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Ganymede, yellow, splashed with purple 
Gracchus 
pact, floriferous when established ; very good 
Jacquesiana, red-bronze and crimson 
Leopoldine, creamy-yellow апа purple; very 
L'Innocenza, white, very delicate and lovel 
Madame Chereau, wbite, barred and Ec with 
violet. 
adame Pacquitte, red-pur 
Pallida dalmatica, 1 EMT 
P. odoratissima ней pee heavily 
up 
racemosa (Ware), lavender-blue; charmin 
Ri distinct, This plant has a branching habit, ud 
Fia. 48, —KALANCHOE CARNEA: 
ME clustering about it. Ought it not to be 
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Pluvialis, bluish-lilac 
Queen of May, r rosy-lilae (charming), almost 
Victorine, white, splashed with purple, falls violet- 
1 
purp. 
Victory (Veitch), like Victorine, but without the 
splashes on the standards. 
Virgile, clouded bronze and reddish-lilac ; free. 
Virginie, silvery-grey or mauve and reddish- 
violet. 
The colours are but roughly indicated to describe 
(Ware), lemon and purple. Plant com- . 
There is a wasting disease which these Irises are 
remedy will not always answer, but in case a valuable 
plant is attacked it is worth a trial. 
I occasionally water my plants when coming into 
blossom ifthey look as if they lacked moisture, but 
never after they have bloomed. The plants may be 
oved in spring, though I prefer to lift them when 
m 
the blossom stems have begun to decay. North- 
Faster, 
FLOWERS ROSY-LILAC, TWENTY INCHES HIGH, 
FORESTRY. 
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RENOVATING GAME PRESERVES,‏ 
eri ‚ as р. 9,‏ 
January 1, seeds of the Broom and Blackberry may‏ 
neces 
sitates and fencing for two or 
three tree pene a de least, the patches of ground where 
the seeds are 
Fuchsia d readily raised from cuttings, 
orms large bushes that in districts where 
visible from drives and walks, and must confess that 
not only as one of our most ornamental plants, but 
likewise as a dry, thick ен for ground game, this 
Fuchsia is very suitable. y soil of ordinary 
quality would seem to suit its wants well, for here 
in dampish loam—a peaty co piri in mort 
pure gravel, it thrives well, and attains а 
fe planting place the pits pretty close л. a 
tal 
T aa they will be in as good trim for planting 
out in a new ааг за as if they had been kept in the 
cuttings, have now 
ason not at all unfrequently attain to 
4 feet and 5 feet in height, and flower PUMA By 
n the plants to ed, they form 
large bare stems fully 12 feet in height, and which, 
althou ell 
suited for the double purpose of beauty 
ncy from the hard frosts 
as passed unscathed 
that it might more commonly cultivated 
further north than it is at the present time. 
р 
and out is а grand sigh 
blooming season. readily enough propagated— 
for cuttings root Pass while by division of the roots 
а speedily got up batch of а hundred or two plants 
is easy enough—it may be planted in quantity in the 
oodland, where underwood as well as an orna- 
Only plant the 
f w of, and in such situations will never 
do credit either to itself as a free-flowering subject 
or to the planter. 
e no particular fancy, of which I am 
its shade as ever I did a hare or rabbit on a dry, 
gorsey bank, or amongst tussocks ЕА ће driest and 
warmest of woodland grasses, D. Webster, Pen- 
rhyn Castle, Bangor, 
KALANCHOE CARNEA. 
w enabled to la 
can species. 
id 
flowers themselves are pink and sweetly scented, and 
the plant will probably become a favourite for general 
cultivation and for market use, especially so as it is 
in full flower in the winter season. 
The flower-heads shown by Messrs. Veitch were 
by some mistaken for the plant itself, and owing to 
that circumstance the growt assumed to be of 
a dwarf character. We believe we are right in stat- 
ing the average height of the shrub to be under two 
eet, and of corresponding bushiness, 
