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put a good handful of salt into each; and then give it to those vines against 

 the house : in the mean time, I will be removing the young shoots upon them, 

 above the fruit; and, after that, I will trim and dispose the peach and necta- 

 rine trees. Remember, also, with your hoe and rake, to clear and remove 

 the weeds from the fruit-borders. A neat appearance is not the only benefit 

 that will be derived from this step; but the fruit itself will be more quickly 

 ripened, and its flavour improved, by the rays of the sun being reflected from 

 the smooth surface ol the ground.' 



" They also, from time to time, attended to their flower garden ; watering 

 the annuals regularly, and putting sticks to support those which required 

 them. Those perennials, too, in pots, that had done blowing, they cut down 

 the stalks, and at the same time loosened the earth at the top of the roots, 

 removing some of it, and replacing it with new mould. They likewise pro- 

 pagated many others by dividing the roots; such as the double rose cham- 

 pion, catch -fly, double scarlet lychnis, and double rocket, gentianella, and 

 polyanthuses. Their choicest auriculas they shifted into fresh pots, and 

 cowed fresh seed in pots, sprinkling the seed closely, and covering it about 

 an inch deep. They also transplanted bulbous roots, such as lilies, &.C., and 

 sowed some of the seed of the same. Young seedlings of wall-flowers, stocks, 

 sweet williams, and columbines, they transplanted out into the borders. This 

 work they contrived when the ground was moist after rain. 



" In the nursery ground they trimmed the evergreens, clearing the ground 

 of weeds, and transplanting young seedliugs; and those which had made 

 strong shoots from the Btems near to the ground, they cut away close ofl*. 

 Those trees which Mr. Stock had budded about three weeks or a month before, 

 he loosened the bass that bound them, to prevent the bud from being too 

 closely pressed, as the branches had swelled," &.c. &c. &c. 



Plants figured in the following Periodicals for April : — 



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Curtis'* Botanical Magazine. Edited by Dr. Hooker, King's 

 Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow. Price 

 3s. 6d. coloured, 3s. plain. 



1. Amaryllis aulica, Courtly Amaryllis. Class, Hexandria; order, Mono- 

 gynia. Natural order, Amarvllidea?. It s«ems liable to much variation : the 

 present iis a splendid variety, with green lines in the centre, running nearly 

 the whole length of each petal, «hich are of a fine red, with a very obsolete 

 glandular disk, and with long, narrow, glaucous leaves. Another variety is 

 the platypetala of Professor Lindlev, in the Bot. Reg. t. 1038; while our 

 present plant seems intermediate between these and what is considered the 

 type of the species. The bulb was presented to the Botanic Garden by — 

 Pearsok, Ksq., who brought it from the neighbourhood of Rio Janeiro, in 

 Brazil, where it is a native. Amaryllis, a nymph of Virgil's. 



2. Alyxia rusri/olia, Butcher's broom leaved Alyxia. Pentandria, Mono- 

 gvnia. Apncyneu.-. 'I he present species was detected in New South Wales, 

 within the tropics ; to which, however, its geographical range is not limited — 



ipoH :i settlement being established, some nine years since, at Moreton 



in. Him ..f coast, but in 27° S. latitude, it was found in the 



dense woods that clothe the banks of the Brisbane River, growing luxuriantly 



among trmi •■hade and but little light; yet, under these circumstances, bcar- 



loven :it the termination of each branchlet throughout the cooler 



i ol id.- year. It was originally raised at Kew, fiom seeds gathered on 



those iotertropieal ibom, in 18*0; and from the Royal Gardens, other col: 



ricbed by it. It is a hardy conservatory plant, ornamental 



from its h:i».n und dnrk foliage, and putting forth its fragrant white flowers 



(•nulling lik.- Jasmine) freely, and generally during the greater part of 



Mtutmt. Ah xm, (rot,, (he Greek Alyxu, grief, anxiety of mind— in allusion 



t* the deep sombre gicen of several of the genus. 



