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if any run away without breaking, pinch off 
the points, w'hich w’ill soon cause them to 
branch. By the end of May they will bear 
another shift, giving pots a couple or three 
inche.s larger, according to the progress they 
have made both in tops and roots, still keeping 
them near the glass. They will now take more 
water and will grow away freely in warmth, such 
as ordinaiy stove stock requires; by the end of 
July, if all goes well, the plants will show 
flower, which will advance apace, and for 
several weeks they will be thickly clothed with 
their singularly beautiful yellow red-tinged 
semi-transparent flowers. After blooming, keep 
them in the same pots, and treat as advised 
through the preceding winter. 
Young plants are generally the most satis¬ 
factory, and if a few bits were taken off in the 
spring, these will have made nice plants for 
blooming the ensuing summer, getting to a 
much larger size than the autumn-struck ones, 
although it will be well again in the latter 
part of summer to put in a few more cut¬ 
tings. It is an excellent subject for grow¬ 
ing in a basket suspended near the roof 
where its flowers are seen to even more ad¬ 
vantage than on the stages of the house.—T. 
Baines, Southgate. 
BAUMANN’S RED AVINTER REINETTE APPLE. 
[Plate 41) G.] 
N the figure of this handsome Apple 
given in the accompanying plate, Mr. 
Fitch has happily combined a portrait 
and a picture. It was exhibited at one of the 
Royal Horticultural Society’s meetings in 
October last, from the Chiswick garden, under 
the name of Red AViuter Pearmain, and was so 
well appreciated by the pomological tribunal— 
the Fruit Committee—that it received the 
award of a First-class Certificate, which it well 
deserved. AVe quote from Dr. Hogg’s Fea/- 
JjOoJc the following descriptive memoranda, 
which embodies all that is known respecting 
it;—“ This very handsome Apple was received 
by the Royal Horticultural Society from Ger¬ 
many some years ago, and fruited for the first 
time last year. It is an exceedingly handsome 
ajiple, of large size, and highly coloured, re¬ 
sembling the Blenheim Pippin. Fruit large, 
of regular and handsome form, globular, and 
generally somewhat flattened, yet frequently 
inclined to be a little conical. Stalk slender, 
inserted in a round cavity. Fjje large, the 
segments closed, set in a shallow irregular 
basin. Skin straw-coloured on the shaded side, 
bright glowing crimson on the exposed side, 
and extending over the greater portion. Flesli 
pale, firm, not very juicy, and slightly acid. 
Keeps well. Fit for use throughout midwinter.” 
Our figure shows that it is one of the hand¬ 
somest Apples which have been lately brought 
into notice.—T. Moore. 
DECORATIVE GRASSES. 
Gj^N a paper read before the Berlin Horti- 
^ cultural Society, and published in its 
Monatsschrift.! Herr Garten - Inspector 
BoucIk' has given some interesting details re¬ 
specting the use of Grasses and Cyperads for 
garden decoration, and of some portions of 
these observations we here introduce a free 
translation. The Aruntfo Donax rvas one of the 
plants first employed for decoration in Berlin, 
then the Papjnis antiquoruiii, and afterwards, 
in order to soften the character of the heavy 
groups of Gannas, Colocasias, and other large- 
leaved plants, and to give them a more graceful 
aspect, a larger number of this class of 2 fiants 
was introduced. The Berlin Botanic Garden 
possessed an extensive collection of graminaceous 
and cjqieraceous plant.s, and hence Inspector 
Bouche was induced to give many of them a 
trial, and he here records the results. The 
following Graminacew, or true grasses, are re¬ 
ferred to :— 
Panicum MiCRANTiiuM,H.B.K.,from Caracas, 
is a grass of extremely elegant habit; the stalks 
form a very dense cluster, 40 in. high, with 
elegantly drooping leaves. In winter it needs 
to be well exposed to light, and to liave a 
temperature of 12°-14° R. [.^“-G;")® F.] 
Panicum sulcatuji, Atibk, raised from seed 
sent by Dr. Blumenau in 1855 from St. 
Katharina, Brazil, resembles crus Ar(lea\ 
AV., which comes from the same place, and F. 
palitufoltuiii, Keen, (it p/icaluin., Hort.), from 
the East Indies, but differs essentially, by its 
much broader and more elegant briglit green 
leaves, recalling those of C’urcnl/gn. It requires 
in winter a heat of 12°-14° R., and in summer. 
