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THE LADIES’ MAGAZINE OF GARDENING, 
In keeping gold fish in ponds, no care is requisite but that of sprin¬ 
kling a few crumbs of bread occasionally on the surface of the water to feed 
them ; but when they are kept in any small vessel, the water should be 
changed regularly, not only for the sake of cleanliness, but because the 
fish will have exhausted the water of the animalcula, which serve them as 
food. The usual rule is to change the water in glass globes or vases 
every second day in summer, and every week in winter. 
REVIEWS. 
The Botanical Magazine for March has not been received. 
The Botanical Register for March contains— 
Ipomoea jicifolia (t. 13). A very handsome lialf-shrubby new Ipomoea, 
with a tuberous root and rich purple flowers, which it produces in such 
abundance, that a plant 44 little more than twelve months old, produced 
nearly five hundred flowers upon a cylindrical wire trellis, two feet high.” 
It is half-hardy, that is, it only requires protection during winter, and in 
summer would form a beautiful ornament in the open gardens. It is 
a native of Buenos Ayres, whence the seeds were obtained in 1839, 
by Messrs. Salter and Wheeler, of Bath, in whose nursery it was 
raised. 
Salvia Regia (t. 14). A new Mexican Sage, with scarlet flowers, 
sent home last year by Mr. Hartweg. It flowers best planted in the 
free ground in a conservatory. In its native country, it is a shrub 4 ft. 
or 5 ft. high; the flowers are very handsome, but as only a few are pro¬ 
duced at a time, the plant is not showy. 
Cynoglossum glochidiatum (t. 15). An Indian species of Hound’s- 
tongue, which is a hardy biennial in British gardens, if sown in a dry 
situation. The flowers are bright blue, and very pretty; but the plant 
itself is a tall straggling weed, only fit for a shrubbery, or some other 
situation where its 44 herbage may not offend the eye.” The species 
takes its name from its bristly seeds. 
Sprekelia glauca (t. 16). A Mexican plant, only differing from the 
old Jacobean Lily, in the flowers being smaller and paler, and the leaves 
glaucous. 
Sobralia sessilis (t. 17). An orchideous plant from Peru. The 
species of this genus 44 resemble reeds loaded with large red or white, and 
