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variety and like many other subjects herein enumerated very readily grown into neat speci¬ 
mens) ; Linaria alpina, and the Peloria form of vulgaris ; Calceolaria Kellyana; Pentste- 
mons in fine variety, both of distinct species and of the varieties of Hartwegii, &c.; 
Chelones ; Mazus Pumilio (for pans); Mimulus, Erinus, Wolfenia, Veronica (in great 
variety), and Thymus; Dracocephalums, particularly the rare grandiflorum ; Salvia argentea 
and patens, with, perhaps, a few others; Zapania nodiflora; the Acanthuses (for their foliage 
or flowers); Cyclamens, Soldanellas, Dodecatheons, Primulas, Androsaces, Statices and Acan- 
tholimons (there are several beauties of this genus on the continent which will, doubtless, 
soon find their way to us), Armeria cephalotes; hardy Orchids; Irises; Sisyrinchium 
grandiflorum; Narcissi in variety ; Leucojum, Funkia, Kniphofia, Polygonatum, Trillium, 
Lilium (not to speak of other hardy bulbs), and lastly, variegated Grasses, &c. 
There ! Those with slight knowledge of plants will have no difficulty 
in seeing what a treasure of pretty plants might be found for exhibition 
purposes amongst those enumerated, while many other suitable individuals 
and families may he found. Having thus indicated the direction in which to 
look for the kinds of plants that will best reward the cultivator for his 
trouble, and he able to hold their own in any assembly, I will hereafter 
say something of their cultivation. 
Kensington. _ W. Robinsok. 
THE CULTURE OF HORSERADISH. 
« N the course of the spring of the present year my attention was forcibly 
arrested by some able remarks on the culture of Horseradish in the 
« > Journal of Horticulture for 1867. The system advocated appeared to 
me to he so great an improvement on the old one, that I determined 
to give it a trial, in opposition to our routine method of planting 
every year a bed to come into use the third year after planting. In the 
place of digging out trenches, and filling them up as directed in the article 
alluded to, I selected a bed which last year was used for the cultivation of 
ridge Cucumbers, having been prepared in the usual way by throwing out a 
trench about 3 feet in width, and 2 feet in depth, which is filled well up 
with manure, short grass, tree leaves, or any other suitable rubbish which 
will generate a little heat. This of course was all rotted down, and early 
in April of the present year, I trenched up the middle of the bed, incorporat¬ 
ing the soil and rotten stuff together, and thus prepared it for planting. 
It appears to me that there are two principal points to he carefully 
followed out in order to insure success ; one is to properly prepare the 
sets for planting, and the other is to secure a well-prepared bed of rich soil 
for them to grow in. With regard to the preparation of the sets, at the time 
of digging up the tliree-years bed, I directed the men to save all the long 
roots about the thickness of a goosequill; these I selected as straight as I 
could get them, and shortened them to a length of 1 foot. From these 
every perceptible eye was removed except those close to the top, and also all 
the fibres with the exception of those about an inch from the bottom. 
Having thus prepared a sufficient number of roots, I made holes 9 inches 
apart in a diagonal direction from the sides to the centre of the bed suffi¬ 
ciently deep to take the roots without bending, and into these they were 
