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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ March, 
needed, cannot be equally distributed, to the great detriment, if not death, of the 
plants. 
Some discretion is necessary in potting the different varieties, many requiring 
plenty of room, and others suffering from over-potting. The cultivator will be 
guided to a decision on this point by the habit of the variety, those robust re¬ 
quiring, as a rule-, plenty of room, those less robust, a smaller space. Where one¬ 
sized pot only is used, the desired result may be obtained by placing one, two, or 
three plants in each, according to their strength. Attend constantly and care¬ 
fully to watering the plants, so long as left in the small pots.—E. S. Dodwell.^' 
THE CHINESE JUNIPER versus RABBITS, &c. 
A A KNOW not whether I am alone in my experience in regard to the immunity 
- which is enjoyed by the Chinese Juniper over many similar kinds of Coniferae 
f in reference to the injurious nibbling propensities of rabbits and hares. 
People may live for ages in old places, amidst a variety of trees or shrubs, 
grown up and assuming their full dimensions, and yet never become conversant 
with a tithe of the many vicissitudes to which young trees, however carefully 
planted and nursed, are exposed during their infancy. It is our misfortune here, 
what with sunken haw-haw fences and an extent of boundary fencing of one kind 
and another of about a mile in length, to lie quite exposed to the inroads of both 
rabbits and hares; and as I have already said, it is only those who have experi¬ 
ence in connection with “young stuff” who can realise the amount of mischief 
these creatures are capable of doing in plantations of young trees. 
My experience here is that whilst they almost destroy the Arbor Vitaes—the 
golden one more especially, Daphnes—Cneorum in particular, Wellingtonias, 
Cedrus Deodara^ and Pinuses generally, they have never yet injured the Chinese 
Juniper. It would appear, then, that the Wiododendron ponticum^ which they 
rarely nibble, the Box, and the Chinese Juniper enjoy the greatest immunity from 
their depredations. I may, however, add that they have never materially in¬ 
jured any of our Lawson Cypress, whether normal or pigmy varieties, nor do 
they appear to interfere much with Thujopsis borealis .— William Earley, 
Valentines. 
CROTON MAJESTIOUS. 
'HIS is one of the best of the Crotons, being free in growth, elegant in 
habit, and assuming a rich tone of colouring. Mr. Bull, by whom it 
was imported from the South Sea Islands, and to whom we are indebted 
for the figure, says of it:—The leaves are narrowish and elongate ; when 
mature, they are from 15 in. to 18 in. in length, including a petiole of about two 
inches ; they are linear in form, acute, sometimes bluntish. In the young growth 
they are deep green, with a golden rib and markings representing the venation. 
* Erratum.—John Smith, Bower, given in the lists of Best Picotees (p. 32) as a, purple- 
edged, should have appeared in the Red-edged class. 
