month 
of January, in gardens of a very moderate size. After a season so 
favourable to the production of apples and pears as the last, the 
fruit-room should now be well filled with these fruits; and if it is 
otherwise, it may be very safely assumed that the orchard and fruit 
quarters are in need of revision. In very many gardens, too much 
space is devoted to fruits ripening in summer and autumn, when 
fruits of all kinds are cheap, to the exclusion of those ready for 
the table at midwinter, when they are commanding high prices 
in the market, and are even then difficult to obtain of first-class 
quality. It would be better to set apart some of the space devoted to 
their culture to the production of grapes that may be had in excel- 
lent condition from the first of December until the end of February 
with very little more trouble than is entailed by the production of a 
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