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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
vided with but little trouble, and without having to make a havoc 
amongst the flowers in the conservatory. The pans may of course 
be used an indefinite number of times, and dressed up difi‘erently 
each time. Small tin tubes, for holding water, should be inserted at 
regular distances apart in the pans, as the flowers can then be more 
satisfactorily arranged, and they remain in a fresh condition a much 
longer period than when they are inserted into the soil. Large 
shallow pans of earthenware, provided they are well furnished, will 
be useful for the sideboard or for side tables when dressed with 
flowers ; but they are too heavy-looking for the dinner-table. The 
epergnes may also be filled w ith wet sand, and covered with moss or 
Selaginella in a careful manner. 
Amongst the plants producing flowers suitable for gaslight enter- 
tainments, the following may be mentioned as worthy of special 
notice for the Christmas season Scarlet Oeraniums, Chinese Primu- 
las, Camellias, Salvias, Euphorbia jacquiniceflora, Poinseitia pulcher- 
rima, Gesnera zebrina, and G. exonienses, Azalea amcena, and Erica 
hyemalis. The most useful of the ornamental-leaved plants are 
Pracoena Cooperi, P. terminalis, Croton angustifolium, C. imdulatum, 
C. Weismanni, and one or two others. A number of Palms are also 
of great value, especially those wuth light pinnate fronds, such as 
Areca lutescens, Ghamcedora graminifoUa, Evderpe edulis, and Kentia 
Canterburyana. 
OX MIXED PLANTATIOXS. 
BY JOnif MOEEISOX, 
Coneypark Nursery, Stirling. 
For this Essay the Author was awarded the Medium Gold Medal of the nighland and 
Agricultural Society of Scotland. 
Ia' Two Paets. — Past II. 
such a plantation as that described in the preceding 
number were formed, the valley beneath should be 
bordered off, in a circuitous winding line, with birch, 
hawthorn in variety, willow, purple beech, purple syca- 
more, Acer negundo variegata, and scarlet oak. These 
might be massed according to circumstances, while at suitable inter- 
vals single specimens might be inserted, which wmuld preserve a view 
here and there of the braes and cliffs ; while along the same line a fine 
undergrowth could be given of ivy {Hedera helix), the honeysuckle 
or woodbine {Lonicera of sorts), sweet clematis or virgin’s bower 
{Clematis flammula), Mahonia aquifolia, etc. The opposite side, to 
the west and south, on same level, ought to be made the counterpart 
of the margin now described along the drive ; while the knoll 
tapering towards St. Leonards should be massed with birch and 
larch, which might be extended to the plantation ending at the 
pinetum. In finishing in this manner we have the most beautiful 
