THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
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VEEOXICAS OUT OF DOORS. 
N the interesting paper styled “ Beautiful Trees for 
Kind Climates,” in the March nninber of the Flohal 
World, amongst other plants mentioned as living out 
of doors all the year round in mild climates are 
Veronicas. Having grown a good number I hope I 
may be excused taking up space in the Floral World on this 
subject. 
Every season I have bedded out a good number of these plants, 
both the common blue and the variegated, as they make a nice 
background to a ribbon border. They were put out with the bedding 
plants, and when autumn came they were lifted, cut back, and put 
in pits or under the stages till spring, when they were trimmed and 
potted off in a mixtiu’e of leaf-mould, loam, and sand to start into 
growth and be fit to turn out with the rest of the plants when the 
bedding time came round. 
While away from home last summer I happened to see in a 
number of gardens large plants of Veronicas which must have been 
out of doors many years, so I determined to try some and see how 
they would stand out here ; so when it came to the time for lifting 
such plants as would not remain out of doors I left some of my 
Veronicas still in the ground ; they continued to bloom freely up till 
the first week in February (on New Tear’s day I cut a large bunch 
of their flowers), and, I believe, would till now only the last frost 
has nipped the very young growth, but only so as to check the 
blooms, not in any way interfering with the health of the plants ; 
so I shall leave the most of mine out altogether. Some people, 
I believe, do leave them out during the winter covered with mats , 
or cut down and coal ashes put over them, but mine were in no way 
protected. A. H. 
TIp'per Norwood. 
HOW TO UTILIZE OLD BULBS. 
BY WILLIAM JOnNSOH. 
T is very generally supposed by amateur and other culti- 
vators that old hyacinths, and other Dutch bulbs, are of 
little service after they have done flowering ; but, from 
personal experience, I can state that this supposition is 
altogether w'rong, and that they can be made to serve a 
very useful purpose. Acting upon the advice you gave to the 
readers of the Floral World some few years since, I have each 
season taken great care of the bulbs, and planted them out in the 
flower-garden, and the results are most satisfactory. 
In my garden are two rather large borders filled with old- 
fashioned flowers of various kinds, mostly selected from your lists, 
and they certainly present a most attractive appearance throughout 
