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east winds. It is too late now to make the beds up. (They never do 

 well in hot weather during the height of summer.) The best time 

 to start forming the beds is any time in September, and in succession 

 afterwards, as manure is available any time up to the middle of March 

 following. 



As regards manure, no other than fresh horse manure, with half the 

 strawy litter mixed with it, will do. That from corn-fed animals is the 

 best. Until sufficient manure is collected, say, to make a cartload, it 

 should be spread out thinly and preserved from too much wet. When a 

 cartload has been collected it should be made into a heap and left so until 

 it is well heated, which will be in about nine days. It should then be 

 turned over and left to cool for an hour, when it should be put up again to 

 heat in the same way, for the same time, when it must be turned over 

 again and allowed to cool. It will then be ready to form the bed. 



E. T. C. 



Nectarine ' Lily Baltet.' By Charles Baltet (Bev. Hort. March 1, 

 1906, pp. 112-113 ; coloured plate). — The plate represents a very beautiful 

 nectarine, and the letterpress gives the pedigree, embracing some very 

 interesting facts relating to peaches, nectarines (non-adherent stones) 

 and brugnons (adherent stones), which occurred apparently indiscriminately 

 in the crops and trees concerned. — C. T. D. 



Nepenthes Phyllamphora. By W. B. Hemsley (Bot. Mag-, tab. 

 8067). — Eastern Tropical Asia and Western Polynesia. Nat. ord> 

 Ncpcnthaccac. A vigorous species. Pitchers 3-7 inches long, green and 

 red outside. — G. H. 



Nicandra violaeea. By Henri Lemoine (Bev. Hort. May 1, 1906, 

 pp. 208-9 ; coloured plate). — A very handsome annual which appeared as 

 a seedling in the Botanic Garden of Tours in 1900. The plant is of 

 vigorous habit, somewhat on the lines of physalis, with bright blue 

 flowers, rather mallow-like, two inches across, the seeds occupying a 

 large berry-like fruit, swathed in curiously enlarged sepals mottled with 

 purple. Sow March-April and plant out end May. — C. T. D. 



Nympheas. By C. Giernier (Le Jardin, vol. xx. No. 167, p. 228 ; 

 coloured plate and 4 figs.; August 5, 1906).— An exhaustive article on 

 the employment of nympheas for the ornamentation of gardens. Deals 

 with the botanical characters, types, varieties, culture, &c. of the group of 

 water-lilies. — F. A. W. 



Odontoglossum naevium. By R. A. Rolfe (Bot. Mag. tab. 8097).— 

 Colombia. Nat. ord. Orchidaceae ; tribe Vandeae. An epiphyte 1-1^ 

 foot high ; flowers white, with dark-purple blotches and a bright-yellow 

 disk to the lip ; sepals and petals very acuminate, undulate, 1^ inch long j 

 lip with a broad yellow claw.— -G. H. 



Oidiopsis laurica (Lev.) : An endophytic member of the 



Erysiphaceae. By E. S. Salmon (Arm. Bot. vol. xx. April 1906, 

 pp. 187-199 ; 2 plates). — The author gives a full account of the 



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