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elad with branches and foliage to the ground, was twenty-one feet high. 
In Cornwall, Devonshire, and South Wales it flourishes in the open air, 
and we doubt not will do so in most other parts of this country, if 
planted in a dry soil and elevated situation, but having protection 
against the north and east winds. It is very handsome, blooming in 
profusion in summer and bearing abundance of fruit in autumn. The 
fruit very much resembles a strawberry about an inch and a half or 
more across. It flourishes in any common soil of the garden, and de- 
serves universal introduction into the shrubbery. 
Torenia AsIATIcA.—This beautiful flowering plant is very liable 
to perish during the winter season. When placed in the greenhouse, 
it must have a temperature warm enough to keep it Grow1ne. If the 
greenhouse will not effect that it might be placed inside the window 
of a warm sitting-room, where we have seen it flourish admirably 
through winter. Placed in the stove it thrives, and blooms in profusion 
at all times. We repeat it must be kept growing. 
Cutrure oF Drosreras (Sundew) anv Pryeuicuras (Butter 
Wort).—The Droseras very much resemble the Dioncea Muscipula 
(Fly-trap of our hothouses). They are natives of our own country, 
growing in bogs, as are the Pinguiculas too. Few little plants are 
more interesting and beautiful when in flower than the latter when 
seen in the sunshine, with their bright green leaves all a glitter with 
their pearly studs. All who behold both the Droseras and the Pingui- 
culas admire them. I have long grown them in pots very successfully 
in the following manner :— 
Three or four plants are placed in a pot of five inches deep, with 
some pebbles in the bottom, and over them a piece of sphagnum, aboye 
which the pot is filled with very fine peat. ‘The use of the sphagnum 
is, that, whether dead or alive, it enlarges or contracts, by every change 
of amount of moisture in the pot, and thus always keeps the peat from 
cohering into a clammy mass, which otherwise it is apt to do. 
Instead of being shaded, as generally directed, the plants are exposed 
to the full blaze of sunshine; and it is beautiful to see the leaves of the 
Drosera, some dilating themselves to the warmth and light, and others 
contracting on and imprisoning some “ flutterer in the beams,” that, in 
an evil moment, has been tempted by the nectar of the dewy leaves. 
The pots are kept plunged to within 13 inch of the top in water, 
during the whole summer ; and, on the first appearance of frost, are 
removed to a dry airy frame, and given less water each day, until, by 
mid-winter, they are dry ; in which state they remain until they begin 
to show signs of vegetation, when they are removed again to their 
summer quarters. If left exposed to the open air, during the winter, 
the roots are invariably pushed out of the ground by frost. With this 
treatment, three small plants, in one season, will completely fill a pot of 
the size mentioned.— An Amateur. 
_ Tue Frowrer-carpen Spring OrnAMENTS.—What sight can be 
more enlivenining than to see the Snowdrop, Crocus, Aconite, Jonquil, 
Early Tulips, Hyacinth, Anemone, &c., pushing themselves through 
their winter covering, and successively displaying their lovely hues? 
Now is the time of preparation for the spring display. In planting, 
