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baking, scorching sun ; the chief point, however, is that the place 

 where they are stood shall be within reach of the water-hose, 

 and there they stand and go on quietly until October comes 

 again, and then — da capo. 



I ought perhaps to have said that the Ericas, Kalmias, 

 Andromedas, and such like have some of the old waste peat from 

 greenhouse Azaleas, Camellias, &c, mixed in with their compost. 

 And note, that where the Holly maggot abounds (and where does 

 it not ?), there you must look your Hollies over most carefully 

 once a week in May and June, or you will soon have no Hollies 

 left. The slight check which the late potting gives them seems 

 to make them less able to resist the maggot, or perhaps makes 

 them sweeter, tenderer, and more juicy to its taste.* 



I will not again apologise for having inflicted myself upon 

 you, My only reason was to keep better material for a more 

 promising occasion ; and as for my subject, though great gar- 

 deners, who have such an expanse of pleasure-ground that they 

 are glad to devote a portion permanently to a shrub garden, may 

 think it not worth the trouble, little ones, who have to make a 

 small patch fulfil all purposes, may perhaps be thus introduced 

 to a method of winter gardening which, whilst it answers prac- 

 tically to perfection, is at the same time most economical ; and 

 great and little gardeners will, I think, alike allow that the 

 method is not a very hackneyed one ; indeed, I doubt whether 

 they can point to any other garden in the kingdom where it is 

 precisely similarly carried out as it is at my little country 

 vicarage in Surrey. 



THE HIPPEASTEUM (AMARYLLIS). 

 By Mr. Harry Veitch, F.R.H.S., F.L.S. 



[Read March 11, 1890.] 



In making the following remarks on the Amaryllis, I wish to 

 commence by saying that it is not my province to deal with the 

 botanical so much as with the practical side of the subject. For 



* Since this paper was written, I have fancied that perhaps Hollies 

 would do better if only repotted every alternate year, and I am giving the 

 idea a trial. — W. W. 



