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large enough. Supply the plants with liquid manure, and keep them 
tied out as required. 
Clianthus Dampieri should have a temperature a little higher than 
an ordinary greenhouse, keeping it near the glass and away from cold 
currents of air. If the plants are in small pots shift with the hall 
entire, not even removing the crocks, pressing the soil down carefully. 
It succeeds best in lumpy peat with an admixture of charcoal. 
Cinerarias requiring a shift must he attended to. The second lot 
may now he transferred to the pots in which they are to bloom. To 
flower satisfactorily at this season a temperature of 50° is necessary 
by day artificially. The temperature for the ordinary stock should 
be kept at 40® to 45° by day artificially, admitting air at the latter, 
fully at 50°, and closing at that degree. Do not be in a hurry in 
applying fire heat. In damp weather a little fire heat will be neces¬ 
sary to expel damp, air being admitted freely, but avoid a close warm 
atmosphere at night, or indeed at any time, as it is injurious to every 
greenhouse plant at this season. The night temperature should be 
kept at 40° to 45°, but frost being excluded the safety of the plants 
is insured. Watering should be done in the morning, and the supply 
regulated according to the requirements of the plants, keeping them 
rather dry than too wet. 
Bouvarclias. —To have the full flowering capabilities of these plants 
they require in the winter time plenty of heat and light, the tempera¬ 
ture G0° to 65° at night, and an increase of 5° to 10® in the day. An 
application of liquid manure will assist their growth and flowering. 
Spring-struck plants grown on through the summer are the most suit¬ 
able, they being now in 7 or 8-inch pots. Humboldti corymbiflora 
has large white flowers like a Stephanotis, the bunches being large. 
The Bride is very fine ; Bridal Wreath, candidissima, jasminoides, 
longiflora, and Yreelandi are the best whites; Brilliant, elegans, 
and leiantha are good scarlets; rosea oculata, blush; intermedia, 
pink ; umbellata, rosy blush ; and flava, pale yellow. 
NOTES ON VILLA AND SUBURBAN GARDENING-. 
FLOWER GARDEN. 
Filling the Beds for the Winter. —When clearing the beds of their 
summer occupants all such plants as Cineraria maritima, C. acanthi- 
folia, Golden Pyrethrum, Golden Thyme, Golden Japanese Honey¬ 
suckle, Stachys lanata, Beet (to be used in common with those small 
plants saved in the kitchen garden as advised), Ajuga rep tans rubra, 
hardy Sempervivums, and Sedums, and any other hardy kinds, should 
be carefully saved and worked in afresh. With these may be asso¬ 
ciated small Aucubas, Thujas, variegated Hollies, Retinosporas, 
Yuccas, variegated Euonymuses, and other easily-moved and frost- 
enduring plants. These may be arranged either in groups and rings ; 
or be dotted about the beds according to their respective heights and 
colours ; the above-mentioned bedding plants in the first instance 
to be used for edgings, and in the latter for a groundwork—that is 
to say, should fill up the intervening spaces, and also form the 
edgings. Small shrubs suitable for bedding can be obtained at a 
cheap rate, and will be available for years, the frequent removals 
checking luxuriant growth. Much may be done without them, 
especially if a quantity of Forget-me-not, Limnanthes Douglasii, 
Collinsia bicolor, Silenes, Wallflowers, and Daisies have been pre¬ 
pared. The Pyrethrum is particularly useful, as it can be employed 
to form designs as in the summer bedding, filling in the outer spaces 
rather closely with Ajuga, Daisies, Stachys, Limnanthes, and Silenes, 
and those spaces nearer the centre with Beet, Collinsia, Cineraria, 
Forget-me-not, and Wallflowers. Suitable for dotting are small pieces 
of Iris foetidissima variegata, golden variegated Lilium candidum, 
and Yuccas. The Pyrethrum and other bright-coloured plants should 
be employed as much as possible next to the turf, dull colours failing 
in effect; yet Sempervivums are very suitable for fringing the raised 
beds. 
A good arrangement consists of an edging of Pyrethrum, next this 
Ajuga, behind this Stachys ; the remaining space, however large* 
consisting of Forget-me-not, and dotted among this either the varie¬ 
gated Iris or Tulips. Another mode may be as follows :—An outer line 
or ring of Golden Thyme, next either red Daisies, Silenes, or Beet ; 
the remaining space being filled with Cinerarias, among which may 
be dotted cither Hyacinths or the Spanish Iris. A third may consist 
of a broad edging of either red Daisies or Ajuga, among which are 
dotted either Crocuses or Snowdrops ; next another broad band of 
either Limnanthes, Stachys, or pegged-dovn Cinerarias, with Hya¬ 
cinths interspersed, filling up the centre or back as the case may be 
with a groundwork of either Collinsia, Beet, or dark Wallflowers, 
among which might be dotted either Narcissuses or Tulips. Many 
somewhat similar arrangements, if well carried out with good plants 
and bulbs, should the winter prove of average severity, will even¬ 
tually prove more effective and pleasing than the summer bedding. 
Carpet bedding, where the outlines of the designs have been formed 
with hardy plants, notably the Pyrethrum, and the groundwork 
formed with a hardy plant such as the common Stonecrop or Sedum 
glaucum, may easily be made effective by substituting Ajuga for the 
Alternantheras, Beet for the Iresines and other rather tall plants, and 
the Stachys for lighter-coloured medium-height plants. Iris (varie¬ 
gated), Golden Lily, Yuccas, and miniature variegated and Conifers 
are well adapted for “ dotting.” With these materials carpet coloured 
beds for the winter may yet be formed, and will look well from the 
commencement. 
Planting Bulbs. —Headers of this column who intend to plant bulbs 
extensively are referred to the instructive remarks on the subject by 
“ A Station Master ” on page 370 of the Journal. The only objec¬ 
tion to beds filled with bulbs as there recommended or otherwise is 
their bareness during the early part of the winter. This bareness 
may be obviated by covering the beds with small neat branches of 
evergreens as the bulbs are placed in. Yariegated Hollies, Aucubas, 
Berberises, and Ivies of the tree type are very suitable, and should 
be arranged in bands and carefully pressed into the soil so as not 
to injure the bulbs ; they will retain their freshness for a long time, 
and serve to protect the bulbs. 
greenhouses. 
Potting Bulbs. —In continuation and conclusion of remarks on this 
subject, commenced on page 379, mention ought not to be omitted 
of Amaryllis formosissima, Peacock Iris, Tropseolum tricolorum, and 
Cyclamen persicum, as all are included in most advertised collections. 
The two first may be potted either singly in 4-inch pots, or three 
can be placed in 6-inch pots. The Tropaeolum if moderately strong 
may receive an 8-inch pot, and the Cyclamen a 4-inch pot, or still 
larger if of good size. The bulbs of the first and the fleshy roots 
of the others should all be about three parts buried in the soil. Care 
must be taken to pot the tubers of the Tropaeolum the right way 
upwards, and also to avoid breaking its delicate thread-like growth 
when it starts. 
After-treatment. —The pots containing the six first-mentioned kinds 
—viz., Hyacinths, Narcissuses, Tulips, Crocuses, and Snowdrops, 
should be placed on a cool dry bottom in the open, and be completely 
covered to the depth of 5 or 6 inches with either sifted ashes, saw¬ 
dust, or cocoa-nut fibre, the aim being to have the pots well filled with 
roots previous to the commencement of any top growth. No watering 
will be necessary unless the soil employed be very dry. The remainder 
may be either placed in a cold frame or on a greenhouse shelf, and 
will require but little water for a time. It may not be out of place to 
suggest the advisability of purchasing either the general collections 
as advertised, or collections of different kinds, leaving the selection 
of varieties to the vendors, as this will be found to be by far the 
most economical procedure. 
TRADE CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 
James Yeitch & Sons, King’s Road, Chelsea— Catalogue of Boses, 
and List of Iris Kcemjferi Varieties. 
Charles Turner, The Royal Nurseries, Slough.— Catalogue of Roses 
and Fruit Trees. . 
Robert Parker, Exotic Nursery, Tooting, Surrey.— Lists of Pyre- 
thrums and Potentillas. 
Osborn & Son, Fulham, London, S.W .—Catalogue of Plants, Sh rubs, 
and 'Ttgcs • 
Ormiston & Renwick, Melrose, Roxburghshire. Catalogue of Forest 
and Ornamental Trees. 
J. Cheal & Sons, Crawley, Sussex.— Catalogue of Trees and Shrubs. 
Henry Merryweather, The Nurseries, Southwell. — Catalogue of 
Fruit Trees. 
