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Repair and plant Box-edgings, and clean and roll walks, when the weather 
permits. In frosty weather wheel manure on to the places where it will be 
required. Rods for peas and stakes for scarlet-runner beans, &c., should now be 
procured, and made ready for use ; also labels for naming vegetables. When 
these and other such-like little jobs, which will readily occur to a man of percep¬ 
tive mind, are done now, the labour required in preparing them, instead of being 
spent when these things are wanted, can then be turned to better account.—M. 
Saul, Stourton. 
GARDEN GOSSIP. 
@ HE following Arrangements of Societies for the coming season are announced : 
—The Royal Horticultural Society will hold its meetings on January 17, 
f February 14, March 6 and 20, April 3 and 17, May 1 and 15—16, June 
5—7 and 19, July 3 and 17, August 7 and 21, September 4 and 18, 
October 2, November 6, December 4,—the three-days’ exhibition in June being the grand 
show of the season.-The Royal Botanic Society will hold spring shows on March 13, April 10, 
and May 8, and summer shows on May 22—23, June 19—20, and July 10—11.-’The 
Provincial Show of the Royal Horticultural Society, at Birmingham, will open on June 25, and 
close on June 29.-The Botanical and Horticultural Society of Manchester announces six 
Monthly Floral and Horticultural Meetings similar to those held fortnightly at South Kensing¬ 
ton, on February 20, March 19, April 9, September 10, October 8, and November 19. The 
annual National Horticultural Show, under the auspices of this Society, will be held in May, 
from the 18th to the 23rd, the Rose and Fruit Show on July 5 and 6.-A great Exhibition of 
flowers, fruit, vegetables, and horticultural subjects generally, open from June 21 to June 30, 
is to be held at Berlin in June next, in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment 
of the Society for the Promotion of Horticulture in Prussia. --The Royal Agricultural and 
Botanical Society of Ghent proposes to hold its usual quinquennial International Horticultural 
Exhibition at the end of March, 1873. 
- ^bHE Gardeners’ Year-Book , Almanack , and Directory for 1872, issued 
by Dr. Hogg, is more illustrated tlian usual. Its descriptions of New Fruits and 
New Plants are some of its more important and characteristic features, and with 
the usual matters of reference, make it a necessity for the garden library. 
- ^he South-American Goniophlebium appendiculatum has been lately 
recommended for its property of keeping well when cut; it is stated that the 
fronds will stand three weeks in water in a perfect state. This warm greenhouse 
species is one of the most valuable of the winter decorative Ferns ; it is most impatient of 
heat, and should never be allowed to get dry. 
-- t^HE Garden , a new weekly journal of horticulture, which has recently 
appeared, has been projected and is conducted by Mr. Robinson, and is well 
got up, its distinctive feature being a profusion of wood-cut illustrations. Its 
appearance is an indication of the healthy progress of horticulture in this country. 
- JFew subjects are gayer in the spring months, or more useful for 
forcing purposes, than the Double-Flowered Peaches —white, crimson, or striped. 
The French horticulturists have a new striped-flowered variety, named striata , 
which is said to be a vigorous, abundant-blooming plant, with freely expanded flowers, the 
greater number of which are flaked with bright red, others being partially, and some -wholly, 
of the brilliant red colour. 
- ^iie Tamarix plumosa is one of the prettiest of shrubs, the multiplicity 
