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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[April, 
hinder growth, and in the case of Tea Roses 
they so speedily respond to our fostering care, 
and thrive so well under it, as to show that it 
agrees with them. 
This brings us to another immense advantage 
brought within our reach by the pot culture 
of Tea Roses. It enables us to provide an 
atmosphere best adapted for their growth and 
flowering. A temperature ranging from 55° 
to G5°, with a free circulation of air, and a 
genial atmosphere, suits them well. Under 
sueh conditions four or more harvests of 
bloom a year are brought within reach. The 
word harvest may, however, be rather mis¬ 
leading. There may be less of any given 
number of full harvests, than a continuous 
and constant display of beauty; for hardly 
have one set of blooms begun to fade before 
another set has begun to show bud, or to open. 
This is very much the case in a greenhouse, 
conservatory, or -window garden, but it is still 
more so in such temperatures as are here re¬ 
commended. 
No doubt a good deal depends on treatment 
as well as temperature. Continuous growth 
and blooming demand continuous care and 
liberal feeding. The plants should never once 
be allowed to flag, nor to suffer from insects, 
overcrowding, or neglect of any sort. Fully 
exposed to light and air, carefully watered 
and promptly pruned at any moment when 
wanted, without waiting for a general pruning, 
the roses will go on growing and blooming for 
almost any length of time. Should any par¬ 
ticular plant grow too vigorously, or yield but 
little flower, it may easily be starved into more 
floriferous ways by a partial withholding of 
water, or full exposure to the sun in the open 
air. But as a rule, even such checks will 
seldom be needed. Flowers succeed growth in 
Tea Roses almost as certainly as day follows 
night, and hence the means used to ensure 
growth will likewise ensure continuous bloom¬ 
ing. 
As to training, almost the less of it, and the 
less formal the better. Any approach to a 
bush or a pyramid will answer well, but stiff 
prim training is hardly consistent with per¬ 
petual flowering. 
As to varieties, almost any of the more 
floriferous Teas will do. The following, how¬ 
ever, are among the best for this purpose :— 
Gloire de Dijon, Adam, Anna Ollivier, Belle 
Lyonnaise, Devoniensis, Innocente Pirola, 
Madame Falcot, Madame Trifle, Madame 
Welch, Madame Yillermoz, Marie Sisley, 
Niphetos, Perle des Jardins, President, 
Rubens, Safrano, and Souvenir d’Elise 
Yardon.—D. T. Fish, Hardwick Hall. 
THE SAYAN DAISY. 
"FYEAUTIFUL is the Brachycome iberidi- 
|v| folia, to which Dr. Lindley upwards of 
thirty years ago gave the appropriate 
name of Swan Daisy, and of which he 
remarked that it is “ one of the handsomest 
hardy annuals in cultivation—which further 
experience has amply confirmed. For all that, 
it is much too seldom met with in the gardens 
of the multitude, and we are glad to have 
the opportunity of introducing here one of 
MM. A r ilmorin’s characteristic little woodcuts, 
in order to show what a really charming thing 
it is. It was called Swan Daisy from its 
being a native of the Swan River Colony, now 
absorbed in AVestern Australia, and from the 
resemblance of its flowers to those of the 
daisy, from which it is distinguished botanic- 
ally chiefly by the membranous border of the 
more imbricated scales of its involucre. None 
of the coloured figures of Brachycome iberidi- 
folia do justice to the attractiveness of the 
plant itself, that published by Dr. Lindley, 
which is the best in other respects, being 
much too dull in its colouring. 
Brachycome iberidifolia is a neat-habited, 
diffuse branching, annual plant, growing from 
nine inches to a foot high, with the leaves 
pinnatifid, that is, cut down deeply on each 
side into segments, which are narrow and 
pointed, and producing in terminal corymbs 
the cineraria-like blossoms, about an inch 
broad, which have a purplish-brown nearly 
black disk, surrounded by a single row of 
ray florets, which are of a deep violet blue in 
some plants, varying to lilac, pink, and white; 
the blue, however, generally predominating. In 
some of the seed-shops both the 'white-flowered 
and rose-coloured variety may be had separ¬ 
ately from the blue. 
The cultivation of the plant is easjL It 
belongs to the half-hardy class, and likes good 
but light soil; on such, if the situation be 
