44 THE GREEN-HOUSE AND CONSERVATORY. 



worthless. These remarks apply to all green-house bulbs, 

 except, perhaps, the Cyclamen. We have never seen well 

 grown pots of Cape bulbs, except in a few instances. 



Will not some amateur make the growth of bulbs a 

 specialty, and show us what can be done in this almost 

 unexplored region of floriculture ? We should say unex- 

 plored in this country. In England, much has been done, 

 and great has been the reward. 



ORCHIDS make superb specimens, but the growth is slow, 

 and the attention needed immense. The various classes of 

 ferns, mosses, lycopodiums, and other cryptogamous plants, 

 can be very prettily grown. 



The vast class of variegated-leaved plants are pictures of 

 beauty if properly grown, and well repay any outlay of care 

 or expense. 



Even with our common herbaceous plants, or with annu- 

 als, a very pretty effect may be produced. 



Thus we have shown that the neglect is not caused by 

 want of subjects upon which to practise. 



If we continue to show our green-houses filled with 

 plants which, by their careless growth and sickly aspect, 

 are a disgrace to us, the fault is our own. 



Let us give our plants the benefit of our increased knowl- 



