316 BRIEF REMARKS. 



■with roots repot into eight or ten-inch pots, usino^ the same kind of 

 materials for compost, but having a larger proportion of loam ; as in 

 spring more moisture is required, the loam will in proportion retain 

 more. Fumigate the plants if green-fly appear, readily done with the 

 new fumigator. (See advertisement.) Always have the plants placed 

 as near the glass as convenient; the plants are bushy in proportion. 

 During winter and spring these are charming ornaments for either the 

 greenliouse or sitting-room. Tlieir beauty and fragrance are very 

 cheering. — Lucy Ann. 



Standard Camellias. — Last spring I saw half-a-dozen beautiful 

 formed Standard Camellias. Stocks of the single red had been divested 

 of their side shoots, and at four feet higli they had been inarched. Three 

 of the plants had only one variety each, whilst the other three stocks had 

 had the leading shoots stopped, and year-old side shoots being obtained 

 three were retained on each plant, and one distinct kind had been in- 

 arched to each side shoot, so that the three plants had nine kinds upon 

 them ; and as attention had been given in selecting those kinds whicii 

 were the most opposite in colours, they produced a charming effect. 

 The nice straigiit clear stems, and fine, almost globular heads, in pro- 

 fuse bloom, were highly attractive. They were placed in a greenhouse, 

 and amongst a collection of plants, but the heads, with about half of 

 the stems of each, was seen above the general stock of other plants. — 

 The Hon. J. C. W. 



Pelargoniums. — The following varieties were exhibited at the 

 London Shows during the past season, and were in the winning stands 

 the times stated. Pearl, 22 ; Forget-me-Not, 19; Negress (Garth's), 

 18; Gulielnia, 18; Centurion, 16; Orion, 14; Rosamond, 14; Star, 

 10 ; Salamander, 9 ; Mont Blanc, 9 ; Armada, 7 ; Ariel, 7 ; Norah, 6 ; 

 Victory, 6 ; Gustavus, 5 ; Cassandra, 5. 



Cyclamen Europeum. — I shall be much obliged if some reader 

 will inform me what is the best metiiod of cultivating the Cyclamen 

 Europeum. I have tried various ways of keeping them through tiie 

 winter, but without success. I wish to be favoured with the whole 

 management of them. — c. M. 



Amuerstia nobilis. — If, as we suppose, it must be conceded that 

 the Victoria Regina is the most splendid flowering herbaceous plant 

 yet known to us, we may ^^ith equal justice say that the Amherstia 

 nobilis is tiie most superb arborescent plant. Dr. Falconer writes to 

 Sir W. J. Hooker from the East India Company's Botanic Garden 

 (May 1850), " Our Andierstia has been in great glory this year, and 

 after a sad tendency to decay, I have brought the tree back to the 

 highest promise of vigour by a treatment I believe unknown to pjnglish 

 gardening. There were, 1 suppose, upwards of 500 racemes of flowers 

 upon it (eacli blossom is across) six \^eeks ago, and abundance 



of young leaves in the green, and bronze colour, slate, all at the same 

 time. Tliree pods set upon it, one of «hich has ripened. The new 

 mode of treatment is to sink vertical pipes of bamboo (hollow) canes 

 four and a-half feet long, in three rit!gs (or circles), extending nearly 

 as far as the extremities of the roots, and filling them with water at the 

 night. Tiie pipes are left open, and the double purpose is served of 



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