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Rhodora Canadensis, rose, April. 



Daphne Mezereum, rose, white and pink, by pinching the leading shoots, 



will bloom dwarf, March. 

 Daphne collina, purple, March. 

 Lauristinuses, kept dwarf by pinching leading snoots, and will bloom all 



winter. 

 Ulex, double furze, is easily kept prostrate, yellow, March. 

 Erica carnea, red, March. 

 Erica mediterranea, purple, April. 

 Erica minima, red, April. 



Erica vulgaris, several varieties, as white, red, rose, purple, &c, April. 

 Lonicera, (Honeysuckle). There are several bloom in March and April, 



yellow, of shades, red and purple, all easily kept as dwarf bushes. 

 Ribes sanguineum, with several varieties, red, April. 

 Ribes aureum praecox, golden, April. 



Both kinds are, by pruning, easily kept quite dwarf. 

 Azalea nitida, white, April. 

 Azalea pontica pallida, yellow, April. 

 Azalea pontica tricolor, red, April. 

 Pyrus floribundus, white, April ; is easily kept dwarf. 



REMARKS. 



On stbiking Cuttings in burnt clay. — Having been very successful in 

 striking cuttings of nearly every kind of stove and greenhouse plants I have in 

 my collection (which consists of roost of the usual handsome flowering shrubby 

 kinds) in burnt clay, I am induced to recommend the plan to others. Burnt 

 clay has the property of absorbing ammonia from the atmosphere, which affords 

 a constant and regular stimulus to the cuttings, and enables them to send out 

 the radical fibres very quickly. G. S. 



On Tulips and Anemonies, &c. — I have been a subscriber to your very useful 

 Cabinet from its first commencement, and assure you I always peruse its 

 pages with great interest ; but I am surprised that you should lend them for the 

 insertion of so senseless a paragraph as appeared in the Number for December 

 last, headed " On Tulips and Anemonies." The author, I see, subscribes him- 

 self a Southlander, and to judge from his taste and judgment in floriculture, I 

 think he might have written Zealander ; but come from where he may, he can 

 never have seen a good tulip bed, where, as Mr. W. Harrison says in your last 

 volume, page 80, " All other beauties hide their diminished heads." Or he may 

 be like many more would-be florists, fancies those flowers that require the least 

 attention. I doubt not but he has a good stock of single Anemonies, Hepaticas, 

 Crocuses, Snowdrops, Aconites, &c, all certainly very pretty, and cheap, but to 

 set them above the Tulip, the queen of florists' flowers, is past forgiveness. 



Tell him, Mr. Editor, in your next, he ought to consider himself an outcast of 

 florists, and that his natural death will never be regretted by them. 



I am only a cottager, and my daily employment engages the principal of my 

 time, yet I can find time and means to grow, besides Southlander's favourites, a 

 few of my own, and can, at this dreary season of the year, walk round my tulip 

 bed and mark every spot where my particular favourites lie hid, and with more 

 pUasure, perhaps, than Southlander views his beautiful single Anemonies. 



A Kentish Cottageii. 



Lf.onotis lkonurls. — This is one of the finest greenhouse plants grown, and 

 deserves to be in every one. I have had a plant in bloom the past summer for 

 several months, which, with its noble spikes of splendid orange-scarlet flowers, 

 formed a brilliant object. I had it in my collection since 1836, but with the 

 usual treatment of greenhouse plants I could not bloom it. I resolved to adopt 



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