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knows the Golden Orange-coloured Gluck, and it is a perfect representative of 

 this class : — 



George Sands, — red, with gold centre. 

 Fleur de Marie,— large white. 

 Juno, — white. 

 King of Anemones, — crimson. 



*Lady Margaret, — pure white j with row 



of ground petals, 

 Margaret of NorwHy, — red and gold. 

 Margaret of Versailles, — blush. 

 Louis Bonamy, — lilac j high centre. 



Pomjpone Anemone-flowered Varieties : — 



Golden Cedo NuUi, — golden canary. 

 Cedo Nulli, — white, with brown spots. 

 IJoule de Neige, — pure white. 

 Ariane Amaranth, — gold centre ; fine. 



Eeine des Anemones, — fine white. 



Perle, — rose ; lilac centre. 



President Morel, — cinnamon ; gold centre. 



M. Astre, — golden yellow. 



Madame Peuter, — pure white. 



2131. Supposing that plants are bought in now, and allowed to flower in 

 the conservatory, they may be removed to a cold frame or sheltered corner, 

 out of doors, until the end of March or beginning of April. If the lattei 

 position is chosen, the pots must be plunged to the rims in cinder-ashes, 

 and the tops slightly protected with some dry litter. In looking them over 

 at the time specified, three obvious modes of increase present themselves. 

 The old stools may be divided, they may be planted out as they are in rich 

 soil with a view to layering, or cuttings may be taken off them, and tbe plants 

 either planted out in the shrubbery or entirely discarded. If division is 

 determined upon, pieces, with a single, or two or three stems, may be chosen, 

 and either planted out into rich soil or potted. If the latter, they should be 

 placed into a close frame for a week to start them, and gradually used to 

 light and air until they are placed in a sheltered situation out of doors. 

 When they have grown three inches, stop them, to induce compact growth, if 

 nice plants are your object ; but if you grow blooms for exhibition only, never 

 stop them at all. Concentrate the whole strength of the plant into two or 

 three stems, and the strength of these stems into a single bud at the top, 

 and that bud cannot fail to be a prodigious flower. For conservatory plants, 

 however, two or three stoppings will be necessary, and the flowers, if not so 

 fine, will be ten times more numerous ; and the leaves will, or ought to touch 

 the rims of the pots. As soon as the first pot is full of roots, the plants should 

 be shifted into another, or placed in their blooming-pots at once : no soil is 

 better for them than equal parts well- decomposed cow-dung, loam, and leaf- 

 mould, liberally coloured with bone-dust and sharp sand. Neither should 

 there be much drainage, as the roots will speedily occupy the whole mass of 

 earth, and almost prevent the possibility of stagnation. From first to last 

 the plants should never flag, and be constantly fed with rich clear manure- 

 water. 



-2132. In training, the fewer stakes that are used the better, and towards 

 the end of October the plants should be moved under glass. This is a cri- 

 tical change for them, and imless the leaves are kept well syringed two or 

 three times a day for a few weeks, the chances are they will either discolour 

 or fall off. 



