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THE FLOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ August, 
- Ht is stated that the fine group of Fancy Pelargoniums shown this 
season at South Kensington by Mr. James, of Isleworth, were all worked on 
bottoms of the large-flowered kinds. This is done when the stocks have several 
strong branches, and the result is found, not only in a more robust growth in the fancy 
kinds, but also in greater longevity. The plants in question were about 3 ft. in diameter, 
perfect in form, and finely flowered. 
- ^CCOEDING to some statistics given in the Bevue de VHorticulture Belge^ 
oOG medals were given at the late Brussels International Exhibition^ of which six 
were taken by German exhibitors, thirty-eight by Englishmen, six by French 
exhibitors, twenty-eight by the Dutch, while one went to Portugal, making in all seventy- 
nine medals of various descriptions awarded to foreigners. Two hundred and twenty-seven 
medals were taken by Belgian exhibitors, of which one hundred and ten went to Ghent, 
seventy-one to Brussels, fifteen to Antwerp, thirteen to Li^ge, and the remainder to various 
other towns. 
- She following plan for preserving the Colours of Dried Flowers has 
been recommended by M. Boulade, in the Cidtivateur de la Be'gion Lyonnaise :— 
Place the flowers between several sheets of unsized paper—filtering paper ; 
place these sheets between two fire-bricks, and place the whole in a stove or oven heated to 
G0° or 70° Cent. [140° to 158° Fahr.] Change the papers after an hour. After two or three 
hours the flowers will be sutBciently dried, and their colours preserved. 
- She varieties of Epiphyllum 'worked on Peresldas make very handsome 
wall plants, and, if the stocks are planted out with other creepers, they grow 
vigorously, and may be grafted the whole height of a house in a year, and they 
thus make a grand display. When grown in pots, these plants are frequently ruined by 
draught, to which specimens that are planted out are never subject. 
-- JtN order to preserve Pencil and Indian Ink Sketches^ the following plan 
is recommended in the Scientific American. To a solution of collodion of the 
consistency used by photographers, add two per cent, of stearin from a good stearin 
candle. The drawing to be protected is then spread on a board or plate of glass, and the 
collodion poured over it as in photography. It dries in ten to twenty minutes perfectly white, 
and so thoroughly protects the drawing that it may be washed without fear of injury. 
- ®HOSE of our correspondents who find a difficulty in getting an easy¬ 
going pen would do well to obtain the Waverley Gold Pen of Messrs. Macniven 
and Cameron, Edinburgh, which is just out, and which combines most of the 
good qualities of the quill and the metal pen, without their drawbacks. 
-- iJlSiE. Teeey, of the Youngsbury Gardens, near Ware, who died in the 
early part of June, was one of our oldest exhibitors of Eoses, one of the supporters 
and showers at the first National Eose Show, and one of the best amateur pot- 
Rose growers we ever had. He died, so to speak, in harness—quietly, in his arm-chair, as he 
sat down after an afternoon’s work, arranging the bedding of the summer flower garden. 
IEdwAed Newman, F.L.S., died on June 12, aged 75. Mr. Newman 
has been so long before the public as a naturalist, and has done such excellent 
Service in popularising natural history, that his loss will be felt as a personal one 
by a large number of readers. A series of articles by him on the Natural History of Godai¬ 
ming were subsequently reprinted under the title of the Letters of Rusticus. He is, perhaps, 
best known in the gardening world by his w^orks on British Ferns. 
