324 General Notices. 



and side brandies as to preserve the symmetry of the specimen, may be 

 found necessary. Some growers stop their plants once or twice after they 

 are fully grown and showing flower; this causes them to break back, 

 greatly adds to the number of shoots, and of course to the display of 

 blossom, but plants treated in this way do not continue so long in beauty. 



A cool airy shady house is the proper situation for the plants while in 

 blossom, and during this time they should be liberally supplied with manure 

 water and carefully guarded against attacks of insects. The weaker 

 growers are rather subject to red spider, and all the sorts to thrips ; but if 

 insects are kept under during the growing season, and the plants are per- 

 fectly clean when placed in the show-house, there will be little to apprehend 

 in this respect. When the beauty of the plants is over, they may be 

 removed to a shady situation out of doors ; and, previous to any danger 

 from frost, cut back rather closely, disrooted and repotted in 9-inch pots, 

 using light sandy soil. If placed in a dry situation, out of the reach of 

 frost in winter, and put in a cool house when they commence growth in 

 spring, potted when necessary, and set in a shady situation out of doors as 

 soon as the danger of frost is over, they will make useful specimens for 

 autumn flowering. 



The fuchsia delights in a rich porous soil. Turfy sandy loam, two parts, 

 and two parts thoroughly decomposed cow- dung and leaf-soil, with a suffi- 

 ciency of clean sharp sand, to ensure the free percolation of water through 

 tlie mass, will form a suitable compost for it. For weakly growers, turfy- 

 peat will be preferable to leaf-soil, and for these very little cow-dung should 

 be used.— (Gar<f. Chron., 1852, p. 324.) 



Daphne odora rosea. — Of all the odoriferous plants with which I am 

 acquainted, this is the most delightfully fragrant, surpassing, in the estima- 

 tion of many, even the agreeable odor of the rose itself, or of the violet. It 

 is moreover a hardy greenhouse plant, of very easy culture, requiring no 

 forcing to have it in bloom during the short days of winter, when fragrant 

 flowers are scarce and much esteemed. 



This variety of Daphne is usually increased by grafting it on stocks of 

 some of the hardy kinds ; but I find that it grows more vigorously on its 

 own roots than when worked on any stock which I have tried ; and I am 

 satisfied that propagation by cuttings is preferable. Pieces of the young 

 wood selected when about half ripe, planted in sandy soil, covered with a 

 bell glass, and placed in a close frame, will root freely if they are kept 

 properly supplied with water, and guarded from damp The cuttings should 

 be got in as early in the season as they can be obtained, in order that they 

 may have time to become well-rooted in small pots, previous to winter. As 

 soon as they are sufficiently established, pot them in 4- inch pots, and place 

 them for a time in a rather close and moist situation. During winter they 

 may occupy a place in the greenhouse, and will require no extra care be- 

 yond what is given to the inmates generally. 



The Daphne is a slow-growing shrub, and unless means are used to in- 

 duce the young plants to make two growths during the second season, they 

 will hardly be worth notice as flowering specimens until they are three 



