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properties. It is a medium-sized flower, light ground, edged and 

 mottled with lilac-purple. Well up iu the centre, good petal and 

 outline. 



Laura Lavington. — A dark salmon-brown, with white tip ; medium 

 size ; good average form, and centre well up. 



Triumphant. — A ruby-red, medium size, good outline and centre. 



Miss Creed.- — Pale yellow, with white tip. Very pretty. 



Miss Ward. — Lemon-yellow, with white tip. Said to be an im- 

 provement on Mrs. Hansard. 



Wonderful. — Amber, streaked with purplish-pink. Good form. 



George Villiers. — Dark ruby, of good properties in outline, petal, 

 and centre. 



Morning Star. — Deep orange- scarlet ; large. 



Una. — A large white flower. 



Phantom. — A bright orange and buff, well up, deep, and good 

 outline. 



Miss Mattheivs. — Scarlet, with white tip. Good in all particulars. 



Sir F. Thesiger. — A good-formed lilac flower, of medium size. 



Flora M'lvor. — A rosy-purple, with white tip. 



John Davis. — A good-formed crimson, after the style of Richard 

 Cobden. 



Sarah. — Mottled lake and white. 



Malvinia. — Mottled purple and lake ; large flower. 



Heliotrotium Leaves affected with large Black Spots. — 

 I have several plants in the greenhouse, whose leaves are rendered most 

 unsightly with large black blotches. If some reader will inform me of 

 a remedy and preventative for the future I shall be greatly obliged. — 

 A Clergyman's Daughter. [We have known this to arise from the 

 under side of the leaves being affected witli mildew. The remedy is, 

 dust the under side with sulphur. The bite, too, of insects produces 

 dark spots. And we have noticed in hot weather that, owing to the 

 ruinred surface of the leaves, water Mill lodge in the hollows where the 

 surface is flat, and when watered over head during hot sun it becomes 

 heated, and the parts are scalded. Water over head in the evening, or 

 quite early in the morning. — Editor.] 



Artificial Rock Work. — Among the numerous natural embel- 

 lishments which are so abundantly scattered over the face of this 

 country, and the natural facilities afforded for beautifying the private 

 pleasure ground of the wealthy proprietor, there are but few instances 

 where these natural facilities have been advantageously turned to account 

 in artificial decoration. 



I Jock work may sometimes be placed in the proximity of glass struc- 

 tures, and even in flower-gardens, with good effect, when these are of a 

 gothic or rustic character; but here the rockwork must have none of 

 the savage wihlness of nature about it, and consequently nothing of the 

 impressive picturesqueness of natural rocks. It should be rendered 

 conformable to the objects around it, and appearing to be placed there 

 for the purpose of cultivating those plants that succeed best among 

 rocks, or for showing the natural habits of plants that grow naturally 

 among rocks, or those that produce a better effect when planted on 



