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growth, to bring them to a fine flowering con- 
dition ; but to enjoy them for any time, they 
must be gradually exposed to a much lower 
temperature than that of a warm moist stove. 
In the green-house they will continue bloom- 
ing three months at least, when, in fact, there 
is little else to decorate it. In the conserva- 
tory, also, they will form beautiful objects; 
and for such purposes they should be chiefly 
grown. Many of these plants cease to be 
cultivated, because it is almost universally 
understood and admitted, that they can only 
be seen in perfection in houses that would 
positively broil any ordinary European on a 
summer day. — Gardeners' Chronicle. 
Rochea falcata. — The principal thing to 
be attended to in growing this plant (known 
also as Crassula falcata) is the situation : it 
loves a full exposure to the sun heat, and to 
be near the glass, which gives them a strong 
stiff habit. The common mixture of loam, 
peat, and sand, suits it perfectly. In the 
autumn, water is to be withheld gradually, 
and in winter altogether, when the plants will 
become shrivelled ; but they will become 
plump again in the spring when started into 
growth : the growth should be encouraged as 
much as possible, and a place on a shelf in 
the hot-house is for this reason desirable. 
Young plants, raised from cuttings in the 
spring, and grown well during the summer, 
should be strong enough to flower the next 
spring ; after this, they should be grown on 
again, and the next year will produce six or 
eight flower heads, and so on, for three or 
four years, when they become unsightly. — 
Ibid. 
Camellia Japonica. — Of the many ways 
of propagating this plant, few succeed better, 
for a new and dear variety, than that we 
should call bud-grafting. This used to be 
done by Messrs. Brown, of Slough, very gene- 
rally, and with good success ; every bud, with 
the smallest portion of wood attached, made a 
plant. The stock was cut down to within two 
inches of the surface, and the small piece of 
wood, with the bud attached, grafted on the 
top. Many ways may be employed to join 
these, and the only necessary precautions are, 
first, to have a bud of the stock on the highest 
portion of the stock, and join the graft so as 
to bring down the bud in it below that of the 
stock, but on the opposite side. "Whether this 
is by a sloping cut, and a splice like a broken 
stick, or by notching the stock and placing the 
bud as a wedge, or making the stock the 
wedge, and the graft a sort of saddle, it mat- 
ters not. A good fit is necessary, and the 
barks of the stock or graft must meet even on 
one side, at the least, and by these means you 
may make a plant of every leaf or eye. — 
/. W. — Gardeners' Gazette. 
Horse Radish. — Trenching in bits of the 
roots an inch long about a foot deep into the 
ground, is as good as crowns, which many 
fancy are necessary. It is well worth and 
one's while to trench in a row or two, in good 
rich ground, in the month of November. It 
will come up in May, and form straight good 
sticks in a year, which thicken into handsome 
ones in two. When I want one, I dig down 
to the set, and cut it off close and cover it up 
again ; but it is better to dig it up clean and 
place another set there; for the old set is apt 
to throw up several shoots, and they come 
weaker. The sets should always be part of a 
good and thick stick, in preference to portions 
of thin ones. This is not a new practice, but 
it is not a general one. — M. R. — Ibid. 
The Running of Carnations. — This sub- 
ject has caused more discussion than almost 
any other connected with gardening, except 
the breaking of Tulips. Before this subject 
is fully discussed, the facts should be fairly 
considered ; and those which are well esta- 
blished are curious. First, not only do the 
several layers of the same plant come one run 
and another good, but, on the same plant, one 
will come fine and the other coarse, although 
within half an inch of each other on the same 
stem. Nay, more, the same flower will come 
half run and half fine. One would think this 
settled the question about the soil having 
nothing to do with it. Secondly, run flowers 
planted out (which, if they are scarce, they 
should always be), will occasionally return 
back to the fine condition, as completely as the 
Tulip will break from the breeder, although 
grown in the same description of soil. This 
seems another proof that the soil has nothing 
to do with it. We cannot have any reason to 
suppose that the compost they are growing in 
can affect one flower, or half a flower, and not 
affect the rest of the bloom or blooms. Let 
any one who discusses this subject, take these 
facts, which are indisputable, into considera- 
tion.— P. S. R.—Ibid. 
Cedrus Deodara. — The following is the 
dimensions of a plant of this tree, raised at 
Heckfield Place, Hartford Bridge, Hants, six- 
teen years ago. It has been planted out ten 
years, and stands in an exposed situation, 
where it proves to be as hardy as the oak, 
being altogether uninjured by the late severe 
winter. It is planted on a dry gravelly soil, 
and is now in a most flourishing condition ; 
the height is seventeen feet six inches ; the 
circumference of the branches, thirty-five feet; 
the circumference of the bole above ground, 
two feet; ditto at breast high, seventeen inches. 
I very much question whether larch, in a more 
favourable situation, would have made greater 
progress in the time. It is a pleasing object 
standing as a single specimen in the park, with 
