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repeated cropping, with ingredients proper for each class of plants. Farm¬ 
yard manure should not be used, except for variegated Geraniums, and other 
variegated plants; fine foliage being the chief object with these. Decayed 
vegetable matters may be safely used when the soil wants enriching; decayed 
cowdung may also be used with good results. It is not necessary for me to 
dwell on all the various substances that may be used for enriching the soil: 
by securing a good depth of soil, and by adding plenty of decayed vegetable 
matters, when these are needed, the most satisfactory results may be obtained 
in the growth and flowering of the plants in the flower garden. 
Where it is requisite to have a very early display, and where a late one is 
not of so much importance, decomposed farmyard manure may be used, not 
only for variegated Geraniums, but also Verbenas, Lobelias, &c. It should be 
kept near the surface that they may soon root into it; by this means they will 
soon cover the beds, with ordinary care in other respects, and if the season be 
fine, an early display is obtained; but this display can rarely be kept up until 
the autumn. Hence, where a late display is required, as it is in general in the 
country, it is best to aim at moderate instead of robust growth; and to secure 
satisfactory results in this respect it is best to rely on the depth of soil and the 
moderate use of vegetable substances. Where a late display is necessary, and 
Petunias, Verbenas, Cupheas, &c., are used, no farmyard manure should be put 
into the beds, as, if the season should be hot with occasional heavy showers of 
rain, they will soon run into foliage. The beds for scarlet Geraniums should 
not be rich, certainly not manured with farmyard manure, as in ordinary 
seasons they are inclined to run too much into foliage; young plants in par¬ 
ticular are very liable to run much into foliage, especially if planted in very 
rich soil, if the season be any way warm. Where they can be had, old plants 
always do best—they do not run so much into leaf, and they flower much more 
abundantly than young plants. A friend of mine has a quantity of scarlets 
upwards of twenty years old; for many years he planted them in beds, but 
being now too large for that purpose, he makes two rows of them in his ribbon- 
borders, and I need not say how effective they are every season. Calceolarias 
do well in beds that have plenty of peat or leaf soil and river sand ; some of 
the latter put around the stems of the plants when bedded out will preserve 
them from rotting off. The beds occupied with bulbs ought to be prepared in 
the autumn previous to their being planted; they will only require forking 
over now when the bulbs are lifted. The other beds, not so occupied, should 
now all be dug two feet deep, and enriched with vegetable soil if they require it. 
Stourton. M. Saul. 
THE PEAR AND ITS VARIETIES. 
( Continued from 'page 89.) 
AMADOTTE D’ETE. 
Identification. —Christ Vollst. Pom. i. 520. 
Synonyme. —Somer Amadott, Christ Voll. Pom. i. 520. 
This variety is mentioned only by Christ, and I have never seen the fruit 
of it. It is said to be of a flat shape, 2|- inches wide, and 2 high. Skin 
yellow, brownish red dotted with bright yellow on the side exposed to the sun, 
and covered with grey dots on the shaded side; the w r hole marked with 
patches of russet. Eye placed in a shallow depression. Stalk 2 inches long, 
straight, deeply inserted. Flesh crisp and gritty, sweet, and aromatic. 
A third-rate Pear, ripe in the middle and end of August. 
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