of yellow loam, leaf-mould, and peat, with a little silver sand. 
They should then be placed in some situation where they can 
obtain a little gentle bottom heat, and when fairly started may 
be removed into an intermediate house, and thence into the 
conservatory or greenhouse. When the experiment of growing 
them as bedding plants is desired, two- or three-year-old plants 
should be used. They should be planted out in some sheltered 
situation in June; and when cut down, if it is intended to keep 
them in the ground, should be covered over with lea'-mould, 
or cocoa-nut fibre, to the depth of ten or twelve inches, with 
some external covering to throw off the wet. 
The most valuable of the garden varieties are Belangeri , 
Marie Belanger, fioribunda , and ruberrima. Belangeri is not 
dwarf; and fioribunda , although deserving of its name from 
the fact that it blooms in a very early stage, has, we were in¬ 
formed by M. Keleteer, the fault of sometimes not flowering. 
We saw a whole bed of it in the Parc de Montceaux without 
a single spike of bloom. Buberrima , on the other hand, is 
very constant in its blooming character, and we therefore think 
that it and Marie Belanger will form the most valuable varieties 
for general purposes. 
