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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ JANUARY, 
panionship of my family and friends, with music, conversation, or listening to 
the immortal stories of some one of our best authors, I give to my pets the 
little attentions needed, and which their subsequent development so well repays, 
memory meantime recalling all the glories of the past, and imagination picturing 
the beauties of the future. 
In my experience, no severity of cold has been injurious, unless the plants 
have been previously tenderised by injudicious confinement, but guard sedulously 
from cutting icy winds. During severe frosts, one, or at most two, mats will be 
ample protection. These should bo allowed to remain on during the day, to 
prevent excitement from the brighter light usual at such seasons. Do not, how¬ 
ever, exclude air ; tilt the lights of the frames on the leeward side. 
If not already done, place the compost for blooming at an early date under 
cover, choosing a dry day for the operation, and search narrowly in its perform¬ 
ance for every species of vermin, slugs, wireworm, or the common earthworm.— 
E. S. Dodwell, 11 Chatham Terrace. Larhhall Rlse.^ Clapham. 
]\IYOSOTIS DISSITIFLORA. 
^ THINK it is not generally known that this Forget-me-not is one of the 
finest winter-flowering plants we have for the decoration of the conservatory 
or greenhouse, and one, too, that can so easily be worked up into a large 
stock. The plan we practise here—and we flower three hundred potsful—is 
to plant some stock-plants, under a north wall, in light rich soil, some time in 
May or June, and when they start to grow, wo cut all the flower-stems off. If 
all goes well with them, they will bo in fine condition for taking off the cuttings 
about the end of September. Of these wo put about ten in a 5-in. pot, and 
stand them in a cold frame, where, with a little attention as to shading and 
watering, they root in a very short time, and may afterwards be kept in a cold 
airy frame until winter sets in. Then the treatment which Cyclamens or Primulas 
require will bloom this Myosotis to perfection ; and when massed with such things 
as forced Crocuses, Snowdrops, Lily-of-the-Valley, or indeed any small-flowering 
plants, the effect is beautiful, and well repays the expense or trouble required to 
produce it.—J. MoIndoe, Hutton Hall Gardens, Guishorough, 
ORMSON’S UPRIGHT TUBULAR CORNISH BOILER. 
' jOT-WATER boilers may bo classed amongst garden necessaries, and hence 
the advantage of those which combine the various elements of efficiency— 
which appears to be the case with Ormson’s Upright Tubular Cornish 
Boiler, of which a front view is subjoined. This new boiler, which is a 
combination of the tubular and Cornish boilers, and is designed to be used in a 
vertical position, consists of two semicircular or dome-shaped ends, connected by 
short lengths of pipe, and when so connected it stands on a stout iron leg with a 
broad foot, as shown in the annexed front view, the furnace-bars, which drop in 
on a level with the upper edge of the lower dome-shaped piece, being movable, 
