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can be done afterwards as is needful. It is not proposed to pub¬ 
lish any other diagrams 'at present, as those now given, with 
Fig. 101. 
1 and 4. Alternanthera amcena. No. 1 with a tall centre plant. 
2. Golden Pyrethrum. 
3. Herniaria glabra. 
5. Mesembryantbemum cordifolium variegatum. 
6. Sedum and Echeveria (as before described). 
others that have previously appeared from time to time, will be 
sufficient for affording guidance to those needing it on this mode 
1. Alternanthera amcena. 
2. Leucophytou Brownii or Antennaria tomentosa. 
3. Alternanthera of any kind. 
4. Groundwork of Herniaria glabra or Mesembryantbemum cordifolium 
variegatum. 
6. Raised about 5 inches, and planted with Echeveria secunda glauca inter¬ 
spersed with Sedum glaucum. 
of furnishing beds on lawns and terraces. The proposed methods 
of planting the beds now published appear under each diagram. 
Australian Grapes. —Mr. G. Bunyard sends the following 
extract from the Maidstone Journal:—“Mr. B. G. Berry, native 
of Faversham, has undertaken to receive from the Agricultural and 
Horticultural Society of South Australia—where he lately called 
on a trip round the world—a consignment of Grapes by way of 
experiment. The South Australian Grapes are said to be the 
finest in the world. The various modes of packing will be tried 
with a view to ascertain the possibility of their reaching here in 
a marketable condition ; if so hundreds of tons could be imported. 
At the time Mr. Berry was there the wholesale price was £4 per 
ton, or less than a halfpenny a pound for magnificent Grapes.” 
CLEMATISES IN POTS. 
“ How beautiful! ” has been the exclamation of more than one 
vis tor to whom I have lately been able to show a house full of 
Clematises in bloom. With this I could cordially agree, but it 
was with surprise that I heard an Orchid grower of some fame 
add, “ Their culture in pots is not generally understood,” for they 
are so popular and there are so many good varieties as to lead 
one to suppose the few and simple details of culture would have 
been mastered long ago. It would appear that this has not been 
done, and therefore Mr. Bardney’s excellent notes on page 349 are 
calculated to do much good. 
The whole of the pot plants here have been wintered for three 
years in an old garden frame, with earth banked up around the 
sides and litter thrown over the lights to exclude frost. They are 
repotted and retrained early in spring, when they are removed to 
any convenient house or pit, no fire heat being required unless 
very early flowers are wanted. By the end of May the flowering 
season of the early-blooming section is at an end, and the plants 
are turned out to an airy position upon a bed of coal ashes behind 
a north wall, where they mature their growth and remain till once 
more consigned to their rude but sufficiently snug winter quarters. 
The object of this note is to show how admirably Clematises in 
pots are adapted to the amateur and gardener of very limited 
means.— Edward Luckhurst. 
ODDS AND ENDS. 
The Fruit Prospects. —The prospect of a fruitful year is gene¬ 
rally good. In the south-east of England there is a fine show of 
fruit. Gooseberries could not be more abundant; Black and Bed 
Currants are well set ; Plums and Cherries are already swelling, 
the former being a particularly good crop ; early Pears are swelling 
fast and well-set, late varieties are full of bloom ; Apple trees are 
now very beautiful and give every prospect of a heavy crop. 
Wall fruits, too, promise well; Apricots, Peaches, and Nectarines, 
though general failures in several previous years, have the fruits 
the size of a good hazel nut and thickly set. V~ f‘ u » 
Magnolia conspicua. —One of the most beautiful flowering trees 
at this season of the year is Magnolia conspicua when clothed with 
its white and purple-tipped blooms, and is worthy of a place in 
every garden. 
Spircea prvnifolia flore-pleno. — The long slender arching 
branches of this shrub are covered with bloom, and, like most of 
the double flowers, is very durable for decorative purposes. The 
double Cherry is of equal value for decoration, especially for the 
table, to forms designs on a red cloth. The wild variety of 
Cherry could not have flowered more abundantly than it has done 
this year. The different varieties of Pyrus are in full bloom, and 
are well worthy of a place in the pleasure ground. Hawthorn 
will this season make a wonderful show of bloom. 
Phlox subulata. —This is a charming spring flower, now a dense 
carpet of its pretty pink and purple flowers. Beds occupied with 
it and Tulips dotted about a foot apart have a pretty effect. 
Primula cortusoidcs amcena. —This Primula appears quite hardy, 
having withstood the past severe winter without being injured, 
and is now very beautiful, the flowers being borne well above the 
foliage. These Primulas deserve to be grown more generally than 
they are at present.—H. B. 
Annuals in California. —A Croydon correspondent sends us the 
following. In California, a recent traveller states, “I passed 
yards upon yards of blue Nemophila in blossom in the cuttings of 
the railway, and saw acres of Eschscholtzia, making the fields 
yellow like our Charlock.” 
Australian Pine Apples. —Capt. Parry, in his “Voyage Round 
the World,” says that they are the best out-of-door Pines he ever 
tasted, being superior to those cultivated at Madras, and still more 
superior to the Burmese and West Indian.”—G., Brighton. 
Kerguelin's Cabbage. —The only totally solitary vegetable of 
which we have a note is the Kerguelin’s Cabbage (Pringlea anti- 
scorbutica). It grows about the cliffs of Kerguelin’s Land and 
some adjoining islands far towards the South Pole. It looks like 
a small garden Cabbage, but often on a long trailing stalk. It is 
a perennial, and the flower stalks issue between the leaves from 
