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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
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garden ; its habit is dwarf, it has neat shining foliage, and is perfectly hardy, 
but is not so free in growth as Viola cornuta. This also requires good 
management, and plenty of well-rotted manure; indeed, it should be 
treated precisely as V. cornuta, though I believe it prefers a moist 
situation. Both plants come true from seed, although a slight difference 
in colour may sometimes be detected. On a future occasion I shall offer a 
few remarks on some other varieties. I have been credibly informed 
there is a white variety, equal in every respect to Viola cornuta, that will 
soon be in the market. This will be a real boon. 
Osberton Hall, Worksop. Edward Bennett. 
TOLA COBNUT A, of which I last season grew Wills’ variety, did 
remarkably well with us here. It was planted in two large beds, 
the centres of which were filled with Cloth of Gold and Golden 
Chain Pelargonium, surrounded by a single row of the Violet, with 
an edging of Cerastium. In May, when the beds were filled, the 
Violets were lifted with balls of soil from another bed, where they had been 
growing all the winter ; they were in full bloom at the time, and remained 
so until the end of October. The soil in which they were grown was very 
rich with leaf mould; and the seed pods were picked off, since starvation 
does not favour the blooming qualities of the plant. Viola lutea I have not 
tried, but I hope to do so this season. 
Elsenham Hall Gardens. William Plester. 
SEEDLING PINE-APPLES. 
VEBY now and then in our horticultural progress we have a seedling 
Pine-apple cropping up. Like most of my class, I own to a great 
love of the carefully crossed seedling. The more choice it may be 
the more interest it excites. I fear also that it frequently leads to 
over-attention, and not unfrequently to the premature extinction 
of many great expectations. 
Seedling Pine-apples have been always surrounded in my mind by 
a certain amount of mystery, leading the thoughts some years back, 
and inducing one to put down the raisers as persons possessed of a great 
amount of patience, and who deserved to be successful in spite of the fates. 
How very disappointing, then, is it to find that there is no mystery in the 
matter after all, and that the patient man is a myth of one’s own conjuring 
up, for seedling Pine-apples may be raised and fruited as quickly as at 
present many parties fruit their suckers and crowns. 
I must confess that any one attempting to cross or raise new Pines 
