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up as finely as possible, as it then sets more 
firmly together, and keeps longer than if stored 
in a lumpy state. The work should be done with 
method,and as much despatch as possible, as if a 
thaw sets in, and the house cannot be filled at 
once, waste is likely to arise from the house being 
reopened to fill it up. After the house is filled, a 
temporary supply may bo stacked behind a north 
wall or in some other shady place, and covered 
with saw-dust and boughs, to keep the air from 
it. This will keep for two months at least, 
and come in well for present use, so as to avoid 
opening the house for as long a time as possible. 
■—Geo. Potts, Jun. 
MARKET PLANTS.—X. 
Lilium Thunbeegianum and Fairy Eoses. 
« HE orange-tinted varieties of J^Uimn 
Thinibcrgianuin are grown by some 
cultivators for market purposes, and 
find a ready sale. This and Lilium lotujijiorum 
are the two best for pot-culture, because they 
always appear to do so well, and produce good 
heads of bloom on short stems. There are 
newer and choicer types, that do as well in pots 
as the commoner foims named ; but they are 
not plentiful, and the market-grower has to do 
with subjects that are plentiful, and that can 
be sold at a moderate but remunerative price. 
The market-growers of Lilies get their roots 
over from abroad in autumn, and they are 
potted into G-in. pots when received, and stood 
out-of-doors for the winter, covering them with 
spent hops and manure, or similar materials. 
They begin to grow in early spring, and are 
then put into a house where there is some 
warmth, and brought on gradually; the later 
ones come on of themselves, and 'need to be 
simply protected from bad weather, to keep the 
flowers unharmed. 
I was much amused at the novel method by 
which the flowering plants of Lilies are taken 
to market. If they were stood together in the 
bottom of a cart or van, or were packed 
in boxes, the flowers would whip against 
each other, and get much injured. The plants 
are laid clown on their sides in shallow boxes, 
with the heads of bloom reaching beyond the 
ends of the boxes, and tied in a secure position. 
These boxes are piaced on the roof of a light 
van, and are conveyed to town without sustain¬ 
ing any injury. 
The Fairy Rose {llosa Latcreiiceaiia). —How 
skilfully and well these pretty plants of the Fairy 
Rose are grown, and one does not wonder they 
command such a ready sale ! How great a 
demand there is for them is shown by the fact 
that Messrs. J. and J. Hayes, of Edmonton, 
alone grow every season from seven to eight 
thousand plants—a pretty astonishing number. 
The plants are raised from cuttings, taken 
from stock plants, put into heat early in the 
year. The great bulk of cuttings are put in 
during April, when they have made a growth 
of about four inches. They are put into broad¬ 
mouthed pots, filled with a light sandy soil, 
and well drained, from two dozen to three 
dozen cuttings in a pot, and placed in bottom- 
heat. When they are rooted, they are potted 
off singly into thumb-pots, and grown on 
cjuickly in heat, then shifted into second-size 
GO-pots ; or if room can be had, they are potted 
at once into 48 or 5-in. pots, the size in which 
they are marketed. Those who freciuent 
Covent Garden Market will know something of 
these nice, clean, healthy bush-like plants, laden 
with pretty flowers ; they are eagerly bought up 
by those who love a rose. It is the free growth 
the plants are indulged with—no check and 
no pause—that makes such charming bushes of 
them ; green-fly is never allowed to congregate 
on them, and they have every attention that is 
bestowed on plants in the market-growing 
establishments. 
It is not difficult to propagate the Fairy 
Rose. Some people suppose that it is, but an 
experienced hand will make a plant of any 
shoot, and a dozen good plants, bursting with 
shoots, will soon originate a thousand others. 
In his Amateur's Rose Rook, Mr. Shirley 
Hibberd remarks that as “ thousands are sold, 
there must be thousands of purchasers, and we 
may reasonably guess that nine-tenths of the 
Avhole number try to keep their roses, and hope 
to see them flower again. To how many of 
them all is it vouchsafed to have a full gratifi¬ 
cation of this honourable desire ? We can only 
answer the question vaguely, as another guess, 
that not more than one per cent, of the whole 
number sees the flowers of the Fairy Rose a 
second time, that is to say, in another and dis¬ 
tinct season of bloom. These roses are easy 
enough to grow, if you go the right way about 
it, and in that respect they agree with all other 
known plants. But they differ from many other 
subjects of our care in this respect, that if -we 
make a mistake at any point, or give way to an}?- 
degree of carelessness, the Fairy Roses vanish ; 
or if they deign to live, it is for the entertain¬ 
ment of aphis, acarus, or mildew, perhaps for 
all three; and while entertaining these new 
and disreputable acquaintances, they ignore 
the feelings of their vexed possessor.”—E. Dean, 
Ealing. 
RIVERS’ VICTORIA NECTARINE. 
VERY thing from Mr. Eadclyffe’s pen 
Rdds to the interest of the Florist, 
—^ and I have read with both instruction 
and gratification his communication on “ The 
Fruit Season of 1878.” But among his list of 
