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Magnified. Deep pink, pure white throat. 
Maxima. Large, white tube and limb, blue throat. 
Presleyi. Yery large, deep blue, extremely rich. 
Rosea alba. Pale rose, shaded with deeper in various parts of 
the tube and limb, throat white. 
Rubra. Vermilion-coloured tube and limb, white throat. 
Speciosa alba. White tube and limb, streaked with blue in 
the throat. 
Stanleyi. Large, white, with blue stripe in the throat. 
Superb a. Large, violet, white throat. 
Youngii. Large, pale violet, and white throat. 
THE MANAGEMENT OF WARDIAN CASES. 
It has occurred to me that a few brief hints relative to the 
management of these interesting miniature plant-houses may be 
useful to such of your readers who, like myself, delight in flowers, 
and yet possess but few facilities for their culture. The healthy 
appearance which plants of all sorts wear when kept in these 
cases, even in the midst of a densely populated district, is really 
surprising, and the little attention necessary (which in itself 
should be a pleasure to those who really love them) is thus amply 
repaid. 
A good deal of your future success depends on having the case 
properly adapted. If it is a large one, it should always have a 
door at one end, as it is troublesome and dangerous to be con¬ 
tinually lifting the entire covering from off the plants. A move- 
able panel, however, enables you to give water or dry the plants 
as the case may seem to require. I think it preferable, for the 
sake of making an occasional change, to grow the plants in pots, 
and would advise that they stand on a trellis or some open floor, 
to allow an easy escape of the water, after having passed through 
the pots; it should then fall into a zinc trough, which may be 
withdrawn and emptied each time that fresh water is applied. 
I would also recommend that the case be made without feet, 
so that its base may rest on some flat surface, like that of a 
table, for, when elevated, so as to leave a space beneath it, I find 
