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ON TRAINING THE GERANIUM. 
Ir you have a nice young healthy and stocky plant to operate upon, it 
is better, but not absolutely necessary. If you have, pinch off its head, 
and when it breaks out at the sides, either peg down the side branches 
as nearly straight out as you can, without tearing the joint, or tie them 
down, which must be done thus: tie a string tightly round the pot, 
just under the rim; and under this pass a loop of thick worsted, over 
the end of each branch, to keep it down in the position you wish it to 
grow in. When the branches reach out as far as you wish them, a 
- little beyond the rim of the pot you mean the plant to flower in, pinch 
off their ends ; and after they have pushed out their eyes into branches, 
you may remove the strings, and you have thenceforth a trained plant, 
to last you many years, and each year better than the last,— The 
Florist. 
NEW CAMELLIAS. 
In a former volume of our Magazine we inserted an extensive 
descriptive list of the finest kinds of this noble plant, especially of new 
continental varieties ; we purpose giving some remarks on more recent 
ones. The following are highly spoken of in the Ghent Annales :-— 
Borgia.—This charming variety is of Italian origin ; and, like the 
balmy climate in which it has been raised,,it presents attractions of the 
most inviting character. Its name commemorates a profound scholar 
and naturalist, the eminent Cardinal Borgia. It is of a vigorous habit. 
As if indicative of the robustness of the flower and the habit of the 
whole plant, the buds are large and full, somewhat round, and dis- 
posed to open with perfect facility; this latter cireumstance will 
doubtless render it an excellent sort for forcing into early flower, 
without the fear of seeing it cast its flower-buds, an evil to which 
many other kinds are somewhat liable. The flower assumes that habit, 
so commonly sought, a regular ranunculus-form; it is nearly four 
inches} and a half in diameter, very full, finely imbricated ; the colours 
are bright cherry red, and white. The petals at the exterior portion 
of the flower are from an inch anda half to two inches broad, distinetly 
veined, slightly notched at the margins, especially at the middle ; from 
the circumference the petals gradually become narrower towards the 
centre, where they are much smaller, oval, and upright. The distin- 
guishing feature of the flower consists in a series of broad white bands 
down the middle of all the petals, these bands or stripes being delicately 
shaded with light rose or crimson. 
Emiliana alba.—A._ vigorous-growing plant; flower white, striped 
with rose, and regularly imbricated. _'The usual size of the flower is 
four inches in diameter, with from eight to ten tiers of petals regularly 
disposed ; all the petals white, streaked with pink or light crimson. 
Those of the outer range are about an inch and a half broad, round, 
entire, convex or lying back, slightly undulated at the margins. The 
striping differs in different petals; sometimes it is deep red and broad, 
and sometimes faint and narrow, but generally well distributed, which 
