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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ November, 
tlie purpose. It will also afford loads of buds for table decoration, and for 
cutting, wlien others are all gone. There is, moreover, no better rose for making 
rose-water; if gathered with the hip or pip, it is here considered equal to the 
Old Perpetual. 
A- hedge of from 5 ft. to 6 ft. high wants very little support, and quite as 
little training or pruning, clipping at the sides and top to the required height 
being all that it gets here. For bedding, unless high, it does not answer, since 
it does not succeed with pegging. Any one can fancy the beauty of such amass 
rising up from the grass 6 ft., and covered with great loose clusters of crimson, 
ever expanding. It propagates as easily as the Currant or Gooseberry.—J. 
Fleming, Cliveden. 
ERANTPIEMUM PULCHELLUM FOR WINTER BLOOMING. 
W late years the demand on some gardeners for a continuous supply of cut 
flowers is truly astonishing. I have had my share, and have had to make 
both ends meet in some fashion or other. The latest difficulty I found 
was to be prepared, at a moment’s notice, with certain colours; for the 
latest absurdity was to have certain colours to go with certain dinner-services, or 
to have flowers for the hair of the same colour as those of the dresses to be worn. 
Now amongst forced flowers, blues are rare, therefore I have found this favourite 
old plant, the Eranthemum pulchellum , is very desirable. When struck from 
euttings in the early part of February, and highly cultivated, they will make nice 
bushes by the month of August, when they should be removed from the stove to 
the cool greenhouse, to check further excitement to growth. Then, if they are 
introduced to a lively temperature of from 65° to 70° in the early part of 
November, and if possible, provided with bottom-heat, they will blossom beauti¬ 
fully through December and January. After flowering, if they are cut down, 
disrooted, and carried through the same routine as above recommended for the 
cuttings, they will make better bushes still by the autumn following, and bearing 
more flowers in proportion to the foliage. These plants delight in abundance of 
moisture at the root, and if the pots are small, they are better kept in pans of 
water when in flower. The soil should be about equal proportions of loam, peat, 
and leaf-mould.— Edward Bennett, Babley Gardens , Herts. 
MR. RIVERS’ NEW FRUITS. 
FEW years ago, I determined on giving the Peaches and Nectarines from 
Sawbridgewortli a trial, and have now for two years taken crops from those 
first sent out. Of these, five are so excellent, that besides strongly recom¬ 
mending them, I will briefly detail their respective merits :— 
Pavers' Early « York Peach: Tender, rich, and juicy ; large and bears freely. 
Ripens ten days earlier than the old Royal George. 
Lord Napier Nectarine: Large, rich, juicy, and crops heavily. It is the earliest 
