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made then’ growth in February, and from which water was with¬ 
held, to throw them into a state of rest for a time, .after which 
again gradually apply water. 
Others will follow in succession, up to October, if the same 
rules be attended to in the same proportion. 
The best way to train them is by placing two bands of strong 
wire, one just under the rim outside the pot, the other near the 
bottom, to which six or more sticks, according to the size of the 
plant, should be fastened by means of a piece of wire passed in¬ 
side the wires round the pot, and tied to the sticks. Above the 
pot should be three, or more, hoops of wire to which the sticks 
should be also fastened, according to the height of the plant, 
and the plants brought to the outside and tied to them. By 
these means all your flowers will be brought to view, and the 
trellis will endure for years. 
To those who possess only a small greenhouse nothing can be 
more valuable than this class of plants. If neatly trained they 
are never unsightly during winter, and require no attention except 
excluding from the frost, and are, consequently, a class of plants 
in which the attention they require will increase with the amateur’s 
leisure. 
Great is the pity Societies do not other more prizes for them 
to encourage attention to their culture. No one attending 
those Shows at which they have been exhibited can have 
failed to notice the attraction they have caused, and many I have 
heard regret their exclusion in the schedules of prizes offered.— 
W. Young, High gate. 
ARRANGEMENT OE BEDDING PLANTS. 
Win you kindly tell me if my arrangement for two beds will 
look well ? 
1 ft. 6 in. 
3 ft., 
I am limited in my choice of plants. I propose 
from centre 15 in. apart Purple King Verbena, 
0 in. „ 15 in. „ Mrs. Holford ditto. 
4 ft. 6 in. „ 15 in. „ Brilliant de Vaise ditto. 
6 ft. Oin, „ 15 in, „ Blue Bonnet ditto. 
7 ft. 6 in. „ 15 in. ,, Senecio Miclcana on wire 
edging. 
The next bed has a fine Y ucca in the centre that I do not wish 
to move this season. The bed is 15 ft. by 9 ft., oval in form. 
The Yucca takes a circle of 3 ft. 3 in. Starting from outside, I 
have provided 
Lobelia speciosa 6 in. from edge 6 in. apart. 
Blower of the Bay 12 in. „ 12 in. „ 
Perilla 2 ft. ,, 15 in. „ 
Punch 3 ft. „ 12 in. „ 
Commander filling the small oval space left.—N ovice. 
[All your plants and planting are right except the Commander- 
in- Chief Geranium, which being the same as Punch in the fiovver, 
and only different in the horseshoe leal', is not sufficiently dis¬ 
tinct to tell. Could you not get some few Nosegays instead ?] 
DEFICIENCY OF HEAT IN A PROPAGATING 
HOUSE. 
I have just had erected a small propagating-house heated by 
hot-water pipes, and these are enclosed within a chamber built 
with bricks, and covered over with fireclay pavement open at the 
seams. I had the chamber filled in with broken pieces of fireclay 
for the purpose of retaining the heat. The depth of this chamber 
is two feet, and the pipes are in the centre of this space. I have 
also an upper chamber over the pavement thirteen inches deep, 
in which I purpose plunging the pots with cuttings, also 
seed-pans. The plunging material is pit sand. Tire chamber 
seems to heat thoroughly, but it does not come up through the 
body of sand. Have I too great a depth of sand, or what is the 
reason ? The pavement is five inches thick, so that the pipes 
will be about seventeen or eighteen inches from the bottom of the 
sand. A portion is divided and filled in with light soil about 
seven inches deep for striking plants ; the pavement at this part 
being placed higher, which accounts for the difference of depth. 
Have I too much depth of soil for this purpose ?—A Subscriber. 
[We are not in possession of facts sufficient to enable us to 
judge exactly of the cause of the heat not rising. We think if 
less labour had been bestowed, there would have been more 
success. We have repeatedly stated of late, that for bottom heat 
under such circumstances, nothing is better than surrounding the 
pipes with open rubble, as brickbats placed as hollow as possible, 
and placing rough and then fine gravel or other matter on the 
surface. In such a case as yours, we would not have had more 
than six or seven inches of sand; and then if the pipes were 
sufficient to heat the chamber sufficiently, the heat must rise. 
Now, though you do not tell us, we suspect that from that 
chamber you get enough heat for the atmospheric temperature 
of the house, as you say nothing of any mode of giving top heat. 
This would seem to imply that the heat from the chamber can 
get out easier by the side-walls, or some other means, than it can 
get through the lumps of fire-clay ; the brick wall as we presume 
over them, and the fire-clay pavement above. Now, though the 
brick wall would get heated in time, there would, in the first case, 
be a radiation of heat back again into the chamber, and if that 
were bounded by walls, thinner than the brick floor and its 
pavement of fire-clay, of course it would escape from thence most 
readily. By the plan proposed above, there would only be a 
somewhat close covering immediately below the sand or other 
plunging material. Perhaps you have slides in the chamber for 
letting the heat out. Even under present circumstances we have 
no doubt that your heat will rise, if you can prevent the heat 
escaping at the sides. The heat when produced, cannot help 
itself—it must expand and rise, if it cannot get out sideways more 
easily. As far as we can understand your case, your extra care 
and nicety have been so many hindrances to the heat rising freely.] 
FRUITS ADAPTED TO THE VARIOUS 
LOCALITIES OE GREAT BRITAIN. 
(Continued from page 323). 
PLUMS. 
Isabella. —Fruit medium sized, obovate. Skin deep 
dull red, but paler red where shaded, and strewed with 
darker red dots. Stalk three quarters of an inch long. 
Flesh yellow', juicy, rich, and adhering to the stone. 
Shoots dowmy. 
A dessert and preserving plum. Ripe in the beginning 
of September. 
Isleworth Green Gage. See Green Gage. 
Italian Damask (Gamas d’Italic ).— Fruit medium 
sized, roundish, slightly flattened at the base, and marked 
with a well-defined suture. Skin thick, membranous, 
and rather bitter, of a pale purple colour, changing to 
brownish as it ripens, and covered with fine blue bloom. 
Stalk three quarters of an inch long, slender, inserted in 
a deep cavity. Flesh yellowish-green, firm, rich, sugary, 
and excellent, separating from the stone. Shoots smooth. 
A dessert and preserving plum. Ripe in the beginning 
of September. 
Italian Quetsche (Altesse Double; FeUemhergj 
Quetsche d’ltalie; Prune d'ltalie; Semiana). — Fruit 
large, oval, narrowing a little towards the stalk, and 
marked with a shallow suture. Skin dark purplish-blue, 
marked with yellow dots, and covered with thick blue 
bloom. Stalk half an inch long, stout, and inserted in a 
pretty deep cavity. Flesh greenish-yellow, firm, not very 
juicy, sweet, and richly flavoured; when highly ripened 
separating from the stone. Shoots smooth. 
An excellent dessert or preserving plum. Ripe in the 
beginning of September, and will hang till it shrivels, 
when it is very rich and delicious. This, I believe, to be 
the true Semiana. It well deserves a wall. 
Jaune de Catalogue. See White Primordian. 
Jefferson.- —Fruit large, oval, narrowing a little to¬ 
wards the stalk, and marked with a very faint suture. 
Skin greenish-yellow, becoming of a rich golden yellow, 
flushed with red on the side next the sun, and dotted 
with red dots. Stalk an inch long, thin, and.inserted in 
a shallow cavity. Flesh yellow, firm and juicy, rich, 
sugary, and delicious, separating from the stone. Shoots 
smooth. 
A richly-flavoured dessert plum. Ripe in the begin¬ 
ning and middle of September. 
Jenkins’ Imperial. See Nectarine. 
