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without too frequent waterings, and greatly facilitate the germination 
of the seed. After the plants have come up, prick them out, as soon 
as they can be handled, into larger pots, about an inch apart, using 
compost with a little more rich loam in it than was used in the seed- 
pans. As soon as the plants thus transplanted begin to touch each 
other, plant them out singly into small 60’s, and continue to shift 
them into pots a size larger as the fibres touch their sides, increas¬ 
ing the quantity of loam at each shift, until you get the quantity 
recommended for general cutting. With a little attention, and the 
usual treatment during the winter and spring months, they will make 
fine plants, and bloom early in summer. All plants exhibiting a 
bad, weakly, and straggling habit, should be thrown out as worth¬ 
less. 
I fully concur with the remarks made by Mr. Storey, at p. 11, 
that “ no raiser of seedlings is a proper judge of his own produc¬ 
tions and therefore, every society having for its object the pro¬ 
motion of floriculture, ought to hold out every inducement for the 
exhibition of seedlings : besides the honourable rivalry thus excited, 
it stimulates the raiser to renewed exertions. Moreover, the differ¬ 
ent productions being brought together for exhibition, the improve¬ 
ments or defects become more conspicuous when placed beside others 
of opposite character, and become also more apparent to the raiser 
himself. To those who are partial to hybridising, by judiciously 
crossing the different varieties we possess, great and striking im¬ 
provement may yet be effected, not only in the Calceolaria, but in 
most others of florist’s flowers. Let perseverance, therefore, be our 
motto ; and success will undoubtedly attend our pleasing efforts. 
Whitby. M. Woodhouse. 
TWELVE OF THE BEST CALCEOLARIAS 
RAISED BY MR. W. H. HOLMES, F.H.S. 
Holmesii, fine shape, and very large, the flowers measuring 1^ inch 
in diameter, chocolate spots on a creamy ground. 
Tricolor Superb, bright pink spots, surrounded by deep maroon 
upon a cream-coloured ground. 
Columbus, deep maroon spots on a lemon ground. 
Sir Harry Smith, creamy ground covered with rich maroon spots, 
the ground colour seen in small spots only. 
Persiani, white ground, chocolate spots. 
Washington, rich yellow ground with brown spots. 
Royal Albert, creamy ground, brown spots. 
Jenny Lind, cream ground, light maroon spots. 
Alboni, yellow ground, dark spots. 
Attraction, creamy ground, dark maroon spots. 
Duke of Cambridge, light ground chequered with dark. 
Sir T. C. Sheppard , white ground, purple spots. 
