THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION.— August 12, 1850. 
1mlf or three fourths of the short, stubby shoots, and 
applying manure-waterings, whether the plants were in 
pots or in the open air. 
Cassia cory.mhosa. —The treatment of this, as an out¬ 
door plant in summer, has several times been given. 
It is now full of tlowers, and much healthier than it is 
generally met with in a plant stove. Its large corymbs 
of rich orange blossoms are very attractive; and where 
there are children, it would be worth while to get them 
to notice how its pinnated leaves reverse and go to sleep 
in the evening, and turn again in the morning. 
Calustachys retusa. —This is the latest blooming of 
this group of New Holland, pea-shaped, yellow-tlowered, 
neat greenhouse plants. The head will stand exposure 
to sun, but the pot should be protected ; and hence it 
will thrive better in a cold pit than on the open stage of 
the greenhouse. See Borbonia above. 
Ciiiuonia.— A family of herbaceous, almost shrubby ; 
plants, which produce their beautiful flowers at the points 
of shoots of the current year’s growth. The treatment as 
respects pruning and cutting is a sort of medium be¬ 
tween an herbaceous perennial and a shrub. On this 
account, and also because the plant grows fast, and is 
easily injured by a close, retentive soil, it is advisable to 
raise plants from cuttings every season or so, as they 
will be about the best when three or four years old. 
Cuttings strike in sand, under a bell-glass. The com¬ 
post should be fibry peat and loam, kept open with 
sand and pieces of crocks. Au airy situation will be 
wanted in the greenhouse in winter. After June they 
will do best in an airy, cold pit. 
Crotalauia. — Those who manage Hovea and Gallis - i 
tachys will have no difficulty with this; the great draw- | 
back is Red Spider, aud the remedies are, the free use of 
the syringe, and placing the plants in cold pits in 
summer. Crouea saligna has had a chapter to itself in 
a former volume. 
Darwinia and Daviesia.— Two fine genera of pea- 
blossomed New Holland plants. The chief points in 
their culture are, open fibry peat and loam, the former - 
preponderating, and kept open with sand and pieces of 
charcoal, or broken pots, from which the dust is ex¬ 
cluded ; an airy atmosphere, not much below 40° in 
winter ; careful watering at that time ; a free use of the 
syringe in spring; shelter to the pot in hot days in 
summer, by housiug the plants in cold, or turf pits; 
aud a free exposure of the top of the plant in the 
autumn months, and as open a place in the greenhouse 
as possible in winter. 
T'alkia Kerens looks pretty when grown in a small 
suspended vase or basket. Peat should form a portion 
of the compost until the plant is well established. 
Gazania riokns is a beautiful Starwort, with large I 
yellow flowers, with a dark velvety centre ; and, whether 
out-of-doors, or in a window, or a greenhouse, in sum¬ 
mer, sure to attract attention, when the sun shines, by 
its brilliancy. It is struck freely by cuttings ; grows in 
rich loam ; is low and spreading in habit, seldom rising 
above eight inches; and merely wants to be kept from '• 
frost, and. rather dry, in winter. 
Gnidia. —Neat plants of the Daphne group, when 
kept cool, and with plenty of air. If at all close and 
hot, the shoots become long and weak, and the interest j 
in the plants is much weakened. Fibry peat and loam, 
and a cold pit in summer, suit it well. 
Gompholobium, Oxyeobiuji, Platylobiom.—T he chief 
points for keeping these beautiful pea-blossomed genera 
healthy are, very fibry, sweet, sandy peat, with a little 
fibry loam as the plants getolder; always pre-supposing 
perfect drainage, and making the whole compost open, 
so as to drain itself, by mixing with it pieces of sand¬ 
stone, charcoal, aud broken pots. In making the com¬ 
post, break the heath-soil and the loam into small pieces 
with the hand, and let th6 very dusty matter be rejected. ! 
Such open compost must be squeezed pretty firmly in 
the pot; and, before repotting, make sure that the old 
ball is sufficiently moist, and just roughen the outside 
of the bull with a pointed stick, or, what is worth a 
hundred sticks, the sensitive points of the fingers, so 
that the roots may have free egress. Water with pure 
soft water; syringe over-head in the summer evenings. 
Give air in winter in the greenhouse freely, when the 
outside temperature is 45°; but sparingly if below that 
figure. Seldom allow the atmosphere to get below 40°, 
and water only when wanted. Syringe in the spring 
mornings, and by Midsummer get the plants into an 
airy, cold pit; or, if left in the greenhouse, secure the 
pots from the sun. R. Fish. 
(To be continued.) 
ADVICE TO GARDENERS. 
It is a well-known fact that this class of men, to which 
I am happy to say I belong, are, generally speaking, in¬ 
telligent, moral, steady, thinking men, and in most cases 
highly valued and respected by their employers. Yet, 
though steady and most careful men, their wages are in 
too many cases only barely sufficient to enable them to 
bring up their families decently, and give them a very 
moderate education. The reason why their wages are, 
compared with the mere mechanic, so low is, that the 
market is overstocked. Hence, when a place is vacant, 
there are so many applications for it that the employer 
has, in a measure, the power of fixing the amount of 
salary he will give, and when a gardener has a family 
he is too often thankful to submit to a low salary. 
Hence he is, under such circumstances, unable to lay up 
any provision for sudden death, long illness, or old age, 
much less leave anything behind him for the support of 
his maybe numerous family. To a right-thinking man 
these circumstances are very depressing, and in too 
many sad cases lead a weak mau to use stimulants to 
drown reflections on the future. The question will 
naturally occur to my brethren so unhappily placed, 
What can we do to provide against the many ills “that 
flesh is heir to?” It is all very well to say to us, Trust 
in Providence. The country squire said so to his gar¬ 
dener, whose wife was confined of her seventh child, 
adding, “The Almighty never sends mouths but He sends 
food for them.” “Yes,” replied the honest man, “it 
may be so; but He sends all the mouths to my house, 
and the food He sends to the Hall.” No; Providence 
helps them that help themselves. Let my brethren, then, 
practise a little self-denial in their younger days, and 
make a provision against the Sometimes heavy but, 
doubtless, wise dispensations of Providence, and I can 
assure them by so doing they will insure a contented 
mind in health, and a great consolation on a sick bed 
or at the hour of death. T have stated that the greater 
part of gardeners cannot do this in the ordinary way ol 
laying by a portion of their wages to meet so many con¬ 
tingencies, more especially if they have any children. 
The way, then, that I advise them to attain such happy 
results is by Insurance. There are, as everybody knows, 
many Insurance Companies now established in Great 
Britain, and their operations have, to my certain know¬ 
ledge, saved many a family from destruction. A very 
eloquent writer on the subject of Life Assurance says:— 
“ It is only the fortunate few, compared with the mass 
of the people, who possess any capital save their labour, 
and the comforts and advantages it produces may in a 
moment be impaired or taken away altogether. It is no 
uncommon thing to hear that a man in the upper as 
well as in the lower ranks of life has left a wile and 
family without a farthing—left them to chance—to live 
or perish anywhere; that wife and family, be it recol¬ 
lected, having hitherto lived in comfort and comparative 
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