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in a cold frame with closed lights for a week or so, and then, the lights 
being taken off, given a good drenching with rain or soft water, having 
a fine rose on the watering pot. Let the water get thoroughly dried off 
the grass or foliage ; put on the lights at night, so as just to keep off the 
slight frosts that may occur, till the plants have got well established in 
their pots, after which they will he hardier and better if exposed in all 
dry weather, covering only in damp or rainy periods, till near midwinter, 
when they will require a little more protection at night, besides being kept 
moderately dry up to the end of February or the beginning of March. 
Huddersfield. J. Hepwoeth. 
THE CULTURE OF EPIPHYLLUM TRUNCATUM. 
'-HEN well grown, this plant is one of the most showy decorative of 
the stove plants which flower in the dreary months of November 
and December. I had a collection of different varieties in flower 
here, and most beautiful objects they were, mixed with other 
plants in a warm greenhouse. They range about 3 feet in height 
and with the exception of about 6 inches at the top, they are a complete 
mass of flowers to the bottom of the pot. The young plants were procured 
from the Messrs. Lee, of Hammersmith, who obtained, I believe, some of 
the varieties from the Continent. I am not aware what stocks or stock 
they have been grafted or inarched on, but they seem to grow vigorously. 
The following varieties are the best and most distinct in colours that have 
flowered here—namely :— elegans, magnificuin , Russellianum, superbum, trun- 
catum violaceum, and liuckerianmn. 
My collection has been managed so as to keep the plants rather dry 
after they have done flowering, and not to excite them to grow before June 
or July. At that period they are repotted, the old balls being well reduced. 
The soil used is richer than what is generally given to succulent plants— 
namely, some well-rotted deer dung, mixed with broken lime rubbish, and 
light sandy loam. They are then kept in a warm moist stove to make 
their young growths, and generally flower about the middle of November. 
Welbeck. William Tilleey 
NOVELTIES, &c., AT FLOWER SHOWS. 
T the meeting of the Floral Committee on the 4tli of April, Mr. 
Turner produced two groups of Auriculas , one of show, the other 
of Alpine varieties. With but two exceptions, the former consisted 
of kinds already in commerce. One of these was Competitor, a green- 
edged flower, with very large and bold pips; the other Colonel 
Champneys, a fine grey-edged variety, shown by Mr. Turner last year (see 
plate). Both were awarded second-class certificates. The Alpine varieties 
