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of upright, slender growth, with bluish-green, 
Mimosa-like leaves, the diminutive flowers forming 
b e plant i 
muscosa, loam and fibry at in a 
equal parts will be found a suitable rooting compost, 
V. Ward. 
PLANT NOTES. 
GREVILLEA ROBUSTA. 
Looxine in recently at the Botanic Gardens at 
Cambridge, where visitors will always find much 
fine open ranges of well-furnished glass-houses 
found an unusually fine specimen of this graceful 
plant. Considering the grace and beauty of Grevil- 
the uninitiated ; for though we have such species as 
ene elegantissi ma, &c., few can beat the normal 
species for the extreme gracefulness of its drooping 
flowers. 
For changes of habit or Be colour, the following 
species sare also be grown:—G. alpina (alpestris), 
G. Fosteri, G. A G. fascicula G. 
e G. Manglesi, G. lavendulacea, G. l. 
rosea, and G. glabra. The fine specimen in 
the Botanic Garden, Cambridge, is — — out, 
and has a free head, eet suits admirably. 
Grevilleas also form model rafter plante, — 
es wiih 7 table grace and 
nce, — Aaron 
after cutting, if the simple 8 is tak 
cut the stems — ev — 1 ots be * are = 
water, Cut sprays in and bas in living 
rooms have — been bias ‘fees and ‘beantifal for 
a fortnight or three weeks after 
There should be money in — in bloom in 
Fig. 82. — DABLIA HOUSE AT kOTHESAY, 
leas, of which there are many species, it is rather 
— to find them so little and so seldom 
own, unless for foliage plants ina deere state. And 
yet whe are few greenhouse nts more readily 
m seed or cuttings, if noes at the right 
While for the clothing 
several good ga se 
plants in bloom, unless at Kew, or in other botanical 
dens, 
This is the more surprising as they are about as 
peana grown as a Cytisus. The contrast between the 
wo species may be said to be between glare ran 
3 er — a a thousand 2 5 
This pro- 
pct 
to one or more. 
a small state to the first eee. florist who 
succeeds in putting them on market in quantity, 
in sizes but little taller e 4 market samples of 
Cytisus racemosus, D. T. F. 
BEGONIA SEMPERFLORENS GIGANTEA CARMINEA. 
This is a oor of Begonia semperflorens shown at 
Reading Horticultural Society’s show. Wh nites 
may be ite right name, it is a plant that at is deservi 
of the attention of gardeners. It apt 8 
during the month of March, and is therefore an 
acquisition to the inmates of the ome —— 
The growth is free. The colour of the blossom 
bright rosy-carmine, It tells particularly well rng a 
mass. E 
RANUNCULUS GLACIALIS, 
This rare alpine ens is c into splendid 
bloom in Messrs. Backhouse’s Nurseries, York, some 
sessing as wea as five or . frances 
It is very seldom that one sees this rare unculus 
in euch good condition—indeed, some ae find 
| Bushey Park, the princip 
| spring and su 
| Poron relieve to great advan 
| fat appearance that the last-named Derr would 
. have if planted rg cz euch la 
pa vee: i in keping it alive, At York, 
t does t well-drained raised beds ar to 
ot south ies soil is a pim loam intermixed 
with sand and leaf-mould in equal parts. chief 
point to 8 is, to afford a well- raine . for 
the plants, good loam, and abundance of water 
whilst wth is being made, It will “be in flower 
for four or an weeks to come. W, A. C 
A ere tent ARNEL oe AT BORE ea 
fig. 82 i da house int 
obbie & — which, sane the — 
de voted ox clus! ively to ps raising of Dahlia cuttings, 
It contains during the spring months t 10,000 
ground-roots, and the — of cuttings obtained 
trom these is very large. These are tt 5 in pasi 
same house, but those to be rooted o 
trade and to private growers, 
great padie when raisin 
scale, to have all the stock-plan e — 
arranged so that they are all examined so easily as 
those shown in the house we figure. 
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POLYANTHUS AT HAMPTON 
COURT 
THE fpe to the gardens at Hampton Court this 
. as had an excellent opportunity of observing 
he Seuss of inte selection and cultivation 
we ardener has 
— of the — bedding there without feeling 
admiration for the success with which it h 
been agra out, even though he may be 223 
to admit that the best use has been made of spring- 
flowering aliens and other plants, when he a that 
the majority of the beds are filled mainly by varieties 
of a re md plant, 
Entering the gardens by the Lion e 
garden, which runs by the side of the — is 
well known, * 4 bede being always gay during 
At the present time these beds 
are filled with erioa Polyanthus, among which are 
| — a nt single-flowered crimson Talips, which 
flower, and a few inches agg than the 
the rather 
arge beds, 
lity vd yer! Polyanthus is 
ted in immense 
The atrai 
ake the best type of the whites, and we 
in flower, beside some 
me of the 
Cowslipa, but with pince flowers, — slightly 
less than the white ones, Between these forms 
. =o 
opposite side fo the path a 
east wall o cost and labour in 
filling these with e is na ot course trifling, and 
2 sown out-of-doors in April without 
pi net against birds. 
lings are now just i through the soi! ; they 
as soon as large enough into some 
removed, 
a i into the beds, It is essential that 
