1875.] 
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rich soil of a sandy nature. Many of the varieties will stand through an open, 
mild winter, but they suffer more or less in severe ones. The past winter made 
clean work of all in the borders here. A stock of cuttings should always be 
struck in the autumn ; these may be wintered in a pit or frame, and should be 
kept near the glass, so that they may have plenty of light; they should also 
have plenty of air, and be kept rather dry, and the frost should be excluded. 
With a little attention they are easily wintered. When there is plenty of con¬ 
venience they should be potted off early in spring; they will then make good 
plants to put out early in May, and will soon commence flowering, continuing to 
do so until injured by frost. They may also be planted at once in the open 
borders out of the cutting-pans, and will do very well, but do not come into 
flower quite so soon as when potted off.—M. Saul, Stourton. 
EUPHORBIA FULGENS. 
f CAN fully endorse all that Mr. Earley says in favour of this plant. We were 
cutting fine large wreaths of it for six months or more in the season, and 
f could have done so for a month longer if required. I think, that to have this 
plant in a really fine condition, it should be allowed liberty to run freely 
at the roots. We had here about 2 ft. 6 in. of a wall above a narrow shelf 
which we wanted to hide. We therefore procured galvanised wire of the 
above width, and set it on edge on the shelf, about 6 in. from the wall; also 
pieces of wood 1 in. by 1 in., of the same width as the wire, with a small staple 
driven in at one end, the other set upright on the shelf. A piece of wire was 
fixed to the staple at the other end, this wire being long enough to reach to the 
wall-plate, to which it was fixed. A small nail placed behind each of the wooden 
uprights at the bottom kept them in their place. The galvanised wire being now 
reared on edge, we packed a quantity of rough moss against it on the inside, which 
kept the soil from dropping out. When this was done, we filled up with good light 
rich loam, and pricked in small pieces of Selaginella denticulata and Adiantum all 
over. On the top the Euphorbia fulgens was planted, and trained up the glass 
(Ipomoea Horsfallice , Clerodendrons , and many other things will suggest them¬ 
selves), when from October to April we were able to gather something to help 
fill the cut-flower basket, and something for button-hole making, as well as large 
wreaths of the Euphorbia for the hair.—A. Henderson, Thoresby. 
NEW HYBRID HELLEBORES. 
jN a very interesting paper communicated some time since to the Gardeners 1 
Chronicle (1874, i., 118), Professor Karl Koch published some geographical 
and other notes on some of the species and hybrid forms of Hellebores, of 
which notes we reprint the following abstract:— 
“ I observe that the Christmas Rose, Helleborus ntger , is still held in great esteem by the 
English ; with ns it has long been forgotten, and is rarely found even in cottage gardens or 
in sequestered towns, where, however, it might still play an important part, for, on account 
of its flowering at Christmastide, it is connected with all sorts of traditions. It has, moreover, 
