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the winter, and both are so easily ge ae that with — The out- door Pigs along the top of the kitchen garden is 
little ingenuity every — might have them in ar re being divested of their dead wood and Me e en tied | — — 2 — — p ma ma 
fection in his window. The flower opikes of the large into eee preparatory to being encased in straw for | vatory. A somewhat stronge 3 t or soil may — 
—— They are six in number, and will pro- | Wi age espect to ai sean, — . Ba rw that — sand during winter for pl in th nhou 
bably expand their blossoms about the end of January. — Celery is is planted early, r becomes | conservatory, should dis —— N the — vo 
of i m in-this stove, few were so gay as the soft and spongy, which it is — s0 * to do when | advances ji — 
old Eranthemum pulchellum, whose deep, bine flowers planted late; but in the latter case it is liable to season of blo 
ted well with the scarlet inflorescence of Serico- be injured rost. With a view to keep off from which the plants may receive an extra supply of 
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wise in full blo erbertii, with light wooden spars, so as to support mats which | entire} “apt ith coarse ri 
a hybrid in the w — “of ¢ E _ zebrina, eet y whose foliage will be put on in time "of fros t Dut which will be | to the depth of 4 or 0 inches shove the ivea abel 
is not so apt to curl and become erumply as that of removed whenever the weather is mild. They are forcing as the spring advances, will burst through with great 
the latter. Siphocampylus —.— florus, Pentas carnea, — the natural bed in the 2 ground, by | vigour, and the — bloom — the sand 
Abutilon vitifolium, aoe r oe were | removing the soil — the alleys, and supplying its being an excellent preservativ 2 snai 15 Kc. W. 
also er making a very agreeable | place with — wa at the same time placing a thatched | Wood. $ 
display. In the ess al house was a a beautiful new | roof over the top of the bed. 
Sonerila introduced to the Society by its secretary, Dr. Daring the late Ver weather, when little could be Pr toll Gal thee cea ae eater’ ee 
ade It comes, we believe, from the Nilgherry Hills, done in the open ground, all in-door operations have 88 — — ‘a Hex — ps Welling- 
on 1 of dee celta of growth it will been proceeded with; and among other things, straw- a, a coo ohn 6. y i t 
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ition to a small stove, — for spring — . — have been —.— exhibition falling as i DR acer an Newington 
footstalks some 4 inches 2 the neat Melastoma:like wide, held is. ter by three longitudinal bands of tar- . of plants produred I there N. . ‘only, ahs — int 
wares ee . $ bir P Linen A 3 twine, and attached to light square wooden spars, or r * 2 nt on that goca- 
rity connec with it is that the number of supports, at the ends. This kind of protection was 12 Pe hitited by Mr. Rubin TA . 
petals is not Pog some of the flowers having three, | found so useful last spring, both for fruit trees against a nen, 5 1 Bank, Emi ai hl was e — W a 
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to speak conclusively as to the result, yet they looked as the fruit eae —.— the latter has been —— coo ade 28 * 1 eee conta eties, 
ifthis material agreed with them better than anything and equable in temperature, are keeping but very in- | Mr. W. Holme a eet ra kuny aking 3 
in which they have hitherto been grown ; for they were dierent greta of them are being destroyed by a Ek mith, k th wy eg a Bees plant ie Sbe reom ș ay 
3 an ch sia. Gaii “okt wumtbara ot a mith, wit! fiance, Christine, po Salter, Madame Po 
vigorous gro u g ou rs of | fungus, which appears on the skin in the shape of small Regie land, and P varieties grown f 
healthy roots. The piepie was led to turn his black specks, and for which there seems to be no remedy. omer D Mr, Weat rell; D u. * 7 A plant of Glvek 
to this matter Woori rving ar fot newly- | Some kinds are sadly affected by it, while others close | ”** — . 4 —— y s 
rooted more rapidly id on a beside them have rebel. t Morceau, Easter | stw.ds first, closely followed by Mr. 8 à 
cinder-bed * tank than denn any other | Beurré, and Beurré He Deita, appear to have suf- | bloom of Piatus received the 1 te prize a nah —.— inthe room ; 
ogee: — e most, Mr. - — mith. The A ** bloo! y“ sta 
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one toon "of TA ‘ 3 Lobbi e carpenter’s Bim er, and Rowson, “represen oi * 8 J with 
p p. stant were still e tit, ra — that did them credit. J. E 
ingly brilliant, their large Shed searlet flowers FLORICULTURE. 
od mar eee oe jeer umann’s variety, PUR S IA wie — — — ee from Messrs. Cole and Sharp, — 
whic. ê i uea rchfield, near Birmin R. B. Bireham, Bun 
n en ee 1 | Aer e a hme that, ere long, this uns Sui tk ; W. . Gaetani i Drummond and 
2 it —— memain for 1 ese months; and eapi position ap Sakea hig flower * Surling G ' E ETEA CAI a elie Cos 
very showy, yet it is almost indies Cnr —— : E M G. Not worth propagating, Such 
house which is required to be gay in Witter, of M. 8 ahne e hybride, wi ih He gg s er dare enn. wan 5 N , 
> : ec neo eet * fine masses of the old tremely rich crimson belts and spotty on a clear yellow 
fe bt xi 1 2 * e flowers, together with or orange ground, may be found to furnish a ver y Mi iscellaneous. 
11 ＋ ris? or 8 zeylanica, Lantana desirable po ia, “with e een dark tints and Zhe Bourbon Rose.—About 35 years ago, a French 
* oa! j pett 1 n bicolor, and | colours of the Cineraria tribe anng the early spring | botanist, M. Bréon, visited the Island of Bourbon, and 
ce rehi 5 ia Barkeri, meer) a fine| months. I well wender the interest excited on 0 gh und growing in a garden at St. Taser wore se alto- 
ke terminating at our beautiful blossoms; Cym- receiving blooms of Mim Ae & Smi thii” some him. The i 
diù teum, with three flower spikes ; the sweet go, but thi z 
am, WIG years ago, bu iis soon gave way to still more — cupped, and the — r for their 
smelling s axillaria 28 a capital specimen ; On- beautiful varieties. The easy culture of this tribe jsize and smoothness. or botanist did not fail to 
cidium 3 icallosum, a large, clear yellow flavored is proverbial, and yet, at that time, it was a iate this nowveauté, and sending it to Paris it was 
species; and the new Maxillaris pallidifiora, more found that some modes of management succeeded | there multiplied, and scattered abroad; this was the 
ing than showy. A fine spi ant of Zygopetalum | much better than others, the recollection of which led original Bourbon . It is not a species, but an 
Mackayi was just coming into flow about two years ago to apply a somewhat similar accidental hybrid, supposed to have up 
r. me wo ye similar to 
In the great conservatory the large stock of treatment to herbaceous Cal ias, which at the the common China Kose and the red SASONS 
Chrysanthemu ums with which it is at present fur- period just referred to were not so easily managed as | Some of your readers will doubtless remember the Rose 
nished is in full bloom, and well we inspection, | at present. In the late autumn months the most Ile de Bourbon, or Bourbon Jacques—for under both 
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pones, many of ew verre and reud of our Segre and Mimuluses | ted; and it is from this 
y the ere received from small pots into 8 or Rose, variously hybridised, that all 
an Houtte, of Ghent, unfortunately without names, 10 . in a R using open porous rich soil, with have been ob first few years most of 
e are Ab it to cify sts an additional portion of about one-fourth coarse of as 
Plan of t ms in comparatively — clean river sand, as the winter compost, giving original; some were finer, and many more double; one 
Pots an 5 — them wich liquid manure in ató o f| plenty of drainage, and omitting all pressure of of which, Augustine Lelieur, remains a good Rose to 
. N Apr a the rents being well the soil in potting. The ordinary routine being com- this day. The first variation was the production oi 
Ree and furnishe th foliage do n to the pots. ee 5 8 by covering oe entire surface of — kinds of a clear — ere Bone 8 
nt trough = periods, twice or | St. linate and 
poe a rose, at stated or i s is remar meter 
[thre i, expecially. wl as aided by a genial tempe- during the summer ves a from 76° 10 565 5 
‘ich it was my custom to secure to aes and 84° Fahr, A few days in the summer of 1851 itstood 
be summer was unusually hot. 
tilated range of houses, en nally m e 
ing artificial heat throughout the day in mild f e this 8 the night temperature ranges from | 5 
Th r ation of the same to 70° and 76°. During the winter months the day 
as a ment 00 be stated as follows: admitting the plants of | temperatare is from 60° to o Be aay rising with 
Mi Stace blooming i ing, i 
earance. 
‘4 ing, we may just notice assing | the nhouse end the fl s to b 
wa system in the early V gies cüt back, sit hat allowing the plants to rest in | January, 
mi g wi of a cooler frame or pit for a short time, car, pata at are jat . 
* and experiments are now being made with yigorous in the open borders, adding rich soil i 
“One end. Suited for the construction of flues. the weather be moist at the time surface w 
ol of Me = Eines hs glass v wills haw ‘Bove per- c 
i waits Agust: the trellis an ad 
: sith e have. been put a 2 Nach — four 
sand a Fig; and on the north 
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ge plant o f Peidiam C Cattle - more; these „ Peaches, Nectar . ee tee 
was brought out — a Vi ery and nd placed |f following “winter ‘or 5p ting e in the 125 a e b. which a 75 a : l of atment ; 
‘ago. The fruit it, whioh a Il house as described, by placing them i S H i the 3 kinde of Gu va (Psidium pyri- 
ally — r aiid in r $ pe larger f required, using about fruits there are * 
‘tat ate: each and Nectarine a of loam, ar wol and river sand, ſerum, polyearpon, and Cattleyanum, the tw eee 
a. trees from BS and therefore * e * surfaced with t the last material. A cool | being the mrp the we Hed by Apple ol re Dan | 
ee Pena of grow! ing these fruits under close frame or pit will form éir abode t yei winter or gs fruit i ‘ ae, 
they have just been placed. spring, i poang vater oer te at stated | yros 
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