132 BRIEF REMARKS. 



the flower. Many sorts, supposed to be run, will return. This lias 

 happened with Martin's President (P.F.), Sharp's Defiance (S.B.), and 

 many others. The chances of clean flowers are not equal, whether you 

 propagate from run or clean flowers, by which I mean to intimate my 

 opinion that as many plants will probably return to fineness from the 

 one as from the other. As for compost, I should pronounce half dung 

 to be excessive, as far as the ultimate soundness of the stock is con- 

 cerned. By no means should the loam be deprived of any of its fibrous 

 rooty matter ; that I consider by far the better part. — J. iV. Newhall, 

 Florist. 



Carnations and Picotees. — I am an old grower and shower of 

 these beautiful flowers. Take my advice in potting. For vigorous- 

 growing kinds have pots a foot across the mouth ; for weakly ones ten 

 inches across. Have clean pots to start with. Use a year-old turfy 

 loam, that lias been chopped and turned a few times. To it add 

 another equal part, consisting of well-rotted dung and vegetable or tea 

 mould. Have a liberal drainage of bits of turf and charcoal, two to 

 three inches deep. — Senex. 



Cineraria having the Scent of the Heliotrope. — A lady, 

 resident in Sussex, has a variety whose blossoms have this delicious 

 fragrance. The flowers are white. It is a valuable acquisition to this 

 charming tribe of flowers. Attempts to have a race of this class no 

 doubt will be made, and with due care will be realized, and may be 

 kept permanent. 



A good Yellow Flower for a small Bed.— Lucy asks for the 

 name of such. The best we know is Escholtzia crocea compacta. 

 Sow seed immediately, and the plants will bloom from June to the end 

 of the season. It is a compact grower, and blooms profusely ; the 

 flowers of a rich deep orange-yellow. The best way to treat the plant 

 for this purpose is — sow seeds in August in small pots, and keep them 

 in a cool frame or sheltered place through the severe part of winter ; 

 then turn them out into the bed the first week in March. In April 

 sprinkle a portion of seed between the plants. These will be iurtheir 

 prime when the former are ceasing to bloom ; by this means seven 

 months' bloom may be had. The bed thus being stacked will remain 

 so; only should any die in winter, sow a portion of seed to fill up such 

 vacancy. It is a very showy and neat plant. There are other yellow- 

 blooming annuals; but they only flower for a short time. — A Flower 

 Gardener. 



Culture of Balsams. — When four inches high, pot off singly into 

 small pots, and plunge them in a hot-bed frame. Do not allow the 

 roots to become matted around the ball, but repot early enough ; keep 

 shifting till you have them in the large pots for final blooming, which 

 ought to be a foot across the top. Never allow any blossom till the 

 plant has attained the size you want it ; and it ought to be bushy, nearly 

 as wide across as high. Therefore clip off all the flower-buds at the 

 earliest stage, which induces the vigorous and rapid growth of the 

 plant. Use a mellow turfy loam, such as has been laid up and chopped 

 for a year; to this add equal portions of leaf-mould and well-rotted 

 hot-bed manure, a sprinkling of pieces of charcoal and charred bones, 



