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this time tLey will begin to bear vigorously, and to keep them going 

 steadily the roots must receive constant assistance by a good soaking 

 of clear, vrarm, weak manure-water at least once a week. In June, 

 cut away some of the oldest growth, and give the bed another sur- 

 face dressing equal to the iirst; also continue the application of 

 manure-water. If this is done, and the plants attended to carefully 

 through the summer, they will yield a productire crop until the 

 season comes round again for planting a Iresh stock lor the winter. 



WINTERING THE AFRICAN LILT. 



|T should be generally known that the African lily (Agapan- 

 tlms umhellatus) maybe wintered in anyplace whereitcan 

 obtain a moderate amount of light and be kept free from 

 frost. I keep a couple of dozen large plants through the 

 winter months in a place originally intended for a store- 

 room, in which I can keep a fire during frosty weather. The plants 

 are placed on a rough stage raised in front of the window. I stand them 

 out of doors in a sheltered place in April or May, if the weather is 

 favourable. They were originally grown for placing along the sides of 

 abroad walk ; but I have since had a conservatory built, for the fur- 

 nishing of which I find them extremely useful at a time of the year 

 when flowering plants are scarce. The treatment they receive 

 naturally causes them to bloom late, and they come in exactly at the 

 time they are most wanted. I find them so easy to manage, that I 

 would advise amateurs who are hard pushed in the latter part of the 

 summer-time to keep up a supply of bloom in their conservatories, 

 to grow a stock of agapanthus, if they have any shed or outhouse 

 in which they can manage to winter them. As to soil, it is hardly 

 necessary to say anything regarding: it, for they will do in almost 

 any good stufl^ ; but mine are potted in two parts loam, one part 

 rather rotten dung, with the addition of a little leaf-soil and sand, 

 I reduce them in the spring of every other year, to keep them to a 

 serviceable size, to effect which it is necessary to pull them to pieces, 

 and I find they do not bloom so freely that year as the following; 

 therefore it is best to do a part one year, and part the next. I would 

 suggest that they be allowed plenty of root-room, or they will take 

 it for themselves, by bursting the pots into countless pieces. 



J. S. 



Mh. Laino, of Standstead and Rutland Park Nurseries, Forest HUl, wag 

 awarded two large silver medals for two collections of new golden bronze-leaved 

 pelargoniums at the International Exhibition, Cologne. 



Bkussels International HoRTicri.TURAL Exhibition. — The Honorary 

 Presidency of the London Committee of the Brussels International Exhibition and 

 Congress was some time since accepted by the Prince of Wales. Great efforts will 

 be made to make both the Exhibition and Congress of the utmost practical service, 

 more particularly by the discussion at the latter, by representatives of all nations, 

 of the important subjects comprised in the Exhibition programme. 



Novamber. 



