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forms a very elegant tree, with glaucous foliage, and fine purple shoots ; and 

 Acacia hispida major, also grafted as a standard, suffers little from the wind if 

 the tips of the young shoots are kept constantly pinched off. Among the new 

 and rare plants we observed Ligustrum angustifolium, a handsome evergreen 

 shruh, said to be hardy ; the purple-leaved common Berberry, a hybrid Pyrus 

 between spectabilis and japonica, which has larger and higher-coloured flowers 

 than the former, and Spiraea venusta, a handsome herbaceous plant, with the 

 habit of ulmifolia, but which has bright pink flowers. Quercus spicata and 

 Clematis Sieboldii, planted in a rather cold soil, survived the last winter unin- 

 jured without protection. 



Culture of the Amaryllis. — Directions are commonly given to repot 

 the plants as soon as they show flower, or before they begin to grow. " When 

 first I cultivated amaryllis I pursued this plan, to the destruction of many of 

 my bulbs, and whenever I have recurred to it since, or seen it tried by others, 

 the same effect, either of complete or partial decay, has followed. If amaryllis 

 be shifted into fresh pots, either soon after the leaves die off, or just before they 

 begin to grow, the whole of the young roots perish, and decay so begun extends 

 to the coats of the bulbs, forming a canker which it is almost impossible to cure. 

 The management which I should recommend is invariably to repot such bulbs 

 as require it when their foliage is in full vigour or still growing, say in June or 

 July, or earlier, according to the treatment they have received. When the 

 foliage dies at the tips, water should be gradually withheld, and the bulbs kept 

 dry till the flower-buds appear. When the stem is half-grown water may be 

 administered very moderately, but the plant should not have much till the leaves 

 are six inches long." — Gardener* Chrmiicle. 



ANSWERS. 



A List ok Show Pei.ahooniubis. — Noticing in the October Number of the 

 Cabinet that a correspondent requests a list to be given of some of the best Pe- 

 largoniums in each class of colour; and having had the opportunity, in the care 

 of the collection of Mr. Catleugh, at Hans-place, Sloane-street, Chelsea, I am 

 enabled very confidently to recommend the following as every way, if well 

 grown, calculated to answer the purpose desired by your correspondent. 



W. Elphinstone. 



Amyntor. F, rose. 



Black Dwarf, G, dark. 



Constellation, G, light with dark top. 



Creole, G, purple. 



Duke of Cornwall, Lyne's, orange. 



Emma, Lumsden's, white. 



Eclipse, C, orange. 



Favourite, F, dark. 



Flash, G, rosy crimson. 



Flamingo, G, rosy-scarlet. 



Grand Monarch. 



Gipsey, F, dark. 



Hebe, Beck's, dark. 



Lady Villiers, F, beautiful rosy-flesh, 



dark spot. 

 Luna, F, light. 

 Madelina, dark rose. 

 Madame Taglioni, orange. 

 Melone, C, dark crimson. 

 Maid of Honour, Cock's, rose, blush 



top with dark spot. 

 Nestor, light with dark top. [fine. 



Pulchellum, F. white with blush tinge, 



Vol. XI. No. 130. 



Pre-eminent, C, in the way of Nymph, 



fine, bold flower, of a rosy-carmine, 



dark spot. 

 Paris, C. orange. 

 Queen of the Fairies, G, whitish with 



dark top. 

 Rising Sun, Gaines's, carmine-scarlet, 



dark spot. 

 Rosetta Superb, rose. 

 Rhoda, F, orange. 

 Symmetry, G, light with very dark 



spot. 

 Sapphire, F, crimson. 

 Sir R. Peel, F, purple. 

 Unit, G, light. 

 Wizard, G, dark orange. 

 Witch, G, white. 

 Wonder, G, dark. 



G, raised by Rev. R. Garth. 

 F, „ E. Foster, Esq. 



C, „ Mr, Catleugh. 



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