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of buff-pink. Noticeable - for. its — stigmata 
and tufted yellow anthers.” I think this descrip- 
tion accords with H. n higer maximus or altifolius. 
883 I took considerable pains to trace out the 
origin of deve Hellebore, which has d so widely 
establi ; and your 
n in your 
October to December, and there 
ry ее AR ptit given at. p. 692 o 
кар Ў is sr der Mr. 
Tels; which is 
ely probable. I have ены plants of this 
"un Hellebore from iola, and they agree exactly 
ith our garden plants of Н. n. maximus. William 
Brockhank, Brockhurst, Didsbury, Jan. 8. 
‘THE PEACH AED NECTARINE 
AS WALL TREES. 
‘(Concluded from p. 19.) 
PLANTING THE Trees.—In planting the trees on 
а border prepared in this way, it may be 
and plenty of such trees are to be found in any 
good nursery. 
Sorts то PLANT: 
The trees I would plant, if space could be found 
ould be :— 
early American kind; Hale’s 
8 
ut 
2a 
planting the trees, which ought to be 
December or during mild weather in 
, place round the bole of re Aim and as far 
as the roots extend гагат of d ed manure. 
It із best not to nail the young СА to the wall 
until the soil has had time to settle do I have 
seen wall trees partly torn out of the ground o 
to their being nailed to the wall before the soil P 
which the border was composed had had time to settle 
down. 
PRUNING THE т TREEs, 
eu trees may be in February by cutting 
he shoots to pais of their length, an 
always be careful to cut to a triple чет 
'The centre bud of the aots will be a leaf-bud ; the 
other two are usuall ossom-buds. When en 
shoots are е sail into en wall the two bottom ones 
are placed in nearly a horizontal position, the er 
one in a vertical position, the other two on each side 
at uniform distances from each other, and from the 
The fan system of 
d 
e and bottom bit 
at 
rooted, | 
tha 
and Nectarine trees is to produce too much rather 
and it is very undesirable 
в young wood should be laid in during the 
summer months to be cut out in in the autumn. 
Lay in just as much young w ge as is resi Ws be 
required and no more, as the more space s to 
levelope its leaves-so much the better ~~ it be 
ipened. The m 
spider and aphis. It may be necessary to syringe 
with soft-soapy water to which has been added some 
owers of e to kee ер the leaves free from 
mildew and aphis, J. Doug 
THE FLOWER GARDEN, 
PREPARING THE SUMMER BEDS. 
Sucu as are intended for the reception of Canna 
Ricinus, and other ME i plants, should 
receive special preparatio 
ofbrickbats or other rough material to secure per- 
fect te as w up а liberal supply of vr in 
the growing season it is useless to attempt growing 
such; and, unless it m а ready exit from t ic 
it lowers the ерун The soil must also be in 
good h marker: the leaf e Erien 
gives nobility to their character 
SEEDS, 
The earliest opportunity should now be gr to 
necessary flower seeds from the d shops, 
kinds etimes apy out 
early, and then disappointment is the result. A good 
packet of each of the varieties of East Lothian Stocks 
should be got at once and sown in boxes. The Wall- 
flower-leaved, má emen crimson varieties are exceed- 
ingly fine. Place the boxes in a genial heat of about 
paringly. Аз soon as fitt 
boxes, and keep them growing on. : These will мет 
up the succession, after those wintered in pots are 
over. Another batch should be sown in the middle 
of March, which will flower quite intothe winter. We 
have а quantity in flower in pots now in a tem- 
perature of 50°, 
GENERAL Worx, 
Additional (€ tion may be necessary for Car- 
nations, Picotees, and Pansies, in жаныра exposed 
to frost winds, ot not of such a n 
ngement in 
den. There is no blue бона plant I 
know that can soe it in beauty. 
the flower bai was decided 
carry out the arrangement. any are short 
ed stock in store, s be те! їпа iue extra 
warmth, to induce h, when the propagation of 
ver varieties should pa undertaken as speedily as 
ous 
"ny Box edgings 
amount of trouble it cdd to keep such edgi 
straight, as every severe frost lifts them out of their 
often struck paser the quantity of dead 
garde 
d 
other edging plants are objected to, the small- 
са Ivies are worthy of trial. They make charm- 
attacks of red-spider. Make the edge level, 
and then set а line on each side of the s pace allotted 
epe It is not nécessary that чер plants be 
k them аны) in. the матчі, and secure 
of the lines 
mith pegs. Ifthe margin is to be 4 inem wi 
s will be enough; if more 
any o^ above the line. 
Luton Hoo 
A HYBRID POTATO, 
T time since we gave an illustration 
striped Celanthe, to show how the mixed elem 
more striking in the tubers themselves th e 
in our illustration, We shall look with great inte terest 
to the future development of these tubers, x 
А DECADE ee end АТАХ. . 
Dee 5р р. 42.) 
ит festuin, n. hyd. —Fronds glabrous, er 
green а d, dr rooping, triangular acum id 
the basal pinnie elongate ; pin næ deltoid, sprea 
crowded, 
or r rhomboid-cuneate, larger towards their ext 
ties, the terminal ones symmetrically or une 
wedge-shaped, bipartite, the divisions deeply | 
and mostly sterile in one specimen, the 
on their anterior edge and freely soriferous; 
en d flabellate, venules free ; 
reniform, placed in a sinus of the loba p 
by smooth entire indusia; stipes and rachides 
lish ebeneous black. 
his from the same sowing of 1 
— pos x amabile) as A. Daddsii, 
ed as an A. cuneatum which 
x 
А. cuneatum—that is to say enlarged i 
sions of the 
species may by high cultivation be grown 
MENT larger size than that here recorded 
gr lab ; pinnate, pinn® 
cending, triangular, stipitate, the lower 0068 
st. ut inch ngth, the upper 
gradually shorter; basal pinnules ovate ; 
very small, shortly stipitate, lily iy hele 
the 
