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ferrecl to their fruiting pots in July, August, and begin¬ 
ning of September : the sooner the plants are fit for this, 
the sooner may ihey be expected to fruit—that fruiting, 
just as in other plants in pots, depending greatly on the 
maturation of the plant and the pots being well filled 
with roots. The plants may thus, in the course of a 
twelvemonth, pass from 48-pots to twelves and eights. 
After thus getting into their fruiting pots, it is especially 
necessary that no severe checks be experienced ; other¬ 
wise the fruit may refuse to come, or may come small 
and deformed,, or a mass of suckers may show themselves. 
Pine growers like the fruit to show before many of these 
suckers make their appearance. 
4. Temperature. —This has been already indicated. 
The great thing is to give heat enough to prevent stag¬ 
nation of growth, and, at the same time, proportion it to 
the light, so that the tendencies to mere expansion without 
consolidation may be counteracted. Thus, in winter, a 
good average night temperature would be from 58° to 62°; 
and from that to 05° and 68° with a little sun, to 75° and 
80° with bright sun during the day. In summer, from 
05° to 73° at night, and from 80° to 95° during the day in 
sunshine. The bottom heat should range from 75° to 80° 
in winter, and from 80° to 95° in summer. As already 
mentioned, when it is desired to start into fruit, the tem¬ 
perature and moisture should be gradually increased. 
Bottom heat is secured by many means—such as tan, 
dung, leaves, and hot water; and top heat is also secured j 
by as many modes. Young plants especially luxuriate 1 
in dung heat, and will stand much more ammonia than 
plants in general can do. The steam that would kill 
other soft-leaved plants will not injure the Pines. In 
all such modes of heating by dung, care must be taken 
against too much bottom heat, and too much steam and 
vapour in winter. A pigeon-holed pit for linings is the 
thing in summer; but a close-walled one is best for | 
winter, as much steam, or vapour, inside would keep 
the plants in a shower-bath, and, there being little sun 
to dry them, the soil would get saturated. A dry heat, 
even with dung linings, may easily be procured if the 
walls are close. 11. Pish. 
{To le continued.) 
HOBTICULTUBAL SOCIETY’S SHOW. 
St. James’s Hail, 12th May. 
A very good Show indeed for a London Exhibition; 
but, as compared with a Chiswiek-garden fete, a mere 
fleabite. The arrangement of the Show was put on the 
shoulders of Mr. Edmonds, of the Duke of Devonshire’s 
garden at Chiswick, at the eleventh hour; and, as you 
may well suppose, the abilities of one of our best prac¬ 
tical gardeners on the spur of the moment, though taxed 
to the utmost, left nothing to be wished for,—all the 
plants were arranged just as all the ladies of taste in 
the country will have their conservatories arranged for 
grand parties. The arrangement could not have been 
carried out one quarter so well at Chiswick in detached ; 
tents. 
In St. James’s Hall people may learn a great deal 
more about the proper placing of plants at home than 
they ever could do at Chiswick; and, believe me, that 
subject is just as far behind now as the proper planting 
of flower-beds was ten years since. Everyone who is j 
connected with country Shows between Exeter and 
Dingwall should see one of these gatherings- in St. 
James’s Hall, and study the way the different families 
of plants are disposed of, so as to give the best effect as 
a whole. 
The Secretary of the Boss and Cromarty Horticultural 
Society, A. Smith, Esq., solicitor, Dingwall, is kind 
enough to forward to me the schedule of that Society 
every season, to see the progress of the craft in the far 
north; and we have nothing in England on a better 
footing; and the only hint I can give to the Committee, 
and to all such officials, is, “ Get up to London, and see 
the glories of Chiswick in town, copy the arrangement, 
and show the same at your own Exhibitions.” 
The orchestra in St. James’s Hall is at one end of the 
room, and is in the form of a lialf-moon in front, with a 
great depth in the middle, where the organ stands. The 
whole of that large space was occupied by one collection 
of mixed plants from the Messrs. Eraser, of Lea Bridge 
Nursery, except the two flank plants, one at each corner, 
or horns of the moon, from Mr. Gaines. In advance of 
that collection, on the platform for the chair, stood two 
grand match plants of Wellingtonias, and a specimen of 
the Holly-leaved Olive from Japan from Mr. Veitch, of 
the Exotic Nursery. 
In front of that platform is a half-circle stage, in two 
steps. The upper step was filled, in the middle, with six 
of the most magnificent Boses ever exhibited, from Mr. 
Lane, of Great Berkhampstead ; with a collection of 
Orchids, on the right, from Mr. Wooley, gardener to 
J. B. Her, Esq.; and another collection of new or rare 
plants from the Messrs. Eraser. 
Between the Boses were six handsome Amaryllids, 
from Mr. Gaines ; and on the step, or stage, in front of the 
platform, was a rich collection of rare things in dwarf 
plants from the Wellington Boad Nursery. 
The whole of one side-table, the right-hand side as you- 
entered the Hall, was filled from end to end with a mag¬ 
nificent collection of mixed plants from Mr. Yeitch. The 
opposite table was filled with collections of mixed plants 
from Messrs. Henderson, Pine Apple Place Nursery. 
Mr. Standish and the Messrs. Jackson, of Kingston ; also, 
with a collection of Eerns from Mr. Hally, of Black- 
heath; and a collection of fine-leaved plants from Mr. 
Young, gardener to H. Stone, Esq., Dulwich. 
At the east end of the Hall stood the best stand of all; 
in the centre, a stand for comforting the inner man with 
“the mercies of life,” as Sandy MacPharlane said when 
they upset his porridge in “the Castle of Loch Levcn.” 
On each side of this, and a little in advance of it, stood 
two collections of Bhododendrons, one the yellow kinds 
from Mr. Lane; and the other of mixed kinds and 
Azaleas from Mr. Ivery. In the rear of this group were 
two large basketfuls of two kinds of variegated Gera¬ 
niums from Mr. Hally—his Burning Bush, and one called 
Seintillatum. In front of the yellow Bhododendrons 
were a lot of cut-flowers of Azaleas from Mr. Ivery, and 
another lot of cut-flowers of Pansies from Mr. Bragg, of 
Slough. 
The centre table was the best of the arrangement; and 
if Dr. Bindley could have had his own way, as seven or 
eight years back, this part of the Show would have been 
as plain as Betty Martin ; but a collection of beautiful full 
standards of the Chinese Azaleas from Mr. Lane made 
it a grand thing. Along the whole centre, between each 
pair of these standards, were three pots of dwarf Boses ; 
and there was a row of the same style of Boses on each 
side of the centre row—say, from fifty to sixty dwarf 
Boses—and a row of standard Azaleas in the centre. 
The first standards of this fashion were shown at Chis¬ 
wick by our Mr. Appleby ; and I recollect, as if it were 
but yesterday, the rage the Doctor was in, and the 
runnings he had hither and thither, looking after Mr. 
Appleby to knock his head off' for daring to bring “fly- 
flappers ” to a Chiswick Show ! You must recollect how 
we got up the steam in The Cottage Gardener in favour 
of that very style ; and now the Council took our part, 
and made room in their schedule for two sizes of these 
very “ flappers.” 
Well, all round the Boses stood the fruit. A fine col¬ 
lection from Mr. Webber, of Covent Garden ; so many in 
pots from Mr. Ivison, of Sion House; nineteen or twenty 
Pine Apples, fourteen dishes of Strawberries, fourteen of 
Grapes, four or five of Cherries, three or four of Apples, 
