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THE ELORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ November, 
grow almost anywhere, and with very little attention, unless, indeed, it is wanted 
for exhibition purposes. 
Mr. Dean is a little inexact in stating that no striped Marigolds have been 
exhibited in London this season ; for my friend Mr. Dodwell staged twenty-four 
blooms at South Kensington in July, of fine quality, which the plants keep up 
well during the season. 
To grow them for exhibition, I sow the seed in heat early in February, and 
keep the plants growing on till they flower. I then select the best, and destroy 
the singles and the yellows. I pot the plants I have chosen from the seed-box or 
bed, three into a 4-in. pot, using a moderately rich compost and larger pots, as 
the plants get on. Here and there a plant will throw flowers pre-eminently more 
beautiful than usual, and of such a one I take cuttings, and strike them in gentle 
heat. They will root in a few days. From these, dwarf plants can be grown, as 
I have a bed this year where the plants are not more than a foot high, and have 
been beautiful all the season. Cuttings taken off in July can be propagated, and 
will keep through the winter in a cool, dry house. The flower-buds should be 
picked off, and the plants kept clear of green-fly. I use a solution of Gishurst 
compound for that purpose, but a solution of soft-soap will answer just as well. 
I always plant out the first week in June, in ground trenched and manured 
the previous winter. After planting they will require little or no attention for 
some time, just a shoot or two pinched out to lighten the plant. For exhibition 
they need strong food, liquid manure, and copious waterings, besides disbudding 
hard, and allowing only one flower to a stem. 
In the present season I have had them 3 in. across, and proportionately deep 
in the flower. This, in my opinion, is a point to be most particularly kept in 
view, namely, to secure flowers of good depth. Formerly they were very flat, but 
they are now high and full, more after the model of the Ranunculus.. 
The aroma that arises from these striped Marigolds may be distasteful to 
some, whilst, on the other hand, to others, myself among the number, it is a 
most delicious scent. 
To cottagers who have just a small plot, no flower that grows will give more 
satisfaction than this, as from the time of planting till the frost comes it is’ one 
continued blaze of bloom. It is also suitable, in its dwarf state, for window- 
boxes, where I have seen it do remarkably well.— Geo. Rudd, Undercliffe, 
Bradford. 
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CHAMaSDOEEA FORMOSA. 
f^E are indebted to Mr. Bull for the annexed figure of a very handsome 
and recently introduced new palm, of which he gives the following 
¥ description :—“ A very elegant and graceful palm, introduced through 
Mr. Carder, from Tolima, South America. It belongs to the pinnate¬ 
leaved series. The petiole is smooth, with two channels on the face. The 
segments of the pinnately-parted leaves are very numerous, alternate, linear- 
