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will soon vegetate, and as soon as the young 
plants are large enough they should be potted 
off into small pots, using a compost of about 
half loam and half peat, with a little white 
sand. When potted, they should be plunged 
in a gentle bottom heat. They should be kept 
near the glass, and not be set too close to¬ 
gether. The plants, if kept at a distance from 
the glass and crowded, will grow up weakly, 
and lose the bottom leaves. They should 
have plenty of air in mild weather. When 
the plants begin to fill their pots with roots 
they should be shifted into their flowering 
pots, using a little rotten manure in the com¬ 
post. When shifted they should be again 
plunged in a gentle bottom heat; they will 
grow and flower without bottom heat, if they 
are kept in an intermediate house, but they 
will do better with a little bottom heat. By 
keeping the plants near the glass, giving them 
plenty of room and a gentle bottom heat, they 
will grow strong and stiff with healthy foliage, 
and the plants, if the strains be good, will be 
useful and beautiful for decorating.—M. Saul. 
away all roots to within that distance every 
autumn, or every alternate autumn, early in 
October, if possible. In this way the trees 
become furnished with a large 'number of new 
feeders every year, which avail themselves of 
the feeding ground’made new by manuring 
and trenching. Trees treated in this way 
from their first planting form a mat of roots, 
and if well mulched with recent stable litter, 
and watered in hot dry weather, luxuriate and 
swell finer fruit than trees whose roots are 
allowed to ramble at will. Old trees also im- 
fk 
prove under such treatment, and the produc¬ 
tion of first-rate early vegetables is secured, 
not only without injury to the trees, but the 
trees are positively improved by such treat¬ 
ment. 
I ought to say that in trenching, the 
surface of the 3 feet space left untouched by 
the spade should be carefully forked off down 
to the roots, and replaced by soil from the 
border as the trenching goes on, and in this 
way the trees receive a thorough top dressing. 
—Henry Eckford, Boreatton Park, Bas- 
church. 
GARDEN WALLS AND WALL 
BORDERS. 
iljTHE occupants of the wall are the objects 
of first importance : the healthy de¬ 
velopment of the trees, and the produc¬ 
tion of first class fruit, the ambition of 
every good gardener. But on the other hand 
the production of choice early vegetables is an 
object scarcely less important. To secure the 
coveted early dish of Peas, Potatos, Cauliflower, 
French Beans, &c., the south border, the 
sunniest nooks, are called into requisition. 
The problem to be solved by the gardener, 
therefore, is the way in which wall borders 
can be made available for both these purposes, 
viz., the growth of the wall trees, and the 
growth of early vegetables. 
From conversations I have had with good 
gardeners on this subject I am sure it is one 
which at the present moment is occupying the 
thoughts of many; and although this is not 
quite the proper time to give effect to my ideas 
and practice, they may assist in maturing 
opinions, and deciding on the course to be 
adopted when the autumn comes round again. 
My system is to trench [the borders to the 
bottom, to within 8 feet of the wall, cutting 
REGISTER OF NOVELTIES, 
NEW ELOWEES. 
Amaryllis. — Colonel Burnaby, a very large 
flowered variety ; colour brilliant scarlet; very showy 
and striking ; Ist-class Certificate E.H.S., March 25. 
'Mr». Shirley Mibberd, one of the Leopoldi race, 
flowers of fine shape ; colour very deep crimson tipped 
with white ; a very pleasing variety; Ist-class Cer- - 
tificate E.H.S., March 25. Sir Bedvers Buller, a 
very large flowered variety with broad overlapping 
petals of thick texture ; the colour vivid scarlet, with 
a broad stripe of white running down each petal; 
Ist-olass Certificate E.H.S., March 25. Virgo, a 
very bright-looking variety, the flowers medium 
sized and of excellent shape, the colour vivid scarlet 
banded and netted with white; Ist-class Certificate 
E.H.S., April 8. Zitella, a hybrid partaking of the 
character of the old A. marginata ; the flowers large, 
with recurved segments ; the ground colour carmine 
striped and banded with white; all from Messrs. 
Veitch & Sons. 
Auriculas. — -Hetty Bean, a charming yellow self, 
with a rich golden tube, solid paste and a broad 
margin of deep golden yellow ; a useful addition to a 
very limited cla'^s; Ist-class Certificate E.H.S., 
March 25 ; E. Dean. Conservative (Douglas), a fine 
white-edged variety, golden tube, solid white paste 
and black body colour, fine form and very handsome 
truss; Ist-class Certificate E.H.S., April 8; C; 
Turner. 
Auricula {Alpine). — Mungo McQeorge, deep 
yellow centre, margined wit.h deep maroon crimson' 
shading to a paler hue; fine form and distinct; Ist- 
cla-s Certificate E.H.S., April 8 ; C. Turner. 
Azalea (Indian). — Comte de Paris, flowers very 
large, single, and of fine form; colour salmon pink 
broadly edged with white, spotted and blotched with 
carmine. Comte de la Torre, semi-double; colour 
