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THE FLORIST. 
easy culture. The flowers partake of the character of B. longi- 
flora in having large sepals. They are of different shades of 
colour, from flesh to bright Indian red, with large truss or corymb 
consisting of thirty or more flowers, not unlike those of an 
Ixora. One other feature that will render these flowers very 
useful and desirable for bouquets is the time they will keep when 
cut and placed in water. They appear as firm after ten days as 
when first cut, and still retain their brilliant and unique colour.” 
In our opinion Bouvardias are destined to occupy a prominent 
position, as well for the autumn and winter decoration of the con¬ 
servatory as for the summer display in the flower garden. For 
the latter purpose they are propagated by cuttings at the latter 
part of August, and wintered and otherwise treated in a similar 
manner to Heliotropiums, Verbenas, &c. For in-door decoration 
they require attention during the early part of the season, to 
obtain strong, compact bushes, by potting into larger pots as the 
plants progress, and by stopping the stronger growths, &c. 
Another method to insure strong healthy specimens is, to plant in 
a spare border, exposed to the sun, in good turfy loam and peat, 
young plants about the last week in May. Their growth must be 
regulated by stopping, as in pot culture, and they should be 
watered occasionally during hot weather. In August or early in 
September, after being well soaked with water, the plants should 
be lifted carefully and transferred to flower pots, using a compost 
as above, with the addition of a small quantity of sand; this done, 
they should be placed in a shaded situation until they have com¬ 
menced to root into the fresh soil; when that is the case they 
must be inured to light, and by the end of September should be 
removed to the greenhouse, where they will continue to furnish a 
succession of bloom throughout the winter. 
HINTS ON LANDSCAPE GARDENING.—No. II. 
The change which took place about this time, in reference to the 
principle of laying out grounds, was productive of a great amount of 
injury to many fine places, which, denuded of their avenues and 
magnificent hedges, through adopting the new style, wore a bald and 
deserted appearance for years after. We are informed of this by the 
perusal of an old manuscript, written by a gentleman of taste at the 
time. The style of planting which was substituted in place of the 
French (or Dutch) swept away, had neither then, nor for years 
afterwards, any settled principles to guide the designer, and beyond the 
writings of Pope and Addison, who both unquestionably possessed a true 
conception of the beautiful in landscape scenery, and who described in 
their writings what it should consist of, I doubt whether those whose 
