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Potatoes for Light Stoxy Soih.— T. S.—The Late Rose will perhaps be 

 the most suitable potato for your dry stony soil. It is a very heavy cropper, aad, 

 in light soils, of excellent quality. By planting this variety you are likely to ob- 

 tain heavier crops than by planting; any other potato with which we are acquainted. 

 You might also plant a small breadth of the Red Skin Flour-ball, sent out by Messrs. 

 Sutton and Son;*, of Reading, for it is of vigorous growth, a heavy cropper, and on 

 your light soil the quality will be good. As there are several strains of the Red 

 Skin Flour-ball in tlie trade, and some of the-e very inferior, we would suggest that 

 you send direct to Reading for your seed. The true variety has a pure wtiite flesh, 

 and if kept until winter is mealy when cooked ; but very frequently red-skinned 

 potatoes, with a yellow waxy flesh, are sold under the name given above. The 

 manure should be applied at the time of planting, so that the crop may derive the 

 fullest possible advantage resulting from its application. 



Nerteea depre.ssa. — M. A. D. and other correspondents are informed that 

 Nertera depressa, figured in the September number of the Flohal World, is 

 plentiful in trade collections, and the prices range from eighteenpence to half-a- 

 crown per plant, according to the strength of the specimens. 



M. A. D. — A selection from the list of shrubs which appeared in the Flokai, 

 World for 1872, pige 289, will be suitable for the border. Such as are mentioned 

 as being rather tend'T should not be planted, for in so prominent a position it is 

 not desirable that failures, either total or partial, should occur. The green and 

 variegated Periwinkles would grow freely in the border, and by cutting them back 

 occasionally they can readily be kept within bounds. 



Names of Ferns — A. B., Upper Holloway. — No. 1, Davallia cha;rophylIa ; 

 2, Lomaria discolor. 



J. W., Southgate. — " Paxton's Botanical Dictionary " will probably serve your 

 purpose. 



Names of Plants. — Our advices on sending plants by post appear to have 

 done more harm than good, for we have received a considerable number of plants in 

 tin boxes in a state of decomposition and utterly indeterminable, because packed in 

 wet moss, wet grass, and other such destructive rubbish. It is very strange that the 

 simplest packing suffices, and yet not one packet in ten comes to hand as it should. 



Constant Reader. — The Aerides could not be distinguished from the wet grass 



amidst which it was packed, all being mucky together. C. A. C. V. S. M. — Your 



creeper was decomposed. As to the rose, we never attempt to name roses sent by 

 post, and as regards florists' flowers generally, it is impossible for any one to name 

 them after they have been cut a few hours. Just put a bit of your creeper between 

 two fresh but dry ivy leaves in a common letter, and post it to us directed Stoke 

 Newington, London, N., and no donbt we shall recognize it. But we must have 



the flower as well as the leaf. R. W. Prince. — Your pretty shrub is Gaultheria 



shallon. Semper. — Cuscuta Europoea, the common Dodder. If you me^t with C. 



epithymura, we shall be glad of a bit. We can, however, promise you will not find 

 it on the moor you are now workins" at. Both the sundews may be found in the 



■" black spring " there. Janson. — Your rose is the original form of Rosapolyantha, 



a very scarce species, of which there is a notice in the '' Amateur's Rose Book." 



W. Donald. — 1, ValloU purpurea; 2, Plumbago capensis. H.A.I). — 1, Poly- 



podiam gracilis ; 2, Lomaria hastata ; 3 and 4', we do not know as sent, but will 

 Dame them on receipt of fronds in fruit. 



EXHIBITIONS TO BE HELD IN OCTOBEE. 



1. — Crtptoqamic Societt op Scotland. — Exhibition of Fungi at Ptrth. 

 5 to 7- — Crystal Palace. — Cat Show, 



6. — Royal Houticultcral Society. — Exhibition of Fungi, and Meetings of 

 Frut and Floral Cummitteei. 



19 to 22. — Albx\ndb4 Palace, Muswei.l Hill. — Toviltry Show. 



October. 



