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GARDENING MEMORANDA FOR JANUARY. 
Hero, Duchess of Rutland, Marginata, Candi- 
date, Mrs. Montgomerie, Titian, Tom Pinch, 
White Sergeant, Goliah. 
Azalea Indica. — Gledstanesii, Variegata, 
Praestantissima, Splendens, Lateritia, Murray- 
ana, Danielsiana. 
Camellia Japonica. — Duchesse d'Orleans, 
Laudrether, Henry Favre, Marchioness of 
Exeter, Countess of Orkney, Palmer's Per- 
fection, Queen Victoria, Amabilis, Le Mar- 
chand, Bisanthian, Causwelliana, Palmeri. 
Ranunculuses. — Alexis, Attraction, Creon, 
Delectus, Edgar, Felix, Herbert, Chimpanzee, 
Grace Darling, Lady Sale, Mrs. Glenny, Lie- 
tor, Nina, Kuma, Prince of Wales, Splendour, 
Zobeide, Mrs. Bragg, Richard Hardy, Sir 
Philip Broke, Talisman, Nicander, Pertinax, 
Vendome, Victor. 
Geraniums. — Miller's Distinctus, Volgius ; 
Beck's Patrician, Hebe's Lip, Compactum, 
Centurion, Cruenta, Cavalier, Cassandra, Gu- 
lielma, Gustavus, Honora, Rosamond; Hoyle's 
Sunset, Mount Etna, President ; Gaines's 
Rising Sun; Lynes's Fire- fly; Foster's Celia, 
Armada, Pericles, Painted Lady, Paragon, 
Satellite. 
Cinerarias. — Nobilis, Colossus," Con- 
queror, Delicata, Sir Robert Peel, Brilliant, 
Beauty of Wonham, Standard, Vernalis, Ma- 
ritima, Attraction, Coelestina, Bijou, Lady 
Prudhoe, Azurea alba, Slough Rival, Anna, 
Maid of Orleans. 
Rhododendrons. — Arboreum, Alta-cle- 
rense, Campanulatum, Catawbiense, Caucasi- 
cum, Nobleanum, Glennyanum, Cunninghamii, 
Russellianum, Tigrinum, Campanulatum Hy- 
bridum, Javanicum. 
Calceolarias. — Masterpiece, Puissant, Ju- 
lia, Lady Anne Charteris, Kinghornii, Em- 
peror, Oscar, Lord Hardinge, Marmion, Mar- 
quetry, Matchless, Orlando. 
Roses of singular habit. — Curled- 
crested Moss, New^crested Moss, Crimson- 
crested Moss, Milkmaid China, Weeping 
Rose, Willisonii, Moss de Meux Minima, Vic- 
toria's Bridal Wreath, Tom Thumb, Garland, 
Blotched-leaved Bengal, Mousseau presque 
partout. 
Chrysanthemums. — Campestroni, Formo- 
sum, Goliah, Princess Maria, Clustered Yel- 
low, Annie Salter, Two-coloured incurved, 
Aristides, Lucidum, King, Beauty, Defiance. 
Petunias. — Jenny Lind, Madame Celeste, 
Ellen Chaplin, Marginata, Marginata Superba, 
Miss Woolgar, Semidouble, Ivery's Model, 
Walkerii, Punctata. 
Trop^eolums. — Tricolor (scarlet, yellow and 
black), Lobbianum (orange-scarlet), Azu- 
reum (dull blue), Brachyceras (yellow), Spe- 
ciosum (brilliant scarlet). 
These may be depended on for the best 
selections that any one can begin with, not 
only as comprising the best established fa- 
vourites among flowers that are familiar to old 
florists, but the best of the new ones calculated 
to take their places among approved sorts. 
GARDENING MEMORANDA FOR 
JANUARY.* 
Gardening operations during the winter 
months are, for the most part, confined to the 
protection of crops and plants, and the prepa- 
ration of ground for the reception of others. 
The dunging and dressing, digging, trenching, 
with occasional cleaning, are the chief kinds 
of work, and this depends greatly on the 
weather. All the tender crops require litter 
to be put on at night, and taken off in the 
morning, in fine weather, but continued in 
frost. The pits and frames in which potted 
plants are placed must also be covered with 
mats or cloths, or long straw, to keep off 
frost, and uncovered by day, unless it be very 
severe. All these winter protections are, 
more or less, injurious to crops and plants, 
and therefore should be used as little as pos- 
sible ; every thing is better for the full air 
when it is mild, so that litter, and other cover- 
ing, should be removed as early as possible 
when there is no frost, so as that plants should 
never lose daylight, if it can be avoided. The 
glasses may be taken off altogether whenever 
the weather is suitable, but the plants must 
be protected against rain and heavy falls, as 
much as against frost and bleak winds. Alte- 
rations, making new garden walks, or clumps, 
go on all through winter in favourable weather, 
and planting may be done from November to 
March; but the earlier the better, on account 
of the interruptions which occasionally stop 
every thing, such as a long interval of wet 
weather or hard frost. The stove requires 
little more than attention to the heat, which 
must be kept up uniformly; but, contrary to 
the too prevalent custom, the heat should be 
greater by daylight than by dark ; keep up 
the heat, therefore, all day, and it will bear to 
sink a few degrees, without injury to the 
plants, by night. The greenhouse and con- 
servatory should have as much air as possible 
in mild weather; and if frosty, keep the fire 
going all day, while air may, more or less, be 
given, and close all the glass, and cover the 
plants with mats by night. The forcing 
houses require constant attention to the 
fires throughout the month. 
the temperature at which plant-houses 
should be kept during january. 
The Greenhouse. — From forty to forty-five 
* A very elaborate and complete Calendar of Gar- 
dening Operations for January is published in No. 25 
of the Horticultural Magazine.- 
