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THE FLORIST AND P0M0L0GIST. 
[November, 
varieties are not found under cultivation in this 
country, but the typical form is not very scarce, 
having been introduced since 1826. It flowers out¬ 
side iu April and May. It is found in Oregon, 
California, and Washington Territories. 
E. Hartwegii, Watson. — Bulbs small. Leaves 
small, usually separated, ovate-lanceolate, mo 1 tied. 
E owers usually Iwo to three, very rarely solitary, 
in a sessile umbel, 1—2 inches long, bright 
yellow, orange at the base, with sprtading or 
slightly recurved segments to the perianth. It is 
Bentham’s E. grandiflorum (PI. Hartw., 339), and is 
an extremely curious and rare species, occuriing on 
the Sierra Nevada from Placer to Plumas counties, 
but not known in cultivation. 
E. pkopullans, Gray. — Bulbs small, ovoid. Leaves 
ovate, oblong acuminate, not mottled. Flowers soli¬ 
tary, about half an inch long, bright Tose, yellowish 
at the base. A very scarce and pretty species from 
Minnesota, not existing in this country but culti¬ 
vated in America, though of rare occurrence under 
cultivation. 
E. purpurascens, Watson. — Bulb 1—2 inches 
long. Leaves large, more or less oblong, frequently 
undulated. Flowers usually 4—8 in a sub-umbellate 
raceme from 1—D inch long, light yellow tinged 
with purple, deep orange at the base. It has received 
several other names, and amongst them lhat of 
Fritillaria multiscapidea, Kelloy. Mr. Watson re¬ 
gards Baker’s E. revolutum as only a slender one- 
flonered variety of this plant. It is of comparatively 
recent introduction, flowering outside in May. 
Native of the Sierra Nevada, found in the same 
localities as the last species. It is very btautiful, 
and by no means common.—N. 
PROPAGATE AND PLANT ROSES. 
ARLY every one loves Roses, but 
many persons do not grow them 
either so well or so freely as one 
could desire. Yet their culture is so 
easy that any person who grows a few, may 
increase them in a very simple and easy 
manner by cuttings put in, in October and 
November, which is the best season in the 
whole year. Unfortunately many people put 
in their cuttings too late in the season, gene¬ 
rally in February or March. These almost 
always fail, not one in a hundred growing ; 
whereas when the cuttings are put in in the 
autumn, very few fail to grow. 
Shoots of this year’s growth should be 
selected—not too fappy, nor too thin, but 
medium-sized healthy growths, and mode¬ 
rately ripe. They should be cut clean to a 
leaf or joint; the leaves should be removed 
to a length of five or six inches, and the top 
cut off two or three inches higher. The cut¬ 
tings should be put in firmly quite up to the 
leaves in a nice sandy soil and planted in rows, 
twelve or fourteen inches apart, with six 
inches in the rows. In this simple manner 
a great many plants can be grown with very 
little trouble or expense. In about twelve or 
fourteen months they will be well rooted and 
ready for removal into their permanent 
quarters.—M. Saul, Stourton Castle. 
VINES AND VINE CULTURE. 
Chap. XXI. —Fruiting Vines in Pots. 
advantages derivable from growing 
rape Vines in pots are various. Pot 
r ines are extremely handy, and may 
utilised at any time and almost any¬ 
where. It is, perhaps, not so difficult to grow 
the fruit on the prepared plant, as it is to 
grow the vine itself. For an early supply of 
fruit considerable care and attention is, how¬ 
ever, required, and failures are more common 
than successes. 
The varieties best suited for fruiting in pots 
are the free-bearing kinds, such as Black 
Hamburgh, Royal Muscadine, Foster’s White 
Seedling, and indeed all the Chasselas group, 
Madresfield Court, Royal Ascot, and Alicante. 
The Muscat of Alexandria is difficult to cul¬ 
tivate in pots, and Gros Guillaume scarcely 
shows any fruit at all. 
The forcing of Pot Grapes may commence 
in November, or at any subsequent period. 
Those selected for early forcing should be the 
earliest ripened, and the canes should have 
been pruned quite a month before their intro¬ 
duction to heat, otherwise they may bleed. 
The use of well ripened canes is a most 
important matter for early forcing. 
A low house or pit is the most suitable for 
Pot Vines. They have simply to be placed 
on a shelf along the front; or the pots plunged 
in a slight hot-bed, the rods or canes being 
allowed to hang loosely until such time as the 
eyes begin to break. The temperature at first 
should not exceed 50° by artificial heat, but 
must be increased as the eyes break, and they 
begin to grow, to 60°, and about the flowerig 
period to 70° or thereabouts. With sun heat the 
temperature should, of course, range much 
higher, but in this respect the treatment of 
Pot Vines as regards general management, 
atmospheric conditions, ventilation of the 
house, &c., is exactly similar to that of the 
ordinary vineiy. 
At Syon House, Brentford, the seat of the 
Duke of Northumberland, Pot Grapes have 
