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that race of Auriculas, called Alpines, mostly having flowers of bright self-colours—a class which the 
florists all but ignore—are most admirably adapted. 
The details of culture are thus stated :—About the beginning of June the plants are taken out of 
the pots, and the soil shaken from their roots; the tap root is shortened if needful, and the plants are 
then re-potted in a compost of equal parts fresh loam and good well-decayed leaf-mould. The pots 
are set on the north side of a wall, and there remain all the summer, and until the middle of 
September, with no other attention than that of watering them when they require it. At the season 
just indicated they are placed in a cold pit facing the south, where they remain till the end of 
February. They are then top-dressed with the same kind of compost, and replaced in the frame, 
where they remain until they produce their flowers. At flowering time they are removed to a 
temporary pit at the north side of a wall, and are covered with canvas frames at night, as well as just 
when it rains. In cold weather, if any occurs at this season, they are kept close shut. 
I am confident the plants are more healthy when thus treated than when grown in the strongly- 
manured composts which many persons use for this flower; as a proof of this, I never have a sickly 
plant. 
During the winter, as it is necessary that the plants should be kept comparatively dry, it is 
desirable to set them on boards, or on a trellised stage; and if the frame can be arranged as to secure 
a thorough ventilation beneath, it will be all the better. Of course very little water will be given 
during winter.—R. W. 
NOTES AND MEMORANDA. 
^JEW plants, among the recent introductions to our gardens, possess more interest or are likely to 
^ prove more valuable than the Deutzia gracilis , not only as an ornament for the shrubbery border, 
but also for pot cultivation. As a plant for early forcing, for the decoration of the conservatory, and 
also for cutting for bouquets, it will rank among the most useful in cultivation. Like its congeners, 
it is readily propagated by cuttings of the young wood, which require to be taken when it is in a 
half-ripened state. If the wood is strong and healthy, it will not be necessary to cut the cuttings at 
a joint, as they will strike just as freely if a leaf-bud and about an inch below is taken with it, and 
thus each joint or bud will make a plant. To insure the cuttings rooting quickly, a gentle bottom 
heat will be necessary, and they must also be covered with a glass, to prevent the undue evaporation 
of the moist are of the cutting. In cultivation, any light rich soil will be suitable,—such as a mixture of 
turfy loam, leaf-mould, and gritty sand, and when planted out’ any enriched garden soil will suit it. 
As a pot plant it will require much the same treatment as Wiegela rosea ,—that is, the wood must be 
thoroughly matured in the autumn, to insure its blooming profusely when forced. We cannot imagine 
anything much finer, when grown to a good-sized specimen, than this very graceful plant, as by judi¬ 
cious stopping it may be trained into a very compact and elegant form.—A. 
We learn from a private letter that gardening is now in the ascendant in Bavaria. Munich had 
its first exhibition of plants, flowers, and fruit, in April last, and this first essay was most satisfactory. 
In illustration, w r e may mention that the Royal Gardens of Nymphenburg, under the care of Mr. A. 
Heyl, who has studied horticulture in England, produced Heaths which will soon equal the English 
exhibition specimens. Dielytra spectabilis and Deutzia gracilis were among the most striking new 
plants produced. The parliament have voted a large sum for the erection of a new range of plant 
houses in the Royal Botanic Gardens of Munich; and the King is erecting, close to his palace, a mag¬ 
nificent winter-garden, which is to be erected on the top of a house at an elevation of nearly sixty 
feet, and will be very large. The “culture-garden” necessarily connected with this structure is com¬ 
pleted, and contains many fine span-roofed houses heated with water-pipes. 
The Hardenbergia ovata alba, a very ornamental greenhouse creeper, recently brought into notice, 
has been sent to us from the nursery of Messrs. Rollisson, of Tooting. It, in all points, except iu the 
