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shortened, and by this means I hope, jad^ing from past experience, to 
transplant not only with safety but with advantage. 
Like Mr. Temple, I have transplanted shrubs at all seasons. Last 
year I had an opportunity of seeing the wonderful manner that shrubs 
lifted in fall growth appreciate the treatment. Those in question were 
a group of Golden Yews, which grew so rapidly through the summer as 
to become quite too close by August. One damp afternoon of that 
month I had half the number transplanted. In November some speci¬ 
mens were required for a scheme of shrub planting then proceeding. 
The transplanted Yews were chosen, and each one lifted with a network 
of short white roots encircling the ball. 
The only times that I have known root-pruning to fail has been 
when the work had been injudiciously done. I have seen both fruit 
Perhaps the reason of this is because it is considered a difficult plant 
to cultivate. It also has the reputation of growing well for a time and 
then to gradually dwindle away, though the greatest care and attention 
may be bestowed on it. 
I have only one plant. This has been under my care for about four 
years, being a very small piece when it came. So far it has both grown 
well and flowered profusely. It is now in a 4-inch pot, and has just 
ceased blooming, which is a little earlier than usual from the fact of it 
being in a cool house instead of a cold frame during the long spell of 
severe frost. The flower stems numbered nearly 100, some bearing two 
and others three flowers. It seems almost incredible that so small a 
plant should produce such a number of flowers. I should like to know 
if it generally flowers so freely.—J, S. Upex. 
Fig. 44.—EUCHARIS STEVENSI. 
trees and shrubs killed, large ones of course, through the cutting back 
of the whole of the roots, when no more than half ought have been 
manipulated at a time. —R. P. Brotheeston. 
SOLDANELLA ALPINA. 
This is one of our choice alpine plants, and with a few other species 
forms a small genus in the Natural Order Primulaceae. Alpina is the 
more common one, and is a very beautiful and interesting plant. Its 
small leaves are round or kidney shaped, dark green, and leathery, grow¬ 
ing in tufts upon the ground. The flower stems are about 3 inches in 
height, and bear two or three pale blue bell-shaped pendent flowers 
each, which are cut into linear segments, having the appearance of a 
thick fringe. Its time of flowering is March or April. 
Although this plant was introduced into this country nearly two 
centuries and a half ago, it appears to be very seldom met with. 
EUCHARIS STEVENSI. 
This free-flowering Eucharis (fig. 44) was staged by Mr. P. Blair, 
Trentham, at the meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society held at 
the Drill Hall on March 12th, and on that occasion gained an award of 
merit. The variety was raised a few years ago by Mr. W. Stevens, 
gardener to W. Thompson, Esq., Walton Grange, near Stone, Stafford¬ 
shire, whose name is so well known as a successful cultivator of Orchids. 
Though several years have elapsed since the variety was raised, this 
was said to be its first appearance at the Drill Hall. The plant is very 
similar in habit to Eucharis grandiflora, but the leaves are somewhat 
smaller. The chief recommendations of Eucharis Stevensi are its free- 
growing and floriferous habit, and its entire freedom from attacks of 
disease, which so often play havoc with plants of the older varieties, 
and such being the case it should become a very useful addition to the 
Eucharis family. 
