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frame, and are grown in a stove of medium temperature. Being thus 

 situatef], tlie summer slioots get well ripened, wliich is essential to its 

 blooming well the following year. Any pruning required I do just 

 when the buds begin to start in February. 



Gazania pavonia. — I should fieel greatly obliged to any of your 

 numerous correspondents if they would inform me how to flower the 

 above splendid greenhouse perennial, whicli I find (from Loudon^s 

 Encyclopcedia of Plants) was introduced into this country in 1804 

 from the Cape of Good Hope, and thrives in peat and loam. I have 

 grown the plant for many years, and have always found it a very shy 

 flower; the plants grow well and look very healthy, but throw out itw 

 blossoms. The Gazania rigens is a very old plant, having been intro- 

 duced from the Cape in 1755. This is a veiy free flower, very nearly 

 hardy, and is a veiy showy plant in the border in June. The flowers 

 are of the shape of a large single-flowered common Marigold, four 

 inches across. Those of G. pavonia are yellow, each petal having at 

 its bottom a dark blotch, in the centre of which is a white spot. Those 

 of G. rigens are of a rich orange colour. When expanded, they are 

 very pretty. They de.-^er\ e to be in every greenliouse and flower- 

 garden during summer. Both kinds are easily increased by cuttings 

 or division in July and August. — G. S. H. 



Compost for Auriculas. — The following, from long experience, 

 has pioved an excellent compost for Auriculas. Our practice has been 

 to cultivate tluse flowers expressly for exhibition, we can therefore give 

 it with confidence: — Four measures of night soil, well decomposed; 

 two measuresof sheep manure, ditto ; two measures of heath peat, taken 

 from beneath the wild heatli of the commons, about four inclies from 

 the surface (not deeper), .so that it is full of decayed vegetable matter ; 

 two measures of light sandy yellow loam, full of fibre ; and one mea- 

 sure of very fine sand — that used by brick-makers about London for 

 moulding the bricks in, is excellent for the purpose. We have accus- 

 tomed ourselves to .--creen these articles, before mixing, to ensure 

 having the proper quantities. — /. T. Neville. 



Hybrid Lilies. — In some of our former volumes we remarked 

 upon a number of beautiful seedling Lilies which had been rai.-ed by 

 our friend Mr. Groom, florist, of Clapham Rise, from Lilium bulbi- 

 ferum, impregnated with L. atrosanguineum. We saw them in fine 

 bloom last season, and as before, we recommend them to every lover 

 of this beautiful tribe of flowers. They are perfectly iiardy, and bloom 

 profusely. Among many otliers the following are the best : — 



Nabob. — Twenty-two inches high, bright orange, with very dark 

 blood-coloured blotclies, fine, twelve to sixteen flowers on the stem. 



Louis Philippe. — Twenty-six inches high, very bright deep red, 

 with a few blotches and black spots, produces from sixteen to.twenty 

 blo.ssoms, very fine. 



Titian. — Fifteen inches, red orange, with a few dark spots, free 

 bloomer; produces from sixteen to twenty flowers, very good. 



Duke of Wellinyton. ~^\xteen inches, bright rich red, with a few 

 dark red blotches, fine and rich, ten to fourteen blossoms. 



