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vigorous growing fruit-trees, and tlie result lias been wliat appears to be a 
leading notion in the minds of some operators, the production of a fine-looking 
symmetrical and well-furnished tree, but year after year very little fruit, although 
frequently such trees produce a fair supply of blossoms. In such cases, from the 
vigorous habit of the tree, and the consequent copious supply of sap from the 
roots, the blossoms are thrown off, and the sap passes onwards to the production of 
more wood and foliage. Hence may be inferred the absolute necessity of establishing 
as complete a control over the growth of the roots as over that of the wood, and to 
do this in an intelligent manner we must be guided by a knowledge of the first 
principles which, in the foregoing chapters, I have endeavoured to make plain 
to the best of my ability. In succeeding chapters I hope to take the different sorts 
of wall fruits in detail, because, although there are general principles applicable 
to all, the application of them varies in detail, and it is by this that practice 
must be guided.— John Cox, Redleaf. 
LANTANAS AS BEDDING PLANTS. 
I1ESE charming plants make a most delightful feature in the flower-garden 
during the summer months, either planted out in beds or singly in borders. 
They succeed well in any rich loamy soil. They are very free growers, 
*q) and produce.their heads of flowers of various colours in great abundance. 
They will not endure much frost, and as the plants are generally very fine towards 
the autumn, some of the best should be carefully lifted with balls, potted, and 
put into a pit or frame for a few days, when they should be removed to the green¬ 
house, where they will continue in flower for several weeks. They are readily 
increased by cuttings, put into sandy soil, and plunged in a little bottom-heat. A 
stock of cuttings should be struck in the autumn, and wintered on the shelves of 
a greenhouse ; or the old plants, kept over winter, if put into an early vinery, will 
quickly furnish an abundance of young shoots, which, if taken off, inserted in sandy 
soil, and plunged in a little heat, will soon strike, and if potted off will make 
good plants for putting out-doors. Some of the varieties are so very striking and 
beautiful, and are so useful for cutting, that no garden should be without them, 
more especially as they are so readily increased and so easily wintered.—M. Saul, 
Stourton. 
CHAMAEROPS EXOELSA. 
MONG the hardier of the Fan Palms, the first place must bo assigned to 
the gonus Chamcerops , of which several species arc commonly cultivated. 
The subject of the accompanying illustrations, C. excelsci , is a native of 
the middle and south of China ; it has a stem of from 8 ft. to 12 ft. high, 
bearing leaves which are digitately multipartite, and attached by petioles which are 
unarmed or denticulate, and it produces dioecious flowers. The accompanying 
figures, indeed, which originally appeared in the Revue Ilorticole , were prepared by 
M, Carriere in order to show the very great difference which exists between the 
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