310 BRIEF REMARKS. 
the roots reach the inside surface of the pot, an additional shift be 
immediately given, so that the growth is never checked and the plant 
in consequence is kept continually progressing. It requires a great 
supply of water at the roots. It is a beautiful plant. 
On a Succession oF FLowers.—You, or any of your correspond- 
ents, would oblige me (and many others whose gardens resemble mine) 
if you would favour me with the information required below. My 
garden is small, and consists of little beds cut out in a grass-plat in 
fancy forms. I much wish to have a good succession of flowers in the 
lovely spring, and brilliant summer, and the mature autumn ; but do 
not know how to manage it. I appropriate a bed to each sort of flower, 
preferring that to mixing various kinds. I haye twenty of these small 
beds ; the outside borders are much shaded by large evergreen shrubs. 
What are the best flowers for my small beds, commencing with the 
spring? when should they be planted? when. removed, and to what 
situation? by what succeeded for the summer when removed, &e., and 
the same for the autumn; and when one set are planted, what is to 
be attended to in the bringing on the succeeding flowers. 
Tue EccREMOCARPUS ‘(Answ er to Flora). a beg to inform Flora 
that I have raised sev eral strong plants of the Eccremocar pus scaber 
from the preceding year’s s seed, sown in April on a slight hot-bed ; but 
the seed is very shy in coming up, but it must be covered with a little 
moss, so it be kept moist till “the plants are up. I find, however, that 
the easiest mode of raising this delicate climbing plant is hy cuttings 
of the same year’s shoots, planted in August under a small hand-glass, 
in a shady border, where they strike root readily, and require to be 
afterwards potted in forty-eights or sixties, and housed during winter. 
On THE EccREMOCARPUS SCABER.—In answer to a query respect- 
ing the seed of the Eccremocarpus scaber, I beg to state that about 
the middle of March, I filled a small box with light rich mould, 
and sowed some seeds of the Eccremocarpus gathered during the 
previous autumn. I found them very uncertain as to the period of 
germination, for though some grew and were ready for transplanting 
in a month or six weeks, others remained dormant for two or three 
months, and some even till autumn. I placed the box in a slight heat, 
and as soon as the young plants attained sufficient size, I potted them 
singly into small pots, and when these were filled with roots, I trans- 
planted the ball entire into the open ground, where they flowered the 
same season ; they were cut down late in autumn, and to-day (March 
19) I have been transplanting some of them which have stood this 
winter without any protection, and find they have made very strong 
roots, and promise to become fine plants for this season.—Meta, 
BENTHAMIA FRAGIFERA.—In one of our volumes we figured the 
fruit of this showy and ornamental Himalayan evergreen. The first 
plant raised in this country was in the garden of J. H. Tremayne, Esq., 
at Heligan, in Cornwall, from whenee we received some of its large and 
peautiful fruit, along with some plants. The parent tree was, in 
September, 1848, twenty-two feet six inches high, The circumference 
of the stem, at tec feet from the ground, was one foot nine inches ; 
and at three feet, one foot eleven inches. A younger tree, handsomely 
