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seeds sown in June are covered over by means of a tile ; it keeps the soil 

 damp till the plants are up, and yet admits a current of air to pass 

 through. Their great variety in colours and continued succession of 

 flowers very amply repay for the little attention required. I do not 

 take up my tubers, but leave them in the ground from year to year. 

 During winter some usually perish; but saving my own seed, I have 

 only to scatter a little in the borders, &c, and I always secure a supply. 

 As spring flowers, from March to May, none can equal them for orna- 

 ment, especially when to be seen from a dwelling-room. — Clericus. 



Tecoma jasminoides. — This is one of the most beautiful flowering 

 climbing plants ; and seeing in a recent Number of the Cabinet a 

 correspondent complains she could not get this plant to bloom freely, 

 and solicits information relative to its management, so as to succeed 

 satisfactorily, — I, therefore, observe that, having several strong plants, 

 I turned two into the open ground against a south-aspected wall in the 

 spring of last year. The plants were well furnished with spurred 

 shoots, which are obtained by pinching off the leads of side shoots ; 

 they are the productive flowering shoots the second season. Now my 

 plants bloomed freely in 1850; but this year (1851) they began to 

 bloom in May, and have continued to the present time, and are the 

 admiration of all who have seen them. — C. P. B. 



The Cloth of Gold Rose. — I have seen several stands of Roses at 

 some of the different exhibitions of the season, and I have also searched 

 your reports of the same; but, nowhere could I see or find mention of 

 the above variety, to my thinking, the " Queen of Roses." How is 

 this ? Is there greater difficulty in its culture, or is there only a par- 

 ticular soil that suits it? Having heard of parties who have found 

 difficulty in flowering it, I thought I would just furnish you with the 

 history of a magnificent specimen of it growing in this neighbourhood. 

 The second week in June I visited the gardens of T. B. Western, Esq., 

 of Felix Hall, and was there shown by his gardener, Mr. Bowie, a tree 

 of it covering ten feet of ground, upon which we counted one hundred 

 and fifty blossoms then open and opening, some of them measuring 

 four inches over, an inch and a-half in the cup, and beautifully perfect 

 in shape ; many of the blossoms, just opening, were the size of hens' eggs. 

 Last week I saw the same tree, and counted eighty-six blooms then 

 upon it, with the prospect of many more for the after-part of the season. 

 It has made shoots of this year's wood from five to six feet in length ; 

 it is growing in a moderately heavy loam ; but I learned that formerly 

 there was an old asparagus bed near where this tree now stands, and I 

 concluded that it was this that has made it what it is in four years, 

 proving that it is richnes*s of soil that it requires to make it successful ; 

 anil I am sure, could rose-growers have seen this specimen in the per- 

 fection in which I saw it, instead of its being generally discarded from 

 our li-ts, no one would think his collection complete without the Cloth 

 of Gold. — R. Ii. W., Kelvedon. (Gardeners' Chronicle.) 



Wahihan Glass Cases. — I should be very much obliged if you, or 

 any of the subscribers to the Floricultural Cabinet, would write 

 some account of the proper management of plants in Ward's cases. I 

 have lately had one given me, and am very anxious to make it useful 



