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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
The collections of Brompton Stocks are always imported from the Con¬ 
tinent, though so much seed is saved in England. The scarlet Brompton 
generally produces seed pretty plentifully, but the white and purple are 
both often very scarce. A very fine strain of the scarlet colour is known 
as the Scarlet Giant, and when it can be obtained true the flowers are very 
fine, and the colour in keeping with the quality of the flowers. 
Some cultural notes must be given next month, as this paper has grown 
into an almost immoderate length. 
Quo. 
WINTERING BEDDING PELARGONIUMS. 
On paying a visit a short time since to one of the largest gardens in our 
neighbourhood, I was much struck with the manner in which the gardener 
wintered his large stock of struck cuttings of Bedding Pelargoniums. Having 
to bed out about twenty thousand plants every year, and the accommodation 
for them being limited, he was driven to adopt various shifts and con¬ 
trivances, and this is one of them. 
His Pelargonium cuttings are all struck in the autumn in the open 
ground. When well rooted they are carefully taken up with as much root 
as possible, a handful of moss is placed around the roots, and tied with 
bast, and they are then stowed away as closely as possible in frames. 
Thrice the number can thus be housed that could be stored away when potted 
in large 60’s, and the plants withstand damp even better than in pots. In 
spring they are turned out in a sheltered situation, some loose fine soil is 
shaken well about them, and what little protection they may require is 
given; likewise now and then a good soaking overhead through the rose. 
By this mode of treatment the plants required for the beds will be found to 
have some fine balls of roots, which far more readily attach themselves to 
the soil than those turned out of pots. 
The gardener summed up the advantages of the system thus :—“ You 
want neither pots nor mould; you may stow three in the place of one; 
may throw them about and break nothing; may remove them with great 
ease; may save a large amount of expense and labour; and finally, may turn 
out as good plants as you could from pots.” To amateurs especially this 
simple plan of wintering bedding Pelargoniums, must greatly commend 
itseif. A. D. 
NEW PLANTS. 
The cry is, Still they come ! We might fancy that the supply must at 
least diminish, if not altogether fail, when w~e consider the vast number of 
the novelties which have been added to our collections during the last quarter 
of a century. For we do not now speak of New Plants in the shape of 
Seedlings. Come they do, and come they must, year after year, in myriads, 
leaving “ something accomplished,” some advance made or fresh stand-point 
gained, as the memento of each revolving season; but we rather in this paper 
refer to New Plants imported from their native homes, and of these we find 
no diminution in the number of those which have, during the past season, 
been brought under the notice of the public. 
Amongst the many it is of course to be expected that a large proportion 
will not rise above, if even they reach up to mediocrity ; but there are some 
plants of sterling merit, which will leave their mark on the year 1866, and 
