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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ July, 
July last year; and from another house of 
similar dimensions for late work, over five 
hundred fruit of very fine quality were gathered. 
The grapes were at the same time very useful, 
their colour being extra good. A section of 
one of the houses referred to above is given in 
the accompanying sketch, drawn to scale, which 
shows the position of the trellises, peach trees 
being also trained against the back wall, which 
is 18 feet high. The curved trellis is about 
3 feet from the glass, and a good distance from 
the vines. The height in front is 4 feet, and 
the width of the vinery 15 feet ; the rafters 
narrow iron ones, 3^ feet apart.— M. Temple, 
Jmpney Hall Gardens , Droitwich. 
WHEN IS THE BEST TIME TO 
TRANSPLANT HOLLIES? 
Y many this may be thought an open 
question, and, no doubt, much depends 
upon the nature of the ground where 
the planting has to be done. It is often very 
difficult to succeed well in stiff and adhesive 
soils, at whatever time the work may be done ; 
and in order to get them to succeed well, much 
often depends on the means at command, even 
when good plants are transplanted. 
Without entering upon this subject for the 
present, I wish to bring under notice a very 
successful operation in the transplanting of 
Hollies which was carried out in Mr. Smith’s 
nursery, near Worcester, in April last year. 
It may be remembered that both March and 
April of last year were very fine and generally 
dry months. There were some 1,500 or 1,600 
hollies removed fully one-third of a mile from 
one part of the ground to another. They in¬ 
cluded a good variety of these very hardy and 
ornamental plants, but a large portion of them 
were green hollies, from about 4 feet to 8 feet 
high, all promising to become handsome speci¬ 
mens, with straight stems and very regularly 
branched. Of the Weejring varieties of holly 
there was also a good assortment, most of 
these being from G feet to 9 feet high, and in¬ 
cluding green, silver-variegated, golden-varie¬ 
gated, &c. Where the extent of the ground will 
permit of its being done, the introduction of a 
selection of weeping hollies would ensure a very 
pleasing feature about any residence. 
These were all transplanted in the fine dry 
spring of last year, and not one of them died 
from being transplanted. The soil is a deep 
rich friable loam, having a fair amount of sand 
in it, and such as may be dug over with com¬ 
fort a few hours after a heavy shower of rain 
has fallen on it.— George Dawson, 23 Bed- 
wardine Road , St. John's , Worcester. 
VEITCH’S MANUAL OF 
CONIFERAE. 
S MANUAL of the Coniferous Plants 
cultivated in British gardens was much 
wanted, and the Messrs. Yeitch have, 
therefore, done well to prepare and issue the 
volume now before us, which is said to be 
founded on a useful treatise, published many 
years ago, by their predecessors at the Royal 
Exotic Nursery, Messrs. Knight and Perry. 
The book, which forms a handsome octavo 
volume, and is profusely illustrated, contains, 
first, a general review of the order, and secondly, 
a synopsis of the hardy kinds cultivated in 
Great Britain. The general review explains 
the structure of the various organs of the 
plants, the strength of their timber, and the 
distribution and classification of the species. 
The second part, or synopsis, shows, first, the 
arrangement adopted, which is as follows:— 
Tribe Abietineee, including the genera Abies, 
Larix, Cedrus, Pinus, and Araucaria ; tribe 
Taxodiae, including Sciadopitys, Wellingtonia, 
Sequoia, Taxodium, Glyptostrobus, Crypto- 
meria, Cunninghamia, and Athrotaxis ; tribe 
Cupressineee, including Cupressus, Retinospora, 
Biota, Thuia, Thuiopsis, Libocedrus, Fitzroya, 
and Juniperus ; and the tribe Taxineee, includ¬ 
ing Taxus, Cephalotaxus, Torreya, Ginkgo, 
Saxe-Gothaea, Prumnopitys, and Podocarpus. 
Then follows an account of the genera, species, 
and varieties, in the same order, occupying the 
bulk of the book, which extends to 342 pages. 
The work has been prepared with care, and 
may, we trust, have some influence in reviving 
the taste for coniferous plants, which has been 
somewhat rudely checked by the losses of the 
last few winters. It will be particularly useful 
for the account given of the newer Japanese 
Conifers, which are, many of them, exceedingly 
ornamental, and appear to be exceptionally 
hardy. As the Manual will supply a want 
which has long been felt, and is of a trust¬ 
worthy character, it will, no doubt, as it de¬ 
serves to do, meet with public approbation and 
