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specicsa, pulchella, and virens. Pimelea diosmsefolia, and decussata. 

 Locldigesia oxalidifolia. Templetonia glauca. Hovea celsi, and 

 elliptica. Goodia pubescens, and latifolia. Grevillea acanthifolia, 

 juniperina, rosmnrinifolia, and sericea. Bauera rubicefolia. Hib- 

 bertia Cunninghamii. Kennedia monopbylla, rubicunda, and Comp- 

 toniana. Plumbago capensis. Spigelia Marylandica. Serissa fce- 

 tida. Gnidia simplex. Lnchnaea purpurea. Polygala myrtifolia, 

 grandiflora, cordifolia, and speciosa. Maurittia heisteria. Epacris 

 grandiflora, purpurescens, pulchella, impressa, campanulata, variabilis, 

 and nivalis. Stenanthera pinifolia. Azalea indica phcenicea, albida. 

 Diosma oppositifolia, capitata, ciliata, and ambigua. Boronia alata, 

 serulata, and crenulata. Burtonia confevta. Sutherlandia frutescens, 

 Swainsonia coronillifolia. Sottia dentata. 



But where sufficient convenience is possessed, some greenhouses 

 need not be destitute of flowers, even at this ungenial season of the 

 year. Geraniums may be grown during the summer months for the 

 express purpose — their early buds should then be removed, which 

 makes them strong ; and, if placed near the glass, will be in flower 

 at the present time, as well as different species of Salvias, Primulas, 

 Ericas, Verbenas, Camellias, and Roses. These, with others equally 

 adapted, are desirable, when bulbs are not sufficiently advanced, and 

 which, if prematurely forced, would bloom imperfectly. 



ARTICLE IX. 



REMARKS ON PEAT AND LOAMY SOILS. 



It is now the opinion of some of our finest florists that a really sound 

 loam, of velvety softness, composed chiefly of extremely fine dun- 

 coloured silex, alumine, pale oxide of iron, and about six per cent, of 

 chalk, all blended in such proportions by nature as perfectly to ba- 

 lance each other, is the staple earth of floriculture ; we may add that 

 a handful of such a loam, if taken up and pressed strongly together, 

 will break and separate entirely on falling to the ground ; any strong- 

 rooting vegetable, stove-plant, pineapple, melon, or flower shrub, that 

 does not require moor-soil, will flourish in it and be in health ; but that 

 if the loam be defective, it is far more safe to employ two or three- 

 year-old leaf-soil ; with a good quantity of pit-sand, and occasionally 

 some heath-mould, making up by pressure of the hand what the soil 



