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arora er ha aarda dongs i a 
a nice open po vos A in e a Fao not 
mean to say * ee hot grow á greeni use tem- 
perature, erg t grows Boag ge the stove ; vet those 
eep out frost, 
coat by all m means try their skill with this singularly 
interesting little ar I have a beautiful pan of it 
16 inches 
te 
larly to their plants p thë syringe, will iñ 
time be rewarded with a gi share of success. 
-ssonty Payne, Brook House Gardens, Fulwood, 
Preston 
arge Gourd.—My gardener has just mene 
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f. It weighs cir- 
oira 6 feet; depth through, 17 to 18 inches. It 
is grown m seed of his own, produced by crossing 
bed. On less than 2 perches of land he has five or 
ere these Gourds, but this one is considerably the 
gest. F. Fa The Chantry, Frome. 
Hoya carnosa Fruiting. —Has Hoya carnosa 
been known to bear fruit in this country? I have 
been a , that its frui is 
oa cel Baca belo pn op 
I have a plant i 
j bearing a capsule 
e y ripe) containing pach i twenty seeds, 
Lr ad mo has apne in acool conservatory for the past 
rump, Woodside, Wootton, Tele of 
Wight. [\ [Very ae Eps.] 
Pampas Grass.—Out of the numbers of 
grass 
is one of those subjects which does amply compensate 
for liberal treatment, as b imensi 
years into p s of rich compost, and 
the slightest protection. No. ce 
the outside of the same 
jin whic 
toch I s 
lant assume the saga palih form 
large s nd perfectly erect, some being 10 feet 6 
i hi At pm. present time these ts, with 
their feathery pl of snowy whiteness, combin 
e po y m blades of symmetrical propor- 
tions, renders them objects of admiration, and worthy 
of a place, in my estimation, more conspicuously 
situated r that which I selected in the vegetable 
garden. G. 7. Miles, Wycombe Abbey. 
 Pelargoniums v. Geraniums. — — of th 
en’s catalogues just issued still 
word Geraniums, then Zonal cate vane How is 
this ? They are in general correct in regard to such 
` prominent headings. Can it be that so little distinc- 
tion exists between the Crit? Are o the Stork’s- 
bill as to be really undistinguishable ? Opus. 
s Heavy copo of potatoe. I think it ee be 
have. W. H. Fitch, Kew 
The Hardiness of Passiflora ccrulea.—I 
have a plant here on a south-east wall occu pying a 
Space of from 8 to 10 ~ square, and which has been 
bloom for some still continues. It is 
(e) 
mi en bout 
ung ge mpm A a 
The Rose Controversy. —The “ 
er subject seems to be drawing into 
mpass. 
‘ argument” J practise or advocate it, Although the grower 
om oe sea Ape at ' 
k formerly ce ety the opinion ‘* that it with manure, deluges it at times with water, 
Rose practices to get the strong ; 
the plants might be, are Bot ore veo À so valuable | necessary to produce large blooms, it by no means 
as plants wh otherwise.” I 
ë met with | follows that the grower who does not compete for 
selects l 
nothing in Sia eon troversy A shake i opinion. In | p “the worst possible soil,” and in other 
week’s 
the comes. mh to controvert it iñ last 
Chronicle, new grow und is take nh up 
rizes 
Gardeners’ | matters rushes to opposite extremes. Is there no 
by starting from standing ground between the system of cultivation 
the point of ‘‘ fine blooms ” instead of ** prize blooms.” | which produces gorged plants with more sap and pith 
The case there assumed as the “‘ negatives” in which | than wood and fibre and that which produces starved 
“the worst possible soil is selected”—‘dug not | plants? No one who reasons can doubt that the 
FIG, 96.—AMANITA MUSCARIA, 
ly ”—tfas manure ous none is given | health and constitution of a plant, as of an individual, 
either directly or indirectly” — “water, however | may be in \jured by starvation as well as = pasane > 
much acs oe eae "and ially the | but this is a curious argument to advance vance against 
ng sorts are encourag: throws no new | healthy and moderate feedi 
or valuable light on the subj pais it is only an wer animals s gl glutton: uttony, but wi 
case opposed to actual facts. If th i eni accuse those 
imaginary 
‘‘the negatives of the prac 
a are uyi imaginary negatives, havı 
in fact, are things ix 
