THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION.— June 3, 1850. 
flowers of a rich self-crimson; good habit, and most 
abundant bloomer. Excellent for pots or for beddiug-out. 
7. Lemonade (Cole).'—Dense trusses of large flowers, 
of a beautiful clear lemon colour; habit good. 
8. Orange Boven (Cole).—Trusses large and dense; 
colour a singular shade of rich orange-brown; habit 
very dwarf. A good bedding variety, and also very 
showy in pots. 
9. Orange Perfection. —Trusses very large; flowers of 
a fine form, and rich orange colour. A fine variety for 
the conservatory. 
10. Pallida (Cole). — Trusses dense; flowers well j 
formed, and of a clear canary colour; habit dwarf and 
good. A very pleasing and distinct variety. 
11. Pilot (Cole).—Trusses very dense; flowers of a 
rich crimson-brown. A most abundant bloomer, and 
very distinct. 
12. l r ezzosa (Introduced from the Continent). — 
Trusses large; flowers large also; ground - colour a 
bright orange, with crimson blotches. Very striking 
and distinct. 
Twelve Selected Oldeii Varieties. 
1. Ajax. —Trusses very large ; habit dwarf and com¬ 
pact; colour a beautiful golden-yellow, with a brown 
blotch in the centre of each flower. A showy and beau¬ 
tiful variety. 
2. Beauty of Montreal. — Trusses very large; an 
abundant bloomer, and good habit; colour a rich, 
shaded crimson. 
3. Brilliant. —Trusses large; flowers large also, and 
of a rich bronzy-red colour. A distinct variety. 
4. Conqueror. —Flowers well formed, and very large; 
an abundant bloomer; colour the richest crimson 
imaginable. Vastly superior to Sultan. I saw this 
variety beautifully bloomed, very lately, at E. Smith, ! 
Esq.’s, Fir Dale, near Sheffield. 
5. Crimson King. —As its name imparts, this variety 
is a rich, dark crimson; habit dwarf and robust; 
flowers large, and of a good form. 
0. Golden Cap. —Large flowers, and well formed; the 
lower part of a rich dark maroon; the upper part or 
cap of a deep yellow. A distinct variety. 
7. Magnificent. — Rich crimson lower limb, with 
yellow crown ; flowers large and finely formed. 
8. Model. —Very dense, dwarf habit; flowers a rich 
brown, shading otf to orauge-yellovv at the edges. A 
distinct and beautiful variety. 
9. Purity. —Singular in colour, which is a pure paper 
white. The plant branches close to the ground, j 
heuco it is well adapted to bedding-out, but the soil 
should be rather poor and very sandy. 
10. Surprise. — Curious in colour, namely, a bright 
orange-crimson ; good habit, and distinct. 
11. Vivid. —A variety of a dwarf, compact habit; 
crimson ground-colour, with golden crown ; very showy 
and distinct. 
12. Wellington Hero. —Trusses largo and compact, 
and of a golden-yellow ^colour; habit dwarf and com- ! 
pact, and a most abuudaut bloomer. T. Appleby. 
{To be continued.) 
CALCEOLARIAS AND CHEIRANTIIUS 
MARSHA LLII. 
As my last article was devoted to floral matters, I 
again resume the subject, confiuing my remarks to such 
things as the present season has givcu rise to. 
In the first place, I may mention that Calceolarias 
have long been an especial favourite with me in the 
bedding-out line, more especially the hard-wooded or 
shrubby oues. The herbaceous ones, though more 
showy at certain times, and coming earlier into bloom, 
are not without their advantages, but they lack that 
endless succession which makes the shrubby ones so 
valuable; and though some of the intermediate ones 
(by combining a portion of the good qualities of both) 
are valuable in their way, it is seldom that we see such 
a regular succession of bloom as we would wish to see 
during the summer months; while the liability there is 
in such plants dying off entirely is a sad drawback to 
their other good qualities ; and after such varieties have 
been three or four years in cultivation they become 
sickly and difficult to propagate from—in fact, they 
cease to thrive. Witness the few cases in which Cal¬ 
ceolaria Kentish Hero is found in a good state, while 
Sultan is falling fast into a similar consumptive habit. 
As a remedy to this, seedlings are of great avail, but 
this cannot well be depended on for all the purposes 
that constitute a bedding-plant. Its true colours can¬ 
not be recognized until it has flowered, and after that 
we may often date the insiduous disease which eventually 
carries it off. 
As a remedy to this, there has been a praiseworthy 
attempt to improve the shrubby species, which in some 
cases has been done, while in others it has been at¬ 
tended with a debilitated constitution, or, what is more 
often the case, a cross with the herbaceous varieties 
has resulted in a good, useful sort, about mid-way be¬ 
tween the parents in constitutional habit or vigour. 
These promise to be useful accessories to the flower- 
garden, by being more sturdy in habit than the other, 
but are, nevertheless, more tender than the really 
shrubby kinds, whose numbers are getting fewer every 
day, as the direction of breeders is more in the way 
of securing fine individual flowers than a good suc¬ 
cession of them; however, we must be satisfied with 
these until public opinion calls aloud for more hardy 
varieties. 
Two years ago, I raised some seedlings from C. Sid tan, 
which very much resembled that popular variety in 
habit, and some of them in colour. Some of them, 
however, had tinges of yellow in them, and were pretty, 
useful flowers; but my object in mentioning these here 
is, only to say that cuttings from them endured the 
hardships of winter in a cold frame, with no more pro¬ 
tection than is usually given to Cauliflowers; and, as 
they were planted in the open ground with only an old 
light over them, they acquired that hardy, robust cha¬ 
racter which we look for in vain in potted plants. In 
the same temporary shelteriDg-place were other varieties, 
all stuck in very closely, the whole being put in towards 
the end of October; but by the first or second week in 
March they had grown so well as to indicate that a 
want of room would soon be wanted; I, therefore, 
thinned them, at that time planting these out in the 
same description of place. Some that were not so 
thinned speedily ran up in the spindling way common 
to everything in an overcrowded condition; while those 
which were left in the position they occupied, but were 
thinned, were nice, bushy plants by the first week of 
April, when I planted a part of them out into the beds 
they were to occupy during the summer. I may say, 
that I covered them up at night with Laurel and other 
boughs for some time, but I did not see that the plants 
suffered any way by the early “ turning out;” on the 
contrary, the plants grew and did well. But this was 
not “ turning out ” delicate potted plants, but well- 
hardened ones, that could be removed to their final rest¬ 
ing place with largo balls of earth at their roots, and 
the top well inured to the cold. Now, though I am no 
advocate for early planting-out in many tilings, Cal¬ 
ceolarias form an exception, especially such as have 
been wintered in the way described; and I can assure 
the amateur, that the preservation of them in winter is 
a much easier job than is often thought of. A sheltered 
corner, opou to the south, with a frame aud lights, is all 
