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up in tlie eye, the colours should be bright and distinct, and if the. 
colour of the eye is of an opposite shade to the colour of the 
petals, as is the case with that beautiful variety Anna Maria, it 
gives additional value to this, at any time, beautiful flower. 
R. P. 
The Howe , Halsted. 
ACACIA ARMATA, 
BY MR. W. SHERWOOD, 
GARDENER TO MRS. ERASER, CAMPDEN HILL, KENSINGTON. 
Having read in the Florist’s Journal, No. 21, a paper on 
the Acacia Armata, in which is detailed a great deal of useful 
information regarding the habit of that plant, its natural position 
on the earth, and the soil and climate peculiar to that locality, 
the correctness of every statement made by the writer I think no 
one will question ; but of the justness of the inference, “ that it is 
for the want of imitating their climate, and partly also the native 
soil of these plants, that they do not do well with us,” I entertain 
a doubt, in consequence of having under my care, at the present 
time, some well-grown healthy specimens, qualities which I attri¬ 
bute to treatment just the opposite of that which they are sub¬ 
jected to by nature, particularly in reference to soil. 
I think the culture of this plant is so simple,, that I can in a 
few words state all that is necessary to be said on the subject. 
We will begin with propagation. They may be raised from 
cuttings or seed. If by seed, it may be sown as soon as it is 
ripe in the summer, in pots filled with sandy peat, and kept in a 
cold frame till the plants are up, when they should be removed 
to a cool situation. If cuttings are preferred, they will strike root 
in white sand, with a little bottom heat, under bell glasses, in the 
spring. In either case they will be fit for potting in small sixties 
in September, and then removed to the greenhouse or a dry pit. 
When they are beginning to grow freely, the following spring, 
they should be shifted into 48-sized pots, and the point of the 
leading shoot of each plant pinched off. The proper place for 
them this year (and every succeeding one), from June till October, 
