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for budding. Two stocks may be budded with each seedling. These will make 

 strong shoots in the following year, if the budding prove successful ; and these, 

 if left unpruned, will produce flowers in the following or third year. On their 

 own roots, the seedlings will not flower until the fifth or sixth year. 



Planting Cyclamens. — Plant the corms of Cyclamen Neapolitanum in June 

 in pots, and they bloom in autumn ; of C. coum in pots in July, and they will 

 bloom in January and onwards ; of C. Atkinsi at the same time, and they will 

 bloom in winter and early spring ; of C. persicum in August, and again in Sep- 

 tember, and they will flower from November to April, according to the tempera- 

 ture. Pot the varieties of C. Europaeum in spring, and they bloom in summer ; 

 and they are the sweetest of all. C. repandum, which blooms late in spring, 

 should be potted in autumn. 



Rhododendrons for Forcing. — The best of the early-flowering hybrid 

 rhododendrons are Russellianum, crimson-scarlet ; Wellsianum, bright scarlet ; 

 Stamfordianum, rosy scarlet ; Caucasicum album, white-spotted ; Nobleanum, 

 in scarlet, rose, and light varieties ; Perspicuum, white ; Campanulatum hybri- 

 dum, white ; Altaclerense, scarlet ; and Broughtonianum, rosy red. Varieties 

 of R. Catawbiense : Everestianum, lilac, spotted and fringed ; Glennyanum, 

 whitish ; Grandiflorum, bright deep rose ; Roseum elegans, bright rose ; Roseum 

 superbum, deep rose ; Purpureum elegans, purple ; and Album elegans, waxy- 

 white, green spots. Of the late-flowering hybrid scarlets : Victoria, dark plum ; 

 Blandyanum, deep crimson ; Atrosanguineum, blood-red ; Alarm, white, deeply 

 edged with light scarlet ; John Waterer, glowing crimson ; Maculatum purpure- 

 um, purplish-rose, much spotted ; Towardii, rosy lilac ; William Downing, rich 

 dark puce, intense blotch ; Lefevreanum, purplish-crimson ; Coriaceum, white ; 

 Brayanum, rosy scarlet, with lighter centre ; and Hogarth, rosy crimson. Of 

 the dwarf small-foliaged kinds : Ponticum odoratum and myrtifolium, and R. 

 hirsutum, — all pretty, free-blooming, and sweet. 



Tagetes signata {Dwarf French Marigold) is the best yellow bedding- 

 plant. — This plant promises to be a rival to the yellow calceolaria, which it re- 

 sembles in size and habit ; but it is even a more abundant bloomer than that very 

 popular flower. It makes an excellent edging to larger-growing plants ; and, for 

 a line in a ribbon border, is equally valuable. The individual flowers are small ; 

 but they are produced in such abundance as to clothe the plant completely over, 

 and this not for a week or two, but for three or four months, ending with severe 

 frost. It can be strongly recommended for all purposes except bouquet-making. 



Dielytra spectabilis Forcing. — Keep the plants in the greenhouse until 

 after they have flowered, giving them a light and airy situation ; and, when frosts 

 are over, remove them to a warm, open situation out of doors ; plunge the pots 

 until July, and then remove them to a south aspect, and give no water except to 

 prevent the foliage flagging. The plants will go to rest in good time ; and, from 

 the time of the foliage decaying, they must be allowed at least six weeks' rest. 



