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way, as well or better than in tlie usual manner. Tlie bottom of the pots used 
for these purposes being large, there would be no difficulty in inserting the 
crowns of the plants. The chief advantages would be greater facility of access, 
and ease in gathering the crops properly. The drawback would be that the 
mouths of the pots would require a larger covering than their base. Mr. 
Eendle’s round hand-lights will probably be found the best invention yet offered 
for these purposes. In the case of Seakale a slate would be substituted for 
the glass roof. The wide longitudinal protectors, again, would be admirable for 
forcing single or double rows of Asparagus. Heat could readily be thrown in 
through the sides, while the glass roof could not fail to impart colour and 
flavour. However, I must stop, or the charge will justly lie against me of 
beginning by recommending common garden pots for the protection of the tops 
of plants, and ending by abandoning such appliances in favour of something 
better. But the gardening world is wide, and there is room enough for all such 
expedients, and as many more as can equal or excel them in merit or usefulness, 
—D. T. Fish, F.E.H.S., Hardwiclce^ Bury St. Edmund's. 
CUPRESSUS LAWSONIANA ERECTA YIRIDIS. 
HE history of this beautiful Coniferous evergreen, of which examples were 
recently sho-wn by Mr. Anthony Waterer, at South Kensington, is, as we 
learn from Mr. Waterer, as follows :—It was a seedling raised and selected 
at Knaphill, from the original batch of Cupressus Lawsoniana imported 
from California. The original plant, which is consequently about 16 or 17 years 
old, was grown on for several years, with the object of fully testing its merits 
before it was distributed, and eventually, when its character was satisfactorily 
established, it was propagated and partially sold under the name of C. Lavosomcma 
erecta. Of late years, however, and especially since the destructive frost of 1867, 
its great merit has been more distinctly recognized, and examples of it submitted 
to the Floral Committee on the 16th of February last, were unanimously awarded 
a First-class Certificate. On this occasion, in order to distinguish it from other 
distinct forms which have been named erecta, the Committee gave it the desig¬ 
nation, erecta viridis, as marking one of its most distinctive features. 
There can be no question that this is one of the very finest hardy coniferous 
evergreens which has been introduced to our gardens—truly and emphatically 
evergreen, for despite any amount of cold or heat, damp or drought, it maintains 
throughout, from the circumference to the centre, a hue of the freshest and 
brightest green. But this truly evergreen character is not its only merit. Its 
narrow, erect, slightly pyramidal, almost columnar mode of growth, is un¬ 
approached for symmetry and beauty by any other of our hardy evergreens ; while 
the slender ramifications of its close-set compact branches and branchlets give it 
a degree of refinement which is not often seen amongst hardy subjects. This 
Knaphill Cypress we have ourselves watched for several seasons, and can bear 
