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formosum, which is also 8 sometimes called —— : 
3 jasminoides. whose white flow re 
2 * of a Jasmi mine ; the Californian 
toe thus — tak gay with numberless cluste 
3 
8 
of blue flow the searlet-blossomed Sage (Salvia 
eriflora), a brilliant aran at this season ; Tryma 
i ra um, an sma — 
us leading to the little en near the dwelling-house. 
This walk is broadly margined with turf, and lined o 
either rae with standard * ere which 
circles in the grass. To improve the health and flower- | 
12 — the plants, these circles receive a little dung in 
mber, vanis "it slightly with soil, and i 
it is ted in g the roots. The 
Spring 
b 
three bulbs in a pot. After planting, they were put 
n jina * — properly drained at the bottom and slightly 
tected at the sides, , plunging them in rotten tan, and 
er them at least 4 inches. In very 
weather vagd ne mat thrown over them : otherwise 
o coverin In this state they remained till the 
flower stems N up ned ine and first began — * 
i an 
shrub called Discaria crenata, which, though scarcel eds are edge * ith slate of an ornamental des- their as this occurred, w ken 
than a bright-green bush in general appearance, ames which besides beg impenetrable and offering | to the “greenhouse, put ‘a "che back of the frien and 
emits a delightful perfume w the sun s n it. no harbour for ontrasts admirably w — the shaded by a mat until the ste 
i ith these were also the pretty ce. shrub warm colour of ite — Enquiry was made gr — when it was gra ually brought to more light 
Bryanthus erectus, the Broad-leaved are Di columns a short time ago, ae the Wee or ‘other and While n this state each spike of flow 
Acacia celastrifolia, an Epacri sn a Cape wise of slate for — —— erha he h 
Heath. It was announced that 3 copies of the | satisfactory answer e qu — is e in aa Water freely, gi ive as muc ch air as “possib le during — 
ted accounts of the 7 were y fact that the demand rv such things has very greatly day, — never omit turning the pot daily, so as to ensure 
bution, and that they may be had on 9 to the increased ast year or two. They are now that regular pyramidal shape, which is so essential to 
Librarian. made by Mr. Beck st most — principles, with | the beauty and sy of Hy h. The value 
cee er eters roll at top, and they can be taken 8 — they are 1 with r e sue erial is to 
merely kept together by nuts and sere in a few | induce plenty of s roots to form before the stem 
Books, c., Rereibed. — aha in which was — ng the new Ever- | has — low wards wich i is of the greatest importance 
: om Saty Se grep Plum of California ur presence | to successful grow =e 
— Orchid Growers’ Manual. with the greatest facility, — it chad not been Horticultura — — We E that it is 
è By B. S. Williams. 
Chapman and Hall; pp. 108.—A reprint of the 
# Orchids for the Million,” recently published i 
touched for the last 12 months; the roots were found 
in close contiguit 
rs regulations re- 
in our in y with the slate, — in the best | specting Seedling “florists? flowers at t Chisw ick. A tent, 
columns, with some itions. po ble condition. In justice to the gardener we must | as al, will be furnished fo reception A but 
Twentieth Annual Report of — as a Horti ieultioral mention that the garden — exited the best of | the eng — not propose to judge or award 
Society of Cornwall. eard and Sons.—The | keeping ; not a weed to be seen, and all the walks | for them 
e een gave away — — ia, 5l aw — — = were neatly aw iW wolled, ROYAL Sourn Lonpon FLoORICULTURAL Soomer, April 22 
avour o 8 t is no pson’s, WOODLANDS — IsLEWORTH.— 
much to the credit of Falmouth 2 Truro that so well and e Gili ; was a At this, 5, the st Exhibition for 2 oy i — a h — average 
managed an institution should not be more liberally 
Vol. II., 
asc. 4. 9 to Rub 
Deeds of Naval Daring, or 2 Be of the British 
e, he ac aaee 
what 
opinio 
4 olunteer force in pre- 
ference.to.a militia ; ut he would not de aM —— 
farmers and 
experi- 
ent that cannot possibly succeed. As to Phat they 
— should n ot do, and what they — 
do well, he entertains views very similar to those of a 
General Sir Charles Napier, rr á that he cision over | am: 
a hoped daat usket i in ee the Minić oo — is 
aud children? not to see the 
2 sede: flow: 
so niggardly, that we cannot afford m | 
few hundod t thousands a a year for the proteeti 
wives —— 
on of our | 
rable from a sera A met for ere the 
immaculate old women of Man 
virtuous in and 
indignation 
Garden MAMEN: 3 
EON | IsLEwortH.—We loo here 
other day in order to neee what — Beck was 
after having parted with his nice collections of 
s and Pelargoniums. With the exception of the 
„ of which there were none, we ors ee ee 
in its * condition. jan 1 the specimen 
use was covered with the most promising 
Everything here was — 
considerable amount of 3 in the open borders, 
yis was kept up by d fashioned flowers 
2 = are now-a-days too 
e Daisies, Oxlips, P. í 
—— “White Ally _— = things — f that kind, — ee 
N ighly orna — hey ean oved 
— the — bedding pl Aani. 
n time 
During — hot s summer weather they like > a shady s situa- = 
7 — mina, — 
John . Che 
James Dickson, Brixton ; 4 “tra, 
Pansies : lst, Mr. e, of _Wyco mbe ; 2d, J. H. Brown, Esq., 
Tu Mr. Bragg. 
ti 100, Ir ich they 
where — are intended t to flower. Among t 
we remarked some G 
very E eas 
the Daisies 
erman ones of novel character and 
If itis wished to inerease any of the above 
uld be done just after they go out of 
oved to their coo 
nee, w w 
flower than which we have few more orna 
ul in-door Bo se at this oo The 
5 d 
Fi 
ick, on * 8th o 
; but it was doubtfu l wi 
be finely in 1 by that date, the season hav n een 
very much against their — development. 
FLORICULT LTURE. 
Tue Hracixxn.— This is is is everybody s flower from th 
cottage to the palace, in oky — — the ne pure 
air of the country. Its — 0 
among the least of its oa qualities; ior it it wil ¢ grow 
and flower in a glass in water, in a pot in soil, or in the 
ba - 
eimar, Emicus, Richa 
Sax 
Lion — oy ot Baron Van Thuyll, Charles Dickend, 
Prine Mignona 
e Oscar, and ado . alienin) 
Violet; Tubal Cain, William I., and Pri 
hite 
Vainqueur, Le Tour 3 — 
ink — 
riumph Blan — an and Tubiflora. — 
A Unique. T. — Miss Kitty nie very por 
nna Paulowna, Heroine panes * 
pes Red: Fireball, Mars, Herstelde Vreede 
Ps. | 3d. 12 et a 
j Fairbaiin, J. E. 
mental or | Sm 
e Pelargoniums 
for G. 
CispRARIAS : J 
Rainbo Aal. — 7 Pan 
aud as of Englan 
bad co 
house apis to Mr. „Rosier, Ist; 
Ist, Mess iF 
d. Polyanthuses were present, but 
d for 15 Stove 
r. Over, 2d; Coal Mr. Hamp, 
Rn and 2d, Messrs. 
— W ie oo Society, April 22.—Mr. GEORGE 
e chai — rias — ii the principal subjects 
esers. A. Henderson, E. 
$ 
specimens, ed 
niums, ia * form « od 
Mr. Dobson, Mr. rose, 
1 and Mr. Ayres. Pansies i 
„Edv ward 
were eent by M , and Auriculas by Mr. Goldivam. 
J. E. 
N OCIETY 
tion, s have been Wel from t — 
third . — in every month to the third Thursday. J. B. 
CARNATIONS AND Pic A general surface stirring | and 
n rein abe now ben 5 
foi with or inju y may be commiited to — 
ic inere —4 15 1 been 588 to water the st 
al £0 Gaines we strive to operate a to the consti- 
tution —— the subject; vigorous — with much increase 
mire e food than varieties of weak habit or of deficient 
ins received from Messrs. A. Paul and Son, Che 
12 Messrs. J. sagr ana 2 Holland-street 
pie: piee, Pyra enderson 
8 have been sent t to our 
80 Bib poms up when reached 
eaer Th they 
te 46 ti 
D. Wo regre ouid wat have 4.— 
. 
t are small, 
A same — 4 now in cultivation. J. E. 
Ho = 4. a ggs — B. T — — ia of first-rate excellence 
ape dwarf R it planted now 
—— —— bee — to attend good eu ltivation ; ; they will 
flower by the middle of ae and continue in 192 
lier blooms can only be obtaine 
he first crop from last years’ seed 
will now be in full flower. We bave pone aoe 
tho: mannde sa task of — ei a interest, and in which 
ie at ng delight We shall report praami in due 
Mr. pas See report in this day’s Paper.— W, We have no 
“pea SP en of the variety referred to, J. E. 
F 
Miscellaneous. ; 
Absorption of the Soluble Salts of Ulmic Acid by 
5 By J. 3 
tro at dd — — could babe be desired. They | lius, Le Francq Van Berkhey, ana d Waterloo e —Soubeiran concluded, ee 
were in the very best of health with no “spot” or dis- Li red: Dame du Laak, and Lord Hin hich he had made on the 
; foe nat Sana ons 8 the earliest varieties were Of these the * mes 8 for —— — of — ulmate of — that this salt was — ap 
ä hie ner was just p i operti ie 3 sin fe blu by plants. one experiment, a plant was 
to put up Haythorn’s Hexagon g, a looking Sitios in colour to C sales 20h = rant, Brinee its s ots in a solution of f ammonia ; it con- 
forte bees, which when allowed admission d Baron — Tal, but nee surpassing tinued to grow in i, * the solution became panini 
were and spoil the flowers, e other 3 them én 2 — tube smooth — ral division s|decolorised. In the second ex Beans and Oats 
good with iling Pelargoniums, in the raising of | of it, glossy, broad, and of good size; in truth the best were found oe d perfe diy well i in a soil Shiai had 
* Varieties of which we need hardly say Mr. Beck is of all the <= varieties displayed on the occasion, | b eprived of organic matter, but which contained 
s of wade. his invariable practice, all Appen and Fi 2 single reds, are brigliter in colour some sulphate and phosphate of lime, and was water 
An uapromisin e immediately and better in form than Water loo. Prince Frederick with a solution of ulmate of onia. The author’ 
as and Pasquin — * best of the doable bla and dis- object was to check Soubeiran’s experiments b 
| tinct ; is conspicuous s large bells, but balanee. He filled two large funnels half full with 
they are rather y arranged on E the spike. Prince gravel and other with pounded brick, which 
Ibert must still be considered one of the darkest | contained. undredth of calcined bone and the 
lyacinths in cultivation. These were all in be games ia pa chalk. ee same aw of Gress seed was 
shaped er small-sized pots, in pa of wh — were | sown As so hey mieni to germinate, a 
two plants and sometimes three, which made ery peel — solution of ulmate of ammonia was 
effective display. regards the ae ‘of, the d from peat Were — @ “litres) was divided 
8 th in little need be sai e grown e two equal par as kept, the other used to 
them after essrs. Henderson's plan of eh he two and | water the — in one * ‘the funnels, Four da ays after 
