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BOUVARDIA LONGIFLORA. 



There are several very pretty varieties of Bouvai-dias, but I wish, to draw attention to 

 this on account of its white wax-like flowers, and fragrance — good qualities, which make it 

 a very desirable plant for small vases for the drawing-room, and equally useful for cutting 

 and the making up of bouquets. 



The plant is rather difficult to propagate, as indeed are all the genus ; but having an old 

 plant or two, with well-ripened wood, a stock may be obtained in the spring, by taking off 

 the young shoots when about an inch in length, which will strike well enough in sand under 

 a bell-glass, and plunged in a briskish heat. When sufficiently rooted and hardened off, they 

 should go into " thumbs," potting them in turfy peat and sand, with good drainage, and 

 when these pots become full of roots transfer them to 4 and o-ineh pots, for blooming. The 

 young plants will require a warmish pit when the temperature averages about 60°, and to he 

 kept pretty near the glass to prevent drawing. When they commence growing, pinch out the 

 point of the shoot to encourage their breaking laterally, and as the season advances plenty 

 of air and light should be given, taking care that the atmosphere is rather damp than other- 

 wise. If not kept near the glass the plants are sure to become straggling weakly things ; and 

 as their beauty will entirely depend on being kept dwarf and bushy this must be attended 

 to, for they will not bear stopping oftcner than onco, the flowers being what are called ter- 

 minal, or produced at the top of each shoot, and require these to be tolerably strong and well 

 ripened to produce blooms ; but with good management you may frequently obtain from 

 three to five heads of bloom on spring-struck plants ; still they must be well grown to do 

 this. Towards the middle of August the plants may be more fully exposed by taking off tho 

 sashes entirely during the early part of the day; this treatment will apparently stop their 

 growth, and induce the formation of the clusters of buds, which during the autumn months 

 will be produced freely in proportion as the shoots are strong and have been duly exposed 

 for ripening. We have never very successfully managed the plant as a specimen, its ten- 

 dency to grow in a loose straggling way cannot be overcome without much trouble, and 

 therefore I never keep them beyond the second year. 



There are several beautiful varieties of Bouvardia longiflora, some of them having a 

 much better habit than the species. L. carnea, a delicate flesh colour, and very sweet, and 

 Brilliant and Hogarth are scarlet and of good habit ; while L. Laura, Oriana, and delicata, 

 have rose-coloured flowers, — these are all worthy of cultivation as distinct varieties. The 

 treatment they require is precisely that given above for longiflora, but these latter make 

 nicer specimens than that variety. F, A. Iv. 



THE WARDEN'S GARDEN AND THE WARDEN'S GARDENER. 



During a long enforced sojourn in the city of Winchester, which lasted through much 

 of the last summer and autumn, I renewed my acquaintance with the dear old College at 

 which I spent seven years of my boyhood, and where I acquired no mean portion of 

 whatever learning I have since possessed. The facilities for improvement, however, were 

 not " in my time" what they are now ; and few, if any, of the older educational establish- 

 ments have so wisely and so manfully grappled with the' prejudices of centuries, nor profited 

 so largely by the experience of modern energy as Winchester College. The system, the 

 meals, the playground, the dormitories, the buildings themselves, are changed and still 

 changing, and all for the better. The portion, however, within its precincts with which 

 alone I have now to do is the Warden's garden. 



It is of considerable size, consisting of about three acres ; and though the College 

 grounds are in the lowest part of the city, and consequently are flat, it has great capabilities. 

 It is walled in on all sides with substantial walls of stone, brick, and flint rubble, having the 

 Warden's house and part of the College on the north-east angle, and, though of no exact 

 regular figure, is nearly as broad as it is long. Through it from east to west, close to the 

 house and College, runs an arm of the Itchen, cool and rapid as the Itchen in all its branches 

 is, and full of large trout. Crossing this from the back door of the Warden's house by a 

 rural bridge, you come upon a handsome well-kept lawn, much broken up by beds on the 

 north side, or that nearest the house, and by superb Plane and other trees surrounded by 

 seats over its whole extent. This part is especially the pleasure garden, though there are 



more beds of flowers besides several clumps and borders in the other compartment an 



improvement introduced by the present gardener ; for the garden is divided into two unequal 

 portions by a serpentine hedge interspersed with magnificent trees, the eastern or smaller 

 portion being the lawn, which the late Warden, who died last year universally regretted 

 permitted to be used for the horticultural shows, in which he took much interest. 



A gravel walk belts the entire garden, and, by disappearing behind the trees at the end 

 of the lawn and not returning down the hedge that divides it from the fruit garden, adds to 



