HABROTHAMNUS CORYMBOSUS. 
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that it tends to keep the plants cooler, and 
this imparts sturdiness and vigour. 
Lettuces and all kinds of salads under cover 
must be kept dry. 
Mint, and other herbs which die down to 
the ground, should be potted, to be placed in 
hot beds, when required for use. 
Mushroom beds, if not made before, may 
be made now, but should have been made in 
September. 
Onions. — Sow a few in rich ground, and 
clear any of the autumn-sown ones. 
Parsley. — Sow any that is in good order 
for use, and throw litter over when there is any 
indication of a frost, 
Peas. — Sow at the beginning and at the 
end of the month ; earth up those which are 
above ground, on the shady side, that the 
ridge may protect them from cold winds. 
Plants for seeding. — Towards the end 
of the month plant out Beet, Cabbages, or Sa- 
voys, Carrots, Parsnips, and Onions, for seed. 
Select handsome specimens of each. 
Rhubarb and Sea Kale, may be forced by 
covering with a pot, and surrounding it with 
hot dung. 
Small Salad*, Radishes, &c, if wanted 
before their season, may be planted, or sown 
in hot-beds, or in the ground, covered with a 
hand glass. 
Spinach. — Keep clear from weeds, and pick 
the well-grown leaves only for use. Sow also, 
for succession, in drills, or broad cast. 
Winter crops. — Hoeing between the rows, 
and earthing up round the stems, should be 
attended to in mild, dry weather. 
THE FRUIT GARDEN AND ORCHARD. 
Trees of all kinds may be planted in open, 
favourable weather, if the ground be dry 
enough to work well. If the soil be good and 
moderately deep, there will be no occasion to 
dung it. Plant high in the ground ; the col- 
lar of the root should be fairly 'above the 
ground ; deep planting is often fatal, and 
always very injurious. 
Gooseberries and Currants. — These may 
be planted in quarters by themselves, or 
in a row across a. garden ; it is a bad plan 
to have them straggling about a garden with- 
out order or regularity. They should be 
pruned also this month. 
Raspberry canes should also be planted 
in rows, four feet by three, or thereabouts. 
Espalier fruit trees should be pruned and 
fastened where they are loose ; all the branches 
which grow outwards from the trellis, and 
will not range well, should be cut away 
Wall fruit trees should be pruned and 
trained before this, but if not yet done, must 
be done immediately. 
Pruning generally, among standards as 
well as wall trees, should bedone, if not already 
performed. 
HABROTHAMNUS CORYMBOSUS. 
(Endlichcr.) 
THE CORYMB-FLOWERED HABROTHAMNUS. 
This plant is an erect, much -branched 
shrub, with somewhat herbaceous stems, 
and alternate, large, ovate-lanceolate leaves, 
attached to the stems by a shoot -stalk. 
Towards the ends of the main branches smaller 
ones are produced, each of which is termi- 
nated by a corymb of flowers. The flowers 
are funnel-shaped, gradually widening upwards, 
then contracting, having a pitcher-shaped 
appearance ; the limb is divided into live 
long narrow segments, which become reflexed. 
These flowers, which ore jjroduced in pro- 
fusion, are of a deep rose colour, and very 
ornamental. 
This species is a native of Mexico ; and 
lias flowered in the Royal Botanic Garden of 
Kew, to which it was sent by Mr. Low, of 
the Clapton nursery. It is a plant of very 
rapid growth, requiring only the protection of 
the green-house in the winter season, and 
in summer thriving freely in the open air. 
Plants of this nature require to be well 
attended to when young, to cause them to 
produce a sufficient number of shoots to form 
a handsome plant ; and they ought not to be 
planted in a soil and situation too much con- 
ducive to vigorous growth; for rapid growing 
plants of this half-fleshy character are found 
to thrive better when the development of them 
is not too freely induced by stimulants of this 
kind. A large plant of this kind would doubt - 
leSS iimke a good display in the flower garden, 
as a single plant ; and when so required, it 
