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THE FLOEIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[August, 
compact in habit, and producing in wonderful abundance, finely-formed, large, 
sweet-scented flowers, with a firm strong calyx, which never bursts. This fine 
variety, which is exceedingly well adapted for forcing, was named Garibaldi. The 
same raiser also originated another splendid sort, which he named Clarke’s Lord 
Lyons., but this variety, although exceedingly beautiful, is in all respects very 
nearly identical with Dalton’s Plato. Some few years since, the Messrs. E. G. 
Henderson and Son sent out a most useful variety under the name of Most 
Welcome. This is also excellent for the purpose of forcing, and may be con¬ 
sidered as an almost perpetual flowerer, in addition to which it is possessed of 
all the qualities of a first-class florists’ flower, and is quite free from bursting, 
either when forced, or when grown in the open air. 
The treatment of these plants for the purpose of forcing is so very simple, 
that little need be here said upon the subject. During the month of March, or 
early in April, cuttings should be taken from plants which have been forced, and 
inserted in a compost made up of sand and sifted leaf-soil, using pots of some 
6-in. diameter ; place them in a gentle hot-bed, and in all respects treat them as 
cuttings of Verbenas, although they will not root so quickly as the latter. When 
rooted, pot them singly into 3-in. pots, and gradually harden off, and towards 
the end of May or early in June plant them out in the open border, in any con¬ 
venient situation, in rows about 15 in. apart, and about 1 ft. from plant to plant. 
While here, let them have abundance of water when required. 
During the first fortnight of October they should be carefully raised and 
potted into pots some 5 in. or 6 in. in diameter, using soil composed of turfy 
loam, enriched with a little well-rotted hot-bed manure, or leaf-soil. They 
should be placed in a shaded position for a short time, and ultimately wintered 
in a cold pit, from which they are to be introduced to the forcing-house, as may 
be required. When this is done, it is necessary that the plants be kept as close 
to the glass as possible. Perhaps no better situation can be found for them than 
a shelf on the back wall of an early vinery or peach house, at some 18 in. from 
the glass. 
With the varieties I have mentioned, viz., Common Wldte^ Claude, Garibaldi., 
Plato or Lord Lyons., and Most Welcome, assisted by a few of the perpetual or 
winter-flowering carnations and picotees, little difficulty will be found in keeping 
up an ample su]3ply of these fragrant flowers throughout the entire year.—P. 
Geieve, Culford. 
GLASS WALLS FOR HOETICULTUEAL PUEFOSES. 
LATELY read a description of what the Earth thought of the load of 
bricks and mortar heaped upon it by the builders. It was represented as 
bending down, reeling and tottering to its fall, beneath the terrible load 
piled upon its broad back by these unmerciful men,—its fair face 
scarred all over with foundations, its inside torn and distracted with huge gas, 
