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eoerulea, A. alpina, A. glandulosa, Begonia VeitcTii, Oalandrinia 

 umbellafa, Cypripedium specfahile (peat soil), Dielijtra eximia, D. 

 spectabilis, JSpimedium piiinatum, E. macrantlium (peat soil), 

 Epipactis palustris (chalk), Genfiana asclepiadea, Gentiana havarica, 

 Gyranadenia coiiopsea (peat), Iris reticulata, I. midicaidis, Linum 

 i[iwbone?ise, Lilium tenuifollum , L. longiflora, Lithospermum pros- 

 tratum, Myosotis azorica, Malva caynpanulata. Orchis foliosa (clialk), 

 O. latifolia (peat), Pyrola roticndifolia, Folemonium coeruleum varie- 

 gutum, Rcmuiiculus parnassif alius, Bexia virginica, SisyrincMmn 

 anceps, 8. gi'andiflorum, TriUiicm grandiflorum, T. cceruum, T. 

 erectum (peat, shade, damp), Viola pedata, JVuIfenia carintliiaca, 

 Zapania nodiflora, ZauscJmeria californica. 



AYhen all the foregoing have been secured there remain hundreds 

 more of first-class excellence. It will be observed that we have not 

 included any sedums, or sempervivums, and very few saxifrages. 

 The purport of this article 13 to bring a few of the very finest 

 Alpines into every garden, and in view of ],that object we can afford 

 to leave many good plants for the present unprovided for. 



S. H. 





CONSEEVATOET AND DEAWING-EOOM PALMS. 



BY WILLIAM COLE, 

 Head Gardener, Ealing Park, Middlesex, W, 



I ALMS hardy enough to be grown in the conservatory 

 and greenhouse throughout the year, are non- plentiful, 

 and as they may be obtained at prices which place 

 them within the reach of those amateurs who are able 

 to bear the expense incidental to the management of a 

 conservatory, I shall, perhaps, be doing good service by pointing 

 out a few of the best, and giving a brief outline of their manage- 

 ment. The value of palms for decorative purposes has been pointed 

 out on more than one occasion in the pages of the Floral Would, 

 and it is not, therefore, necessary to say much in praise of them ; 

 but I would remark, in passiug, that no plants with ornamental 

 leafage can be more easily grown, or are more capable of with- 

 standing the efi"ects of rough treatment. They are unsurpassed in 

 elegance and usefulness, whether for the embellishment of the 

 dinner-table, or the drawing-room, or for the decoration of the con- 

 servatory or vestibule. Moreover, unless shifted on freely, and 

 placed in a high temperature, they do not soon outgrow the struc- 

 ture in which they are placed, and, unlike numerous other plants, 

 they require no training or other attention, beyond repotting them 

 every second or third year, and supplying them with water. 



To cultivate Palms successfully is a very easy task, even to the 

 amateur, with a very slight acquaintance with horticultural matters, 

 and in the way of compost they simply require a mixture of fibrous 

 peat and loam broken up rather roughly, and well incorporated 



May. 



