570 THE MAGAZINE OF HORTICULTURE. 



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OxALis BowiEi. — It may not be generally known that this succeeds well 

 as a bedding plant. It produces its beautiful rose-colored flowers in great 

 profusion, until destroyed by frost in autumn : and when planted in contrast 

 Avith other gay colors I have always found it to be greatly admired. The 

 bulbs should be potted the third week in March, and plunged in a gentle 

 bottom heat. I put three bulbs in a 3-inch pot : when they have grown 

 about two inches I shift them into 4-inch pots, and gradually harden them 

 off in frames with other beddmg plants. They are planted out about the 

 middle of June, by which time they will be nicely in bloom ; it is necessary 

 to support the flower stems with small stakes when first planted out, for if 

 this is not done they are liable to be blown off. Until the plants have es- 

 tablished themselves firmly in the ground, a situation rather sheltered from 

 the wind, and well exposed to the morning sun, should be chosen for them, 

 as they show themselves to most advantage during bright sunshine. — [Gard. 

 Chron., 1856, p. 645.) 



[This oxalis is the finest of the whole family, and if it will succeed, as 

 the writer states, it will make a superb bedding plant. We advise a fair 

 trial of it by our amateurs next spring. — Ed.] 



Cloth of Gold Rose. — Seeing your account of the Cloth of Gold Rose, 

 which grows at Hethel, I think it may not be unsatisfactory to you to know 

 that such is not altogether a rarity in this county. I have a Cloth of Gold 

 worked on a Felicity stock in 1850. It flowered the second year, now meas- 

 ures five and a half inches in the stem, and spreads over a surface of 19 by 

 18 feet. In 1855 I counted on it one day 128 flowers and buds ; and at 

 this moment (October 31,) it has more than a score, and half of that num- 

 ber almost bursting. I attribute its rapid growth to a copious supply of 

 moisture which it obtains from a veranda against which it grows ; which, 

 it strikes me, has something to do with the gigantic growth of the Hethel 

 rose. And I have observed a similar effect in other cases. Certainly my 

 rose has no special advantages. There is also another much larger one 

 than mine in the grounds of J. Webb, Esq. of Stalham, in this county. — 

 {Gard. Chron., 1856, p. 742.) 



Late Flowering Plants for Autumn Decoration. — On looking 

 over our parterres it will be found that many of their gayest occupants 

 have suffered from the autumnal rains which we have experienced of late, 

 and that they are now dull and comparatively insignificant. Amongst the 

 sufferers are our Geraniums and Calceolarias, which are indispensable for 

 summer and early autumn decoration, but as the season advances are una- 



