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than the facility obtained in turning out the plant to examine or re-shift 

 it, it would amply repay the trouble. But independent of this, a plant 

 enjoys better health in a clean than in a dirty pot ; and if no other con- 

 sideration would urge to cleanliness, appearance would decide in its 

 favour. Thirdly, drainage should combine two properties — to allow 

 free exit to the superabundant moisture, and to prevent the entrance of 

 worms; and although the latter object is somewhat difficult of attain- 

 ment, we should seldom have to complain if plants, when placed in 

 situations where worms are likely to abound, were set upon a suffi- 

 ciently thick layer of cinder-ashes, or some similar material ; cinder- 

 ashes, I think, claiming the preference, as we seldom see worms attempt 

 to penetrate them if two inches in thickness. To allow a free passage 

 to tlie superabundant moisture, let the crock covering the drain-hole 

 be placed so as to form an arch, with a few smaller ones placed round 

 it, covering the whole with a slight quantity of mo.ss, sufficient to pre- 

 vent the finer particles of soil being washed round the larger crock, 

 which would effectually obstruct the drainage, when the soil would 

 become sour and vmhealthy, and, as a natural consequence, the plant 

 would follow its example. Fourthly, tlie depth of potting should be 

 regulated by the mark which nature points out, and which is always 

 conspicuous in plants raised from seed ; at all events, let it not be 

 placed deeper than when it receives its first remove from the cutting or 

 seed-pod. To bury an inch or two of the stem of a plant is very 

 injurious, although a practice of common occurrence with careless 

 potting. Fifthly, in leaving a sufficient space in the pots to receive 

 water, let it on no account form a kind of basin, that is, a hollow, 

 round the stem, but let the soil round the stem be as higli as the rim 

 of the pot, receding gradually to a depth round the rim, agreeably to 

 the size of the pot, the nature of the plant, or the situation in which it 

 is to be placed. 



I feel confident, if these few simple rules were followed, many plants 

 which we now see dying, or at best barely vegetating, would be vice 

 versa. — Gardener^s Chronicle. 



Cheiranthus Marshallii. (Marshall's Wallflower.) — We have 

 some plants in bloom of this very beautiful hybrid, which lias been 

 produced between the Erysimum Perofskianum and Cheirantlius och- 

 roleucam. The flowers are of a rich orange-yellow, and have a 

 powerful violet fragrance. No doubt but it will be as hardy as the 

 common Wallflower, and as easily propagated and cultivated. It is a 

 charming plant either for pots or the open border. — Conductor, 



On the proper mode of exhibiting Carnations. — We cannot 

 see such a movement in floriculture as that proposed by Mr. Edwards, 

 without regretting that there should he anything introduced that 

 creates a difference of opinion ; but that man must surely be in error 

 who cannot see where a difl'erence begins ; and the entire responsibility 

 of all divisions rests on the individual who makes the first deviation 

 from established and approved rules. The great northern tulip sliow 

 might iiave been a grand aflair, had there been no " split;" and on 

 ■whom does the responsibility of this rest? On tlie first man who pro- 

 posed an alteration in the sub.scription, from five sliillings to ten. On 

 whom will the responsibility of the worst division that ever took place 



