tka GOLD AND SILVER FISH. 
After the summer growth is finished, there is no better place for the 
Oleander to stand than in the full sun out of doors, and, if possible, 
having the shelter of a house or wall on the north side. Oleanders 
require very little water from the end of September till March; indeed 
merely enough to prevent the soil from becoming powdery. 
‘‘ Without a peculiar mode of pruning, it is impossible to keep their 
heads from becoming straggling and out of bounds after a few years ; 
and, as they flower on the ends of the shoots made last year, we must 
not cut off their points in order to get a bushy head, for, if we do, we 
cut away the flowering parts. ‘Therefore to keep a large plant in good 
flowering order, one-half of the fluwering branches must be cut down 
every year to the last joint from the old wood, as soon as the flowering 
is over for the, season. Now as the young shoots start off in threes 
round the flowers, and begin to lengthen long before the flowers expand, 
such of the shoots as you intend to cut down ought to have the three 
points of the shoots round the flowers stopped as soon as they appear. 
This will throw the whole strength of the branch into the flowers, and 
will also cause the bottom eyes to push out three strong shoots, as soon - 
as cut down after flowering.” If there be too many new shoots, thin 
them at an early stage. Dwarf bushy plants of the Neriums may 
readily be produced by an annual attention to pruning, and to bloom 
vigorously from one foot high and upwards as desired. 
This tribe of plants is a great favourite with our continental garden- 
ing neighbours, and considerable efforts have been made to increase 
the number of kinds by hybridizing; we have received a number of 
their best varieties, but in the nursery collections there, upwards of 
sixty varieties are found, comprising purple, white, rose, pink, scarlet, 
yellow, sulphur, &c. Allare lovely, ornamental, fragrant, and deserve 
every attention in cultivation; succeeding admirably in the dwelling- 
room, greenhouse, or conservatory. 
GOLD AND SILVER FISH. 
In a recent number of this Magazine, some particulars of the 
breeding of these fishes were asked for. A friend of mine, who has 
had much opportunity of obtaining information, has sent me the fol- 
lowing remarks :—“ It is a well known fact, that warmth adds much 
to their tendency to increase, hence their abounding in such numbers 
in ponds in Lancashire and other parts of the country connected with 
steam engines, where the water is kept at a high temperature. Al- 
though this is evidently congenial to their habits, so far as regards the 
rapid increase of the ‘species, a high temperature is not however indis- 
pensable even for this purpose. I found them to multiply in great 
numbers in pools and ponds, where the water was at all times of the 
ordinary temperature. I believe, however, that their tendency to 
increase is greatly promoted by a circumstance which it is my present 
purpose to notice. Ina small ornamental pond in my pleasure ground, 
in which I have for many years kept some gold fish, (Cyprinus auratus,) 
I have been in the habit of annually placing a bundle, of about fifteen 
inches in diameter, of birch twigs, and fastening them to the bottom 
