122 LIST OF NEW AND BEST FLOWER SEEDS. 



ascending current of dry hot air. An account of the mode of 

 ventilation would be acceptable, and as the degree of moisture 

 is a most essential point with the Ochidece, any data furnished 

 from observations, made both during the seasons of growth and 

 repose, with either Leslie's (which is decidedly the best and 

 least troublesome in gardening operations) or Daniel's hygro- 

 meter would contribute much to their successful treatment. In 

 using the sphagnum is it mixed with the potsherds, or a layer 

 of it placed in the pot? I should fear that the moss on or in which 

 the pots are placed would greatly encourage those pests the 

 onisci or wood-lice, which make such havock of the tender 

 tips of the young roots, but perhaps some mode of remedy- 

 ing the evil has presented itself to the writer, as he does 

 not allude to it at all. Would not sand or ashes be a good 

 substitute for the moss, and afford less shelter to the onisci ? 

 Many other matters relative to the management of these plants 

 will naturally suggest themselves to your correspondent, such as 

 the season of re-potting, and the preparation of the plants for 

 undergoing that operation, and by treating the subject more at 

 length, I doubt not he will greatly oblige many of your readers 

 besides. Epiphyte. 



ARTICLE II. 



A LIST OF THE BEST NEW SORTS OF FLOWER SEEDS. 5tc. &c. 



BY W. C. R. 



It being now about the time for sowing or planting out all kinds 

 of flower seeds, I herewith hand you a list of what in my opinion 

 is the best of the new sorts of flower seeds, should you think it 

 worthy insertion, I have no doubt but it will be of some service 

 to amateur floriculturists and persons who are in the habit of 

 buying all the new kinds of flower seeds. All the kinds I have 

 quoted are real good sorts, and every one who grows flowers 

 ought to have them forthwith (if they have not already got them.) 

 All the sorts can be purchased of any respectable town or coun- 

 try nurseryman at from 6d. to 2s. 6d. per packet. Those sorts to 

 which an asterisk is prefixed are either the newest, the dearest, 

 the scarcest, or the best. 



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