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always had my doubts. It may seem curious to have a plant growing beside 
one in a room with every part visible ; but I do not see any extra bcautv in a 
glass-grown Hyacinth ; indeed, I think that the same plant would look better 
in a suitable-sized flower-pot, and certainly when they begin to topple over it 
is much easier to support them in a pot than it is in a glass. Nor are they so 
useful afterwards when grown in glasses, as the bulb has worn itself out in the 
process of flowering, and has no strength left to prepare for flowering another 
season ; yet the practice is carried on by a very large class, is honoured by 
time, and sanctioned by custom. 
F. C. 
MOSS ROSES. 
What a universal favourite is a Moss Ross ! A pure cockney is as proud 
to have one in his coat as a peer would be to get the blue riband of the Order 
of the Garter. There is no perceptible improvement going on in relation to 
this flower. At the recent National Rose Show there w^ere exhibited by, I 
think, Messrs. Paul k Son, some cut blooms that bear names as “ familiar in 
our mouths as household words,” inasmuch as we have been acquainted with 
them from childhootl. Some novelty, and, not least, some quality, is required 
to relieve the monotony of this annual repetition. The sorts shown by Messrs. 
Paul k Son were Laneii, Comtesse Murinais, Cristata, Bath White, Baronne 
de Wassanaer, and Salet. They were all nearly of one shade of colour, and 
sadly wanted substance and distinctness. 
B. Winter. 
BEDDING CALCEOLARIAS. 
Will some of the readers of the Florist and Pomologist give the benefit 
of their experience as to the cause of the failure of so many of the plants after 
they are placed in their flowering quarters in the beds ? There must be a 
cause, and if possible it should be discovered and a remedy sought for and 
applied. 
I think early planting to be absolutely necessary, so that the plants may 
get well established before being subjected to the influence of the sun’s hot rays. 
I planted out, in the first week in June, some plants of Calceolaria Aurea flori- 
bunda. The weather was moist, and almost unpleasantly cool for the time of 
year; they were watered when necessary; and by the time the hot weather 
set in they had become well established, and are now blooming freely and 
growing vigorously as well. Occasionally they receive a root-watering, and 
almost daily a slight sprinkling overhead. All were well and strongly rooted 
when they were planted out, and there has not been a failure. 
Since the recent hot weather set in I have had occasion to plant a few more, 
using two varieties—viz., Yiscosissima compacta and Aurea floribunda. The 
former were planted just as the hot weather set in, and though in a very 
exposed situation, they were kept w T ell watered. They had plenty of roots, but 
the soil had become somewhat shaken out in the course of transit over a few 
miles. For two or three days they looked as if they meant growth, but soon 
a new aspect was presented, and they shrivelled up and wasted away daily. 
Out of a dozen good bushy plants not more than three are spared. Their 
decimated ranks were closed up with some strong well-rooted plants of Aurea 
floribunda removed from another bed, and which were already in flower. The 
flowers were pinched off, the plants k(pt well moistened at the roots, and 
nightly sprinkled overhead with a rose watering-pot. Alas ! all labour is not 
