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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ November, 
they are left, a ring of sharp cinder-ashes put round the stools at the end of October will 
serve to keep the slugs at bay. To propagate them, take the small side growths, which are 
produced at the end of the summer, carefully remove them as near the stem of the parent 
plant as possible, and put them singly into small pots, or a few round the sides of a large 
pot, and they will soon take root. In this manner fine varieties can be increased. The 
parent plants can be divided, but this is best done at the end of March, just when the 
plants are getting active. Wlien divided they invariably grow away safely. 
- those who have to meet heavy demands for cut flowers—and their 
names are legion—the dwarf race of Early-jlowering Bedding Chrysanthemmns^ 
which are making their way into the nurserymen’s lists, are to be strongly recom¬ 
mended where a large supply of cut flowers has to be kept up. They prove to be fine 
border flowers, having a low bushy habit, are lavish in their production of flowers, come 
into bloom about June, and continue in blossom until frost puts an end to their beauty in 
autumn. If propagated by cuttings in spring, and grown on under liberal treatment, 
they make sturdy plants about 15 in. high, and some of the sorts about the same through 
—invaluable plants for cutting from. If grown in quantities in pots, they would prove very 
serviceable substitutes for failures in the bedding-out. Mr. Parker has got together a 
fine collection of them, from which a dozen good varieties of different colours will be 
found in the following :—Delphine Caboche, Illustration, Gassy, Frederick Pele, Jardin 
des Plantes, in three varieties, pink and white, yellow, and white respectively ; Madame 
Pecoul, in two varieties, light and dark rose; Nanum, Scarlet Gem, and Precocite, One 
called Madame Domage, which we have seen at Mr. Cannell’s, is a very dwarf free-blooming 
yellow, of first-class merit. 
- a cure for Worms on Lawns^ Messrs. Eutley and Silverlock, of 412 
Strand, have introduced from China a soap, said to be made from the seed of the 
Tea plant. It is very efficacious dissolved in water, in the proportion of 1 lb. of the 
soap to Avater sufficient to saturate a square yard of turf. The soap has somewhat the 
appearance and smell of coarse oilcake. 
- SiPORTiVENEss seems to be a feature inherent in the Zonal Pelargonium 
Vesuvms. This variety is justly popular as one of the very best of the scarlets for 
bedding purposes. From it sported the semi-double Wonderful, a variety of the 
same colour, and having all the good properties of its parent, such as dwarf and free- 
flowering habit, with the doubleness of the flowers superadded. Then came New Life, a 
scarlet with white stripes, which is very constant to its markings, and when well 
established is really a striking flower. Still more recently, w^e hear of a salmon-lake 
sport, from the same old sort, in every way identical with it except in colour. We hear, too, 
that Mr. Cannell has just obtained a fiu’ther advance towards a Yellow Felargonium, in 
the form of two brilliant flame-scarlet varieties, both of which are marked with distinct 
rays of yellow. Jealousy, which has hitherto been the most auburn of our pale orange- 
scarlets, is said to have a dull and ineffective appearance by the side of these new-comers. 
- ®HE Irish papers state that Amaryllis Achermanni has this season been 
flowering in the open border at Glasnevin. One of the familiar glories of the sunny 
border during the autumn season is the so-called Belladonna Lily, A maryllis Bella¬ 
donna, Avhich is the only one of the magnificent genus to Avhich it belongs that has hitherto 
been induced to display its beautiful flowers out-of-doors. N®w it appears that a magni¬ 
ficent variety of A. Ackernianni, named sjplendidum, has been flowering finely in the open 
boi’der in front of the central glass range at Glasnevin, where it formed a striking object, 
far eclipsing A. Belladonna. Here is a hint for further trials in the same direction. 
- jllow that the Tuherous-rooted Begonias have become so numerous, 
and prove so valuable for- decorative purposes, both indoors and out, it is 
important to know the best mode of keeping them safely through the dormant 
winter season. Mr. Smith, of Newry, writing from experience, says the tubers should be 
kept cool and comfortable through the AAo’nter j they keep very Avell in the pots in which 
