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THE FLORIST. 
CORREA VAR. BRILLIANT 
I raised from Correa Grevillii, crossed with Correa speciosa. I 
grow them in a mixture of leaf-mould, peat, and my common gar¬ 
den-soil, which is a rich sandy loam, manured until it is nearly 
black. I propagate the Correa by cuttings, also by grafting and 
inarching. They like a cool greenhouse, and w T ill bear without 
much injury four or five degrees of frost. The improvement 
effected in the colour of the foliage, as well as that of the flower, 
makes this a very desirable variety for the dull months of the year. 
One very agreeable feature in this species of plant is, the repeated 
succession of flowers they bear. 
I am sorry that I could not supply you with a better specimen to 
make your figure from. I have seedlings of great variety, from a 
light cream colour to that of the Illustration. 
Nursery , Battersea. N. Gaines. 
ON THE CULTIVATION OF THE PANSY. 
BY MR. TURNER, CHALVEY, NEAR WINDSOR. 
(Continued from p. 15.) 
MAY. 
This is the month when the Pansy-grower will be fully repaid for 
all his previous trouble. Those in pots and in the autumn-planted 
beds will be in full bloom throughout this month; and if the plants 
are such as they ought to be, from the grower having adopted the 
treatment we have recommended, the blooms will be large and fine, 
unless cold winds, or frosty nights, should make them curled and 
rough, and so disfigure the best kinds. Hence the reason of our 
recommending pot-culture, as a certain plan of obtaining good 
blooms at an early period of the year. 
Those in pots will now require watering more freely, that is, if 
the plants have done well, and made a vigorous growth : at every 
alternate watering we give them weak liquid manure. Watering, 
as well as the other operations enumerated, must, in a great measure, 
be left to the skill and judgment of the cultivator, to perform earlier 
or later than the time specified in these general directions. 
Water in the morning until the weather has become settled and 
warm; when it is so, the afternoon or evening will be preferable. 
We make a point of going over the plants with the water-pot 
once a day; but in drying weather, we run our eye over them two 
or three times a day, and water as many as have become dry; for 
which purpose, a pot of liquid manure is kept standing by the frame. 
If only one plant requires it, it does not go without. 
These little details, when fully carried out, cause the blooms from 
some gardens to be so much finer than the same kinds from other 
