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showy when it forms a compact mass of silvery leaves. The other 
variegated kinds grow taller, some of them here having attained 
a height of 8 feet, and they are proportionately bushy. The green¬ 
leaved varieties, of which E. japonicus and E. macrophyllns are 
the best, are excellent for forming evergreen hedges with, or they 
may be planted as screens or trained against walls. For this 
purpose the variegated forms are also suitable, but the green 
ones grow most quickly, and this is generally a point taken greatly 
into consideration in hedge-making. 
The variegated kinds may be planted to ornament the best parts 
of the pleasure grounds, and as centre bushes in flower beds they 
give the greatest satisfaction. For very small gardens, or where 
only a few little bushes are grown on the grass about villa resi¬ 
dences, there is no class of plants more suitable, ornamental, and 
useful than these. Four or five years ago we advised a friend to 
plant the best varieties of Euonymuses, and now he has bushes 
which attract the attention of all passers, as the shrubs are now 
large in size and most beautiful in variegation. 
Apart from all other qualities they possess two which should 
be specially mentioned. One is that they are the best of all ever¬ 
greens to grow near the sea, and the other that they will thrive 
in a town atmosphere, and these two points should not be for¬ 
gotten by those who are interested in planting in such positions. 
I never knew one of them to be killed through being near the sea, 
and I have seen them so close to it that they were frequently 
bathed with spray. As a seaside plant we have nothing to equal 
them, and in situations of the kind they should be extensively 
used. As town plants they are equally satisfactory, and the most 
smoke-laden atmosphere does not injure them. Smoke from 
copper-smelting furnaces is the most injurious to shrubs generally 
of all fumes, but I know some Euonymuses which have lived 
under its influence for years, and they now look as well as those 
in the purest air. They will bear uninjured any clipping or cut¬ 
ting-in, and they may be shifted with impunity, as they root closely 
and freely and lift with good balls, and may be transplanted at 
any time when the weather is favourable with every certainty of 
success.—J. Muir. 
CCELOGrYNE CRISTATA. 
ACACIA LINEATA. 
Several useful Acacias have from time to time been noticed 
in these pages, and that now figured is one of the best in point of 
utility and beauty. It is most floriferous, of graceful habit, and, 
moreover, flowers freely in a small state. Plants in 48-size pots 
are extremely valuable in early spring. Such specimens continue 
flowering for several weeks or two months, its slender branches 
being clothed thickly with its small dense globular clusters of 
golden flowers, and have a pretty effect. Cuttings strike readily in 
a light compost of sand and loam under a bellglass, and the plants 
so obtained should be placed in well-drained pots, employing a 
compost of light turfy loam and peat in equal parts, and a little 
sand. Water must be liberally supplied during growth, and very 
weak liquid manure occasionally will prove beneficial. 
ROSES ON THEIR OWN ROOTS. 
I have to thank “ A Judge ” for his letter, and Mr. Sanders for 
his two letters, on this subject. I did not desire to “ make out a 
case ” in favour of stocks so much as to ascertain the truth, or at 
Fig. 102.—Acacia lineata. 
least the general opinion ; and if Mr. Sanders gets growth up to 
4 feet, and his best blooms of the season from cuttings inserted the 
previous autumn, the question seems settled, for that is a gain of 
a year on the man who has to plant stocks. Mr. Sanders says he 
does not exhibit, and therefore (as I said in my former letter) I 
fear the invidious question would still remain how good his best 
blooms were. But “ A Judge,” who ought to know, testifies, if I 
understand him right, that blooms from cuttings are as good as 
those from worked plants ; and I confess at first sight nothing 
seems to be left to me to congratulate myself upon except that 
The Coelogyne cristata is designated one of the popular 
Orchids, and is one that may be grown in any stove—that is, 
where Ferns and flowering plants predominate. Those who have 
Orchid houses cultivate Coelogyne cristata in them, but the follow¬ 
ing remarks are intended for amateurs who have a stove and 
require the utmost out of it. In such a structure the temperature 
is not kept very high—about 55° as a minimum during the winter 
months with fire heat, and 60° to 65° in summer, with good 
ventilation. In such a temperature Coelogyne cristata thrives 
admirably, and will vie with any Orchid-house specimens. The 
best time to repot the plants is when growth commences, but do 
not shift them if they do not require it; every alternate season is 
often enough, but a surface dressing must be given. If the plant 
become very crowded with pseudo-bulbs it is best to divide it. 
Some growers recommend cutting the spent pseudo-bulbs out to 
give the others room, but I have not tried it, although it appears 
feasible. The best compost for the Coelogyne is very fibrous peat 
with the finest particles sifted out, a third of growing sphagnum, 
with a sprinkling of charcoal and crocks. It being a surface- 
grower pan-pots are the best. They should be filled three parts 
full of clean potsherds, then fill with the compost, elevate the 
centre of the plant above the rim of the pot, and firmly place the 
compost around the roots. Take care not to cover any of the 
pseudo-bulbs, and give a sprinkling of water to settle the soil 
about the roots. From now until the plant has finished its 
growth it should not be allowed to suffer through insufficient 
supplies of water. When it commences growing freely it should 
be slightly syringed twice a day. About the end of October the 
new pseudo-bulbs will be plump, when water should be gradually 
withheld, but not so that the plant may suffer, until the flower 
spikes appear, when water should be carefully applied or the 
spikes will damp off. If several plants are grown and there is a 
warmer structure at command, place one of the plants in it, when 
a succession of blooms will be obtained, which is very advisable 
where choice cut flowers are required.—A. Young. 
