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Zilliputs, maroon ; and Pure Love and Tom Tit, lilac. The price of dahlias during 

 May ranges from 3s. to -Is. 6d. per dozen. 



Kidney Beans foe Exhibition. — S. S. — The finest dwarf French bean for 

 exhibition purposes is Cutbnsh's Giant Scarlet, which produces an abundance of 

 pods ranging from eight to ten inches in length, which are thick and fleshy, and 

 remarkably handsome. It is one of the best, also, for main crops, because of its 

 productiveness and fine quality. To make sure of obtaining it true, we would 

 advise you to obtain the seed direct from the introducers, Messrs. W. Cutbush and 

 Son, Higbgate, N., or in sealed pint or quart packets, as sent out by the firm 

 through the seedsman who usually supplies you. The best scarlet runner for exhi- 

 bition is Carter's Champion, which bears pods nearly twice the size of the ordinary 

 scarlet runner whilst quite young and tende?. It is very productive, and of the 

 finest quality. This should be procured direct from Messrs. J. Carter and Co., of 

 High Holborn, for, to keep it true, a rigid system of selection has to be carried out. 

 Both kinds are of strong growth, and require rather more space than others of the 

 respective classes. 



Strawberry Beds. — G. S. H. — The strawberry plants which have been 

 fniited in pots in the orchard-house will, if planted out at once, soon become esta- 

 blished, and form fine crowns by the autumu ; next year they will produce heavy 

 crops of fruit. They should have two or three thorough waterings during the first 

 fortnight or so of their being planted, to assist them to form now rcots, and take 

 possession of the soil as quickly as possible. 



Azaleas.— -ff. F. G. — The azaleas which were purchased in the spring, and 

 have just flowered, should be shifted without delay into pots one size larger. Let 

 the pots be clean and well drained ; use a compost of fibrous peat, broken up rather 

 small, and sharp silver sand. If readily procurable, add one part of mellow turfy 

 loam to every two parts of peat. The soil must be pressed very firm, and proper 

 care taken to make it of the same degree of firmness all round the ball, so that the 

 water shall not soak away more readily on one side than the other. After they are 

 potted, place them in a frame, keep rather close for the first fortnight or three 

 weeks, and syringe them lightly overhead once a day in dull weather, and twice a 

 day when the weather is warm and dry. Place some rather thin material over the 

 glass in sunny weather. At the expiration of three weeks commence to ventilate 

 freely, and as they will have become established at the end of a second period of 

 three weeks, remove them in about six weeks or two months, from the time of their 

 being repotted, to a rather shady situation out of doors. 



Shakspeare's Wallflowers.— -K. ^4.— The plants began to flower in February, 

 but the weather was against them. Throughout the past month they have been 

 solid with bloom. We shall soon have seed enough to satisfy all inquirers. 



TEADE CATALOaUES. 



James Backhouse and Sons, York. — Catalogue of Alpine Plants and Hardy 

 Perennials. 



William Barron and Son, Elvaston Nurseries, Borrowash, near Derby. 

 — Descriptive Catalogue of Roses, and Select List of Conifcrw and Ornamental 

 Plants, etc. 



B. K. Bliss and Sons, 44, Barclay Street, New York. — Catalogue of 

 Potatoes. 



Robert Buist, 922, Market Street, Philadelphia. — Supplement to Cata- 

 logue of New and Hare Plants. 



William Bull, Kino's Road, Chelsea, London, S.W. — Retail List of 

 Flower, Vcgelable and Agricultural Seeds, and Netu Plants. 



James Carter and Co., Hiou Holborn, London. — Illustrated Catalogue 

 of Prize Farm Seeds and Potatoes. 



J. Coombes, Enfield, Middlesex. — Catalogue of Cuttings of Geraniums, etc. 



Messrs. F. and A. Dickson and Sons, Chester, — Catalogue of New and 

 Select Farm Seeds. 

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