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the wall. The posts were set perpendicularly in the into a little point below the apex ; the outer face of 

 centers of the holes, and blocked in position with bits of two of them was green, another was green on one side 

 stone, when the holes were two-thirds filled with cheap of the midrib and salmon-red on the other, while the 

 cement-mortar, made of one part cement to six parts remaining two were salmon-red with the exception of 

 sand. Coarse gravel was then poured in, filling the hole the midrib only; the inner face of all was salmon-red. 

 until the mortar ran out at the top. Result : The post The petals were ovate-oblong, broader than the sepals, 

 became fixed in a solid block of puddingstone, 8x18 but of the same length, very blunt and of a deeper color 

 inches, and presented a face of 18 inches by 32 to the — almost scarlet. The corona was reduced to two rows 

 outward pressure of the roof, instead of the narrow one of small white tubercles, variegated with violet at the 

 of the post itself. The method is valuable in setting base, and the throat was white. The filaments and style 

 gate-posts, and not too expensive to use in ordinary were flesh-colored, the anthers yellow and the one-sided 

 fence, where the holes are but little larger than posts. stigma green. The leaves were deeply three-lobed, 

 It fits the post securely and perfectly to the surrounding leathery, deep green above, pale and finely downy be- 

 soil, and if the bottom of the post and hole are slightly neath, moderate in size, and the lobes were lanceolate 

 larger or irregular, prevents heaving by frost. — L. B. and finely serrate. The plant has been grown in a 10- 

 Pierce, i7i Mew York Tribune. inch pot plunged in the ground against a south wall, and 



in this position Mr. Smythe says it has been flow- 

 ering with great freedom ever since July, and is 

 quite distinct from anything else he has. The 

 large flowers stand out conspicuously from the 

 foliage, and are all the more prominent owing to 

 the small size of the leaves. — Gardening World- 

 Modern Fruit-Rooms.— The most approved 

 method is to have the building wholly above 

 ground, and to double or treble the walls. In 

 climates where the temperature does not go much 

 below zero a well-constructed double wall, double 

 doors, and double window-sash would be quite 

 safe. For greater security, supposing the walls 

 to be wood, the inside faces of the double wall 

 Should be lined with felt. The roof should be 

 also double, with provision for a ventilator if it 

 should be found necessary to use one. This may 

 not be required if windows are so arranged that 

 there can be a current of air passed through now 

 and then. Air should not be given except when 

 the temperature outside equals that within ; other- 

 wise there will be a troublesome condensation of 

 moisture, which is what we should try to avoid. 

 The interior should have as many shelves as can 

 be conveniently placed, on which the fruit is to 

 be spread, and so arranged as to be easy of access 

 for handling and observation. The fruit may be 

 several courses thick on the shelves, even heaped 

 without injury, provided we secure the best con- 

 Tacsonia Smythiana. ditions for preserving it ; hay may be placed over 



the fruit if there is danger of frost penetrating, 

 Tacsonia Smythiana. — Our illustration represents a but this should be avoided if possible, because a fruit- 

 new tacsonia raised by William Smythe, who tells us that house should be a show-house equal to a greenhouse of 

 he raised it from T. manicata crossed with T. Exoniensis. pretty flowers; and indeed there are few more beautiful 

 The three bracts were I V inches long and united for the sights to which to invite friends than a well-ordered 

 greater part of their length into a tube split down one fruit-house, with every variety on its own separate shelf 

 side, with the free tips ovate-lanceolate. The splitting and presenting to the beholder the most glorious reasons 

 of the tube, reminding one of a datura, might have been for its existence. — OZ/zc Farmer. 



accidental in the specimen. The calyx-tube was cylin- Variegated Oleasters.— The leaves of the Japanese 

 drical, slightly widened at the base, and a little twisted species {^Elceagmis pungens) are oblong, wavy at the mar- 

 upward. The flower was about three inches across, with gins, leathery, deep green above and more or less cov- 

 oblong, obtuse sepals 1^34 inches long and 34 -inch broad, ered with scurfy scales above or almost naked, while the 

 slightly keeled on the back, with the midrib running out under surface is silvery from a dense layer of small 



