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M.R.C.S. much. I shall be glad to see him here, and I will undertake 
to show a fine array of the only four things to which I pay any attention, 
Peaches, Roses, Raspberries, and Strawberries; I never had the second 
and fourth so strong and good. Souvenir d’un Ami has opened the 
season to-day with three blooms; the Geant, Triornphe de Paris, 
redden ; and within a few days the following novelties will bloom out 
of doors—La Boule d’Or, Triornphe de Lyons, Victor Verdier, Madame 
Boll, Lord Nelson, L’Elegante, Alexandrine Belfroy, and Madame Louise 
Carique; the three last and second are sure to please. I have besides 
Vaisse, Montceau, Melanie, Furtado, Amiens, Violettes, Terre-Noir, 
Eugene Verdier, Crapelet, Bonnaire; they appear to be nice plants, 
but are not budded. H.P. Parmentier has bloomed, and is of fine form, 
thick and smooth petal, rose and silver; her leaf is thick and clean, an 
item too much overlooked. Walnut leaves I do not like. 
I could not end without a word about a Rose. Manetti is the first 
stock in the world. 
May 10. W. F. Radclyffe. 
EFFECT OF FUNGI ON ROOTS. 
The following may possibly be of interest. In a garden where I am 
directing some improvements was a large Portugal Laurel, which, with¬ 
out any apparent cause, had gradually decayed. Upon examining the ' 
soil, however, about its roots large patches of a yeasty-looking fungus 
were conspicuous; and, on still further scrutiny, the half rotten stump 
of •a tree felled some two or three years ago, revealed itself. The Laurel 
has just been grubbed up, and on nearly the whole of its roots are 
traces of the Mycelium of a fungus. This has, I imagine, killed the 
tree, the primary cause, however, being the decaying tree stump. 
AMARYLLISES. 
To me it is something extraordinary that, while florists are picking up 
everything in the way of new Cinerarias, Calceolarias, &c., so very few 
individuals grow Amaryllises; and yet they are, perhaps, more easily 
managed than either of the above favourite classes, and no comparison 
can be drawn between the superior beauty of our Amaryllis, when in 
good bloom, and either the Cineraria or Calceolaria. With the Amaryllis 
there is a nobleness and grandeur which leaves the others far in the 
distance, and, besides these advantages, very many of them possess a 
delicious fragrance. I only wish Mr. Turner or the Messrs. Henderson 
would grow and exhibit them, when we should soon get them known 
and popularised among the professed florists. 
To grow them, a low pit with a hot-water pipe round it is all that is 
required. When growing, they delight in a warm moist atrnosphere, 
with plenty of light, and a slight bottom heat, although this is' not 
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