JANUARY. 



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attributes to dressing what only and entirely belongs to superior cultivation. 

 In the cultivation of plants for the production of fine blooms, the most import- 

 ant element is to select the right bud at the right time ; herein consists the 

 whole secret of producing the fine blooms we now see exhibited. 



The following are the best of the new ones as far as I have seen, for the 

 coming year; — 



Duchess of- Wellington (Salter). — Finely incurved ; equally desirable as 

 Lady Harding. 



Carissima (Salter). — Incurved white ; will I think prove one of the best. 



General Slade (Salter).' — Very distinct; a decided improvement upon, and 

 same colour as Two-coloured Incurved. 



Cherub (Salter). — Broad petal, well incurved, colour golden fawn. 



Dido (Salter). — Colour pure white, very double shell petal, apparently first- 

 rate for specimens. 



Sparkler (Salter). — A very pretty flower of the Auguste Mie class. 



Lord Ranelagh (Salter). — Colour reddish-fawn, broad petal well incurved, 

 and very good habit. 



Le Trouvere (Barthese). — Delicate peach, fine broad incurved petal; a de- 

 cided improvement upon Miss Kate. 



Louis Barthese (Barthese). — Beautiful crimson red, broad petal, and very 

 finely incurved. 



Lady St. Clair (Downie, Laird & Laing). — Clear white, a very fine and 

 distinct sport of Queen of England. 



Striped Queen (Downie, Laird & Laing). — Another of the many sports of 

 Queen of England ; colour white, prettily striped pink. 



Madame Heyne (Bull). — A very desirable white Pompon in the way of 

 Mrs. Turner. 



Frampton Park Nursery, Hackney. W. Holmes. 



SMALL POTS versus LARGE POTS 



IN THE CULTIVATION OE THE PINE APPLE. 



It is now a pretty well established fact in horticulture that Pine Apples 

 can be produced with greater ease and certainty, and equal in size, when cul- 

 tivated in moderately-sized pots, than when the largest are adopted. However 

 difficult or otherwise it may be to account for this, it is, nevertheless, being 

 proved in daily practice. So far as my own experience goes I find larger 

 Pines produced in 10 and 11-inch pots than in others of a larger size. At 

 present there are in one of the fruiting Pine-pits here a quantity of fruit ; and 

 I find on examination that, without exception, the finest fruit are in 10 and 

 11-inch pots. Some of the Pines in these sizes range from 7 lbs. to nearly 

 9 lbs. weight ; while others in pots of larger dimensions are not yielding such 

 fine fruit. Similar results have occurred under my own notice several times, 

 and the practice and testimony of other growers are corroborative of the same. 



The plants to which reference is made at present are precisely the same 

 in age ; and their treatment, with the exception of their being in pots of 

 various sizes, has been the same also. 



Granting the correctness of the foregoing premises, if it may be termed 

 so, there are other important points besides superior fruit gained by the 

 adoption of small pots. Many of the operations connected with the culti- 

 vation of Pines in pots are rendered much less laborious, and the expenditure 

 for pots, soil, and plunging material is considerably reduced. The return 



