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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
May 5. 
Earl, Lincoln (Hufton), dark ground; extra fine. 
Flying Dutchman (Kearsley), dark ground, with large 
pips ; a late bloomer. 
Felix (Kearsley), red ground, with large pips. 
Forget-me-not (Kearsley), dark ground, with large pips. 
Emperor Buonaparte (Turner), red ground; medium size. 
Fire King (Erringtons), rich scarlet ground ; well laced ; 
fine. 
Formosa (Barnard), dark ground ; pips large. 
George the Fourth (Buck), a large dark flower; extra. 
Highland Mary (Craig), a good constant variety. 
Kingfisher (Addis), dark ground; large pips ; extra fine. 
Invincible (Crawshaw), dark; extra. 
Lord John Kassel (Clegg), very fine variety. 
Lancer (Bullock), extra; dark flower. 
Magnificent (Kearsley), red ground; eye and lace bright 
yellow; new and fine. 
Minerva (Kearsley), dark ground ; eye and lacing lemon 
colour ; new and extra fine. 
Orion (Kearsley), dark ground ; eye and lacing golden 
yellow; new and fine. 
Prince Arthur (Kearsley), red-crimson ground; eye and 
lace sulphur colour ; pips large ; extra fine and new. 
Prince of Wales (Berrenger), a fine variety. 
Princess Royal (Colliers), a good show variety; extra. 
Prince Regent (Cox), dark ground; pips large; a good 
old variety. 
Portia (Kearsley), dark ground; pips medium size. 
Royal Sovereign (Gibbon), extra; dark ground; large 
flower. 
Sylph (Kearsley), dark ground; eye and lacing bright 
yellow; extra fine. 
Tantarara (Fillingkam), dark ground; pips very large; a 
bold, good flower. 
Telegraph (Stead), red ground ; a fine old variety. 
Victoria (Kearsley), red ground; pips medium size; fine 
form; a late bloomer. 
Volligeur (Kearsley), red ground; large pips; yellow 
leaves; fine. T. Appleby. 
LYCOPODIUMS. 
(Continued from page 43.) 
Summer Treatment : Potting.— Having ready the com¬ 
post, as described in my last, and the plants being in such 
a state as to require larger pots, proceed to perform that 
operation. The best time of the year for this work is about 
the middle of April, though it may be done through most 
of the summer months, if the plants grow rapidly, and fill 
their pots with roots ; especially if large specimens are 
required. There are no plants that show the effects of 
neglect in this point more than Lycopods. If the pots are 
too small, the plants soon lose their healthy, brilliant green; 
the tall growers become naked of leaves at the bottom ; and 
the whole plant becomes a sickly yellow, which renders it a 
very unsightly object. To prevent this, pot early, whilst the 
plants are of a good colour, and pot again in time to keep 
them so. Though they love plenty of moisture at the) root, 
yet they cannot bear stagnant water : hence it is necessary 
to drain the pots well, and place a thin layer.of moss over 
the drainage to prevent its being choked up by the finer 
particles of the compost being washed down into the drain ¬ 
age with the frequent waterings. The pot being thus 
properly drained, and the compost being neither wet, dry, 
nor cold, take a plant, turn it out of the pot, pick out the old 
drainage from amongst the roots, and as much of the old soil 
as can be removed without injuring them. Then put as 
much compost in the pot as will raise the ball nearly level 
with the rim of the pot; fill round the ball with the fresh 
soil, pressing it down gently till the pot is quite full; then 
give the pot a smart stroke or two on the bench, pressing 
down the ball and soil level, leaving about half-an inch for 
small plants, and an inch for large ones, of space below the 
rim of the pot. This space is to hold water, so that when 
the plants are watered there may be sufficient to thoroughly 
wet the whole mass in each pot. Then give a liberal water¬ 
ing to settle the soil close to the roots, and replace the pots 
on the stage or benches where they are to grow. 
All the btove species thrive best in rather shady places. 
I used to find them do well on the kerb-stone round the pit 
in the stoves and orchid-house, where very few other plants 
would live and thrive. 
Watering.— These plants are found growing in shady 
thickets where there is a continual moisture ; and, there¬ 
fore, to keep them fresh, green, and healthy, they should 
have a frequent supply of moisture both at the root and top. 
The syringe, then, is a most useful instrument ; and they will 
thrive all the better if they are syringed twice or thrice a 
day in the hot days of summer, especially all such as throw 
out roots from the branches in the air. An exception 
occurs to this practice of syringing so freely in Lycopodium 
crcsium and L. caesium arboreum. If these are syringed 
abundantly they lose that rich, glossy, grey-blue colour for 
which they are so much admired. Once in every two or 
three days will be sufficient for them to keep them healthy. 
This rich colour will be obtained and preserved best in a 
shady place, with a high moist temperature. 
The tree Lycopod grows very rapidly, and, on account of 
the fronds being large, spreading, and heavy, it is necessary i 
to support it with stakes. I used for large plants, in eleven- 
j inch pots, five upright stakes, kept steady, and at equal 
distances, by a ring or hooji of the same diameter as the ! 
pot; each stake was tied to this ring, which kept them steady 
and in their place. To these stakes so secured, I tied each 
frond as it was produced from the main stem. They formed, 
then, five upright dense bushes, covered with their richly- 
! coloured leaves, which colour I preserved by never allowing 
the sun to shine upon the leaves, and using the syringe but 
seldom. 
Heat. —All the plants of this genus well bear a high 
. temperature. During this season (summer,) I have had 
the thermometer in the middle of the day, with sun, as high 
! as from 85° to 90°, and these plants seemed to delight in 
such a high temperature, growing rapidly, and of the liveliest 
colours. Some of the greenhouse species, indeed, grew rather 
too rapidly, over-running their pots, and hanging down over 
the edges; but then they are so easily propagated, that when 
: they became unwieldy or unsightly I had no hesitation in 
casting them to the dunghill. Some of the low-creeping kinds 
I have cropped off close to the soil, and in this high, moist 
temperature, they almost immediately pushed forth fresh 
shoots, and formed fresh beautiful patches of the liveliest 
green. The great heat, however, is not absolutely necessary, 
and,except orchid growers, very few cultivators have a house 
heated so high. It was in the orchid house that I cultivated 
them principally myself, and much admiration they always 
attracted. They will grow, however, very well in a common 
stove, the heat of which should never exceed 70° to 75°. 
Some species thrive pretty well in a greenhouse ; these are 
L. denticulaium , L. apothecium, and L. helveticvm. In this 
house I would cultivate all the British species, of which the 
most beautiful is the L. clavutum , or Club Moss, as it is com- 
| monly called. These hardy species may be grown very well 
in a cold pit, but they are worthy of a place in a greenhouse, 
M inter Treatment.— It is during this season, when 
flowers are scarce, that the beautiful green and purple shades 
of these plants show to the greatest advantage. The only 
difference in culture is the giving less stimulants to growth, 
such as heat and water; also the syringe must be dispensed 
with, and the plants just kept slowly growing. 
T. Appleby. 
(To be continued.) 
RAMPION—ITS CULTURE AND NEGLECT. 
This plant being of humble growth and pretensions, and, i 
in some measure, attended with more trouble than is agree- [ 
able at the time of preparing it for table, has been treated ! 
with less regard than its merits deserve. Forming, as it | 
does, an important adjunct to our salads, at a time when 
variety in that way is much wanted, it certainly merits more 
attention than is often paid to it, while, to many cultivators, 
it is entirely unknown. Should there be many such, it may 
not be out of place here to say that the plant forms one of 
the large family of Campanulacere, or Bellworts ; and, like 
several more of the family, is of a low growth, until the 
flower-stems shoot up, when they present a spike of two or 
three feet high, and, as such, are tolerably well clothed with 
