to sift it very finely, and a good proportion of drainage should 
be used. The plant should be inserted about an inch below the 
surface, the pans filled up, and watered with a fine rose, with 
water off which the chill has been taken ; they should then he 
replaced in the frame, and placed so as to receive bottom heat; 
this is only applicable to those which are started early in the 
season, those started later will answer without so much heat 
during their growth; it is well to shade them, and there is 
no place in which they flourish better than in a late vinery. 
When the plants are four or five inches in length, they should 
be stopped in order to cause them to break freely, and when it 
becomes necessary, they should be tied out; they may, when they 
show flower, be brought into the conservatory or drawing-room, 
where their profusion of bloom will not fail to excite admira¬ 
tion. When the bloom is over they should be placed in a shady 
place, watered two or three times in order to induce the tubers 
to swell, then cut down, and the pots laid on their sides under 
a stage where they will obtain not a lower temperature than 
35° or 40°. 
Mauve Queen is thus described in the Proceedings of the 
Royal Horticultural Society, from the Floral Committee of 
which body it has received a first-class certificate :—“ A fine and 
Showy, large-flowered variety, the flowers of which measured 
three inches across and were of a crimson-purple, somewhat 
redder about the eye, and thickly spotted below the eye with 
crimson dots on yellow ground. The flowers were larger than 
those of longifiora major , more richly marked about the edge, 
and of remarkable substance, rendering it a most desirable ad¬ 
dition to this family.” 
