NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
sand two parts. These should bo mixed intimately together — if some months before they are used, all 
the better. After potting, place the pots in a warm shaded corner, and cover the bulbs several inches 
deep with cinder ashes, or old tan, so as to prevent the top being excited before the pots are full of 
roots. Pinks for forcing must be potted towards the end of the month. 
In the flower garden proceed with propagating without loss of time, especially of the more tender 
plants, as such things as Calceolarias will strike later in the season. If you preserve any of the old 
plants it will scarcely be safe to leave them in the ground after the end of the month. Cuttings that 
are rooted may be potted immediately, so as to get them established early. A little good soil at this 
potting will not be wasted upon them, as they will make stronger plants in small pots than if larger 
ones are used with poor soil. 
Harvesting fruit will be the chief employment in the fruit garden; and, in picking it, too much care 
cannot be observed. Gather each kind as it becomes ripe, and place it at once in the place appro- 
priated to it. Some advocate sweating fruit in heaps, others not ; for our parts, we say gather it care- 
fully without bruising, placing it in single layers if you have room, but if not, it may he two or three 
thick without injury. Avoid placing it upon straw, and guard, if you can do so, against changes of 
temperature in the room in which it is placed. "Wall trees must be attended to ; go over them once 
more, and fasten the shoots if necessary, and protect the fruit, if you are so fortunate as to have any, 
from the attacks of wasps, and other insects. This remark applies more especially to the keeping 
Plums, as the Imperatrice, and Coe's Golden Drop, which, if protected from insects and damp, will 
keep good, and iudeed improve in quality for several weeks to come. "When quite shrivelled, the 
small branches may be cut from the tree, and if the plums are suspended in a dry room, they will keep 
until Christmas. 
In the Kitchen Garden fill every vacant piece of ground with Coleworts for winter and spring use, 
and look well to earthing Celery in suitable weather. A little soot sprinkled along the rows at the 
time of earthing, will prevent the ravages of snails and worms, and if your ground is heavy, and you 
have it to spare, some fine cinder ashes around the plants will be a benefit. Earth the winter crops 
of Brocoli, Brussels Sprouts, &c., and prepare by well manuring and deeply trenching some ground 
for a good breadth of Spring Cabbage. Turnip seed of the early kinds may still be thrown in for 
the chance of a crop, and do not forget successional crops of Turnip Radishes, and small salading. 
Sow immediately in a warm corner, upon a sloping border, Early and Walcaeren Cauliflower, and 
Lettuces of several sorts, more especially the Black Seeded Bath Cos, White Cos, Brown Dutch, and 
Hardy Hammersmith. Attend to the Winter Spinach by proper thinning, and give it a good soaking 
occasionally of liquid manure, or sprinkle it with soot in showery weather. Trench and ridge up all 
vacant ground. — P. 
#rm mill Hurt ^Innts. 
Labiciiea mvEnsiFOLiA, Mcisner. Various-leaved Labichea. (Paxt. Fl. Gard., ii., t. 52). — Fabacea? § 
Cccsalpinicte. — A curious and very pretty greenhouse shrub, growing to a moderate size, and having something the 
aspect, though none of the structure, of Heimia grandiflora. The leaves are sessile unequally digitate, the 
leaflets all linear-lanceolate, and spiny pointed, but the middle one many times larger than the lateral ones, which 
look like leafy stipules at its base. The flowers are about an inch in character, and grow in very short few-flowered 
racemes, much shorter than the leaves, the calyx and corolla each consisting of four parts, those of the former 
narrow acuminate, about as long as the petals, which are roundish oblong, deep yellow, one having a small blotch 
of red near its base ; the flowers are not unlike those of a Cassia. From Swan River. Introduced in 1850. 
Flowers in April and May. Mr. Glcndinning, of Chiswick. 
PuiMULA sikkimexsis, Hooker. Sikkim Primrose. (Bo/. Mag., t. 4597). — Xat. Ord., Primulaecaj } Primu- 
liflco. — A very handsome stcmlcss primrose, perhaps the tallest in cultivation, and the "pride of all the Alpine 
Primulas." The leaves arc all radical, thin and submembranacoous, strongly reticulate-venose, eight inches to a 
foot long, the margin doubly and sharply toothed, obovate-oblong, tapering into a long broad red petiole, equal- 
ling the blade in length. The scape is from a foot to two feet in height, erect, and bearing an umbel of 
lemon-yellow flowers, much resembling those of the common primrose, and of about the same size ; the limb of 
the corolla is sub-campanulate, the tubo ns long as the calyx. From Sikkim Himalaya, inhabiting wet boggy 
places, at elevations of from 12 to 17,000 feet. Introduced iu 1850, by Dr. Hooker. Flowers in Hay. Royal 
Botanic Gardens, Sew. 
Salvia QESXEiiE.'EFr.on.A, of gardens. Gcsnera-flowered Sage. (r<t.rt. Fl. Card., ii., t. 47).— Xat. Ord., 
l.amiaceo) $ Monardeie. — A magnificent greenhouse soft- wooded sub-shrub, growing from four to six feet high, 
) and bearing throughout the winter months a profusion of large brilliant scarlet flowers, which render it very 
j| ornamental. It has been compared with Salvia fulgens, which, however, it does not much resemble, except in 
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