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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
December 4. 
however, it will never be worth while to extract it, as it 
can be had at the perfumers’ for such a price that it 
would not pay to grow it for that purpose in our orchid- 
house. The plant, however, is worth growing for the 
' purpose of covering a back-wall with its beautiful, dark- 
green foliage, and panicles of large, beautiful flowers. 
Propagation .—As these plants send out roots all the 
way up the stems, they are easily propagated by cutting 
off portions of the shoots; divide them into lengths 
about two feet long; insert the ends, with a root at¬ 
tached to each, into the pots, one in each; place them 
in a shady part of the orchid-house, or, if there is the 
convenience of a bark-bed, plunge the pots into it, and 
shade them from the sun. Almost every shoot will 
grow, and, as it progresses, will throw out roots from 
every joint. As soon as they are fairly rooted, pot them 
into pots filled with the compost, and treat them in the 
same way as the established plants. 
Syringing .—During the time the plants are growing, 
that is, in the spring and summer, the plants will benefit 
much by being frequently syringed; but in autumn and 
winter very little syringing will be necessary. 
T. Appleby. 
FLORISTS' FLOWERS. 
MR. GLENNY ON FLORISTS’ FLOWERS. 
Mr. Down's proposal to hold a Florists Meeting in 
London, for social purposes only, is but a renewal of 
the annual dinner in January, which was held with the 
best effect for twenty years, or rather for nineteen, but 
such is the carelessness of gardeners, and all who are 
concerned in gardening, that when all have been ad¬ 
dressed, not one in ten would condescend to answer the 
invitation, so that there never was the least certainty. 
But of the benefits arising from the annual meetings, we 
must not forget that it was at one of these that we pro¬ 
posed the establishment of the Gardeners’ Benevolent 
(Society, and forthwith it was established. We believe 
there is a general feeling towards resuming the annual 
dinner, for they brought all parties together, and for the 
day, neither politics, nor religion, nor any other subject 
but the interests of gardening, was allowed to be men¬ 
tioned. But “who is to bell the cat?” Who is to 
take upon himself to send out innumerable letters, of 
which one in ten or twenty may be noticed ? Who is to 
risk the ordering a dinner for a hundred people—the least 
number that perhaps may be expected to attend—and 
on the day be unable to say whether seventy or a hun¬ 
dred and forty will be present. We have seen the day 
when nearly two hundred met to exchange, buy, sell, 
and settle accounts. Let twenty lay their heads together 
and be stewards, and each engage to dispose of four 
tickets, and his own, advertize an invitation to every¬ 
body, with an intimation that no ticket can be had after 
a given day, and let the tickets be at a price that will 
not shut out the humble, but enthusiastic florist—say 
five shillings for dinner and dessert at the very most. 
Such a meeting might do a world of good, if it only 
wiped off by-gones, and led to a more congenial feeling 
for the future. 
The Stoke Nexcington Chrysanthemum Society has held 
the annual show in the Manor Rooms, and we do not 
exaggerate when we record that many of the blooms 
were six inches in diameter. Our readers will remember 
the list of show flowers we gave; and if we were to 
report the names of the winning varieties, it would he 
merely repeating the names we have given as the best. 
We never saw the Queen of England so fine, nor Qoliah 
so had, in all the stands; this was remarkable. We 
were favoured with a sight of some new ones from 
France, not exhibited at the show, and we may safely 
recommend two of them as great acquisitions—these 
were Rainhoxv and Monge. The specimens of Chrysan¬ 
themums in pots were beyond all praise; and Mr. 
fSalter exhibited a stand of flowers, not for competition, 
which had many admirers—a stand of the Pompones, or 
Lilliputian varieties, which, as pot varieties, are exceed¬ 
ingly beautiful. Judges, Mr. Nevil, Mr. Frazer, and 
ourselves. A sumptuous dinner was provided, and sixty 
or seventy exhibitors and friends sat down to it; but, 
beyond eating and drinking, there was nothing very 
remarkable said or done. 
The Highgate Chrysanthemum Show, a second edition 
of the Stoke Newington, with additions, we wish we 
could say improvements, came off on Wednesday the 
20th ult. It is a worthy offset of the old bulb, never¬ 
theless, for the members of the old one not only support 
it, but actually form it. There is palpable evidence that 
the Chrysanthemum is a rising flower. As in flori¬ 
culture, we only look wilfully at the pleasant side of the 
question, and pretend not to notice the opposite, we 
confine our report to the facts, that the flowers were 
highly creditable to the exhibitors, and the dinner as 
creditable to the landlord. The winning varieties may 
be found among those we have recommended. 
Fuchsias (A. D.). —If the selection is to be from the 
list sent, take Banks’s Voltigeur, Henderson s Resplen¬ 
dent, Smith's Sidonia, Psyche, and Clapton Hero. But 
we gave a much better list. The following are the best 
of their classes; and if our readers recollect some good 
one that we have omitted, they may conclude that they 
are beaten:— Ne plus ultra, Coralina, One in the Ring, 
Elizabeth, Hebe, Standard, (Mayles’) Champion, Lady 
Dartmouth, Sidonia, Leader, Banks’s Diamond, or Dia¬ 
dem, Pinces Princeps, or Princess, Nil Desperandum, 
Psyche, Clapton Hero, Scarletina rejlexa, Splendida, 
Voltigeur, Brule, Dr. Gross, and, for a curiosity, V he 
Great Western. Smith, of Plornsey, and Turner, of 
Slough, keep all the collection, but most nurseries keep 
some of them. 
Pelargoniums. —We have a number of Geranium 
growers’ questions to answer, and we shall, in a running 
article upon the subject, answer everybody, by giving a 
list of those which we consider have come nearest to the 
properties, and make the best show plants; and the 
selection we make shall comprise enough for any ordi¬ 
nary collection. We may here mention, that some of 
the best individual flowers form bad trusses, and are 
shy bloomers, and, therefore, by no means become fa¬ 
vourites with exhibitors. 
Chrysanthemums under a north wall have not suffered 
at all in comparison with those on the south ; but it is 
worth mentioning, that a plant which has been shaded 
from the sun, but left entirely unprotected through the 
last four days’ frost when the sun was not shining, seems 
scarcely to have lost a flower, while the rest, which were 
not shaded, have every bloom spoiled. A house of 
Chrysanthemums, comprising merely the sorts we have 
mentioned, is at this time very striking, and, with care, 
and keeping free from damp, will probably remain so 
two months. 
Dahlias (X. Y. Z.). —It is hardly fair to ask one to 
pick out half-a-dozen dahlias from all that are coming 
out; but as we have in another place mentioned the 
names of a dozen or more, with descriptions, we may 
repeat them here. They are all described in our Annual 
Dahlia List. They are—Green's Scarlet King, Rawling’s 
Dr. Frampton and Sir F. Thesiger, Drummond’s Bob 
and Sir R. Whittington, are all described good. Ariel 
and Una, whites, are mentioned with some doubt; Laura 
Laving ton and Triumphant, as the best fancies; Annie 
Salter, as a great curiosity; Miss Wentworth, as an ac¬ 
quisition to the light class; Kossuth and Miss Ward, as 
moderate fancies; Morning Star, as a brilliant orange 
colour, and new; Louisa Glenny, Robert Montgomery, 
and Rose of England, as very beautiful, but only one 
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