1S6 FloricuUitral and Botanical Notices. 



with three to five pendulous yellow flowers, more or less 

 spotted with orange. In regard to the management of this 

 and the other species, the following hints are given. — Whe- 

 ther planted or potted, the bulbs should be placed rather 

 deep, because they make fibres above the bulb as well as 

 below it : and when they must be shifted, it should be done 

 while they are dormant. The greatest care sliould be taken 

 during the operation of turning them out of the pots, and 

 removing the crocks from among the fibres, without shak- 

 ing oft' much of the soil. They should then be fresh potted 

 in the soil above-named. Keep them rather dry till they 

 begin to grow, when they may have more water. Increas- 

 ed by the scales from the outside of the bulb. {Bot. Reg., 

 Feb.) 



Garden Memoranda. — Management of Bracliycome \he- 

 redifblia and other flower seeds. In the Gard. Chronicle 

 we find some remarks on the growth of this new and beau- 

 tiful plant, which are interesting to those who have pro- 

 cured seeds, and are raising young plants. The beautiful 

 Swan River Daisy never germinates under' a month or six 

 weeks: it ought therefore to be among the first sown, in 

 order to have strong plants fit to turn out in May. Inde- 

 pendently of the brilliancy of its blue starry flowers, it is 

 the best of annuals for a very dry summer, like the last ; 

 but with many other small flowering syngenesious plants, 

 its suffers much from wet. We had several beds of it here 

 last season, blooming freely for nine or ten weeks, with 

 scarcely any assistance from the watering pot. I think we 

 shall always have to treat it as a half hardy plant at first. 

 The seeds of this blue daisy, though as small as dust, are 

 thus proved to possess great vitality. Every one who has 

 been accustomed to gardening knows how to sow seeds; a 

 few simple rules will therefore be suflicient for those who 

 are just commencing. Whatever sized pots you use, it is a 

 good rule to fill them one half with drainage ; rough sifted 

 coal ashes arc as good as anything for this purpose. Very 

 small seeds, such as those of lobelias, calceolarias, gesneras 

 and the whole tribe of rhododendrons, azaleas and heaths 

 require to be sown very thinhj upon the surface — the pots 

 being previously watered. Only one kind of a seed should 

 be sown in a pot, as they are liable to be disturbed by wa- 



